Welcome to Talk Frontier — The Next Generation

Posted by Randall Bloomquist on November 11, 2009

Dear Friends and Colleagues –  I started  TalkFrontier.com eight months ago as an experiment, as a way to learn about New Media while continuing to share my opinions and ideas about talk radio.  At the time, I took a pretty dim view of radio’s prospects.  But a funny thing happened across those eight months and 95 blog posts.  The more [...]

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Talk Radio’s Autoimmune Disease

Posted by Randall Bloomquist on March 18, 2009

As if talk radio didn’t have enough problems, the format’s heart and soul are now under attack from within. 
In the December/January issue of the trade publication Talkers,  consultant Holland Cooke announced the death of the talk radio star – a victim, he believes, of the new interactive media, where people want to buzz amongst themselves rather than “being talked at.”
“Self-congratulatory naivete that ’listeners [...]

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