CORPORATE RADIO WELCOMES TALENT

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• Candi Chamberlain August 16, 2009, 12:16 am

  Exactly. Corporate radio welcomes talented musicologists who can also program to kindly be run over by a bus and bullied to hell by anyone they stand up to. It never changed in 31 years, so I divorced my “husband” of a radio career.

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• Guy Bauer August 16, 2009, 12:16 am

  amen

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• Brian Battles August 16, 2009, 7:06 am

  Funny how the people who run a business based on entertaining people are so good at removing all semblance of entertainment from their content.

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• Candi Chamberlain August 16, 2009, 7:06 am

  It’s as if knowledge and entertainment were… unAmerican.

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• Jeff Hall August 16, 2009, 7:08 am

  That’s why I now work for a school system that owns its own radio station. At least the high school kids exercise some wonderful creativity and talent!!!

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• Sammy Lee August 16, 2009, 7:09 am

  Its so true. All of it. Thank goodness for the internet.

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• Denis Grondin August 16, 2009, 7:12 am

  Ditto.

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• Chad Peery August 16, 2009, 8:31 am

  I guess I must be lucky. While I know many who have been shafted by “The Man,” I have for the most part avoided these corporate lizards. In the last 25 years I have met many talent who thought they were talented, who were not; and I have known self-proclaimed creative types who couldn’t create their way out of a wet paper bag. I have also know flat-out geniuses and gifted talent who continue to thrive, despite the corporate stupidity and difficult economy. I think I understand how bitter, cynical cartoons like this one can hold a special resonance for some.

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• Dan Nims August 16, 2009, 12:45 pm

  One might try to apply a mathmatical formula to determine when the commercial radio broadcasting business will, through ownership changes, re-invent itself at some future date. How long will it take?
  What will the ‘new’ sound like?

  Meanwhile, former listeners are discovering portable mp3 players and ‘internet only’ programming that fills the void created by ‘less than captivating’ content now on the air.

  Or is all of this a bad dream and we will wake up and everything will be just fine?

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• Don Gibson August 16, 2009, 9:24 pm

  I’ve been in radiio for many years, it was my dream from a very young age and i’ve had a blast. then along comes one of the big 3 and away goes local radio. that’s why listenership is down!

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• Peter Bradshaw August 21, 2009, 3:15 pm

  Thanks Bobby for the cartoon. It says so much

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