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".
I can't abide pop music. Top-40 radio is horrid. Blathering, inane DJs suck.
Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to live within the broadcast region of WRNR [wrnr.com], an independent station. There's no playlist -- the DJs are free to play whatever they want. Refreshing, that.
The End of the Beginning? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
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".
Oh, what a lucky man he was (Score:3, Interesting)
Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to live within the broadcast region of WRNR [wrnr.com], an independent station. There's no playlist -- the DJs are free to play whatever they want. Refreshing, that.
If only they did a streaming broadcast...