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They've shoveled crap for too long.
The only new rock station left in Houston plays "new alternative" (if 10 year old Pearl Jam and Nirvana songs can be called "new" or "alternative"), the rest all play moldy oldies by era (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s "and beyond").
"We are, ultimately, in the business of distributing what the music industry produces." is a lie. They can play whatever they want. It is how Norah Jones became a hit. Two commercial stations trusted DJs enough to let them play whatever they wanted; there was no "single" until it got airplay.
How do the "old hits" format stations bow down to "what the industry releases"? Where are cuts from a new collection of an old artist (including unreleased Beatles songs)? Where are the bands that charted "back then" and haven't been played to death?
Radio sucks and the execs know it. Funny how they all insist that "audiences who want better programming should go to satellite radio".
A simple transistor radio is a great device. Too bad they are going to waste because radio programmers got lazy and codified their playlists to one day's material repeated ad nauseum.
not a problem here. I live in Baltimore and HFS was not the HFS from the past... we have better WRNR. This "HFS" wannabe from the 80's was a joke. Nothing but anti-all that is good and pure. Much like the MTV of today nothing but trash. I say GOOD RIDDANCE!
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Terrestrial radio is dead.
Long live the KING!
Howard Stern - KING of ALL media!
I'd rather listen to Spanish-language radio than a rock station. At least if the Mexican dj is talking filth, the kids can't understand it!
The new market just shows unlimited immigration into the US from the rest of the world. This greedy economic growth in immigrant music sales doesn’t mean there is a lack of demand for traditional amercing music, for example country music is still strong.
Americans only represent a small percentage of the world population, so of course if the stations are trying to attract the poplar audience on a worldwide level it would make economic sense to dump American music and try to increase the listeners abroad by attracting more immigrants to settle in the broadcast area, more people means more dollars.
Bottom line is that these radio stations have a conflict of interest. By attracting the rest of the world to live here, many of which come illegally and who will retain dual citizenship with their home country and refuse to assimilate by learning English, this is not in the best interest of American culture. The FCC grants the privilege to broadcast to improve American culture, not the rest of the worlds culture.
In LA for example, now AM radio on a just a single popular Spanish station dwarfs all the listeners on all English stations put to together! The blame of the decline of the American culture is with the politicians, and the business who are allowing the unlimited immigration by their conflict of interest to serve the US culture and its people and their greed for more money!