{"id":2223,"date":"2020-05-29T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bprworld.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:20:29","slug":"the-good-old-days-are-here-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/news\/the-good-old-days-are-here-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Old Days are Here and Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By David Kidd, BPR<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bprworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DK.jpg?resize=100%2C101\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1431\" width=\"100\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bprworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DK.jpg?w=298 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bprworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DK.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nhave avoided going to many of the annual gatherings of what they call Radio and\nTV Survivors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Why?\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because\nthe main topic of conversation from what I am told is <em>\u201chow great it was in\nthe old days\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nyes my friends it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fewer\nradio stations i.e. less competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJ\u2019s,\neven music jocks, were stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nonly competition was TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everybody\nmade great money!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nyou wanted to hear the brand-new song from your favourite artist the only place\nyou could hear it was on the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nguess what \u2026\u2026. wake up and smell the roses\u2026. times have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legacy\nthinking is the first step to failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just\nbecause we did \u201cX\u201d 10 years ago does not mean \u201cX\u201d will be successful or\ncommercially viable today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Live\nmid-dawns\u2026a great way to train young jocks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\ncan stations afford it today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know the answer\u2026\u2026. NO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nothing\nbut live and local programming?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibly\ncommercially viable but networked shows can work just as well if not better\nwith great talent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio\nis a commercial entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio\u2019s\ncompetition for revenue has increased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technology\nhas helped radio stations reduce costs and improve business processes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nmy friends, that is life. For those who fondly remember the past\u2026do so\u2026as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But embrace the future and the amazing transformation of our industry.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Kidd, BPR I have avoided going to many of the annual gatherings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bprworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/silhouette-photography-of-group-of-people-jumping-during-1000445-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bprworld.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}