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Ten bucks for a pack of smokes

3/31/2015

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If you wanna make God laugh, tell him your plans. And if you wanna make him wince, write a blog.

That's kinda how I feel about this whole thing. Who gives a shit what I have to say about radio, what it means to me, how it's declining six percent a year and may wither away someday? Like God or anyone else really gives a shit. 

As you can probably tell by the meager amount of blogging that I've done this month - I hate writing this freaking thing. And I don't know why.

It's not like I don't know how to journal. I'm one of these closet journalers. Sometimes I write pages and pages of just bullshit and then at the end of all of it I feel just a little bit better and can start my day or go to bed, whichever is next. Somehow doing radio four hours a day or so has somehow taken over the journaling. It's as if one way or another I have to vomit up a certain amount of words or I'll get Jimmy leg before I go to bed. You lay in bed looking at the ceiling fan listening to old Bee Gees songs and figuring out how tired you're gonna be the next day...   (click Read more below)

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Digital nonsense

3/18/2015

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Here's our social media numbers as of March 12, 2015. Let's see where they are in two months.

WJOB FACEBOOK Likes- 2,671
JIM Dedelow's FACEBOOK PAGE Friends- 2,050

WJOB Twitter Followers- 354
JED’s Twitter  Followers- 1,065

YouTube Page for JED.TV Subscribers- 148 Total Views- 38,552 (since June, 2013)
YouTube Page for WJOB1230 Subscribers- 123 Total Views- 87,850 (since May, 2011)
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The long, strange goodbye of local radio

3/8/2015

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It's gonna die. You know it and I know it.
   Local radio as we know it will at some point be absorbed into a digital black hole. Yes, this is sad. But it is inevitable and as with all deaths local radio will push through to another state. A continuous death by a thousand cuts and one day you look back and realize that are something entirely different.
   It is not as if this is the first industry that I was a part of to die. As you know, for 18 years I traded in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade. I did really like to add and yell push sometimes and play with my gum. I was attracted to the action and the money like nobody's business but in the end I just really liked it. I didn't love it. So when I started to hear the footsteps that pit trading was gonna die and turn into something else... I fled rather than fought. I stepped aside rather than morph into a guy sitting at a computer with charts and algorithms and a black box... (click Read More below)
 

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Sectionals week

3/3/2015

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It's Sectionals week, and for a local radio station in Indiana, that's a pretty big deal. This time around Munster High student Christina Cortez and I are putting together a little film of what Sectionals week is like in local Indiana radio. Christina says it'll be easier when we go back to edit if I keep a little timeline of my activities. So here goes.

Monday - 
530am - start radio show. Snow.
740am - sing to the camera during a break
810am - get all pissed off about someone putting coffee in the teapot
840am - interview Wes Lukoshus about Hammond Sports Hall of Fame
930am - meet with Purdue Cal people to look at drawings for new studio
6pm - go for dinner with wife at Carraba's 
8pm - go for a run in the cold

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