Go
here to see an actual clip of Gary's chat.
I also saw this Face Book message from Ronnie Dunn being talked about at another message forum that I look at every day.
Dear Radio,
I asked one of the leading consultants in your business for advice when I finished the new cd. The consultant said, "first, get off of Facebook." You're pissing radio off and it's a small community of tight knit folks.
I won't stop telling the truth. That truth effects ALL of us.
Radio isn't bad, most of the people in radio are good, hard working folks. There are corrupt players, there are huge egos but the same applies to the music biz.
Radio, as a whole got too big and took on too much debt.
Labels fought too long to hold onto the profit margin assigned to cds and were simply dragged under.
There isn't a single LARGE player that isn't working under a tremendous debt burden.
Internet, streaming radio is the future. It may work. It may not.
It will, by most standards take over sooner than later.
How does that pertain to your job security and who's music is played and how ? Who knows.
A good friend in radio told me recently that, "radio is not going away, it just might not be in the music business".
Not even Bob Pittman knows....he was handed a sow's ear and asked to make a silk suit.
God bless you and him and Gary and Zac Brown always!!!
Holly