December 28th, 2009 
joel P&T readers tend to have a love/hate relationship with radio stations that offer the all-Christmas formats during the holidays. In our poll, the same percentage said that they were more likely as said “less likely” to go to a “Holly, Jolly”-formatted station.
As I said yesterday, the “aughts” has been a tumultuous decade for media, even locally. Remember it was nearly ten years ago when Myron Jones sold Jet-FM and Froggy to Next Media, ending local control. And then we truly became a one-newspaper-town in September 2000, as the long and painful process of merging the Morning News and Erie Daily Times came to fruition. Of course, P&T has covered extensively the merger of the WICU and WSEE newsrooms this past June.
Even with all that change, we have not seen a media outlet go dark since the Daily Times stopped landing on our stoop in the afternoon sun. Since World War II, that’s the only major media stream to stop cold: every licensed radio and television station continues to operate with FCC authority, and the Times Publishing Co. still delivers seven days a week.
So my question to you is, will that be the case in the next ten years? Will we actually lose media streams, or will they morph to an online presence and dump their transmitters or presses? Honestly, the question makes me shiver, but it is worth the ask.
On a scale from 1 to 5, will the current traditional Erie media streams (newspaper, TV, radio) exist in ten years?
- 2 - It's not likely (49%, 21 Votes)
- 4 - I think so (19%, 8 Votes)
- 1 - Not a chance (16%, 7 Votes)
- 3 - I'm not sure (12%, 5 Votes)
- 5 - Absolutely (4%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 43
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I really hope that the current Citadel group remains, under whatever ownership, in the same formats they exist in now. the other stations, in my opinion, just don’t cut it. I remember back when 104 (then WCCK, K-104) was the mainstay of Erie FM radio, with the AM stations holding their own as well (just couldn’t pull them in south of 90 after the nightly drop in power). WLVU (Classy’s predecesor) and WMDI (formerly at the 102 spot before WSEG and WJET-FM and now Z-102) were the ones that catered to the more “inferm” audienced that were forced to endure them whenver they waited for medical treatment. I’ve listened to Classy since day 1, and would miss it greatly if it ceased to exist.