Radio Stars

Did some digging and came up with a few pics from back in the day. These are from my days working in Radio. Ahhh memories of hair, only one chin, bad shirts and silly glasses.
Back in those times it was a real coup if you could snag an interview with a star. One day I heard that Wolfman Jack was coming to town and I got more than just an interview. After a set up interview, he asked, if he could sit in while I did my 6 hour on air shift. We had a great show... together. Then after he invited to his gig in town ...I even got to give him an intro and bring him up on stage. His show ended and we drank into the wee hours of the morning and talked about how radio had gone down hill. This was one of the highlights of my career for sure.
In the late 70’s I found myself working for a country station. I made about 50 calls and ended up interviewing Dolly Parton and Faron Young all in the same night. Hope you enjoy the pics.
Thanks for the read and comments are always welcome.

Bryan Cox


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PORN in Canada ?

Who knew Canada had a porn industry. Well it looks like it’s about to boom. There’s going to be a new channel for Canadians. Here’s a bit of an article from The Broadcaster Magazine....
“The applicant stated that the proposed service would be Canada's first adult video channel offering significant Canadian adult content. The applicant indicated that it would also air the adult versions of Real Productions' cable television series and produce its own adult movies, events and series.
The CRTC noted that it did not receive any interventions in connection with this application.”
I came ...I don’t mean that literally... up with some names for new Canadian Porn movies and Series for Real Productions. Feel free to ad your own Canadian flavoured names.

Names for New Canadian Porn....

• Tim Horton in Double Double
• Hockey Night in Candy
• Anne of Green Gobbles
• Mount-TEEn
• The Beach Cummers
• Bon Cock Bad Cock
• Corner Ass
• Little Harem on the Prairies
• Winn-a-Peg...oops sorry that’s the new Canadian Pirate game show

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Bryan Cox




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Real Radio Common Sense!!

This is from Perry Simon....and make a ton of sense.
Radio doesn't need to be sexy. It has other advantages, like, well, the fact that unlike most other technologies, it has a nearly 100% market penetration. There's a radio in every car, in practically every home, at almost every bedside. It's not about convincing people to buy a radio; they already have one, or several. It's more intuitive than anything Steve Jobs can design, primarily because it's been around so long, people are practically born knowing how to use it.

And that leads to the problem: It's everywhere, sure, and people know how to use it. The trick is getting people to USE radio. The competition has invaded the same space that radio had to itself for the last 70 or so years, namely, the car. When I get into my car today, I can turn on the radio. I can also turn on Sirius or XM or my iPod or my EVDO cell phone or the music player in my GPS. That may be extreme, but a lot of people have at least the iPod connected, and Internet streaming audio is around the corner. No amount of marketing will convince me to get rid of any of that.

So how do you market radio to maintain or increase its share of listening? ("So, genius, what would YOU do?") I'd say the one surefire way to get people to increase radio listening, or pay more attention to radio, or think more highly of radio, is to develop and market programming that you can't get anywhere else. Instead of trying to sell radio as the Next Big Thing that it can't become, sell the programming. If that's hard to do when the programming's "another 10 in a row commercial free," that's another argument in favor of talk and personality radio. If the industry wants to spend a lot of money developing a campaign to market radio, perhaps the money would be better spent on talent development and luring creative people to work in the business and....

Okay, let's also recognize that the campaign is also aimed at media buyers and agencies and decision makers. Certainly, the fact that the radio group heads are doing the dog-and-pony show tour for the advertising industry indicates that there's a need to sell those folks on the relevance of radio in an iPod universe. But you're marketing to the marketers. They know what you're up to. They do that for a living. They can come up with counterarguments to everything you throw at them -- your huge audience is also an inability to narrowly target buys to specific demos, your it's-everywhere is also my-kid-never-listens. But if you can say that you have popular content unavailable through other media, that's something. Radio needs stars and hit shows the same way that TV needs "American Idol" and the music industry (and your iPod) needs hit records and satellite needs Howard Stern. (Stern... hmm... seem to recall a fella by that name around these parts...) Radio still has a few national and local stars, but it needs to develop and hold onto more of them. That takes time, money, and coaching, and that's a good topic for another Letter down the road.

Spending the money to develop star content instead of doing generic industry marketing, that's my fantasy. But there's probably no danger that anyone will listen. Maybe you have a better idea, or you violently disagree, or you think all hope is lost and it's time to man the life rafts. Let me know what you think at psimon -- at -- allaccess --dot -- com and maybe I'll do a follow-up with your suggestions. Think of it like I'm taking your calls. Or maybe it's like the Fairness Doctrine. (shudder)

China is a BAD Choice

Sorry I used that word “choice” because in China that word isn’t used much. Picking China as host to the olympics was a bad choice. Now the best athletes in the world have to travel to an over polluted, over populated, information wasteland for olympic gold.
The air pollution is so bad that people have to wear masks as peddle their bikes. It’s no wonder that Chinese athletes do so well when they come to a western country to compete...they can finally breathe.
The chinese government has software that funnels all internet traffic and communication back to them for screening. Now the government has TOLD all hotels that they have to install this special software in their internet systems before the games. Get this, the hotels have to buy the software from the government and pay to have government installers come out and put the stuff in. All TV, Radio, and Newspaper media is also monitored extremely close as well. If the Chinese government hears or sees ANYTHING they don’t condone, that media outlet will be booted out of the country. So you can bet that NBC and all the others will be playing it pretty close to the vest, so to speak.
This is what we have to put up with from having the Olympics in China. Canada is hosting the Olympics in 2010 and you wouldn’t believe what going on in Vancouver. Trade Unions that are building the site are raping the government for more money!! Real Estate developers are doing the same thing when it comes to housing. Prices on just about everything have skyrocketed in the Vancouver area all because of the upcoming Olympics.
To end off, I just feel sorry for the athletes because they are the ones that are being used as pawns in this whole thing. The Olympics have turned into a money grabbing, political extravaganza!! What’s next a Taliban hosted Olympics?
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Bryan Cox

If you’re chinese and reading this and take offence to it, you’re probably in in China. Be thankful that you can read someone else’s opinion. We call this...freedom.
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