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Re: After Day 1: New Realities, Old Mindsets

Dennis Haarsager — Sat, 06 May 2006 17:13:00 -0000

Maybe instead of a well-placed bomb, what we need is that golden parachute fund that was suggested at a long-forgotten public broadcasting meeting. But then again this media disruption is happening so fast that those who think they can survive by tweaking the status quo will find themselves retired without the 'chute.

In the end, I felt that the structured approach of the individual NR retreats, which brought about a remarkable amount of consensus among many of the same people, and the unstructured approach of the Monday/Tuesday sessions were a useful contrast. Fortunately, what's needed on the backend is relatively inexpensive and what's needed on the frontend is granular, so that leaves stations with a lot of flexibility to either buy in or fa d e a w a y.

Re: Why Iowa?

Dennis Haarsager — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:40:05 -0000

You'll do a great job, Todd! Congratulations again. --Dennis

Re: How ’bout some radio on TV?

Dennis Haarsager — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:30:43 -0000

Thanks for the link to my post. We've talked here (talk is cheap) about using some of our DTV spectrum for a Northwest Public Radio surround sound channel on our two television stations with album covers or a regional Flickr feed as "video." Last I checked over a year ago, there were over 2,000 music DVDs in surround (none of them in our inventory). PSIP will support it and many of the people buying large screen televisions have home theater systems, available for as little as $350 at Costco. However, the crush of other projects and the expanding costs (and this was before the current copyright billing debacle) caused us to put it on the back burner. This seems very doable, so let's see you Iowans get'erdone. But be sure it's just locally recorded music. --Dennis