It was a wonderful interview.

I wondered, too, about Big John Scholes, but I hear him do the Employer Law hour occasionally on sister station GNR 640.

Again, since David "Mars Bar" Marsden, these interviews have been appointment podcasts.

There are a lot of broadcasters who peak early or neither develop nor evolve. That hasn't been the case with Mike Boon; he's enthusiastic at a time when "on-air" jocks sound like they don't even care.

Can't wait to hear Al come back to "Kick Out the Jams" and to talk more about the 'salad days' at the Mighty Q.

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Could this relate to the merger of Q107s playlist with that of Big 101 Barrie?

The 'suckage' continues...on air...and off.    Q's been a piss poor listening experience for quite some time...like close to a decade.  It only merely gets demonstratively worse as each passing year [and 'tweak'] occurs.  You can't play the same friggin' oldies songs everyday and survive.  S'impossible.   Research, testing and [always controlled] focus groups have done almost as much to kill radio as disinterested ownership and unqualified, and therefore rightfully underpaid, program management.  But hey!!!  'Shareholdering' is doin' fine...'til it isn't and then?  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Everybody loses.  S'just when it finally crashes and burns...there's really no one left to give a proper shit.

Chuck99 wrote:

I'm probably in the minority here, but I believe FM radio is headed in the same direction as AM radio and newspapers.  I think the only reasons some stations are staying afloat financially is the need for background music in offices and the high cost of cell phone data which makes it expensive for people to stream internet programming in their cars.  I know of many people who seldom listen to traditional radio at home anymore.

Well here is an interesting report on Podcasting  that confirms what you say:

 “The share of Americans aged 18-34 who don’t own a radio receiver in the home is now 50 percent. A decade ago, in 2008, that share was six percent.” 

The situation is about the same in Canada. For Canadians in that age group, the share is 51 percent.

PODCASTING

I'd say AM is on life-support; it's far too expensive for hydro and Tx maintenance to scrap together some profit.  Not to mention environmental/terrestrial signal interference.  But, there will always be some need for FM.

As for workplaces, more and more are either subscribing to Stingray, Sirius, or, if a larger entity (think Walmart), they have their own satellite net.

If a business has a radio station on, there's always the danger of one of their competitors' ads airing.

Old Codger wrote:

Fitz wrote:

 “The share of Americans aged 18-34 who don’t own a radio receiver in the home is now 50 percent. A decade ago, in 2008, that share was six percent.” 

The situation is about the same in Canada. For Canadians in that age group, the share is 51 percent.

I was thinking about this some more this morning.  This is a self inflicted wound that there will be NO coming back from.  There will be no recovery...no returning from the dead.  Radio has a diminishing shelf life of what?  A decade and a half---to a couple of decades...max?  Even in our home of those 60 + there is only 1 person who ever listens to the radio...even for even as little as ONE lone 1/4 hour per week.  Me.  My wife?  Never.  She can't stand the music they play.  Actually she HATES it almost passionately.  She plays her own tunes in the car.  No exceptions anymore.  Young people don't listen 'cause there's just no 'there' there.  Older people have tuned out because what is there is mostly, mainly and purposefully pure unadulterated  S H I T  and it has been for about 20 years.  Radio has been committing suicide since the late 80s/early 90s.  It's been slow and painful... ... ...but 'they're' almost there.  When Mommy and Daddy stop listening and don't even have a radio in the house...children won't be exposed to it anymore.  And when that happens it'll be O.P.D.  Maybe Albert Einstein wasn't such a low-brow fool and bleeding idiot after all.  Thanks Bell,  Merci Corus, oh and you too Rogers [I'd have thought that maybe YOU might have known better].  You cheap bastards have done your part to kill it off.  Couple in the death of the [albeit payola driven] music industry and "PRESTO!!!"

[And there's still gonna be some ignorant, ill-informed, annoying, trolling, little know-it-all, weenie who'll happen along and puke out the reason why this has all taken place.  "it's a business."  Yup sure is.  A failing one.  But you weren't around in "1957" so how the hell would you have even 1 'effin' clue about what's going on now?  You've made it none of YOUR business...and it shows each and every time.]
 

Everything was just *perfect* "B-A-C-K I-N T-H-E D-A-Y" when you were in the game, wun't it, Ole' Codgerino? Your stuff didn't stank. Not one radio or TV station could do no wrong. Their content was all flawless. Not one of those broadcasters ever half-assed anything, station owners emptied their pockets completely for the sake of broadcasting and didn't M-A-K-E a dime off the business because they were saints.

But after your time F_A-D_e_D that's when it all collapsed. Just went South.

To you and the other "I remember those days well, and nobody does it like they used to..." correct. Times were different then compared to now. No competition with, well, the internet back when Model T's were rolling off production lines, and everybody was dancing to the jitterbug because we had World Peace.

Stare through those rose-coloured glasses too hard, you'll go blind...

(Not sure what that last sentence truly meant, but it sounded righteous in my head at the time... )

Fjiri wrote:

Everything was just *perfect* "B-A-C-K I-N T-H-E D-A-Y" when you were in the game, wun't it, Ole' Codgerino? Your stuff didn't stank. Not one radio or TV station could do no wrong. Their content was all flawless. Not one of those broadcasters ever half-assed anything, station owners emptied their pockets completely for the sake of broadcasting and didn't M-A-K-E a dime off the business because they were saints.

But after your time F_A-D_e_D that's when it all collapsed. Just went South.

To you and the other "I remember those days well, and nobody does it like they used to..." correct. Times were different then compared to now. No competition with, well, the internet back when Model T's were rolling off production lines, and everybody was dancing to the jitterbug because we had World Peace.

Stare through those rose-coloured glasses too hard, you'll go blind...

THANK YOU!!  Very well said!  As tedious as many of my posts may be to some, I attempt to counterbalance the romanticism, by some here, of all the "perfect days" of the past.  

The big difference between those complaining of current times is, I was in the business back in the day, and still am today -- you're not.  Being in media, one MUST accept change and embrace it.  Do I agree with every current decision?  Of course not!  But, what I don't do is compare a Monday to a Friday, a winter to a summer, 1957 to 2018.  Each period has its own ups and downs.  BUT, pinning about when one was in the business, back when Marconi was at the mic, does absolutely nothing to prop up the business or your own career.  Frankly, with respect, if I was hiring (which I have done) and I met someone with such a negative opinion about today's media, the interview would be very, very short and they'd be walking out jobless. 

Yes, know and understand the history of the biz, but also know that was then, this is now.