Comments on: Commerical radio is dead: Why CBS Radio’s K-Rock format switch in New York won’t make a bit of difference in fight against technological irrelevance

By: JIMMY MARZAK

JIMMY MARZAK — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:53:25 +0000

I love it. this guy gets it.

For God’s sake, how many times will some jumped-up tech geek predict the end of a mass media platform because there’s a technically superior niche model?
Nothing ever dies, it just fragments and finds a new position, and often a very impt position.
Don’t count radio out just because you have a logical sounding theory.

By: JIMMY MARZAK

JIMMY MARZAK — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:48:41 +0000

wow this is bitter. Terrestrial radio is gaining listenership as we speak. It’s still making tons of $$, and is evolving thru the use on internet, twitter, facebook, blogging, video … the list goes on. You lose.

By: Trick Verona

Trick Verona — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:20:20 +0000

Regular radio is sooo dead, not just the lame same music but the loss of quality talk shows, Don & MIke, Corolla, Frosty Heidi and Frank, Leykis etc. alomg with Howards departure leave only one use for my car radio, to play podcasts through.
I have to say radio’s loss is pod casting’s gain, I find many more intersting voices in this world than before.

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Morgan Stanley Report Shows That Teens Don’t Use Twitter, Don’t Buy Music (But Still Go To The Movies)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:30:30 +0000

[...] • Radio is dead to teenagers, as we’ve said in the past. [...]

By: comehomenow

comehomenow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:50:35 +0000

LOL @ “Garbage pop songs” comment. it is better than garbage rock songs.

By: -K-

-K- — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:30:36 +0000

They put what they want you to think are “kool” people listening to this stupid —-e- shit and brainwash them into listening to it ’cause after that they all start talking like them too. I like the stuff that they never played when they were out, and I found most of it when I went to the dump next to a bunch of books without covers!!!

By: Download Gospel Music - The Social - CNET News « Download Gospel Music

Download Gospel Music - The Social - CNET News « Download Gospel Music — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:06:10 +0000

[...] Commerical radio is dead: Why CBS Radio’s K-Rock format switch in New – Crunchgear.comThere’s something wrong with CBS Radio’s press release announcing the launch , complete with silly “ countdown ,” of 92.3 Now FM in New York City, a contemporary hit radio station that will replace K-Rock on Wednesday, March 11, at 5:00pm [...]

By: Internet kills the Radio? | Free Secret Downloads

Internet kills the Radio? | Free Secret Downloads — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:01:03 +0000

[...] on Crunch Gear, Nicholas Deleon tried to make the case that no one finds new music using commercial radio anymore, [...]

By: Gospel Music Downloads - Site Presented By - Salon « Gospel Music Downloads

Gospel Music Downloads - Site Presented By - Salon « Gospel Music Downloads — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:13:33 +0000

By: Gospel Music Downloads - Commerical radio is dead: Why CBS Radio’s K-Rock format switch in New - Crunchgear.com « Gospel Music Downloads

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:58:58 +0000

By: mike

mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:59:59 +0000

never heard of them.. so yeah good example… they would never be on that new station

By: Sirish

Sirish — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:10:10 +0000

rip rock of new york. I really hate the people in my generation who are going to LOVE this new Z100 copy station.

By: Vincent Tobiaz

Vincent Tobiaz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:59:33 +0000

While your points are really thought out and mostly correct, some music is still introduced to people on the radio. Especially people like me who do not go out of their way at ALL to listen to new music. That MGMT song “Kids” I heard first on the radio.

By: With no cars being sold, Sirius XM turns to iPhone to promote itself

With no cars being sold, Sirius XM turns to iPhone to promote itself — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:40:21 +0000

[...] Commerical radio is dead: Why CBS Radio’s K-Rock format switch in New York won’t make a bit of diffe…84 comments [...]

By: Pastaman

Pastaman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:52:33 +0000

this was written in response to a songwriters worries about losing mailbox monies as the revenue stream dries up

By: Pastaman

Pastaman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:50:52 +0000

As a sole writer/publisher of a pop song of the year “ASCAP”- i appreciate that fear that we all share- but as we know from all our Marianne Williamson readings- and just about every great motivational speaker- you will never succeed when you operate from a place of fear as the record companies did with MP3’s, Drummers with drum machines, Photographers with Photoshop ect…..

This system that pays us was contemplated 50 years ago and not based on core beliefs as our constitution is but rather a pragmatism that sought to institutionalize the way royalties paid– keep in mind this was a time when Barry Gordy was putting his name down as a writer on Holland Dozier Holland and Stevie songs- It was never contemplated to reflect an equitable distribution of money-

Now through the extrapolation of changes in the way we consume media- this system is uncovered for the inequities it perpetuates…… Think about this judy…… if Madonna was properly compensated for her vocals on all those early hits….. as a singer receiving an equitable distribution of money each time one of her songs was played…….. do you think she would have insisted in writing all her songs or owning publishing when she was powerful enough to do so????

While perhaps she may have, it would have been out of greed as opposed the necessity that saw Mary Wilson of the Supremes die penniless even though she had been a singer on some of the most played records in history.

The honest reality that songwriters rarely consider, is that the reason every new artist insists on writing music, even when they don’t and in many cases cannot, is that it has been one of the few consistent revenue streams. An argument can be made that the greed of songwriters and publishers has been an absolute cornerstone to the gutting of the craft of songwriting to the point where every 16 year old wanna be- thinks they have the acuity and depth of character to write a meaningful song or need to write their songs to be viable (Frank Sinatra anyone)…… but i digress….

By: :: Radio Industry Technology News and The RadioGlue Blog :: RADIOGLUE ::

:: Radio Industry Technology News and The RadioGlue Blog :: RADIOGLUE :: — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:06:30 +0000

[...] …young people are not turning on their radio to discover new music; they’re certainly not sticking around through the commercials to listen to new music on a radio station. No, sir, that’s what the Internet is for, and that’s why your business has no future. [MORE] [...]

By: Peter Clough

Peter Clough — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:28:37 +0000

KEXP is an excellent choice. The University of Seattle and The Experience Music Project kind of have a joint venture gooing on with this station. In any case they are really well programmed, truly diverse AND ait’s one of the stations available on the iPhone of Blackberry or Android phones via Flycast.

So you can enjoy them everywhere you have a cell signal.

By: Judy Rodman

Judy Rodman — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:46:31 +0000

I have to say, I think this is an accurate assessment of radio from what I’m observing. I, myself almost never listen to music radio for enjoyment – and I’m in the music biz!

However, I am wondering what will happen to my BMI songwriter income as radio keeps tanking. Scary for some of us who are not touring.

By: questionfear

questionfear — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:23:08 +0000

Internet radio is great, but it is always good to have a terrestrial radio station to fall back on in the car sometimes.

I HATE HATE HATE Top 40 radio, and the slow march towards “Top 40 or nothing” is what will eventually drive me away from radio entirely.

Until then, I will be clinging to 101.9RXP, which in the NYC area is the only rock station left. They are great, but now I fear for their future as well. :(