Comments on: POTW: An Eric’s Eye View at KISS-FM http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/06/19/potw-an-erics-eye-view-at-kiss-fm-2009/ 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: Adventure http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/06/19/potw-an-erics-eye-view-at-kiss-fm-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Adventure Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:39 +0000 http://www.cnyradio.com/?p=1990#comment-286 I am surprised so many people fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book, especially, during a ratings period. I guess the average person would not know better, but I thought most media people would have known what was going on. Obviously WKTV went along with it because there are ties between radio station employees and management at WKTV. Nice partnership. Problem with that entire joke...many of the reporting sentences were lies. Idea to fool people was good, no doubt about it, how it was done was very misleading. The morning show itself is very weak anyway, but in today's world, most people do not care or pay as much attention to the on-air talent as they did many years ago. If they did, some of the stations with weak talent would be at the bottom of the ratings. It seems as if today, what matters most is the music, contests and promotions. Many stations that just track with out of town voice talent are even doing well. I am surprised so many people fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book, especially, during a ratings period. I guess the average person would not know better, but I thought most media people would have known what was going on. Obviously WKTV went along with it because there are ties between radio station employees and management at WKTV. Nice partnership. Problem with that entire joke…many of the reporting sentences were lies.

Idea to fool people was good, no doubt about it, how it was done was very misleading. The morning show itself is very weak anyway, but in today’s world, most people do not care or pay as much attention to the on-air talent as they did many years ago. If they did, some of the stations with weak talent would be at the bottom of the ratings. It seems as if today, what matters most is the music, contests and promotions. Many stations that just track with out of town voice talent are even doing well.

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