Goodbye Radio
Created on: March 4th, 2008
I'm sickened by the demise of what (was) the most entertaining medium of it's day. It still could be, but large companies have fired all the creative people.
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I give you a four because you are mostly right but wrong on some things - my local radio station, which is also my colleges radio station, is not owned by clearchannel and is the only station I have ever known to play my two obscure favorite songs from two obscure genres. It is true that most of radio is now lost and dying but there certainly is still enough left to enjoy and get requests played. also, if radio 'dies', it'll just get cheaper, bringing back new small companies that do the right thing...right
^That would be exactly the case. It just gets reborn. On a national level tho all those new tidbits are really a huge deal. At least in my area I haven't noticed any changes to the radio stations for the past ten years. The big corporate companies will probably taper out within the next few years leaving the radio industry relatively unscathed.
The other problem now is that all the record producers want to be paid for each time their songs are played. At one point this stuff was being used to help promote their songs, seems a little backwards huh. The big stations do get paid to play the same crap over and over, but it is stuff the people are being forced to like and thus this situation.
You know why radio is dying? Because radio stations are afraid to play anything worth a f*ck.
(PS: Nirvana sucked, though it took me about 5 years to realize it. The only reason people remember the name is because Kurt ate some buckshot.) What needs to happen is the advent of wireless internet apart from the money-grubbing cellular companies. (F*ck you Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, I'm looking at you f*ggots)
Theres two sides to every coin. If people didnt have access to "free" music, the local stations wouldnt
have sold out, seeing that they were losing money just as the corporations are. People are greedy.
I want my music free, artists want to get paid, and the record companies screw everyone by only letting
stations play what they tell them to.
keynote: Ever hear the term "Penny Royalty?" The artists get one cent per disc sold. Might be 2 or 3 by now, but I doubt it. The real money is earned via concerts. Only the labels earn from cd's. If we could break free of the labels... but that's getting a bit utopian, and I have to work in 3.5 hours. I'll be watching this one.
What killed radio? The same thing that's going to kill major record labels: choice. An increasingly mediocre mainstream standard coupled with the discovery potential of the internet has caused a shift in taste. Those connected by the RIAA tout easily replicated and interchangeable crap so that they can essentially sell the same product to you over and over. People are catching on.
Also, the reason why torrent sites and the like are being targeted by the majors isn't because their music is being downloaded. It's because people are finding better music to listen to via the installed community and adjusting their tastes accordingly. They're trying to eliminate the competition of independent music.
sh*t... MTV hasn't been MTV for almost 15 years, even MTV2 has a hard time showing 'videos' with all the reality bullsh*t they would rather play thinking thats what people want out of music. same goes for VH1. have to get satellite or digi-cable with hopes of the Fuse channel being included if you want music videos.
lies, people started tuning out because every station decided to play low by flo rida every 30 minutes. i used to have to listen to that god damn song at least 4 times a day just going to and from work, absolute torture. driving there takes 30 minutes and it was actually common to hear it played 3 times in that 30 minute time frame.
In the 90s I had a job where I could listen to the radio all day. The radio station is local and not owned by a mass conglomerate. I grew to hate music stations because it came to a point where I could predict their play list and I ended up hearing 80% of the same songs each day. What was worse was when they would get a new hit song and just play it constantly. At least once an hour, though sometimes twice depending on the drive time. I know the average listener doesn't listen for 8 hours straight,...
but come on. I still don't know why they still have to play "Sex and Candy" and "Bittersweet Symphony". Those were horrible songs in the 90s and they've only gotten worse. It even isn't the overplaying of songs. It's that most bands sound alike. Eventually I moved to talk radio, got sick of that, then moved over to Sirius, which I rather like because they don't stick with the bigger hits and will play bootlegs, different mixes, and B-sides that you don't get on terrestrial radio.
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