I am not a firm believer in the “Rick Emerson Brand”.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a firm believer in the “Tim Riley brand”, and as such sense that my listenership to “The Rick Emerson Show” is going to wane a great deal — whatever my “P” rating falling from “P-1” to “P-2” — or is it “P-2” to “P-3”?<\/p>\n
This, of course, is a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 Emerson and Sarah Dylan\u00c2\u00a0are solid professional producing and hosting a radio program in the right way.\u00c2\u00a0 But the effect is similar to that era of the Rick Emerson Show where the program was clearly being stomped under the jack-booted consultants of Entercom and the nightmare of fitting into something called a “Max 910”.\u00c2\u00a0 I sort of felt lousy fading away and\u00c2\u00a0turning the dial — this was not Emerson’s fault and he certainly\u00c2\u00a0carried on the\u00c2\u00a0best he could under those horrendous circumstances– but I had no other choice.\u00c2\u00a0 It was with that that I always had a mixed reaction to the destruction of “Max 910” — on one hand Emerson, and Clyde Lewis for that matter — were off the air; on the other hand, this goddamned exercise in hyper dilineated market segmentation and insulting of everyone’s intelligence\u00c2\u00a0was dead.<\/p>\n
So what do you do when the chief ingredient that made a radio program entertaining is taken out?\u00c2\u00a0 The figure whose looming presence made some diversions from Rick Emerson and Sarah Dylan relatively listen-worthy?\u00c2\u00a0 Inevitably my Core is just going to break down into Cum…ulative.\u00c2\u00a0 This time around I can’t even really lay waste to the Corporate Behemoth — CBS is not Entercom.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c2\u00a0 The one thing I can say about “The Rick Emerson Show” as it goes forward: it’s not like there’s anything better on the radio dial.<\/p>\n
I was walking down the street one day, when a guy approaching me yelled out “What are your choices for bread?”\u00c2\u00a0 Confused and puzzled was I.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I looked down and saw I had a Viso bottle on me, and groaned silently to myself.\u00c2\u00a0 Once I safely passed, I provided the answer.\u00c2\u00a0 “White.\u00c2\u00a0 Wheat.\u00c2\u00a0 Sour dough.\u00c2\u00a0 English muffin.\u00c2\u00a0 Bagel.”\u00c2\u00a0 Does this make a radio listener community?\u00c2\u00a0 Who can say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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