{"id":4913,"date":"2010-03-25T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2010-03-24T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:34:47","slug":"radio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/radio-news\/","title":{"rendered":"90 SECONDS OF WORTHLESS RADIO NEWS, EVERY HOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RadioNewsFuture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4914\" title=\"radio newscast\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RadioNewsFuture.jpg\" alt=\"radio programming\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A Loyal Reader Writes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I work in a small market as an afternoon jock, and I have a question regarding news. Our radio station does 90-second updates at the top of the hour, and the content is mostly rip &amp; read national news with very little local.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a jock who busts my ass to be plugged into the community, it is frustrating to have to stop my show once an hour for seemingly irrelevant news about a car accident that happened across the country. It is especially frustrating when this news from afar is used when good local news never finds its way to the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been told by management that it&#8217;s not my place to complain, because I&#8217;m just a jock. How would you handle this?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was a jock, I would&#8217;ve handled it by complaining to the program director and the general manager and the news director.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that would&#8217;ve accomplished would be to alienate some or all of them and brand myself as a &#8220;troublemaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It would not have helped the radio station, my show, or my listeners.<\/p>\n<p>How would I handle it today? After having shared my thoughts once with management, I would agree with them: It&#8217;s not my place to complain; I&#8217;m just a jock.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d refocus my energies on the aspects of my radio show that I <strong>do<\/strong> have control over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Loyal Reader Writes: &#8220;I work in a small market as an afternoon jock, and I have a question regarding news. 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