One radio station for everyone.
Hi, Ranty McRant here with today's story.
Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays says:
"For radio to propsper, we will have to do a lot things differently," he said during the Dickstein Shapiro Broadcast Financing 2006 session at the NAB Radio show. "We need to be taking content, repurposing it, and giving it to people in a format that they want. We have to be constantly evolving and changing what we're doing, and asking ourselves what changes can we continue to make to make radio viable."
Mays says that radio must also further consolidate over the next ten years if its wants to stand toe-to-toe with other, more consolidated industries that are using their scale to gain stronger footholds.
So the destroyer of radio wants more? We've seen how CC has bought up once-local stations here in MN, and shuffled their formats like a Vegas card shark. Let's not even bring up how the FCC was caught destroying a report that showed that locally owned TV stations do more local news than network-owned or "non-locally owned" stations do - a story the consoldation-loving guys at the FCC didn't want to hear.
Consolidation has ruined radio and tv, sterilized playlists and schedules, driven people to satellite and P2P, not to mention closed and locked the door for independent music to be heard by anyone who doesn't actively search for it.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the broken broadcast industry is going to give people 'repurposed content'. Maybe I'll go write some 'content' right now. In hopes that they pick me.
Don't miss my favorite line from CC Mays, "We have two customer bases; our advertising customers and our listening customers."
Rich. Where's my receipt? I want to return this bland content.
Ah. The almighty mp3 will show them.
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Paul Bigsby's first instrument for sale!
Paul Bigsby got his start as a talented motorcycle builder, and became one of the most important guitar builders, creating instruments that would later be copied piecemeal by other luthiers.
His first instrument, a triple neck steel guitar built in 1946 for legendary steel player Earl "Joaquin" Murphy has been found after almost 50 years!
It has been restored to original condition as played by Murphy, and is currently for sale.
Paul fastidiously made all of his guitars by hand, including casting his own aluminum hardware, and winding his own pickups. This instrument is important as it is a template for his next instrument, a solid spanish-style guitar made for Merle Travis, and a preview of what electric guitars would later become.
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A recording of "Joaquin" Murphy playing 'Texas Playboy Rag' with Tex Avery is here. (From the CD 'Tex Williams - On The Air 1947-1949')
I know I can't stand playing anything other than my Bigsby-ized Silvertone 1446L :)
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All the tunes you can choke down
Paste this into google:
"band" last modified mp3 "index of" -html -htm -php -asp
Or click this
They aren't even ours!
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I think it's done
w00t. Yeah, it doesn't match the rest of the site. Such is the price of progress.
Now I can blab on and on and on about whatever I like, and you will read it, enraptured by my genius. Awesomes.
Incidentally, you can now subscribe to theschmoejoes.com and get updates when I make them, rather than whenever you have an urge to see what the 'joes are up to. We are totally on this internets thing.
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As you can see
I'm changing up the 'News'. It's going to suck, then it's going to rock. Bear with me.
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