Comments on: Updated: WSEN Drops Middayer Diane Wade http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/03/13/wsen-drops-middayer-diane-wade/ News about radio happenings in Syracuse, Utica-Rome and Ithaca-Cortland. News about TV in Syracuse and Utica. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rondo http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/03/13/wsen-drops-middayer-diane-wade/comment-page-1/#comment-227 rondo Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:35:20 +0000 http://www.cnyradio.com/?p=1394#comment-227 This whole mess in radio and TV is due to deregulation. Blame the Bush administration! This whole mess in radio and TV is due to deregulation. Blame the Bush administration!

]]> By: wnynative http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/03/13/wsen-drops-middayer-diane-wade/comment-page-1/#comment-226 wnynative Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:49:53 +0000 http://www.cnyradio.com/?p=1394#comment-226 Isn’t it “wonderful” to see another head on the Syracuse Radio Chopping Block? How nice it will be to hear another out-of-town voice tracker join the voices of Syracuse radio. Won’t it be nice to hear their attempts to pronounce Oswego, and some of the other area names as they try to “marry” our community? Seeing these people at local events will really make them a part of the “home town pride“. Their interest in our city has been a dream come true for all of us. What could be more local and sincere than some guy in Hartford, talking about the great Big East playoffs. You know he rooted for UCON.. Maybe we’ll see him in the St. Patty’s Day Parade down Salina Street.. Not likely, but for a few hours on the radio, he’ll be “Mr. Syracuse” and kiss the listener’s fanny attempting to be “one of us”. What a JOKE. Back in 1961, Former Chairman of the FCC, Newton Minow, addressed the NAB and said; “When television is good, nothing—not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland. In Minow's view, to serve the public interest... His phrase, "vast wasteland", is remembered years after the speech. OK, so that was about TV. Change the words to Radio and TV, and here we are today. What a mess. Isn’t it “wonderful” to see another head on the Syracuse Radio Chopping Block? How nice it will be to hear another out-of-town voice tracker join the voices of Syracuse radio. Won’t it be nice to hear their attempts to pronounce Oswego, and some of the other area names as they try to “marry” our community? Seeing these people at local events will really make them a part of the “home town pride“. Their interest in our city has been a dream come true for all of us. What could be more local and sincere than some guy in Hartford, talking about the great Big East playoffs. You know he rooted for UCON.. Maybe we’ll see him in the St. Patty’s Day Parade down Salina Street.. Not likely, but for a few hours on the radio, he’ll be “Mr. Syracuse” and kiss the listener’s fanny attempting to be “one of us”. What a JOKE.

Back in 1961, Former Chairman of the FCC, Newton Minow, addressed the NAB and said;

“When television is good, nothing—not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better.
But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

In Minow’s view, to serve the public interest… His phrase, “vast wasteland”, is remembered years after the speech.

OK, so that was about TV. Change the words to Radio and TV, and here we are today.

What a mess.

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