StarMover said:These days, huge media corporations own multiple radio stations in all formats. They make deals with record labels and distributors and assemble playlists of x-number of songs, which are aimed at a given demographic. Then they automate the broadcasting so the local 'DJ' (if there is such a thing anymore) really doesn't have any control over what music is played. He's basically there just say stupid stuff between songs in an attempt to give the broadcast some sense of being live and local.To make things worse, the whole affair is built around the concept that the average listening time is about 15 minutes, so they don't have a problem playing what they consider to be the most popular and least objectionable music over and over and over and over and over again... Total crap. :thumbsdn: I hate radio. :thumbsdn: Only public radio and my IPOD keeps me sane. :thmbsp: Will satelite radio change this? Possibly, in the short term, but even they will become whores to the almighty dollar and it probabally won't get any better than it is today. Gee.. I'm ranting! It feels good.
We could do an entire thread on this topic.
& we should! In the tuner forum.
If you or somebody else doesn't start in a reasonable amount of time, I will.
