No Room For Originality On The Radio
from the why-I-don't-listen-to-the-radio dept
A few months back we had an article about how a radio DJ in San Diego pretended to be the local DJ from Boise, despite never having been there. That should give you an idea of what's happening to radio stations these days. The Washington Post is now running their own story about the business of radio stations. They focus on (of course) Clear Channel, and their "formula" radio programming. They basically try to own most of the stations in an area, consolidate all the operations, and then put on the blandest, lowest common denominator of programming - with no thought towards originality. Apparently, originality costs too much money. Of course, we could turn to online stations for original programming if the RIAA wasn't working so hard to put them all out of business too...
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the future of radio?
This is being discussed on a discussion board and the betting right now is it is just a short-term stunt, so we'll see!
- adam
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