NIce words Jeff ! Radio is not dead. Here in France, i'm trying to reinvent what I'm listening since my first years in 1980 on my radio. And as Oscar Wilde said : "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken", and why not "On Air" ;-)
The listeners have a lot to do with your reactions on air. I had told on my last shift that I was leaving a station that I had helped put on air. I get a call that I could hardly understand, turns out it was a young boy with Cerebral Palsy asking for a song . I had the time to play it and the boy called back and he was crying. That did it for me, I broke down and started sobbing. That memory of making that kid happy has stayed with me since that day in 1984.
Right on the nose Jeff! I've always wanted a career in radio, and thanks to greedy people at the top, I possibly will never get the opportunity. That's why I stuck with internet radio and am making the best of it. Yeah, the pay isn't great, but I get to do what I want to do, and I can't be laid off because of it!
To all you ex-radio jocks, thank you for your personality, music knowledge, passion, energy, humor, and professionalism. While I was a heavy listner back in the day(60,70,80,90) I witnessed the demize of so many good stations to the corporate suits. Which is probably why I started my own digital station. With no experience, I truly suck. However, I keep pressing on with my own personality, passion and love of the tunes. Rock on brothers and sister ! Rock On!
As much as I support everything you are saying... this speech was better made 30 years ago in the senate. To stop radio station mergers and buy outs. Deregulation ruined not just radio... but everything else! We are now paying more for cell phones, more for cable TV, and even outside of that scope. It will NEVER go back to the way it was. It wasn't just the DJ that made radio. It was the music, the contests, and the entire package. Most importantly it was The listener being part of their favorite radio station that played their favorite music. And what was key to that success was RESEARCH. What songs and artists did the want to hear? What was the demographic of people you were catering to? How much did they make a year? Could they buy advertising? And what prizes would they want to win? FINALLY it was the DJ's in the morning show, and keeping it going thru all day parts. But since the early 90's when they said all these buy outs would be legalized, THERE IS NO COMPETITION between stations to become #1, because they're all owned by the same monster. No research, no requests or contests, no local jocks that were your favorite. What's the point? They're all card readers owned by the same people. It's a sad sad thing. My Dad owned and operated some of the biggest local powerhouses up and down the east coast. It's been a terrible shame to see it all end like this. George F. Greenville, SC
Hi Radio DJ Dude, I totally agree, the big stations are definately cutting the fat for the worse, I abore voice-tracking, live is the key, even a pre-record show you can be spontanious as long as you don't edit. I'm pleased your keeping the dream alive too, cheers Phil 😁
Spot-on testimony. A radio station with a live, on-air jock who has the creative freedom to shine once the song ends and the mic is on is exactly what the industry needs today. Stations that play music without any human intervention during broadcasts are nothing more than glorified jukeboxes. There is an incredible amount of on-air talent out there, some of which has yet to be discovered. Let’s not just be corporate here-let’s be real. Music alone on your local FM station isn’t enough to win over an audience. Listeners need to enjoy not only the music but also the personalities behind the microphone and interact. When people gather together, they usually enjoy each other’s company. Radio has the unique opportunity to bring people together, to communicate in near real-time. The jocks of yesteryear were entertaining, unlike stations today that rely heavily on voice-tracking or run entirely on automation. Just my two cents on the topic. RadioDJ Dude, I love what you do and the videos you share. Please keep up the great work. You, my friend, are truly appreciated, sir!
All it would take is 1 radio station to go back with real Jocks, and get good ratings and 1 by 1 they would all go back, but no one wants to make the first move.
This is exactly what i am trying to say to the place i work for. They want to start a new radio channel and want to do that with Ai. If there is one thing that kills a station before it even started, it's just that.
I lived near a Vancouver radio station CKLG 730 AM (aka LG73) in its 1970's top 40 heyday with a popular but polarizing radio DJ "The Racoooooon" he was the most annoying radio DJ I ever heard in my life.
You have to have both. The reasons I would listen to radio is good music and a dj that understands when to talk, when to joke, and when to just stay quiet.
There no money in radio unless you are TV name .Anyone wanting break into radio will be paid peanuts .Radio run by accountants and treat jocks like dirt so much so none will rock the boat and are scared they be fired. More money in Seven Eleven.
I do not understand their business strategy. From my viewpoint, the companies are digital media companies that just happen to have these air signals as a promo tool to lire people to digital streams, and seems they forgot that radio was the star.
How many jocks have ever gone into the streets and sold. (That's not my job is what I usually hear) Do a show and then sell your show and you become an asset. So many have never learned to do both. A talent that sells is full circle. It saves your job, adds that pay raise you wanted into your pocket and makes you that much more valuable. The more jocks that can do both helps stop the bleeding. Until then, you're are at the mercy of corporate and their decisions that you're usually on the short end of and squeezed out.
The silver lining is eventually they will crash, the channels will auction for 1960s prices and we can start over...our way. The FCC should authorize micro power neighborhood radio that real people can use to get and give local content from local talent. National sponsors could give two 💩s about radio. Bring it back to local businesses. There may never be any big money in it again but if they "put down the bong"LMAO and focus on content that's relevant to the local audience it could regrow.
