A Different Day For Rock Radio
Written Jun. 4, 2010 by Sean Ross in Content + Terrestrial Radio with 0 Comments
Derm Carnduff, PD of Corus' CING (Vinyl 95.3) Toronto and CJXY (Y95) Hamilton passed this along. It's a five minute KABC-TV report on AOR KMET from late '81/early '82. It's remarkable, from today's POV, for a number of reasons:
1. A TV newscast is devoting five minutes to a radio station;
2. A TV newscast is devoting five minutes to anything;
3. A TV newcast is giving five minutes to the direct competitor of their sister station (KLOS). And mentioning them by name, instead of as "a local radio station," even though they've had a station event at which nothing has gone wrong.
4. Even though KMET had definitely become the Journey/J. Geils/Styx/corporate rock radio station by then, its political sensitivities are a holdover from the Rock radio of more than a decade earlier. Hard to imagine the Godsmack/Breaking Benjamin station expounding this way today and getting away with it.
5. You could age normally, not look like a movie star, and still be a TV reporter in a top 3 market -- at least if you were a guy. (Christine Craft's lawsuit, proving just how different things were for women, was taking place right about now.)
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