Comments on: Is Your Local Radio Station an Endangered Species? http://webzealot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/is-your-local-radio-station-an-endangered-species/ Web, technology, and other drek. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:04:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Steven http://webzealot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/is-your-local-radio-station-an-endangered-species/#comment-44 Steven Mon, 19 May 2008 23:28:52 +0000 http://webzealot.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-44 With iPods and internet radio, traditional radio might be a dying medium just like news papers. With iPods and internet radio, traditional radio might be a dying medium just like news papers.

]]> By: Persephone http://webzealot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/is-your-local-radio-station-an-endangered-species/#comment-35 Persephone Tue, 13 May 2008 16:04:09 +0000 http://webzealot.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-35 I too have shifted huge amounts of my NPR listening to podcasts, but it's had the opposite effect on my donations. I now contribute to FIVE NPR stations: WNYC (on the media), WBZ (This American Life), KCRW (Morning Becomes Eclectic) and WBUR and WGBH because they're local and because of On Point, The World, etc. It's only a matter of time before we have a way to donate to podcasts we like, but what will support the stations that don't produce national content? I would love to see them get more newsy and more local, and linking to stuff like local blogs. I too have shifted huge amounts of my NPR listening to podcasts, but it’s had the opposite effect on my donations. I now contribute to FIVE NPR stations: WNYC (on the media), WBZ (This American Life), KCRW (Morning Becomes Eclectic) and WBUR and WGBH because they’re local and because of On Point, The World, etc.

It’s only a matter of time before we have a way to donate to podcasts we like, but what will support the stations that don’t produce national content? I would love to see them get more newsy and more local, and linking to stuff like local blogs.

]]> By: webzealot http://webzealot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/is-your-local-radio-station-an-endangered-species/#comment-34 webzealot Mon, 12 May 2008 22:13:57 +0000 http://webzealot.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-34 Yeh, maybe. But I don't hear any commercials on the satellite music channels. Don't hear any on the podcasts (yet). The public has a VERY high tolerance for advertising, perhaps even a complete disregard for it. Yeh, maybe. But I don’t hear any commercials on the satellite music channels. Don’t hear any on the podcasts (yet).

The public has a VERY high tolerance for advertising, perhaps even a complete disregard for it.

]]> By: Marty http://webzealot.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/is-your-local-radio-station-an-endangered-species/#comment-33 Marty Mon, 12 May 2008 22:08:54 +0000 http://webzealot.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-33 Well you've certainly done your part to kill it. Now you get to pay, and still hear the same annoying commercials... yay. Kill your TV. Well you’ve certainly done your part to kill it. Now you get to pay, and still hear the same annoying commercials… yay.

Kill your TV.

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