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| Czaoth |
| Lol that's funny, in Ottawa we had a station change it's name to Bob. In TO it's Jack. Who is the marketing 'genius' behind this? Radio sucks anyways, better to pick your music than get spoon fed garbage. |
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| Time2Burn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Czaoth
Lol that's funny, in Ottawa we had a station change it's name to Bob. In TO it's Jack. Who is the marketing 'genius' behind this? Radio sucks anyways, better to pick your music than get spoon fed garbage. |
Sounds like dumb marketing ploy to me. WTF is Jack? they claim its some new fancy special music formatt. To me it sounds like the same old bs in a different package.
When the hell is somebody gonna realize that the electronic music scene in Toronto IS economically viable and bring us a hip new cutting edge station that plays only the goood ? |
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| ryanm |
| quote: | Originally posted by Time2Burn
Sounds like dumb marketing ploy to me. WTF is Jack? they claim its some new fancy special music formatt. To me it sounds like the same old bs in a different package.
When the hell is somebody gonna realize that the electronic music scene in Toronto IS economically viable and bring us a hip new cutting edge station that plays only the goood ? |
Probably never:rolleyes: |
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| Time2Burn |
| quote: | Originally posted by ryanm
Probably never:rolleyes: |
You know it just pisses me off!!
As raves and "after hour" clubs across North America face tight scrutiny and persectution. As Mp3s and net radio are constantly under attack from the financial elites. It seems that our choice of music and culture are under attack.
Meanwhile, we got radio and television stations popping up all over the place playing hop, cRock, and Adult "contempt-ary" because the so called marketing "geniuses" say that this is where the media companies will make their money.
Here is a tip to any multi millionaire reading this: If you build they will come. Record companies will soon catch on, radio stations won't be too far behind. Soon enough some chump out there will realize that electronic music and rave culture is a cash crop - ready for the picking. (and don't forget to hire me ;))
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| dEsidEL |
some more interesting reading reg. the end of 1groove.com and 89.5 FM..
| quote: | Originally posted by Dr. Trance on tribe.ca on 03-12-02
Thanks for everything
Basically, what it has come down to is this: Iceberg Media is run by suits who have no clue what they're doing. They know nothing about broadcasting (web casting), and they make no effort to learn.
The CEO of this company is a book seller, for 's sake (he was the CEO of Indigo.ca). When a book doesn't sell, you take it off the shelf and put another one on.
When the initial 6 Iceberg channels didn't sell, he put 300 (!) new ones on the shelf with Bonzaroo, which is one giant juke box playing every kind of music imaginable. One would think it would be easier to sell ads on THAT puppy, but it hasn't happened yet, maybe because of the CEO's bright idea to restrict listeners to Canada because he figures you can't sell ads in the U.S., where many internet audio sites have gone out of business in the last year. The problem is, most of those sites were purchased by Clear Channel, which then shut them down to avoid competition with their 1700 radio stations. So our CEO's logic is a bit warped in this case (hell-in all cases; the guy's a dildo).
At any rate, it turns out that with our live DJs, it cost over twice as much to keep us running as any of the other channels here that are all automated. The figures didn't compute, and since this guy knows nothing of our scene and what makes it tick, he doesn't realize that without the live djs, we...sorry, HE will lose a lot of listeners.
BY the way, we were far and away the most listened to channel on the Iceberg site, and for that I, and everyone who worked very hard to keep this project going over the past 3 years, thank you very much.
See ya 'round!
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http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/...ht=1groove+89.5 |
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| DamnDirtyApe |
| Man, some of the stuff they say on Tribe about the radio business is scary. How would like to be taken out to lunch with your coworkers, then discover that you've all been locked out of the building and fired? |
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| AmbiguousBliss |
| quote: | Originally posted by DamnDirtyApe
Man, some of the stuff they say on Tribe about the radio business is scary. How would like to be taken out to lunch with your coworkers, then discover that you've all been locked out of the building and fired? |
I was sorta thinking along the same lines... :thepirate |
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| Ninjapimp |
| They also switched one of the newly formed hip-hop stations in Calgary to Jack as well. EXACT same format. Must be part of the same media group. I wish I knew how it was doing there. I'm guessing the T.O. one will follow the same path...... |
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| E*Master |
| Man, Looks like Tarzan Dan is out of a job again. man that guy has worked so man different places in th lasat 10 years. I wonder if he ever gets sick and tired of having his employers go out of business. As well as being pushed out of the Hitlist (or quit I dunno). |
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| AmbiguousBliss |
| quote: | Originally posted by E*Master
the Hitlist (or quit I dunno). |
:haha::stongue: I remember when that show was so cool, hahaha... Then they switched it over to these two crazy-ass ditzes... :nervous: |
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