FCC does Authorize Micro Power.. its called Part 15.. Available on AM and FM.. FM has Limits on distance. I run 2 AM stations, am just now making one of them Community based..
@@daniellaviolette8876 Part15 gives you 200ft on FM. Useless. LPFM is basically impossible to obtain and in the application I cited is actually too much. Literally 5-10 watts with alternating channels across a community grid or they can go independent for the very local stuff just like traditional network affiliates but on a very small scale. Amazing things are doable if the FCC got their heads out of their asses.
Ten watt LPFM stations have been rejected by the FCC many times. 100 watts isn't enough, TECHNICALLY there is no difference between an LPFM and a Translator and translators can operate at 250 watts. More power might happen, less power will not. The noise floor on the FM band has increased
You are right! I see it with my kids. They never listen to normal radio anymore. Just listening to Spotify or a Potcast about a subject they’re interested in. They say ‘radio is for old people!’ I’m a radio dj with a daily show………………. maybe they’re right. That’s the next generation. Is radio going to die? 🥴
As much as I hate to say it. I think that the ship has sailed for traditional radio. 😞 Most "normal" radios are slowly dying, and when the guys in charge of the money sees that they are still not making enough money, even after firing all the the on-air talent, they'll just close the radios down and move on to other investments. Probably making the national public radios the only radios left on the FM and AM band. The future of radio is on the internet with myriad of very small radios (compared to commercial traditional radio), made amateur enthusiasts who do it not for the money but for the love of radio.
You're preaching to the Choir my friend, but you might as well face it, Radio DJ Dude; we are relics of the past and personality radio has been delegated to the dustbins of history. Radio will never again be what it once was. Never. Sad, but true.
NIce words Jeff ! Radio is not dead. Here in France, i'm trying to reinvent what I'm listening since my first years in 1980 on my radio. And as Oscar Wilde said : "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken", and why not "On Air" ;-)
preach it brother! you are speaking the truth!! Found this video truly inspirational and motivating.
Amen to that!
The listeners have a lot to do with your reactions on air. I had told on my last shift that I was leaving a station that I had helped put on air. I get a call that I could hardly understand, turns out it was a young boy with Cerebral Palsy asking for a song . I had the time to play it and the boy called back and he was crying. That did it for me, I broke down and started sobbing. That memory of making that kid happy has stayed with me since that day in 1984.
My late brother Jim , who worked in radio for 35 years.
He called what happened to radio ' Death by Over Consultation '.
Your brother was SO right!
Right on the nose Jeff! I've always wanted a career in radio, and thanks to greedy people at the top, I possibly will never get the opportunity. That's why I stuck with internet radio and am making the best of it. Yeah, the pay isn't great, but I get to do what I want to do, and I can't be laid off because of it!
To all you ex-radio jocks, thank you for your personality, music knowledge, passion, energy, humor, and professionalism. While I was a heavy listner back in the day(60,70,80,90) I witnessed the demize of so many good stations to the corporate suits. Which is probably why I started my own digital station. With no experience, I truly suck. However, I keep pressing on with my own personality, passion and love of the tunes. Rock on brothers and sister ! Rock On!
Personality & passion! You're singing my tune. You nailed it. Rock on!
As much as I support everything you are saying... this speech was better made 30 years ago in the senate. To stop radio station mergers and buy outs. Deregulation ruined not just radio... but everything else! We are now paying more for cell phones, more for cable TV, and even outside of that scope. It will NEVER go back to the way it was.
It wasn't just the DJ that made radio. It was the music, the contests, and the entire package. Most importantly it was The listener being part of their favorite radio station that played their favorite music. And what was key to that success was RESEARCH. What songs and artists did the want to hear? What was the demographic of people you were catering to? How much did they make a year? Could they buy advertising? And what prizes would they want to win? FINALLY it was the DJ's in the morning show, and keeping it going thru all day parts. But since the early 90's when they said all these buy outs would be legalized, THERE IS NO COMPETITION between stations to become #1, because they're all owned by the same monster. No research, no requests or contests, no local jocks that were your favorite. What's the point? They're all card readers owned by the same people. It's a sad sad thing. My Dad owned and operated some of the biggest local powerhouses up and down the east coast. It's been a terrible shame to see it all end like this.
George F. Greenville, SC
Hi Radio DJ Dude, I totally agree, the big stations are definately cutting the fat for the worse, I abore voice-tracking, live is the key, even a pre-record show you can be spontanious as long as you don't edit. I'm pleased your keeping the dream alive too, cheers Phil 😁
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Spot-on testimony. A radio station with a live, on-air jock who has the creative freedom to shine once the song ends and the mic is on is exactly what the industry needs today. Stations that play music without any human intervention during broadcasts are nothing more than glorified jukeboxes.
