> re: your letter on drdemento.com

> That is the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard read that was authorized by
> you. No wonder your loosing fans and listeners. Instead of addressing
> your probems and planning to do something about it, you just write up a
> batch of excuses about this and that. I'm not buying this demented
> Cool-aid for one minute.

> Scathing? Hello, Dr. Demento. You Need a Reality Checkup.

> So, we now know who the man behind the iron Talonian curtain is.

> Unfortunately, your explantion on your drdemento.com website continues
> to shoot blanks when faced with a reality check.

> Why did your advertisers flee? Haven't you hired a sales manager to get
> those advertisers to replace the ones that left? What about inviting
> luke ski, Sudden Death, Weird Al, Richard Cheese, and all of those other
> big names buy some advertisements that plug their albums and concert
> tours?

> Why aren't you in Los Angeles? Get your friggin' ass over to CBS or
> Clear Channel or Indie or whatever and iron out a way to get your show
> back on the friggin' airwaves. So CBS Radio likes to run 20 minutes of
> commercials an hour. So what? Produce a 120 minute show with nine breaks
> for stopsets and let stations add up to 60 minutes of commercials per
> hour. That's a good three-hour show. The way your show is produced with
> fewer minutes alloted for commercials per hour is very much in the way
> of getting a station to carry a show. Remember back in 1998 when KLSX
> dropped a segment so that it could run more commercials and annoying
> announcements for some sex talk show? You should have saw some signs
> that you need to listen to their needs.

> As for the issue of whether a station should share their advertisement
> revenue with a radio show host, it ain't gonna happen, pal! You're
> simply not entitled to any advertising revenue a radio station
> generates. The station is entitled to generating advertising revenue to
> pay for the operations of their station as well as to pay for talent and
> radio shows such as yours. All you do is supply the programming for a
> fee, then that's all. It's just like every syndicator that sells shows
> with no built-in ads. The station has the right to put a value on your
> services, and if yours is not worth their money, they simply won't hire
> you. Give them a reason to hire you.

> As for telling the radio stations affilliates to cut off their streams
> while your show is on, are you nucking futs? Your show is an
> advertisement of your services in itself, and you killed off your own
> free publicity machine in favor of, what's this you said, scathing
> online denunciations in r.m.d. and other places? This is simply PR gone
> bad. You're blowing it big time, Doc!

> As for your online paid streaming services, f--- this! F--- this!
> I ain't paying for bulls--t products from any bad business including
> yours. I'm not paying $2 for a crappy lo-fidelty stream of reruns of
> older shows I've heard an average of 27 times in the past 29 years I've
> been listening to the show. Chances are, when I download some Dr. D
> shows from a USENET binary newsgroup (thanks to all who do), I skip over
> the songs I already have or have no interest in and listen to the newer
> songs, then I seek them out on myspace for songs that might be on there
> for me to download in high quality 128kbps.

> I'm not joining your DOC club either. I have better plans to spend my
> money since I'm no longer ponying up $40 a month for some goddamn
> live365 service run by incompetent people who don't know how to make
> money and keep customers.  I could pay for and listen to older shows. I
> ask why if I've heard them so many times already, why repay again and
> again?  

> So, why do I need to listen to an entire show again if all I'm
> interested in are listening to individual songs instead of waiting for
> some song I'm not interested in to play out until something new and cool
> or new to me comes in.  Selling your own shows online as a stream is
> rather tedious at best. The world has changed into an on-demand basis.
> Everybody wants to hear a particular song now instead of waiting until
> after a block of other stuff played.

> The fump.com, for example, is a good business model, and it even
> features songs that should have gotten some fame by you by playing them,
> but haven't. You can stream a song, you can purchase a high quality
> individual song, you can buy an album, and you can even post your own
> links to your own songs (wish they would host the sideshow songs). This
> is a model you should be looking into, Doc.

> I for one have six of my stuff on the fump sideshow. Check them out.
> They're relevant, different, insightful, and unique, or check them out
> at my website davidtanny.com and hear what dementoids have been missing
> out on for almost ten years now. Some get it. Some don't. For those who
> don't get it, that shows that I'm cutting edge dementia because a lot of
> ideas for parodies and originals are coming from a point of view that is
> being ignored by the media: the ordinary money-challenged (I can't
> afford a studio or a staff as I'm all alone in this town)
> academically-challenged (just a community college grad) person.

> Does a song have to be good in order to be popular? No. Does a music
> programmer have to like the song that they play on the radio? No. What
> does matter? The public likes what is played whether the deejay or music
> programmer likes it or not. Do people know if a song is going to be good
> or bad just by looking at the title? Not until they hear it. Do people
> like to request what some radio people call bad songs? Yes. What is bad?
> It depends on one's humble opinion on whatever is good or bad to them.

> Is it too late to save the Dr. Demento Show? The way things are going,
> it probably is. No station is streaming the show. Krellan is out of the
> Dr. Demento business because of that (thanks Krellan for your hard
> work).

> I would have paid $2 for a decent download of a 24kbps Dr. Demento show
> back in 1997 just to sample the songs as that's been my interest for
> most of my life as the streamers back then were unreliable (remember
> those hiccups of the signal back in the day?) or out of reach in the
> days of dial-up.

> Now that cable broadband is the way, 128kbps is the way to go for $1 a
> show stream but it has to be made in a way that is employed on
> myspace.com where you can forward or reverse within the show so you can
> sample the song again or skip over some overplayed stuff.

> Dr. Demento, you need to stop the excuses on your website as your letter
> slams us for posting what you call "scathing online denunciations." I
> say they're called "consumer complaints." When I criticize AT&T for
> their bad service, it's a consumer complaint, not a scathing
> denunciation. The same goes for Talonian Productions' way of doing
> business; it's a consumer complaint.

> Also hampering the Dr. Demento Show is a rather small selection of new
> funny music. How about doing several shows a year featuring six full
> sets of all new demented music and comedy. When are you going to play
> some modern day comedians on your show? Why haven't you been playing any
> recent stuff from George Carlin (an editor can excise the $325,000 words
> out of the material)? I like the "Modern Man" comedy bit a lot, and you
> stiill won't play it?

> Hello, Dr. Demento. Time for a checkup. Play some golf and let me or
> somebody else create a playlist for you full of new and notable
> dementia, novelty, comedy, weird, and otherwise insane material and give
> a person a reason to spend $2 to sample a show. Preferably at least
> 96kbps, but keep the 24kbps for dial-up listeners, but charge the same
> anyway. Make them upgrade to cable to get a better sound.

> Now listnen. Dr. Demento. Take down your silly "note from Dr. Demento"
> propaganda. You apologize to the readers. You hire some qualified people
> to change your business model into one that fully embraces the Internet
> like I was forced to do back in February of 1997 as I had been doing
> since then. You allow radio stations to stream your show again for no
> additional fee. You hire a sales rep to get some businesses to advertise
> on your show. You remodel your website so that it's consumer friendly.
> You rethink how you sell indivudual shows. You start reselling song
> downloads like fump and itunes are doing.

> Dr. Demento, get yourself demented once again. Admit your mistakes
> instead of posting excuses. Do something now or else your show will
> simply fade away.

> signed

> david tanny