Music is failing from a sales standpoint. Yes, it’s cheap to program relatively but getting killed by iPods and so on. Fewer folks are looking to radio for their music.
The reason CC exercised their right to program Rush on their own stations was their failing music formats. That’s the reason Rush has moved from a lot of traditional talk AM stations in the past year to formerly music FMs in the same market. There are no doubt exceptions to this, but this is the general trend line.
Agreed. I pay for Sirius satellite so I at least have SOME music to listen to outside my own collection, but even with that, I find myself flipping stations to find something I want to hear. With terrestrial radio, I often find nothing at all worthwhile after scanning for minutes at a time.