[BC] Religious radio/localism/generations?

[Karen Veazey]

Interesting.  It sounds like you present yourself more
         as a "state" station than a local one?

This is very true.  We also webcast, and since we have a lot of missionaries and armed forces members who listen overseas, we try and connect them with news from here.  Ski reports, local college sports, etc.

         Perhaps you can share how you handle the Issues
         and Programs aspect for the city of license?

As a non-commercial station I understand that our logging requirements are a little different, but we do have to keep a ton of paperwork.  We have like 50 binders in our back room.  We also run a lot more interviews than the average station, from organizations all over the state.  We probably have 2-4 interviews on our mornings show a week.  Some weeks we do feature weeks for a particular service (crisis intervention, domestic abuse, recovery, etc) and interview one each morning of the week.  We log all those.  And all the PSA's that we air.  We still have to keep all the usual notations of requests for political airtime, and to view public files, etc. 

We say it alot, and I think we really try and live it:  We are here as a community service to our listeners.  If there is something we can promote that will assist the community we will make every effort.

That's a nutshell.  I have to get back to work!


Karen Veazey, Gen Mgr
KTLF/KTPL


 



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Subject: RE: [BC] Religious radio/localism/generations?


At 10:32 AM 12/28/05, Karen Veazey wrote
>Not in the traditional sense.  I guess we're redefining localism to 
>make it work.  We don't have as much as I'd like, but with a spread 
>this far it is difficult.  We don't do local traffic reports, which 
>has been my one thing I'm still chewing on.  We do have news in the 
>morning, and our jocks are required to search for news across the 
>state.  We run public service announcements continually for local 
>events and those come in from all our translator communities.  In 
>the summer we go out to county fairs, or local celebrations and do 
>remotes.  Since we work with churches in all the communities we do 
>have fairly good connections locally.

         Interesting.  It sounds like you present yourself more
         as a "state" station than a local one?

         Perhaps you can share how you handle the Issues
         and Programs aspect for the city of license?

>One ongoing dialogue I have with several broadcasters is the need 
>for localism in radio across generational boundaries.  For example, 
>I know that I, in my 30's listen to radio for very different reasons 
>that my board members in their 50's and parents in their 60's.  If I 
>want local news, I go to the online version of our local TV stations 
>or newspaper.  If I want national news I go to SEVERAL different 
>national news websites.  I never take one news source at face 
>value.  I think they're all biased, so I cross-check several sources 
>until I feel like I'm starting to get a picture of the truth.

         It *is* different these days. That is for sure.
         You make a good point about using several
         sources. Sometimes I am almost ashamed
         to tell people I work in broadcasting, since
         between the complete lack of news on some
         rock stations to the the scandal-plagued "news"
         on TV and cable (can you say "Natalee Holloway"?)
         has made many people regard "news" as little
         more than gossip.

         In fact, wasn't it here a few days ago that someone
         pointed out TV Guide itself is little more than
         a gossip magazine now?



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