I received this autographed picture from Casey Kasem (in 1993, I guess) and is the best thing in my radio memorabilia collection.
Now you can hear Casey Kasem on Radio Indigo in Bangalore on weekends.
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While uncle Abe loved the "Bill Kern Sports Show" on Radio his wife Ceil adored
a very prominent ventriloquist.
And this always used to drive Abe crazy.
Abe: “He's a ventriloquist on the radio. How do know he's not moving his lips?”
Ceil: “Who cares? Leave me alone.”
The media story in India is very different from that in the West. traditional media such as newspapers and magazines are holding their own here in the face of new media, unlike in many countries where print has been losing readers, and thereby advertising revenue, to the Internet. Both the newspaper and the television — the two biggest businesses in the media market here — are witnessing high growth rates, and are the primary choice for advertisers.
Let’s just limit our discussion to the car. That’s where radio is king. Sure, people listen at home, but the real money, the main activity, is in the automobile, where you’re a captive audience.
Now radio has been threatened not so much by the CD or the iPod, but by the cell phone. A great number of people are not listening to music in the car at all. They’ll only stop talking and start listening when what’s coming out of the speakers is more interesting than the blather coming out of their hand-set. As for the CD…that’s passe. As for the iPod, it never plays anything you don’t know. And you want to hear what you don’t know, you want to be exposed to new things, it’s human nature.
[…] But satellite radio. It’s in all new cars. Has been in most for years. The key is to get people to tune in, to pay for it.
Currently, World Space is the only player in India to offer such a service. On the implementation of the new policy, WorldSpace will not only have to find a local partner to hold a 26% equity stake in its Indian operations, but will also have to share 4% of its revenues with the government here.
Chandrasekhar’s involvement in the media will also extend to a 2-hour programme
that he will host on his FM station. It will “play blues, contemporary rock…” It
won’t just be about the music he likes, Chandrasekhar says. “If the point of
having a radio station is to play only music I like, it would be cheaper to buy
a music player rather than invest Rs35 crore in running a station,” he adds.
Why do you say Radio is better than TV?
Here is one:
Barry Campell of enveranche comments on the China earthquake coverage on NPR. But some things are still best conveyed by radio. It can be a tremendous medium for storytelling.
[...] The story is about 12 minutes long, and is so evocative of the horror on the ground that it is, candidly, really hard to take... but it's also one of the best pieces of radio journalism I think I've ever heard.
NPR link of the coverage by Melissa Block here.