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 Posted By: Jim Liddane on: 05/20/2011 03:47:09 EDTSubject: RE: DJs = I just don't get it! |
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Shattered is right - ReelRadio is excellent, and they have also put together a number of shows using the original DJ voice tapes, but with the music re-recorded, so that the entire show now sounds as though it had been taped on modern equipment. Well worth the tiny annual fee. Shattered also wrote.... So why did they move around so much? Jim replied..... Money I suppose! And bigger markets. You were in New York, and you noticed that some of the top ones stayed there - but that was simply because once you had made it to New York, you were already at the top, so you stayed where you were! Incidentally, could I add one more name to your New York listing - namely Dick Biondi, who worked on WKBW in Buffalo? Brilliant voice, and still working on WLS 94.7 FM at the age of 79. Getting back to moving - I myself worked in radio in Ireland from 1981 to 1995, and the guys who were making the real money were those willing to move on every so often to the bigger stations, and the bigger audiences. If you were happy to come in, stay three years or so, and grow the audience, you were in demand and could command the bigger salaries and bigger opportunities. Of course, once your career peaked, you started doing the same thing again - but in reverse! The old joke about being nice to people on the way up, as you will be meeting them again on the way down, was never truer than it was in the radio business. I think there was also a bit of pressure on you, if you did not seem too ambitious - as though you were "afraid of the big markets". I guess "W.O.L.D" sort of sums it up! |
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