Re: [Swprograms] OT: Digital radio market study

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's a good point.  We were a less mobile society as well -- we
traveled less for business or pleasure, we didn't move as often.

There also wasn't the competition to radio.  You had 3 to 6 TV
channels in a city, no video games, no DVD rentals, no Internet, no
iPods.

Radio has been marginalized, and in this era of user-created,
user-controlled content, (recall the Time Magazine "person of the
year"), the genie won't easily go back into the bottle.

Rich Cuff

On Nov 8, 2007 9:31 AM,  <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can I add one more thing?
>
> Recall the creative explosion that characterized FM radio in the
> late '60s and early '70s.  New formats, new ideas, new approaches
> to "doing radio" came out of that time.  The main difference I see
> between the willingness to push the envelope then and the rank
> timidity we experience now is something that I'll use an economic
> regulatory term to describe--"concentration of control".  Simply put,
> we didn't have it then.  So we had a great many more "laboratories" in
> which creative minds could experiment freely.  With a handful of group
> owners tightly controlling what their O&Os and affiliates do (all in
> the name of preserving the bloody bottom line for just the next
> quarter), there's no freedom to play around... no freedom to learn
> from failure...or, to put it succinctly--the discover a new success.
>
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