Well, we can pretty much blame ourselves.
As it turns out, at least on the radio side of things, we apparently have a new “competitor”. A trip to a local message board provided us with a link to “Northeast Ohio Radio Report”, which just started up on Monday.
We’ll assume that two recent events – our latest hiatus, and the move to close comments to only registered Google users – prompted the new creation. If we may take the liberty of quoting the site:
Yes, the comments sections are open, and we won’t be editing comments…who has the time? Suck it up buttercup, not everybody is always going to like you. We invite your comments/news/rumors/lies to this address.
Best of luck to you, whoever runs this new blog. We are open, and welcome you to the Media Coverage Space in this region.
Just a quick look at the “NEORR” blog indicates that whoever runs it has more time to spin the radio dial around and listen, more time than we have, anyway. They also touch areas we don’t generally get into, like more in-depth reports on who’s on various morning shows.
And then, there’s the whole comments thing. Perhaps their presence will provide this report the opportunity to send commenters there if they don’t wish to create a Google login, or if they don’t like how the comment section works here.
Anyway, for the moment at least, it appears we serve a complementary purpose. And if “NEORR” supercedes us in readership, maybe we’ll head off into the Blog Sunset and join up as a reader and commenter over there.
And if it gains traction, and seems like it’s going to stay around, we’ll put it up over on the left as a link.
We’ll see.
In the meantime, if you’re reading this on Wednesday evening, we’re preparing a fresh update of reasonable length for Thursday morning…stay tuned!
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