Think Radio Has Gotten Boring? You're Not Alone!
Published August 30, 2004
OK, enough typing. You make good points that will hopefully spur a few to sit up and take notice. For me, I have a dozen or so new CDs that I haven't listened to, but will now. I'll let you know if I hear anything that might benefit your station!
Greg makes some excellent points with his above post. Believe it or not, there are still great records being made. In many cases, you're just simply not hearing them on your radio station. The recent album releases from Thornley, Saliva, and David Crosby and Graham Nash all deserve MUCHO record sales, and the only one out of that bunch that is likely to do so, is the Saliva album. It's good to see influential programmers noticing that perhaps they should hit play on their CD player a bit more often, and with that action, hopefully music fans can look forward to hearing forward-thinking bands on their favorite radio station again someday soon!
- Think Radio Has Gotten Boring? You're Not Alone!
- Published: August 30, 2004
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- Writer: Matt Wardlaw
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I'll say, if you don't like bizkit, kid rock, britney spears, christina aguilera, p diddy, or eminem you're out of luck because that's all you hear!
And whatever to happened to local contests? Caller 9 nationwide? What's the point?
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Thanks for the tip to a good music site.
I lived in Boston for 7 years, and I remember when WAAF and its worthy competitor, WBCN, were all a person need to hear overwhelming amounts of great and diverse music. It's so damned sad that radio really is crap now. If I lived in the States, I would definitely be getting into XM in hopes of finding some worthy stuff to listen to all day long.
Someone pointed out to me that radio is no longer programmed for day long entertainment, it is for drive time, basically an hour or so perday, you hear the hits and don't notice the repetition.