Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Has Internet Killed the Talk Radio Star?

I have found a new site, thanks to Annie at theusofe, the site is Radioratingz.com. This site not only covers regular radio, but also internet radio. It allows you to add your favorite internet radio shows and review them. You can also rate national shows like coast to coast. C2C isn't doing to well, so if you are a fan, you should probably drop by, rate it and say something nice. I wasn't able to do that because most nights lately I can't stand to listen to it.
I think that much of my dissatisfaction with c2c lately is because I have become spoiled by internet radio. Remember that old song Video killed the radio star? Well, I think internet has killed the talk radio stars. I no longer have to listen to guests that I am really not very interested in, just to get my esoteric radio fix. I have dozens of shows I can listen to now. Not only dozens of shows, but most all of them having better guests than c2c. Most of them also have better hosts who have actually spent time researching their guests enough to be able to ask relevant questions.
(Ian Punnett is not included in that remark since he actually reads his guests books)
Honestly, I think we are on the cusp of a real revolution. There is already much chatter about TV news and newspapers being obsolete due to the internet, but it may not be too long before radio is as well.

1 comment:

TOMO said...

good post... keep fighting the RIGHT fight!
tomo

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