Comments on: Christmas is coming http://james.cridland.net/blog/christmas-is-coming/ From a radio futurologist - where broadcast radio and new platforms collide. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:46:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://james.cridland.net/blog/christmas-is-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-34743 Steve Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:04:41 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=969#comment-34743 I'll be there live on Xmas Day morning on a small commercial station! Love doing it, there's such a fantastic atmosphere and it really does make commercial radio feel like it used to - bringting the community together. I’ll be there live on Xmas Day morning on a small commercial station! Love doing it, there’s such a fantastic atmosphere and it really does make commercial radio feel like it used to – bringting the community together.

]]> By: Nick Piggott http://james.cridland.net/blog/christmas-is-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-34727 Nick Piggott Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:53:36 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=969#comment-34727 The rites of passage in commercial radio have certainly been changed by technology. The path of tech-op to "you'll do Christmas" presenter has completely disappeared. (I like to think I made Christmas a little special for the good people of Essex once upon a time. But in retrospect, it was hardly a triumph of personality radio, and if I had got a b*ll**king, it would have been deserved. Clearly Craig Denyer didn't listen to the radio on Christmas morning). How many radio stations now could justify a live, local, overnight show now on Christmas Day? Or New Year's Day? When automation and network rolled out, it should have supported more consistently high quality programming, rather then relying on em, well, people like me, to crank out shows. Somewhere the economic mechanisms went wrong, because radio stations weren't rewarded with higher revenues for keeping the quality up, so things moved in another direction entirely. And that is another story. The rites of passage in commercial radio have certainly been changed by technology. The path of tech-op to “you’ll do Christmas” presenter has completely disappeared. (I like to think I made Christmas a little special for the good people of Essex once upon a time. But in retrospect, it was hardly a triumph of personality radio, and if I had got a b*ll**king, it would have been deserved. Clearly Craig Denyer didn’t listen to the radio on Christmas morning). How many radio stations now could justify a live, local, overnight show now on Christmas Day? Or New Year’s Day?

When automation and network rolled out, it should have supported more consistently high quality programming, rather then relying on em, well, people like me, to crank out shows. Somewhere the economic mechanisms went wrong, because radio stations weren’t rewarded with higher revenues for keeping the quality up, so things moved in another direction entirely. And that is another story.

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