[BC] No this is not for Phil or Roy or Carl, this is for TOM

[Stanley Adams]

Message: 10
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:26:01 -0500
From: "Thomas G. Osenkowsky" <tosenkowsky at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Small station program quality
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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


Now, Now Tom, I thought that you were a pretty levelheaded guy.  :)

No doubt the small market station has trouble keeping up with the big guys,
but you know what?  This IS the nitch of small market radio.  Who wants to
listen to a juke box all day long when you can hear the local coaches
corner, the obits, the church and community announcements.

I am saying that the bulk of radio success is in the small markets who
attempt to communicate with their audience, not at them.  And you know what?
I would rather sit down to a 3.50 a plate lunch of home cooked goodies
rather than the 6.00 bag of whatever from McD's and the rest.

It is the small market boys that have been hauling the mail since the
beginning of time.  The regional's have done yeoman service too, but you
just keep that Air America away from me, keep some of the conservative talk
boys away from me, and just keep the local patter of news, music and sports
coming on along!

Yeah baby, 'Most Madonna, Most Often'.



Stanley Adams
Memphis