[ SECRET POST #3825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3825 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

as someone who worked in radio back when radio was a viable career, you keep rockin' that feel. I'd hate to see a media format just die out from disuse, and I like finding out that people still like the format of randomness + inserted ads and banter over 100% personal control.

back in my day there was a lot of screaming that CDs would kill radio, hilariously enough. Took mp3s and 15 years to finally start the death process.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it really mp3s, though? I figure they played a part, but I personally think the death of radio has a lot to do with the fact that we went from lots of stations that were run more independently than they are now, where DJs had more freedom to choose what music they played rather than being limited to whatever the mega corporation decided they had to play. Also the loss of local talent in DJs and radio shows, so now radio sounds kind of samey no matter where you are.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, absolutely. That was a major contributing factor (and the direct reason I lost my job - the station realized it could save money by going satellite instead of having local DJs). I simplified it for the sake of a comment but it really was a perfect storm of this shift to canned, packaged satellite radio stations finally having the technology to fake being local rising at the same time that downloading and streaming music began to gain a good technological foothold. It isn't so much that a megacorp is telling the jocks what to play, it's that there is one single radio station in Cali or Texas or something piping music (ironically, over the internet) to the local affiliate. The tags mentioning your local station's call letters? Pre-recorded and computer-inserted. Just like TV, really.

I haven't tried spotify personally but like OP I've used what are basically online radio stations and I do like that there's some radio-like feel to them. Pandora with ads can't really do the same because once you get locked into an artist or genre, there's less variety than a hits station.

[fishnchips]

My main problem with radio stations where I live is that they all have this tiny playlist of the same 20 songs and they play them over and over again. And it kind of gets annoying after a while. This is probably a local problem, though. In general, I actually do like radio. Just not the stations I get around here.

[(Anonymous)]

That happens where I live, too. I worked at a data entry place for a time, and they'd alternate between the local top 40 and country stations, and there were certain songs that got played over and over and over and over again.

There is an AM station in my area that I enjoy listening to when possible. It plays a lot of oldies music, and sometimes stuff that doesn't get as much airplay on your typical oldies station at that.

And then every so often it'll throw in some 1940s big band song (there's even an hourlong show on the weekends dedicated to music from the 1930s and 1940s, with a smattering of '50s and '60s stuff sprinkled in depending on the theme), or it'll play more modern stuff like Norah Jones or Colbie Calliat or Michael Buble (LOTS of Michael Buble). It'll also play the old Casey Kasem countdowns from the 1970s that another poster here mentioned on weekends. It's a very odd mix of music that tends to get played on there sometimes, but that's what I tend to like about the station :p.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah

They just... play shitty music mostly

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I think aggressive consolidation, marketing triangulation, and the explosion of talk outrage radio were bigger factors.