by radioman » Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:44 pm
Did any of these re-broadcast transmitter locations (Ashcroft, Clearwater, etc.) actually have any staff at these locations, or was it just a transmitter humming away? If there was no staff to pay and now NL can't apparently even afford the electricity to keep the transmitters broadcasting, they must be in really dire financial straits.
Just another symptomatic example of the sad financial state of affairs of media (radio, t.v., newspapers, magazines). They are all shadows of their former selves. Once great radio news outlets run the same story, un-rewritten, over and over again, even starting major newscasts with day-old stories. National t.v. newscasts feature reporters based in Ottawa reporting on stories from places such as the Middle East. Newspapers that once had an average of 50 to 60 pages during the week with 100+ pages on Saturdays now struggle to even reach the 30 page mark during the week and maybe hit 50 on Saturday. And once plump weekly magazines now are reduced to thin monthlies. And all the time we readers pay more for a copy of the newspaper or magazine and get less. Something's not right here.
And as for the music radio stations--why oh why are the disc jockeys muzzled? They say little about the music they play. The music stations are not much more than a glorified juke box--no information for the listeners about the title of the song, or any tid bits of information about the artist. When are we going to get back to the days of the great Vancouver disc jockeys such as Jack Cullen, Red Robinson, Fred Latremouille, Dave McCormick, etc. who acted as "masters of ceremonies" of their shows, if you will, and truly entertained along with the artists they were playing.