32 years ago seems like a long time to look back in your life. I guess it is, but to many of us 1981 just doesn't seem that long ago (unless your in your 30s or younger) There are still a few remnants of the earlier days of rock and roll. Neil Diamond, George Harrison, Gary US Bonds still on the charts
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A sign of the future for careers in AM radio, no DJ's were listed on the survey.
Nice to see you posting again, Doug, with a great survey. Hope this becomes a regular event. I had just about given up this website because it seemed kind of dead!
I agree with the first post about this week's survey sheet. In fact, the entire thing is berefit of no station promotion whatsoever, lacking any personality. Just the opposite, it looks generic! I guess by then, with Al Anthony and Bob Bunnell gone, there was no one left to "Barnum and Bailey" KFXM beyond the call letters and frequency. Not even any localized identification anymore with the actual licensed listening area!!!
It might be called the beginning of "cloud radio", like satellite or internet radio, lacking any sense of connection to a real person or place. Maybe voice tracking was the first step down that slippery slope, radio expected the listener to stay tuned even though station/broadcaster wasn't really there. Listeners may have come to the conclusion that if real broadcasters weren't there for them there was little point in listening.
The last poster explained the intolerable situation going on at that time with KFXM,
in exactly the correct detail and circumstances.
Looking back, how could many of us have ever imagined this "cloud radio" concept to be the wave of many a future radio broadcaster?
Radio simply went the same way as a lot of other businesses. Just like retail store chains like McDonalds or 7-11's we ended up with a few content offerings, whether they were radio talkers, music services, etc running on hundreds of automated local stations.
Not to mention the fact that the slogan, "More Better Music", is abysmal abuse of the English language.
KUDOS to what "Clark" previously posted. Beyond "abysmal abuse", there
was also the intrinsic "generic" (per a prior poster) quality which made KFXM (and stations like it) become mediocre broadcasters! Small wonder AM radio is presently in the pits, deteriorating further toward oblivion as we speak!
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