On Jul 12, 1:12*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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Must have been a bad station in a small market or a really bad on in a
bigger one. In any case, nobody who knows radio would call the person on
the
air a "jockey." Jockeys ride horses. Disk Jockeys may be called DJ's or
Jocks, but they ain't called jockeys.

minneapolis/st.paul. hardly small. it was am radio then. today they
are talk, but back then, they were the rock power house.

I presume you mean "rock and roll" powerhouse. "rock" stations were an FM
phenomenon, starting in the very late 60's.


hmmmm, rock and roll was a 50's terminology as far as i know. i must
have coined the phrase back in the early 60's then?


Nit picking on terminology aside, the two Top 40 powerhouses in the Twin
Cities were KDWB and KDGY (630 and 1130 AM)


yes.

KDWB was a Crowell Collier station, and like KEWB and KFWB, it had a very
limited Top 40 playlist and never deviated from it. WDGY was owned by Storz,
where format violations were subject to immediate dismissal.



then i must have gotten wdgys jockeys all fired.


Of course, KDWB is no more... the allocation moved once as far as Wisconsin,
and is now a small station doing Regional Mexican programming..



they moved to f.m., where it is today, i could care less.

today, corporate america has ruined not only radio, but t.v. and the
papers. they have loaded them up with debt, and severe restrictions
that make them bland, conservative in nature, safe.

There are 14,000 radio stations in the US, and perhaps 1000 are burdened
with seemingly irresolvable debt issues. None would have had any trouble
were it not for the recession, so you are doing the equivalent of blaming
debt for the failure of Chrysler and GM, when it was the perfect storm of
labor commitments, bad designs and horrible quality that came about due to
the recession.

and most are owned by a few companies, that loaded them up on debt
because of the purchase price, and gave us a bad product, a product
that was costing them customers before the recession. and as we always
see with conservative economics, they cannot pay their bills. who
would have ever thought.

Untrue. If you go down in size to groups that own 50 stations or less, which
excludes only about 10 or 11 companies, you will see that about 12,200
stations are not owned by big companies.


we have few independents here. but we do have clear channel, and more
than one of them.


There are, among them, only a couple that are severely burdened by debt,
representing maybe 1000 stations. On the other hand, every station,
newspaper, corner story and working person is burdened by the economy. Any
bankruptcies are due to the economy, not the business model.



we shall see.

Yes, a few companies are in trouble in radio due to debt. Most are not.

we shall see.

We can already see. There are as many endangered single station Ma and Pa
operations that can't pay the bills today as there are big "corporate"
stations.



no doubt.


And among the biggest, there are those like Cox and CBS that have no debt
issues and use the very same programming models because they work and please
listeners.

there is a place for ridged playlists, but, that model si shrinking
fast