Comments | merriehaskell: All's well in Allemagne

merriehaskell

All's well in Allemagne

Nov 22, 2010 14:34

Doing well in Germany. Finally have found a rhythm to the tourist life--it helped that I did not succumb to sleepiness, but rather scurried out of the hotel as soon as protein was ingested and clothes were on ( Read more... )

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nancyfulda November 23 2010, 09:35:10 UTC

Sounds like an absolutely idyllic trip so far!

daveamongus November 23 2010, 10:55:51 UTC

AFR rocks because, in large part, they're not worried about ratings and "senior management" in the military is typically not much older than you are. They're not beholden to ClearChannel or whomever to promote the latest flavor of the month or flash in the pan.

Very glad you're having a good time, though. Sounds like fine and I'm pretty jealous. ;)

merriehaskell November 23 2010, 16:42:24 UTC

That was what I was wondering (about AFR) yesterday--is it because they aren't, basically, doing it for profit but for love that it works? And why does the profit model lead to such crappy radio?

Bleah.

It is a good time! A leetle lonely, but good.

daveamongus November 23 2010, 16:51:31 UTC

They're doing it for the love, and they have a relatively narrow demorgraphic. I don't know many Marines who hated Top 40... but I also don't know any who loved it.

Plus, like I said, if you'd gone into the military at 18 and gone down the media road within it, by now you'd be the sort of person who makes those playlist decisions, runs a radio station and such. As opposed to out of touch corporate execs operating off of ratings numbers and record sales.