Radio sucks

Is anyone even listening, do people even care? It disturbs me sometimes to note that I will be graduating with a degree in Radio and Television but really who cares about radio? I certainly don’t. I don’t have a radio at my house; I don’t drive a car so technically there would never be a need for me to turn one on. Who is radio’s demographic. People who most likely are listening in a car or old people listening to the old juke box cuddled up in front of a fire knitting their grand kids sweaters for Christmas. The news presented on radio must clearly have a defined approach to their specific demographic. I know this from personal experience because I actually auditioned for a show on CBC radio called “Q”. I remember when they were just throwing the idea around and I was approached to possibly host a segment which would be done all in rhyme (don’t ask me why) until they figured out that I spoke way to fast for radio and really people who would be interested in what I had to say probably weren’t going to be tuned into CBC in the first place. Which kind of hurt me because they were basically telling me that my opinion was not relevant to their demographic. So who’s the demographic, who gets the luxury of people considering relevant by CBC radio. Like I assume there are no pre-school shows on radio simply because kids that young would definitely not be listening, but who else gets left out. Luckily there are stations like Flow 93.5 which play continues hop-pop garbage who wouldn’t mind making me a co-host on some pointless random show about nothing. Maybe I could do the whole podcast thing. At least their people are going out of their way to personally select which pieces of information they want to hear, but even so it is still somewhat limited to people who own I pods or some kind of Mp3 device because who else would just randomly listen to some 3 hour program on their computer. Maybe unless it was music or news, otherwise I couldn’t see a Podcast being that accessible to many people like myself. Maybe I’m overanalyzing the whole situation, but I’m just not to sure what the future holds for radio or pod casts or any medium that only involves using one sense. I don’t like radio. Never have and probably never will.

the word blogger is just booger with an L

I am writing this blog for a class but also as a personal experiment for myself. I want to see if people actually take this stuff seriously. I mean I know their are like a billion people around the world blogging a new blog about someones blog about every 15 seconds but still do people really even care. Is this a trusted source for information or is it simply for entertainment? Its seems as though those lines are becoming more blurry everyday. Personal opinionated sites and figures do have the ability to brake stories and after seeing a good friend of mine who is in RTA, gain unseen amounts of popularity simply off of his own youtube hockey commentary video-blog, I am starting to wonder if this might actually have an effect on someones life. Like if some journalist is realy cramed for a serious deadline and needs to serach the web in hopes of coming across a random blogger who is wondering if blogging is really a trustworty source of information or if it is simply just enterainment and than they site my blog as proof that other people are thinkng the same thing. Highly unlikely but fun to think about. To be honest I have never really taken this blog phoenomenm to seriously, I always thought it was a bunch of wierd computer geeks transfering encoded messages on personal pages nobody would ever care to find. I was pleaslty suprised to hear about a guy who is rather popular on youtube and does provide his own take on daily news event. His name is Philip DeDeFranco and he goes by the name "sxephil" on youtube and I actually dont mind his random rants on current events. Guess this blog thing can help shed lights on some things I have been in the dark about forever. P.S. I started this first entry at like 2:30 in the morning and I know it was supposed to be done on the 27th. Please dont duduct marks. Your the best.