Posts by Robbie Siataga
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The purpose is to widen the demographic and catchment area to make the service seem more relevent and attractive for continuing sponsorship without updating the content, at the risk of losing your primary delivery mechanism.
ie..if more people are going to hear the content on a clickback from the net from a wider coverage area then why bother broadcasting it on radio in the first place ?
but yeah good point on hardbacks. Why bother ? Just get the shit out on paperback and save the cost of prettying it up for poxy first edition collectors. Or just do e books off subscription and save the environmental cost of printing on paper :)
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but you could always stream or podcast if you've go decent broadband and speakers?
oooh i can just hear the rumblings of discontent from the hardline pro-radio massive...Its not real Radio unless you tune it in on a dial :)
Duplication of services kind of defeats the purpose really ?
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Isn't this precisely the point?
Hmmm...I wonder why no ones expanded the market for blipverts aimed at children and adults with limited attention span ?
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I added a turntable to my stereo system, just so my children could hear what vinyl sounded like.
I had to sell my technics 1210 for parts as the littlies thought it was a merry go round.
Does radio still do sunday morning kid stories ? Bad jelly the witch and Flick the little fire engine...those were the days *sigh* now we do cartoons. Weird, but i just realised we dont have a radio as such in the house and where we live, I'm not even sure we get reception.
The thing that kills me about introducing the kids to radio is the ads. The music and whatever else is just the filler between the ads that actually pays the bills. We always mute the ads on TV.
Thanx for the TKI hookup. I just downloaded the pdf from here
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/Social-sciences/Media-studies
and found out a lot of it i've already done/do in practical form :) -
I don't believe it is as seismic a shift nor as dramatic as much of the rhetoric claims.
I agree in the short term, but one only has to look at media and format changes in the last 20 years to extrapolate a seismic shift for the next generation. My six year old wouldn't know what a radio was or how to turn it on and tune it but he can hook up the playstation by himself at 6.30 in the morning...go figure
In my day we told teachers what we thought they wanted to hear not neccessarily what we really thought. I'm going to assume that hasn't changed much.
Interestingly, what does media studies entail these days ? Got a link ? I'd love to do some night classes but...oh well :(
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two different studies of 8-13 year olds does show that radio is still important to this age group (as is TV).
Important in what way and does that importance tail off in the 13 to 18 set when they become more 'puter savvy and an interactively networked social life of music swapping and gossip can't be delivered by radio ?
My kids and i have battles over whose mp3 player to play from in the car. And now they've started playing tunes off their phones while taking showers. Nothing more annoying than hearing a shit tune on a cellphone coming from the bathroom...grrrrr
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I will bet you $100 that it will be. You can collect from my estate, if I am proven wrong and not around to deliver ;-)
Ok, you might still get ham enthusiasts on limited frequencies spitting out nostalgia for no one but their mates. A sort of diehard pirate mentality. And yeah, an emergency civil defense channel booted up in times of need.
But even with wireless broadband streaming net content live from someones bedroom or vehicle for free to your cell phone and bluetoothed to your car, do you think there'll be obsequious radio jocks getting paid shitloads for doing crap breakfast shows, lame talkbacks shows and subsidised niche broadcasts to increasingly irrelevent minorities rapidly being absorbed into the mainstream ?
Dunno eh but i doubt it. kids these days (just going from my own) don't do radio so are you suggesting it's an adult acquired taste they'll develop in later life ?
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I'd love to see us taxpayers (and almost everybody does in ANZ) enabled to choose priorities as to where our money goes/is expended.
We would, under the rule of law, getting close to a true democracy.thanx Islander and yup, that would be choice
And some - few- carvings/edifices- actually were designed to produce sounds...
Hmmm interesting...I'd heard of large wheel like carvings hung flat from trees and struck to produce bell like sounds, possibly made from pounamu ? Like this only bigger ?
http://www.thepoiroom.co.nz/photoServer/product_images/8432E248-423C.JPG
Do you know of such things ? And natural edifices enhanced for the wind to whistle through sounds like a wicked idea. I'm sure there'd be Creative NZ funding for that :)
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You know, reality.
Ahh yes reality, i knew her well. She used to be a friend of mine but we sort of lost touch a while back. I wonder if shes on facebook ?
Tell you what Keir. You define yours and me mine, and if they intersect, we'll have a beer and a laugh over it...sweet ?
And then in 20 years time, we turn around, and we're stuck with 'classic hits fm',
Do you honestly think radio will still be around in 20 years time ?
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iit might be nice if the people arguing against Concert FM's funding started to show a familiarity with the real world
OK, i'll bite. What real world is this ?