Here's a note I sent to the KHYI-Fans [yahoo.com] email list, a group of fans of independent alt-country station KHYI [khyi.com] (and others) in Dallas:
As Winston Churchill said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Clear Channel, the company that took advantage of greed and laziness in the radio biz and used it to buy over a thousand formerly independent radio stations, is in the process of being bought out itself.
Don't expect to hear good music on the radio again right away
You know, the LAST time I heard good music on commercial radio was probably 1984. I wouldn't necessarily blame all of the crappy music on Clear Channel. Blame it on the desire to "please most of the people most of the time".
That's why radio is on the decline. I can't stand listening to radio anymore. They loop whatever 10 songs that are popular at the moment, every day, in the morning, in the evening, the same f-ing songs! Thank god my commute to work is only 10 minutes. I built myself an iPod hookup to my car, and I listen to my iPod in shuffle mode. It's much better than listening to song X for the millionth time.
If my commute was longer than 30 minutes each way, I would definitely get Sirius satellite radio. I find it a big pain to swap music in and out of my iPod, since my iPod isn't big enough to hold my music collection. Also, since I don't listen to the radio anymore, I don't hear any new music. I do have to switch to regular crappy radio to hear some of the new stuff that's out.
The End of the Beginning? (Score:5, Interesting)
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You know, the LAST time I heard good music on commercial radio was probably 1984. I wouldn't necessarily blame all of the crappy music on Clear Channel. Blame it on the desire to "please most of the people most of the time".
Re:The End of the Beginning? (Score:2)
If my commute was longer than 30 minutes each way, I would definitely get Sirius satellite radio. I find it a big pain to swap music in and out of my iPod, since my iPod isn't big enough to hold my music collection. Also, since I don't listen to the radio anymore, I don't hear any new music. I do have to switch to regular crappy radio to hear some of the new stuff that's out.