There is an incredible amount of on-air talent out there, some of which has yet to be discovered. Let’s not just be corporate here-let’s be real. Music alone on your local FM station isn’t enough to win over an audience. Listeners need to enjoy not only the music but also the personalities behind the microphone and interact.
When people gather together, they usually enjoy each other’s company. Radio has the unique opportunity to bring people together, to communicate in near real-time. The jocks of yesteryear were entertaining, unlike stations today that rely heavily on voice-tracking or run entirely on automation.
Just my two cents on the topic. RadioDJ Dude, I love what you do and the videos you share. Please keep up the great work. You, my friend, are truly appreciated, sir!
All it would take is 1 radio station to go back with real Jocks, and get good ratings and 1 by 1 they would all go back, but no one wants to make the first move.
Non-comms like KEXP have been doing that for years. It’s all I listen to. Commercial radio is dead, the capitalists killed it.
Jeff......just want to say ..
Looooooovin your channel and positiveness.... change nothing..superb .....Ted .. Piccadilly 261 FM 😂
Thanks SO much, Ted!
This is exactly what i am trying to say to the place i work for. They want to start a new radio channel and want to do that with Ai. If there is one thing that kills a station before it even started, it's just that.
I lived near a Vancouver radio station CKLG 730 AM (aka LG73) in its 1970's top 40 heyday with a popular but polarizing radio DJ "The Racoooooon" he was the most annoying radio DJ I ever heard in my life.
You have to have both. The reasons I would listen to radio is good music and a dj that understands when to talk, when to joke, and when to just stay quiet.
Hope thet doesn't sound too harsh.
No it doesn't.
There no money in radio unless you are TV name .Anyone wanting break into radio will be paid peanuts .Radio run by accountants and treat jocks like dirt so much so none will rock the boat and are scared they be fired. More money in Seven Eleven.
AI has come to town as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, but you can’t tell the station owners and shareholders that. The brains are largely gone.
I do not understand their business strategy. From my viewpoint, the companies are digital media companies that just happen to have these air signals as a promo tool to lire people to digital streams, and seems they forgot that radio was the star.
How many jocks have ever gone into the streets and sold. (That's not my job is what I usually hear)
Do a show and then sell your show and you become an asset.
So many have never learned to do both.
A talent that sells is full circle. It saves your job, adds that pay raise you wanted into your pocket and makes you that much more valuable. The more jocks that can do both helps stop the bleeding. Until then, you're are at the mercy of corporate and their decisions that you're usually on the short end of and squeezed out.
The silver lining is eventually they will crash, the channels will auction for 1960s prices and we can start over...our way.
The FCC should authorize micro power neighborhood radio that real people can use to get and give local content from local talent. National sponsors could give two 💩s about radio. Bring it back to local businesses. There may never be any big money in it again but if they "put down the bong"LMAO and focus on content that's relevant to the local audience it could regrow.
FCC does Authorize Micro Power.. its called Part 15.. Available on AM and FM.. FM has Limits on distance. I run 2 AM stations, am just now making one of them Community based..
@@daniellaviolette8876 Part15 gives you 200ft on FM. Useless. LPFM is basically impossible to obtain and in the application I cited is actually too much. Literally 5-10 watts with alternating channels across a community grid or they can go independent for the very local stuff just like traditional network affiliates but on a very small scale. Amazing things are doable if the FCC got their heads out of their asses.
Ten watt LPFM stations have been rejected by the FCC many times. 100 watts isn't enough, TECHNICALLY there is no difference between an LPFM and a Translator and translators can operate at 250 watts. More power might happen, less power will not. The noise floor on the FM band has increased
You are right! I see it with my kids. They never listen to normal radio anymore. Just listening to Spotify or a Potcast about a subject they’re interested in. They say ‘radio is for old people!’ I’m a radio dj with a daily show………………. maybe they’re right. That’s the next generation. Is radio going to die? 🥴
Right on Jeff I think you hit the nail on the head. This new scripted radio they have sucks.
As much as I hate to say it. I think that the ship has sailed for traditional radio. 😞 Most "normal" radios are slowly dying, and when the guys in charge of the money sees that they are still not making enough money, even after firing all the the on-air talent, they'll just close the radios down and move on to other investments. Probably making the national public radios the only radios left on the FM and AM band. The future of radio is on the internet with myriad of very small radios (compared to commercial traditional radio), made amateur enthusiasts who do it not for the money but for the love of radio.
Unfortunately, no matter how great the programming is, if nobody tunes in to listen we are flapping our lips to the wind.
Use it as a hobby it's still fun, I do it, but there is no money involved.
@@mikehemeon2473 I've been making my living on the airwaves for over 40 years. I can't do it as a hobby LOL
You're preaching to the Choir my friend, but you might as well face it, Radio DJ Dude; we are relics of the past and personality radio has been delegated to the dustbins of history. Radio will never again be what it once was. Never. Sad, but true.
Sorry, my doc has me on a restricted diet for Defeatist Kool Aid sippin'. BUT, if it works for you, keep guzzlin' and see what changes...