After 15 yers, Don Barrett recently decided to shut down his website LARadio.com, which started out as a way for him to promote his book and grew into a must-read site for everyone in radio in California, and elsewhere. A new Facebook page started by Tammy Trujillo (pictured), a professor of broadcasting at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, and one of her students, Alan Bailey trying to pick up where Barrett left off.
Trujillo told the Orange County Register "I have encouraged my students to look at the real world, and that in radio would be LARadio.com. When Don Barrett announced he was ending his site, I talked to one my students, Alan Bailey, and challenged him to start Southern California Radio People. A lot of broadcasters are not yet using it actively. The difference is we don't have Don spending 8, 9, 10 hours. We have to write it ourselves. It's not routine for me, but we're committed to promoting it as a go-to place for radio news."
Visit the Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/SoCalRadioPeople
The 22 year old Bailey told the paper, "It's a void not having LARadio.com. But a lot of my generation has Facebook pages. People need to understand it is a hellacious tool for marketing. Stations are starting to realize that you can get the service for free, you have a built-in audience, it saves the station money and helps build the online presence."
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