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Username: Vitalis
Post Number: 7
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 1:14 am: |    |
Admittedly, I am a snob about radio. I appreciate WDET and CBC Radio 2, and WWJ and, well, radio is general or radio in motion (to rekindle an old tag line)but the state of sports talk radio has me up in arms. Our three sports stations 97.1 and its am side 1270, and Sports Radio 1130 have all gone a long way to dampen radio professionalism and turn these hours into what amounts to bar room shouting matches. It is all very juvenile and meant to attract the demographics of males 18 to 30-something. Single guys who want to talk about beer and boobs, and fish stories of all kinds, with the hope that they might make it as an insert into a station promo. Open format has coarsened and dummied down the programming (and don't get me started on the number of commercials on 97.1 in any given hour.)Really, who wants to hear someone's opine about Mayor Kilpatrick after a segment on beer bongs? Yes, I am older than the demographics sought, and for years I have gone to these frequencies to get sports headlines and backstories, and interviews, but now it's grab your crotch and barf into your socks, because we're going to go porno sports 24/7. Who let the kids into the studios? |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2665
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 3:21 am: | |
Vitalis, a big thumbs-up for a great post.
You pretty much said it all, but I will add that I do not buy "it's a slow day for sports news" as an excuse for talking about movies, pick-up lines, politics, or celebrity gossip.
And apparently, the schmuck guys in the targeted demographic group are all very deeply in debt and are suffering from erectile dysfunction. Have you listened to the commercials? |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 1759
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 3:45 am: | |
Agreed guys, the whole "pull my finger" buffoonery is tiresome. |
Elimarr
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Username: Elimarr
Post Number: 76
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 7:41 am: | |
The "pull my finger buffoonery" isn't limited to sports radio. It seems to be a staple of many "morning drive" shows, where there is a little music interspersed with the lame (tho' at times filthy) pubescent humor of the 50-year-old DJs, followed by canned guffaws (n-yuk, n-yuk, n-yuk.) A particular one that I despise (enough not to plug the show by naming it) is syndicated out of Indianapolis. Those shows are not how I like to start my day, and I usually surf the dial for music or listen to NPR.
Yet the existence of this type of show must be a testament to its popularity. That's just sad! |
Hamtragedy
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Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 288
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 11:16 pm: | |
Detroit needs pirate radio again. Hurry. Screw the FCC, as they've ruined radio as we knew it. |
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