[BC] iPod vs Radio

[wfifeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/02/2005 09:55:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cld at admin.umass.edu writes:

 > So perhaps a migration to iPods etc will cause radio programmers to invent
 > new ways of being "live" and interesting/informative, as opposed
 >  to the canned stuff. Perhaps this will be the best thing to happen to
radio?

Perhaps... if someone, somewhere, would stop counting every bean, hire a few
folks, and start programming locally, again! Make radio *fun* again.

 >  It may have to scale back a bit, but I don't see iPods satisfying
everyone's
 > needs.

You are right, of course. At home, I have my own 24/7 juke box on a PC,
(equivalent to an iPod on shuffle with 1300 songs) running into a micro FM
transmitter. It lets me listen to Christian music any time, anywhere 
in the house. My
wife really likes it, too, but she does miss having a real person in there,
and I do, too. WFIF is daytime-only, and 90% talk. We also have an FM 
Christian
station in CT which is live-hosted. They are about 60% talk, 40% music. (IMHO,
they have far-too-many vignettes interrupting their music segments, but I
digress.) It *is* nice to hear a real person on the air. Just music 
and nothing
but music tends to not do much to feel like a "companion" like live radio.

 >  Or perhaps I'm a big baked potato.

LOL. No, you're not a baked potato.

Willie...