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<blockquote data-quote="Lee Brenkman" data-source="post: 19220" data-attributes="member: 154">Re: Obligatory Grammy audio complaint threadFWIW they (the Cossette company) who produce the show for television have decided that, for the sake of ratings, it&#039;s better to have a lot of multi &quot;artist&quot; special performances rather than hand out a lot of awards on the air.&nbsp;&nbsp; This year I think they only handed out about 10 to 12 Grammys on the &quot;big show&quot;.Everything else, including a lot of categories that used to be given out on the network broadcast was announced at the pre show which is only available on line.I think that the current leadership of the Recording Academy feels that the broadcast is now mostly &quot;face time&quot; and the better the ratings the more $ they get to fund all of the actually good things they do throughout the country the rest of the year.I&#039;ve been a voting NARAS member since the 1980s and the changes in that time have been massive.&nbsp; I actually served three terms on the SF Chapter Board of Governors and the reports we got back from our representative on the broadcast committee were, even then, pretty discouraging.&nbsp; At least then the battle lost was that Kenny G got to be the &quot;jazz&quot; representative on the show instead of Oscar Peterson.&nbsp; Now everyone I care about who&#039;s nominate gets to go and sit in the arena while the spectacle unfolds but the REAL awards show goes on earlier in the afternoon and unseen by the general public.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lee Brenkman, post: 19220, member: 154"] Re: Obligatory Grammy audio complaint thread FWIW they (the Cossette company) who produce the show for television have decided that, for the sake of ratings, it's better to have a lot of multi "artist" special performances rather than hand out a lot of awards on the air. This year I think they only handed out about 10 to 12 Grammys on the "big show". Everything else, including a lot of categories that used to be given out on the network broadcast was announced at the pre show which is only available on line. I think that the current leadership of the Recording Academy feels that the broadcast is now mostly "face time" and the better the ratings the more $ they get to fund all of the actually good things they do throughout the country the rest of the year. I've been a voting NARAS member since the 1980s and the changes in that time have been massive. I actually served three terms on the SF Chapter Board of Governors and the reports we got back from our representative on the broadcast committee were, even then, pretty discouraging. At least then the battle lost was that Kenny G got to be the "jazz" representative on the show instead of Oscar Peterson. Now everyone I care about who's nominate gets to go and sit in the arena while the spectacle unfolds but the REAL awards show goes on earlier in the afternoon and unseen by the general public. [/QUOTE]

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