That's a good point. We were a less mobile society as well -- we traveled less for business or pleasure, we didn't move as often.
There also wasn't the competition to radio. You had 3 to 6 TV channels in a city, no video games, no DVD rentals, no Internet, no iPods. Radio has been marginalized, and in this era of user-created, user-controlled content, (recall the Time Magazine "person of the year"), the genie won't easily go back into the bottle. Rich Cuff On Nov 8, 2007 9:31 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I add one more thing? > > Recall the creative explosion that characterized FM radio in the > late '60s and early '70s. New formats, new ideas, new approaches > to "doing radio" came out of that time. The main difference I see > between the willingness to push the envelope then and the rank > timidity we experience now is something that I'll use an economic > regulatory term to describe--"concentration of control". Simply put, > we didn't have it then. So we had a great many more "laboratories" in > which creative minds could experiment freely. With a handful of group > owners tightly controlling what their O&Os and affiliates do (all in > the name of preserving the bloody bottom line for just the next > quarter), there's no freedom to play around... no freedom to learn > from failure...or, to put it succinctly--the discover a new success. > _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
