This refers to “Why all radio stations sound alike” (August 26). I have been an investor and hedge fund analyst on Wall Street for most of my working life and recently moved back to India to set up a financial services business called iTrust. I have been dealing with radio (and print/broadcast media) for the past 18 months. Regrettable, most of my experience leaves much to be desired.
In a nutshell, I see the problem as one of station managers not willing to get out of a herd mentality. They are just not willing to try something new. We have been producing world-class content in financial literacy, and very few people at these media companies are open to the idea of creating content (or using our content) which their readers/viewers/listeners find of practical utility.
No one, it seems, wants to take any risk at all. For the only radio station in the country that is doing something different, we have designed a special programme for them, but this too has been pending discussion for the past three months.
Despite us being willing to give our content to these people for free, we get caught in a web of internal politics and inertia. It’s unlikely that this will change overnight!
Kartik Varma, on e-mail
Simple Subbarao
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S Venugopalan, on e-mail
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P Senthil Saravana Durai, Hyderabad
Searching for success
Apropos your editorial “Google’s journey” (September 9). Google was started with old functional computers in a garage. Its policy of assigning tasks to groups of not more than three employees ensures that tasks are completed in time.
P Esakki Muthu, Mumbai