25-08-2013, 00:44
I listen to satellite radio now because the local stations are so bad. I remember back in the late 70s or early 80s one of local rock stations had a "free-for-all-weekend" where you called them up and told what you wanted to hear and they played it. At one point the DJ came on and told people that the stations looks at all the requests as a way of gauging what to play more of or less of throughout the year. "This is your chance to tell us what you want to hear. I mean, I can sit here and play 'Stairway to Heaven" and 'Freebird' all weekend long, if that's what you want." So, a lot of it goes on the listeners. The stations play what these people want to hear and what these people listen to is so limited and one-track that it killed radio. That's the same reason we're drowning in reality TV--because that's what idiots want to watch and there's so many of them that they get to call the shots.
