Comments on: Radio… there she blows

By: DarylG

DarylG — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:23:58 +0000

Man this is good. I am extremely anti-radio. Its just another industry that was lost sight of whats important and to them its all about the dollar. I think Sirius is great and I love podcasting as a medium since there is no filtering yet. I listen to internet streams on my Wii and carry my IPOD everywhere so for me I could care less if radio just went away. I think more people should explore the other options available to them to make it even harder on the radio industry. I know a lot have and that accounts for some of the trouble that radio is in now but I say since they have turned their back on their users then turn about is fair play. Thanks for letting me rant.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:29:49 +0000

Don’t get me started :-).

So what’s the solution?

Bring back the human being. Live DJs who are informed, intelligent music heads. People who actually listen to music. That’s the main problem. No one is actually listening anymore because of payola and research. Most radio stations don’t even get full records from the labels anymore, just singles. If the DJs were trusted to be human, and have some taste, that would bring back the art of radio to some extent.

The great radio that is out there, and it is, does this.

The mantra should be: screw Arbitron, find great music, play it.

It’s not rocket science.

By: Bertha (Jherara)

Bertha (Jherara) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:57:26 +0000

The problem with radio today is bigger than massive amounts of advertising. Not only has the competition from MP3 players and music grabbing (hears it find it) phones or other wireless devices increased, but so has the censorship of music. I’m tired of hearing heavily edited tracks. The radio stations, while trying not to tick off advertisers, family-oriented folks, and the FCC, forget that a large percentage of their listening audience wants to hear a song in its entirety and wants the music to be as diverse and varied as the country it’s playing in.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:08:02 +0000

Growing up in the 80’s I seemed to have experienced this same thing. The station I listened to, one of the most popular in my area at the time, literally seemed to have the same ten songs on their play rotation every hour–and at least half of those songs were by Michael Jackson and Madonna! So maybe this whole radio thing has been going on longer than we realize…probably even back to the days of Elvis and the Beatles. Unfortunately, most stations have a protocol to play what they consider to be “hot”…however, it does seem they overplay the crap out of some songs/artists more than others.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:34:05 +0000

Mmmmmm….Big Boyâ€™s Hot Dog Emporium.