Me too. The only FM stations I listen to anymore are 96.5, 106.9 and 94.5. Everything else is hip hop or spanish. I am seriously thinking about satellite radio as some here have suggested. I never listened to 101 but to have it lost to a foreign language just sucks. I'm just waiting for the hip hop 102 to go spanish and see some real fireworks. :)
The 102 hip hop station won't go spanish because 102.9 is also Spanish. Could lead to confusion among listeners if they manually turn the dial.
Rock is dead and industry killed it.
The mantra is that kids listen to hip hop, hispanics are the largest growing base, etc etc. Those who listen to adult oldies (Sinatra, et al), classical music, and new rock and roll have been told to go F ourselves. And don't bother asking where "oldies country" is on the dial.
Of course the big selling point of satellite radio is "more choices, better programming, more extensive playlists". Why DOESN'T commercial radio offer this? They certainly COULD program the playlists better.
I see white people (a sizeable audience base with disposable income) being sold pay radio the way they were sold pay tv in the 1960s. Cable tv made sense in rural and smaller towns were tv reception could be extremely limited. With video rental services like Netflix, who needs to wait for a movie to go to a premium movie channel anymore?