What happens when Oblowme is canned? Will we have a “Used Czar” sale? Followed by Used Czar salesmen? OMG!!

So I put myself through nightschool at a local trade college for two years in Microsoft Network Engineering while working full time at a Clear Channel station by day. I started the AS degree in ’06, after I saw how miserable the future of electronic broadcasting was. RADIO IS DYING, and you can talk to the thousands of announcers who have been replaced by voicetracking software if you don’t believe me.

Ad revenue has been drying up steadily since the internet came on the scene. The two largest radio companies in America, Clear Channel [almost dead] and Cumulus, have been a nightmarish revolving door of sales people for about ten years, now. The sales rep is tasked with trying to milk ad dollars from local businesses in a time when the competition for radio’s main attraction-music-is delivered with better quality and infinite variety thanks to the digital world we call the internet. The same is true for your favorite AM talk shows, of course. I have long said that the future of terrestrial radio is that of an Amber Alert/weather/Emergency Alert system here in America. Ugly but true.

We are the proverbial ice man in the face of the new invention, the refridgerator.

This current recession is only the final blow to the thousands of AM and FM stations across America that have been firing your favorite dj’s, overplaying stupid public service announcements because they don’t have a 30 second spot to replace them with, and trying to sell their entire stations for a decade or more, now.

Typical minorities looking for a handout will try to spin this as only a recent catastrophe being bore out on their “communities” worse than others, but the truth is that their time has come, and they are no more special than the poor white communities in Appalachia who love and depend on their local country radio stations. But you don’t see them trying to throw a pity party to rob our beleagured US treasury.

Uh huh.

They must be stopped.

Are people that stupid? We’re bearing full witness the results of the government ‘savior’ discipline right now with nearly every industry on which they’ve gotten their grubby hands. We’re going to by extension now lurch that into every aspect of the private sector that wants in?

Of course I believe Cantor’s use of the word ‘stimulus’ he would then go on to clarify meant the sole use of tax cuts and the retraction of government influence, but still, this is where it’s headed – all part of the plan and Nerobama doesn’t even have to steer it that way anymore.

From Broadcasting & Cable:

Minority Broadcasters Try Direct Appeal to Geithner, Ask for Industry Help

Key legislators also ask treasury secretary to consider financial backing

By John Eggerton

Fourteen minority broadcasters have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asking for help for their industry, which they argue is in danger of extinction.

That direct appeal for help followed a letter to the secretary from some key legislators including Majority Whip (and father of FCC commission nominee Mignon Clyburn) Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), and Democratic Reps. Barney Frank (MA) and Charlie Rangel (NY) asking Geithner to “pay attention” to the plight of minority broadcasters. That includes considering help to free up credit and financing government-backed bridge loans, similar to steps taken to help the ailing auto industry…

http://www.broadcastingcable.c.....y_Help.php

One wonders why were “no-minority dictates by advertisers” common, Congress wouldn’t pounce upon that and let the world know precisely which advertisers had rules forbidding advertising to minority groups.

But then I’m introducing logic into a left-wing emotional argument, and that never works.