Frank Boyle a Broadcast Hall of Famer and never one to mix words had a few on the NAB successor to Eddie Fritts. As our report in short stated
09/16/05 TVBR #182 - Talk about POing The Senator - Stevens, it would seem, is not someone that broadcasters would want to piss off. He chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the FCC and pretty much all legislation dealing with radio, television and cable. RBR observation: As Chairman of the NAB Joint Board last year, it was Lombardo who set this whole process in motion by giving Eddie Fritts a none-too-subtle nudge to retire. RBR/TVBR 1st broke the story during the April 2004 NAB Convention in Las Vegas (
4/20/04 RBR #77).
James:
When you're right -you're right. How about frequent editorial on same?? Or better yet - do interview - with pix - with Eddie Fritts and Bruce Reese--ask all the tough questions..?? Where are the gutsy--hard drinking--hard playing pioneers who got us here--with damn little money but a plethora of balls and dreams?
They'll tell you that NAB loses money on Fall Radio NAB. My rebuttal on that is--please get out of the way--let the NAFMB & NRBA Rifle Assn take it back and do pure balls out radio. We don't need the NAB infrastructure to run up unnecessary expenses.
Let Dick Ferguson be President-Exec Director--or Carl Brazell--Bill Hogan--Bud Stiker--George Hyde..hell, I'll be on the Board. You (RBR) could be the spearhead of the most important all radio org of this century--exactly what the business needs.
RAB is sales & good at its mission. They too are getting a new Exec Director. Radio needs an organization with centrifugal focus force-consolidation (now The End of The Beginning)--Digital Channels--Commercial & Promotional hourly loads adding not subtracting TSL--what are stations worth vs what they're selling for.--finally facing up to where do you get new air & sales talent from--and are you too cheap to properly train them--homogenous bills to agencies(radio's $ share would go up 25% --if just this were done by all stations)
No national radio organization is tackling all these problems. -They're doing like we used to learn sex on the street corner from the older guys. This should be a radio war college--where you face up to today's problems and start thinking about the ones right around the corner.
Where are the gutsy--hard drinking--hard playing pioneers who got us here--with damn little money but a plethora of balls and dreams? Consolidation has sapped the passion out of our business .Made most operators glorified CPA's with a cost cutting machete in one hand and a Blackberry in the other.
Fact is there are still plenty of good guys out there with fire in their bellies for good radio--Jerry Lee, Rick Buckley, Cary Simpson, Dave Kennedy, John Dille, Bill Stakelin, Allen Shaw, Jim Morrell, Peter Smythe, Billy Campbell, Pat Costa, Jeff Smulyan, Skip Finley, Amador Bustos, Jim Hilliard, Lew Dickey, Tony Renda, Frank Osborn, Dan Savadove, Ira Rosenblatt--just a very few of those who fight the good radio fight every day.
OK, I'm off my soap box.
I have to go sell something
Frank Boyle,
President,
Frank Boyle & Co.
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