[BC] Small station program quality

[Thomas G. Osenkowsky]

To say nothing of the fact that they give RADIO a bad name
and a bad image! They will broadcast high school sporting
events because they cannot afford the fees for professional
games. Have minimum wage or barter compensated announcers
because they can't afford satellite equipment. Play stiffs because
they don't get the major artist releases due to the fact that established
artists don't need exposure on small, bad sounding stations that have
no coverage. I'm too nauseated to continue.

I like the major league players. Centralized programming, engineering
and management. Go to any McDonalds, BK, KFC, Pizza Hut
worldwide and the food tastes exactly the same! Give me Wal-Mart
any day! Local radio had its heyday, but there is such a thing as
progress. Yeah, I used to bring in my own 45's back in the 70's when
I was a DJ but now we must embrace satellite delivered programming,
voice tracking and modern technology. If you want local, buy the local
newspaper!

Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE

>  > Many mom and pop stations have represented the worst in this business.
>  > They were
>  > under financed, unprofessional and technical disasters. Larger
companies
>  > have
>  > brought them up to decent standards. There are fewer death trap
>  > transmitter sites.
> Not to mention bad programming.  I can count on the fingers of one hand
> the number of mom & pop stations around that have anything on worth
> listening to.  While the idea of local progamming is good, and with most
> of us being of a certain age nostalgia sets in, but most of these tend to
> be pretty low-budget sounding.