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Progress at The Rock

 Happy New Year! Hope you had a great holiday season.It's amazing to me how many people will anonymously sling some of the most hurtful, mean comments at each other, at me, at whoever they can, simply because they are online in a safe bubble with no repercussions. I guarantee you that if given the chance to say these things to the people in person, most of them wouldn't have the guts. All it takes is a little respect for other people's opinions.I write this for one reason, to educate people about how things work. Once again......I'm not saying I'm right. Not at all. My opinions are strong, but I also realize they are simply my opinions to share. Make your own decisions and by all means, If you love commercial radio, keep listening to it. I simply want you to have the facts about it all.Seems there's some good news for 2005 as well. I saw this on the board over at Radio-Info (http://www.radio-info.com/mods/posts?Board=seattle):"I happen to know that KISW wil...

Voice Tracking: Who Needs Live Radio Anyways?!?!

 Voice Tracking. It's exactly what you would think from what it's called.Voice tracking is pre-recording an entire show or shows ahead of time so that what the listening audience hears is canned, not live. Some people say "if you're good at it, the audience won't know" but isn't that equally lame and deceitful?In many cases, especially with the big guys (Clear Channel, Infinity, Entercom) you have people who are located in other cities voice tracking the show that you hear in your city.People tend to be very divided on the voice tracking issue. There are those who love it and think it's an amazing advance in the radio world and there are those who see it as pure evil.My take on it? After being on both sides of it, I think it's evil.Here's a few key reasons as to why I fall on that side of it:- One of the things that's fun about being a radio DJ is BEING THERE!! Talking to the listeners when they call in, being there to talk about things tha...