Weekly Reflection Post
Welcome to my first blog reflection post. Many more posts to come from here on out!
For this first post I considering writing about how my career has evolved due to digital convergence over the years since I started in communications back 2000. But, I decided to go a different direction and explain one personal way digital convergence has helped keep me feeling connected to home.
When I was living and working in NYC a new Radio program started on our local sports station, WFAN. (That’s an AM station)
Originally called Boomer and Carton (now Boomer and Gio) it co-stared a Long Islander, former NFL MVP Quarterback Boomer Esiason and a comedian Craig Carton (now another comedian/radio personality Gregg Giannotti.) There was instant chemistry between the two and the show took over the local airwaves and became my morning commute show. I loved it!
A few years after the program launched we decided to move our family to Upstate New York. Syracuse to be exact. Not a market that WFAN radio would reach.
I missed my morning sports show and struggled to find the right local replacement, no offense to Syracuse’s local morning shows.
With the emergence of digital convergence soon I was able to find my former favorite NYC morning show on iTunes Podcasts and radio streaming apps like Tune-In and Radio.com
Shortly after that development, CBS Sports Network agreed to simulcast the show on their sports TV station. So now I’m not only able to listen to my NYC radio show in real time, I can watch the radio show live from their NYC studio.
I can even follow the radio show on Twitter for additional content and updates. So a traditional, local AM radio show was now accessible through radio streaming apps, podcasts, social media, and television simulcasts. The product didn’t change, just the way its content was distributed. Digital convergence allows people to consume that content any way their prefer.
All of this has me feeling more connected to my former local radio show then when I was actually living in NYC!
That’s one example of how digital convergence has affected my personal life. Allowing me to stay fully connected to an element of my original home and even providing me with some smiles when I hear the NYC traffic updates that I no longer need to worry about. 🙂
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