Monday, July 05, 2004
GOSH, IT'S RATHER FLATTERING, BUT...
Okay...I've been on that side of the table too. I've had quite a few people emailing recently asking me what they can do about my job/family situation. My answer? Send cold hard cash.
Seriously, there's nothing you can do about it...and if I were on the other end (and I WAS a few times) I would personally print out the "complaints" we got and pass them around to others. I got hundreds of them...in favor of a firing/hiring I had a hand in, change in programming, switching of shows, changing music, etc. Every single one of them met with a lot of complaints. I passed them around to virtually everyone who needed to see them...and told them to ignore them and they would eventually go away. It was only the nitwits who don't really GET radio that pay attention to them. Ironically, it was my job to calm those people down in a situation where they "felt" like they were getting a lot of complaints...one such person in another situation in particular is one of those who lowered the axe on me.
It's like this folks: On average, a radio show will get 1-2% of the current listeners calling in. These are mostly balanced in favor of what the host is saying. If the radio host were to base his entire structure of the show on those 1-2% of the audience, he/she would be ignoring or risking the favor of 98% of the audience. Stupid, right?
Ask any political pollster, or statistical analyst if 1-2% extrapolations are worth anything.
It's the same thing with complaints. Most people will only write to complain...about 2-percent of the audience will actually set fingers to keyboard and tap out a complaint. So why base decisions on that small percentage who complain? In extraordinary circumstances, this example might be overuled...but that usually involves pain, death, and physical injury...not 1 radio show among 27 others in the same city at the same time.
Nice sentiment, but nothing beats cash.
Okay...I've been on that side of the table too. I've had quite a few people emailing recently asking me what they can do about my job/family situation. My answer? Send cold hard cash.
Seriously, there's nothing you can do about it...and if I were on the other end (and I WAS a few times) I would personally print out the "complaints" we got and pass them around to others. I got hundreds of them...in favor of a firing/hiring I had a hand in, change in programming, switching of shows, changing music, etc. Every single one of them met with a lot of complaints. I passed them around to virtually everyone who needed to see them...and told them to ignore them and they would eventually go away. It was only the nitwits who don't really GET radio that pay attention to them. Ironically, it was my job to calm those people down in a situation where they "felt" like they were getting a lot of complaints...one such person in another situation in particular is one of those who lowered the axe on me.
It's like this folks: On average, a radio show will get 1-2% of the current listeners calling in. These are mostly balanced in favor of what the host is saying. If the radio host were to base his entire structure of the show on those 1-2% of the audience, he/she would be ignoring or risking the favor of 98% of the audience. Stupid, right?
Ask any political pollster, or statistical analyst if 1-2% extrapolations are worth anything.
It's the same thing with complaints. Most people will only write to complain...about 2-percent of the audience will actually set fingers to keyboard and tap out a complaint. So why base decisions on that small percentage who complain? In extraordinary circumstances, this example might be overuled...but that usually involves pain, death, and physical injury...not 1 radio show among 27 others in the same city at the same time.
Nice sentiment, but nothing beats cash.
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Ah--your posting makes about as much sense as your daily radio show did--yawn. I wish you luck because you are in a tough situation, but I will not miss your program. God Speed my fellow human
What happened to Michael Graham and Geoff Lewis? Did you fire those two entertaining gents? Them was good radio...
"you weep what you sow"....
What happened to Michael Graham and Geoff Lewis? Did you fire those two entertaining gents? Them was good radio...
"you weep what you sow"....
This is an interesting first comment for this Monday blog that I find myself responding to. I do believe that Greg actually wrote that he's been on the other side of the table and that he is quite aware and understands the nature of the business. Somehow, his expressed thought on that issue was lost on you and you also found the nerve to revisit the issue as if it were never touched on as of yet. Did you also happen to catch that you're in that 1-2% camp…or do you need a clue?
Well Eric Bradley, here's something for you that you may want to consider - you write exactly how you talk and it's a dead giveaway. The next time you write a letter or e-mail to the management of some business or another individual, communicate your ideas with someone else of your ilk who'll write your thoughts out on your behalf…the idea that your trying to communicate will stay more focused and the management may take it more seriously because they'll not suspect that it's from the mind of a psychologically imbalanced "fellow human".
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Well Eric Bradley, here's something for you that you may want to consider - you write exactly how you talk and it's a dead giveaway. The next time you write a letter or e-mail to the management of some business or another individual, communicate your ideas with someone else of your ilk who'll write your thoughts out on your behalf…the idea that your trying to communicate will stay more focused and the management may take it more seriously because they'll not suspect that it's from the mind of a psychologically imbalanced "fellow human".
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