All Hail The Death Of Radio

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/2/5 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Corporate radio sucketh, whole and large and true. . . .

[SmithL]

Morfordite alert. You've been warned.

[AppyPappy]

The hit dog yelps

[PeterFinn]

Corporate newspapers suck, too.

[lewislynn]

It's not the radio, it's the music that sucks.

[Muleteam1]

>>But the sad news is, we are now way past radio's Golden Age...<<

Shucks! And I just bought a $170 AM radio and threw out my $50 television. Go figure.

Muleteam1

[Red Badger]

Even his stopped clock is right once in a while.......

[Richard Kimball]

So does Morford, but he brags about it.

[CSM]

How is that CCRadio? I'm looking into getting one.

[You Dirty Rats]

Corporate radio sucketh, whole and large and true. . . .

Given his "preferences" -- is this a compliment?

[randog]

I hate to say this, but I actually agree with Miss Morford on this one. Radio, plain and simple, sucks. I barely resisted the urge to rip my radio out of the dash on the drive to work this morning. Even if I can find a station that's not playing back-to-back, non-stop commercials, it's the same old crap--"Hey, let's groove to Sweet Home Alabama...for the 1,509,365th time!!". I made a mental note this morning to get a CD player for my truck. I'm done with radio.

[GOP_1900AD]

Indeed. He's got a point, probably the only time, ever. In just the past couple of years, we lost KSJO and Channel 104 (which filled the niche Live 105 used to fill, true new wave, not just industrial / thrash like the newer Live 105 ... ). Of course, Moreford steered clear of what has driven this locally - all of the middle class, mostly white people are gone from this metro. There still is a middle class here but they drive lowered Japanese cars and listen to rap and are typically either not white, or, white, and gang banga wannabe types.

[jpl]

It's not the radio, it's the music that sucks.

Exactly, which is why I pretty much listen exclusively to talk radio now.

[OregonRancher]

CCradio? the best...got two...we live out in the boonies and they really pull in the distant stations with great clarity...

[WakeUpAndVote]

Bingo.

I only listen to the radio for traffic reports, rush or sean. That will only be on an AM station, 910 WSBA, York Pennsylvania.

That or Sirius Satellite on long trips. At least you can turn out liberal speak there and only listen to what you want to hear be it music, news or talk.

[Drango]

Corporate radio sucketh, whole and large and true. . . .

I thought HST was dead?

[BJClinton]

Gotta agree. A genuinely good article from Morford. It would have been great without the puerile cheap-shots at the Bushs but...

[newgeezer]

Actually, except for the infrequent 30 minutes of dead air we might experience on any given evening -- once the local 'talent' has gone home and given way to the automated world of syndicated talk -- our local, 50,000-watt Clear Channel affiliate remains surprisingly interesting and (at certain times of the day) local.

For any interested in a little more of an excerpt prior to committing to a click-through...

All Hail The Death Of Radio

Clear Channel suffers and rock radio is gasping its last and, more importantly, does anyone care?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Corporate radio sucketh, whole and large and true.

We know this. Everyone knows this. There is not a single person out there right now who is listening to any of the one zillion lifeless Clear Channel or Infinity-owned rock stations anywhere in the nation who is saying to themselves, gosh this KLOG station is just exceptionally good and clever and smart and plays amazingly fresh music and makes me want to listen all the time and oh my God I am so going to pick up the phone right now and try to be the 157th caller so I can win tickets to go see Dave Matthews live in Portland! Woo!

OK, maybe there's a few. But you probably don't want to know them, because they're they type who never slam ice-cold shots of vodka or have never heard of Rocco Siffredi and they wear pink capri pants or backward baseball hats and drive Ford Escorts with weird stuffed animals in the windows. Mostly.

This is the problem with rock radio. It has become the last option, the thing you listen to only when all other options fail, when you're too tired to pop in a CD or too lazy to reach for the iPod or just a little too buzzed on premium tequila and postcoital nirvana to care about searching your glove box for that old AC/DC tape. In short, rock radio is for people who buy their Matchbox 20 CDs from Target.

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[CSM]

They are expensive tho'. I'm looking at some used units.

[newgeezer]

Anyone who deems the CCRadio too costly should consider the GE SuperRadio III. I use 3 of them.

[thackney]

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