Keith Weston wrote:
> First and 4most, I am not intimately financially linked to commerical radio.
> The last time I worked commercial was 1985 for WCHL in Chapel Hill. In the
> interest of full disclosure, other commercial gigs I've had include: WRBX
> (defunt, in Durham), WKZL (Winston-Salem, which when I worked there 1981-1983
> was deep cut AOR). All my other work has been for college and public radio.
Inasmuch as public radio is (a) at least a tiny bit market-obsessed, and
(b) sponsored by massive corporations like "Rhone Poulenc AG Company,
whose crop protection products help feed and clothe our community and
the world," at the rate of several donor-announcements (one of the
left-of-the-dial euphemisms for adverts, the difference being that DAs
aren't supposed to include qualititative judgements, a rule bent
regularly by everybody) per hour, I think that the line's at least a
*little* blurry.
> However, those of us who care passionately about
> music and radio often forget that it's the music BUSINESS and the radio
> BUSINESS.
I never forgot that. But I don't believe that it *has* to be the XY
BUSINESS, not at the level at which it is now. I myself allow my day-job
to subsidize my radio and record-label efforts, which means I have to be
less concerned with the BUSINESS aspects of it. I like it better that
way. Of course, if my paycheck were coming from a radio station or
record label, I'm sure I'd feel different.
[Oh, by the way: Rhone Poulenc AG Company indirectly pays my salary, via
a couple of intermediaries. Difference is that they only care if I fix
their computers well--they don't give one whit about my coverage of
agrichemical news. Can you say the same?]
> A Republican catch-phrase it apt here: it's the economy, stupid.
Uh, that was a Democratic catch-phrase, but whatever.
> (with Arbitrons and Burkhart/Abrams
> daypart/research: the concept of the consultant actually began at the old WQDR
> and that's an interesting story in and of itself).
Really? Damn, sir, tell it. That's what we're here for. Sort of.
[I said:]
> >Do I *wish* that G-105 would shake off the trappings of evil
> >nationally-owned FM radio hell? No! All my statements don't add up to
> >some naive desire on my part for commercial radio to be different. Fuck
> >'em. There are too many good college radio stations in this town.
> >
>
> That's being rather provincial, don't you think? Which "town"? Chapel Hill?
> Last time I looked there was only one college station and one public one. But,
> perhaps I am reading you too closely.
Sorry. Regular a.m.c-h readers will recognize that I often use "this
town" as shorthand for the Triangle. For some reason my fingers prefer
to type one instead of the other.
> Of course, there are other town's
> stations "we" can recieve.... But, I think I hear an undercurrent of
> provinciality which shows up in the belief that somehow music made *here*
> [where ever *here* is] is somehow inheriently worthy of disproprotionate
> praise, press and airplay.
Uh, strike the words "provinciality" and "disproportionate" and you'd be
right. I'd like to remind you of a couple of things:
1) This is alt.music.chapel-hill. If you're going to find a bias towards
local music *anywhere* in the world, you're gonna find it here. It's one
of the main raisons d'etre of this group.
2) I obviously have a different attitude towards music than you do. I
*do* believe local music is more deserving of my attention than other
music, because it's being made in my community, by people who are my
neighbors, and whose experiences are therefore often more closely in
tune with my own.
In addition, local music provides the unique opportunity to watch
someone's art grow and change from a very early point. And that process
fascinates me more than just getting the end-result of a handful of
3-minute songs. If all goes well, you get the fun of watching the songs
develop and grow, *and* you get the songs at the end.
But the BUSINESS as a whole is so product-oriented that you can't really
get that experience unless you dig in on a local level. Luckily for us,
we've got one of the most dynamic and entertaining local music scenes in
the country.
So, uh, sure. Provincialism is a mean-spirited way to say
"communitarianism." I prefer the latter term.
Grady
p.s. here's those numbers you were asking about:
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Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Grady
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