Radio is not what it once was
10.16.07 (10:48 pm) [edit]
Radio has changed much over the years. I'm 54. Back in high school, FM underground emerged as an alternative to chaperoned top 40. We thought it wa improving with ideals in the forefront.
But more recently, Clear Channel and a few others have been buying up stations, and only playing the most popular tabulated tunes. It's so bad I couldn't request a novelty tune during "drive time", the commute rush hour. Bean counters are removing creativity from the deejay. You have to do what they say or you're out.
I was asked to start a blog about something. I hope I posted this in the right place.
Young people today may be deprived as we are by all this. Perhaps youthful alternative, be it grunge, rap, or whatever, have an online streaming radio that satisfies their specialty.
My favorite alternative is sponsored by small business and streams online. I may not be able to put links in this blog, but they can be googled. WRDV FM radio Delaware Valley plays different types of 50s music different nights (doowop, beebop, country, rockabilly, jazz) and 30s and 40s during the daytime. CHWO AM 740 in Toronto also covers some of this.
Perhaps others here feel as strongly as I do about the deadness of corporate facism killing radio.