Radio & Records : You Tell Me

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Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Radio & Records, Talk Radio | You Tell Me (Comment)

When you consider that newspaper publishing has been around for centuries, commercial radio broadcasting has been around for over 80 years and television has been doing its thing since about 1950, the changes that have rolled over these traditional media seem to have occurred in the blink of an eye.
Almost overnight it seems, digital technology, […]

Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under Radio & Records | 5 Comments

Pardon me for taking you backstage but I’m doing it for a reason.
Wolfman Jack playing the hits.
The radio industry and the record industry were born at the same time and nurtured in adjacent cribs. Being the siblings that they were, many decades ago, when both were in their concurrent adolescence, an accommodation was reached. Radio […]

Author's Note

When I was a very young man trying to break in to the radio business, the dominant station in my hometown of Dallas was KLIF 1190 AM.

The station was owned by radio pioneer Gordon McLendon and one of the things that it featured was editorials that McLendon himself wrote and voiced.

McLendon's editorials were strictly a one-way street. There was no practical method by which listeners could agree or disagree.

Today, broadcaster and listener can maintain a dialogue. And that's what this portion of ktbb.com is about.

I'll put the proposition out there. You feel free to agree, disagree or amplify. This is YOUR forum. So YOU TELL ME.
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