Turn on the radio, you are bound to hear sports talk.
Turn on the radio, you are bound to hear sports talk.
He threw this. He scored that. The last time this happened was blah blah. They need to score more points, they need to score points to win…
I apologize if anyone on part15 runs sports programming on their stations, but I feel there is enough of this on the airwaves already. How many stations and shows does it take?
Sure there must be a huge market and interest in this sort of thing, and I understand that, but I would like more non-sports programming. I understand sports are a big part of people’s lives, but radio years ago did not have so much sports talk. Rather, broadcasts were limited to live play by play action of games. I can appreciate this much more than talking about the game after the fact. I just feel it is not as stimulating mentally on radio as it is to watch sports live.
For example, I have read on part15 about bringing back old time radio stories. That is a great idea. Modernize them, make them more exciting sounding. Do a Transformers radio adaptation. Do more educational shows, especially on AM. Just because it doesn’t sound as good as FM is no excuse. It has a certain aural quality that makes the imagination churn more I think, rather than having the harsh reality of FM blast you in the face like you hear on most stations with belching DJ’s.
Perhaps it’s because people would rather not use their imaginations anymore. Nothing is wrong with watching television or movies, but in radio, it is different. It’s a conversation of ideas, it is just you and the idea. Maybe not as stimulating to the senses, but more stimulating to the mind.
Sorry if this came off as a rant, but I needed to put it out there somewhere. There is just so much frequency space being gobbled up by sports talk.
I am doing most of these things on my part15 station, and I wonder if others feel the same.
Thanks and keep on broadcasting!
Carl Blare says
How True
Like you valley1700 I have wondered two things about the sports stations: how can the “jocks” know enough trite dribble to keep talking all hours of the day, and, second, can there really be enough listeners to withstand 20 sports stations in some markets? It would seem more likely that a real-world sports-buff would only want to hear a game or a score once in awhile, not obsess over it constantly.
The other thing is religious stations. In our town there are so many that I begin wondering about how federally licensed christian radio is not in violation of the separation of church and state? I view these stations as 24-hour church commercials with no actual programs.
rock95seven says
Same problem here
Kentucky has the same problem here,
maybe not as many sports stations but there are way too many religious radio stations here.
Every one of those stations was developed with the notion that they would serve the shut in’s and the sinners. I’m not going to get into politics or religion because I don’t go to church and I don’t do politics.
But in Kentucky alone there are at least 3 stations per city serving up religious programming and most of the signals overlap each other, not on the same frequency but in the same geographical area.
Why so many?
One station to the north of me has one FM on the education band and another on the AM band.
The fm being non-commercial relies on the revenue generated from the AM station’s advertising. But they serve the same geographical area on both signals. Travel 20 minutes north of that station and there’s yet two more stations in the non-comm band, again the signals almost overlap even though they are not on the same frequency.
There are 7 signals in my area that carry religious programming.
Three of them are satellite feeds from K-love with one of those signals stuck right in the middle of the FM Commercial band.
Now i was raised in a christian home so i am not bashing any religion at all, i am just wondering where it will all end? How many stations with the same type of programming does any one community need? Or any city for that matter. Maybe i should go around the communities outside of the city limits and install transmitters carrying rock music?
There aren’t that many rock stations in Ky, but yet every new station goes for country or religious formats and if they are rock stations it’s always the safe form of rock, i never hear stations carry programming like the King Biscuit Flower Hour or shows where the dj digs up some rare cuts not usually heard on the radio.
(now dj’s produce shows in 20 minutes and go home)
I guess radio here is just like a Hoover Vacuum cleaner, it only sucks if you turn it on. lol Sooner or later, the public will have to say Enough Is Enough! Radio may be abandoned in favor for mp3 players and satellite radio.
Oh wait, that’s already happening right now. Oh well.
Just more of my ramblings, i saw the topic and had to get this out into the open. Have a great day.
Carl Blare says
Good Metaphor
Rock 95 Seven your Hoover metaphor is good.