Maybe you've noticed that the postings have been slim here at All The Excess! since the holidays. Since before the holidays, really. What's the reason, you ask?
As fellow blogger Johnny Van Suedanbitter might say in non-sentence form, "Not sure."
Maybe...just maybe...it's because the longer we go since our last paycheck from a radio company, the less interest we have in the business. Are we alone in that?
Like fellow blogger Johnny Van Suedanbitter might answer his own question using a sentence fragment: "Probably not."
What alarms us is that our interest in making fun of the radio business is also waning. We thought that would last forever.
But nowadays, making fun of the radio business is too easy. Radio is a parody of itself. That makes All The Excess! a parody of a self-parody, which is as confusing to us as Chinese finger cuffs.
Look around. Latest "big" talent hires? Carson Daly. Nick Cannon. Meanwhile, Brandmeier, the DSC, Lex and Terry, and countless other talented radio people are in forced heel-cooling mode. Citadel is in bankruptcy while the same chiefs who led them to Chapter 11 keep sacking the best warriors in the tribe. How 'bout that Glenn Beck? And for two more fingers down your throat, the ever-sensitive Rush Limbaugh. Make it two HANDS challenging your gag reflex: Ryan Seacrest!
"HD Radio" is a punch line that needs no set up. And here's perhaps the ultimate example of self-parody: The Lowry Mays Excellence In Broadcasting Award.
So we're experiencing "quiet time" here at A.T.E.! until we get that all sorted out. Will we be back and snarky as ever someday? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But check back and see.
We can't predict what we don't feel.
Email blake (dot) lawrence (at) alltheexcess (dot) com.
Email blake (dot) lawrence (at) alltheexcess (dot) com.
