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Post by Chips on May 20, 2008 10:19:39 GMT 9.5
You listen to us and we'll listen to you
I must lend support to John Laws's opinion on the poor quality of many of today's radio programs ("It's not goodbye world yet, I've got more to say", May 19).
Where are all the broadcasters with great voices and open minds, who research and prepare their material before they go on air? Where are the analysts of current events who can tell us something we don't already know? Where are the great entertainers who can make us chuckle and whose programs we make a point not to miss?
In their place are far too many sour-tempered, nasal-voiced, humourless announcers with few interviewing skills and no understanding of the medium. They bombard us with fatuous, predictable opinions on whatever subjects the morning newspapers have thrown up for the day.
If only the corporations which now run the industry understood that more people would listen to radio if more professional and experienced announcers ran the primetime programs. As with newspapers, the quality of content will determine their survival in a world where competition for an audience has never been fiercer.
Ian Parry-Okeden Bayview
"Those who know nothing about radio are running it." That's logical, when those who know nothing about anything (from morals to reality) are running commercial talkback.
Jim Heys South Hobart (Tas)
Sorry, I must have missed the announcement - who sponsored John Laws's opinion piece?
Jan Kent Farmborough Heights
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 20, 2008 23:28:56 GMT 9.5
Now I do not agree with everything John Laws said but he did at least know the basics of what he was talking about.
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