You won't find much these days, and that's helped fuel big increases in the audience for the one place where it thrives...NPR. So says today's Washington Post. Following radio veteran Jim Merlini's death last year, there isn't a single radio news reporter in Alabama's Capitol city. Not one. Yet despite the audience increase at NPR, more cuts are headed their way this Spring. Sounds like the situation at the NY Times. They have more hits than ever on their great website, yet income hasn't kept pace. Back to radio, there is no shortage of talk on radio, and the first FM talk arrives in Montgomery this week when WACV's signal goes on 107.9 FM too. And we wish them well!
Jim Merlini is deceased?
ReplyDeleteOh my!
Alabama lost a truly wonderful journalist.
News on the radio? How quaint!
It was said several years ago that the "thinking" population would switch to radio, since teevee was not populated with intellectually stimulating material.
However, with what seems to be a prolific increase in vitriolic diatribes upon the Internet - particular in all things political - and with demagogues parading as intellectual discourse on teevee and radio, I wonder where truly learned discourse in a genteel or urbane manner is headed (or has gone?).