http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2010/03/future-of-am-radio/ When I was 10, I caught the radio bug, it appears to be terminal Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2010/03/future-of-am-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-265 admin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:41 +0000 http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/?p=3928#comment-265 It's not just radio either, it's everyone's business. Soon, the banks are going to rule the world. It’s not just radio either, it’s everyone’s business. Soon, the banks are going to rule the world.

]]> http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2010/03/future-of-am-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Josee Fritz Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:14:43 +0000 http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/?p=3928#comment-260 Your comment "The banks are in the radio business" is very accurate. It pretty well sums up the current problem. the banks wanted to invest and when it bottomed out they found themselves holding the morgages to houses they didn't want to live in... But now, permanently tethered they've become insidiously incompetent landlords. Your comment “The banks are in the radio business” is very accurate. It pretty well sums up the current problem. the banks wanted to invest and when it bottomed out they found themselves holding the morgages to houses they didn’t want to live in… But now, permanently tethered they’ve become insidiously incompetent landlords.

]]> http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2010/03/future-of-am-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-257 J. Aegerter Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:12:16 +0000 http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/?p=3928#comment-257 I have worked in this industry for four years while attending college about 40 years ago. It was basically a gold mine then as just about anybody could make money with little effort. FM air time couldn't be given away and AM was King Kong. With the myriad of programming sources out there today, AM has been drastically fragmented. I have always believed that AM radio was a local business kind of like One-Way Paging. The big boys usually always screw things up, with the total emphasis on profits. Don't get me wrong, I love profit, but my profits have come in by "over-performing". The big boys don't get this because the stations they own are only a number in a ledger. I believe a local owner can still make a living running an AM station, but it is definitely getting harder. Perhaps an adjunct to another business, like the way the industry started with Jack Poppelle playing Christmas Carols on WOR back in the day. L.Bamberger and company let him put the little station on the air to sell radios in their NYC department store, and it worked real well. He ended up marrying the head of the Housewares department after his radio broadcasts sold an overstock of China plates that weren't selling. Now that is RADIO BROADCASTING! I have worked in this industry for four years while attending college about 40 years ago. It was basically a gold mine then as just about anybody could make money with little effort. FM air time couldn’t be given away and AM was King Kong. With the myriad of programming sources out there today, AM has been drastically fragmented. I have always believed that AM radio was a local business kind of like One-Way Paging. The big boys usually always screw things up, with the total emphasis on profits. Don’t get me wrong, I love profit, but my profits have come in by “over-performing”. The big boys don’t get this because the stations they own are only a number in a ledger. I believe a local owner can still make a living running an AM station, but it is definitely getting harder. Perhaps an adjunct to another business, like the way the industry started with Jack Poppelle playing Christmas Carols on WOR back in the day. L.Bamberger and company let him put the little station on the air to sell radios in their NYC department store, and it worked real well. He ended up marrying the head of the Housewares department after his radio broadcasts sold an overstock of China plates that weren’t selling. Now that is RADIO BROADCASTING!

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