Any discussion on any draft other than the position of the draftees is utterly and completely awful listening experience. It is like a bunch of 7-Eleven counter workers discussing cars at a bar in the 1970s'. "Yeah, that one has a four barrel carb stock with aspirated fluegenatar and an enhanced cou...

How many times do broadcasters need to learn the lesson that modulation standards backed by licensed technology fail adoption? C-QAM Kahn FM-X …and now this? Surprise, now the auto manufacturers are yanking AM from their radios. These people at C level positions in broadcasting are not too bright.

If I were major league sports team management, I'd be shitting myself on how I'm going to make player payroll.

The pay TV gravy train is over, and I don't think each league will be able to command $30 per month for streaming.

That would be something if they all bailed on it, what a colossal waste of money and opportunity. Terrestrial radio keeps pissing away chances to remain relevant and instead leaps toward a national radio monoculture in an attempt to combat personality driven streaming and podcasts. Rake around it an...

Sounds like the switch to Relevant Radio has taken place. I'm hearing their programming on the 94.3 translator right now, which is broadcasting in monaural (good decision). Makes you wonder if FLR broadcasted in monaural if they would have made difference in staying in the market. Females cannot st...

With Ashlee and Kim I think its safe to say WDIV has the best looking weather team. When you're wringing out your suit jacket after sitting in the stands at a graduation ceremony that was elected to be held outdoors due to Detroit's "best looking weather team", thank your weather moms. They are not...

I head MLB has a plan with their app to open up all the games if the RSN does go under Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk In truth I think this is impossible! There is a prestige factor in carrying sports which would be lost if the league carried all the games on its own carrier. The economic rea...

Contemporary country music is perhaps among the worst genres with absolutely zero creativity and zero effort. I find it amazing that anyone that likes country music actually listens to that garbage.

Paul would likely still be a meteorologist at Local 4 had the New Director down there hit “reply all” discussing Paul’s contract terms. Ha! That would not be the first kerfuffle at WDIV thanks to staff inability to use email. They've inadvertently sent highly confidential information out into the w...

I think streaming has had its day with the likes of Disney & Netflix chopping jobs and cutting costs. Now that the initial surge in subs has ended they can't spend like they used to. Turns out the extra few dollars subscribers can pay to skip ads doesn't come close to covering the ad revenue tradit...

The days of milking pay TV subscribers whether they watched sports or not are drawing to a close. Given how the NHL has turned the game into a medium to display live ads on the boards, I think they're all going to either resort to streaming their own and/or putting it back on broadcast. It was alway...

I think Ashlee is leagues better than Kim. I liked her when she was here before, but she was really good on the snow reports. Her time away doing weather served her well. Very strategic hire by WDIV. She can train to be the weather heiress and step in at any point Adams starts to flake out. In the ...

Editorcj wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:40 pm

I think streaming a 5pm on the weekends would bring in negligible revenue.

It would, today. But news is going to be about all the locals have as the networks are going around them.

Is there an audience to make that profitable? If so it would have happened by now. Doing an hour at 5 would require permanent staffing of at least 2 more reporters and photographers as well as a show producer and that show would be preemted on a fairly regular basis. In union stations you can't jer...

unscopedaircheck wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 20, 2023 5:36 pm

Seems like the locals only hire POC now. Regardless of their qualifications

Nonsense. They are hiring white people regardless of their qualifications too.