Gotta fix that link: http://www.tulane.edu/~wtul/framesmain.html
Okay, you think you have it bad… only 6 stations, same old songs on every station. Terrible music that all sounds the same, lousy morning shows with DJ’s that have bad taste… What i wouldn’t give to have just 1 FM station! I am the lucky one who has only 1 AM station with nothing but country, country and more country. Although late nights I get lucky and get to listen to '50’s Rock 'n Roll! WOO HOO!!!
I live in rural alberta, moved here from St. Louis where there are 12 GOOD radio stations to listen to. My listening pleasures have been reduced to my “free” real player.
So next time you are listening to the sounds of Ricky Martin over and over and over again, think of me who had not even heard of him a couple of months ago!
You know what? I have this cool electronic gizmo in my car, and a few in my house, that lets me turn a dial and listen to music for FREE. Music that people of considerable talent spent a long time making. Somebody had to build these huge transmitters and hire people to run them, and DJ’s to go on the air, and people to run the station, and I don’t have to pay a nickel for it. And in a medium sized area, I can find maybe a dozen of these free stations. Way cool. Sure, not one of them plays every song I like. But you know what? It’s really hard for me to bitch about something that’s free. The only way it STAYS free is for them to attract the most listeners, which means appealing to wide demographics instead of eclectic, enlightened individuals like yourselves. Live with it.
My cable TV costs $80/mo. And it’s got so much crap on it that I hardly watch anymore.
That entertainment isn’t quite free. My ears pay for it whenever I hear “249 DOWN, 249 A MONTH!! THAT’S RIGHT! THIS IS NOT A LEASE! THIS IS NOT A BALLOON!” and on and on and on.
I like a lot of music on the radio. Well I used to, anyway. Until I heard the songs a billion times and gradually began to detest them. Now I can see if a station is going to play a song a lot at first, but do they have to play them over and over for YEARS??? On the local alternative station I STILL hear Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind every damn day, even though it’s like 4 years old! Radio stations just don’t recognize the concept of a burt-out song!
Anyone up for a stirring rendition of Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz? Me neither.
Whoops … forgot to turn that bold off. My apologies.
I can only speak for Seattle, so here goes.
I’m pretty sure that KISW is partially owned by Dave Grohl-because I hear that gawddamned ‘Monkey Wrench’ song about every hour and a half. Plus, I don’t know why, but every weekend, without a doubt, you will hear ‘Space Lord’ by Monster Magnet between 3am and 6am.
But, what’s worse, is that KISW, KZOK, and KJR-FM have about an 80% overlap in playlists, even tho one is ‘Classic Rock’ one is ‘Classic Rock that RAWKS’ and one is ‘Lameo watered down crap from the other two’. I swear, if I hear an older song that I haven’t heard for a while, I can tune in to the other stations and within an hour, I’ll here it there too! Once, I heard ‘No one like you’ by the Scorpions on KISW, switched over to KZOK, and heard it there too, at the same time!
I think a previous poster has the answer, tho-I believe that most of the Seattle stations are owned by the same folks, so they have to churn out slightly different copies of each other. With everything being computerized, you get very similar playlists.
I remember the old days, where local jock God Steve Slayton would play ‘Bad Boy Boogie’ for 30 mins straight…sigh.
Curse you, evil corporate Illuminati!!!
[pit mode] Buncha pig fuckers!! [/pit mode]
-sb
They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.
I few years ago I worked at the campus book store. Every day it was top 40. SOme of us asked for classical OR jazz ONE DAY A WEEK.
WE got it until the majority employees protested because (no they weren’t falling asleep) - they were TIRED OF LISTENENING TO THE SAME SONGS REPEAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN (I;m not shouting here, they were).
Ironically the classical station repeats “songs” at worst every few weeks, sometimes months or years apart for a given piece.
It was interesting that what they thought they heard was not what they heard. So we went back to repeating the same songs evry 40 minutes!
Ughhh
HEY - That’s the station I listen to! I agree with you, they are good.
Are you in Utah?
>^,^<
KITTEN
Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S.
dhanson, you go, thanks for a little understanding.
Puffington, I am sorry you are so upset - seems my explanations make no sense to you. Then I propose you stop bitching and moaning, get the damned tape/cd player in your car fixed, and write your local radio stations and complain. They can use listener comments as weapons against money oriented owners.
Puff, you do have power - its called “changing stations” and it is a powerful tool.
Oh and Satan ? I am calling you out. I think you are a slimy record rep (if in radio at all), certainly not involved in on-air operations or else you would have done more to educate this MB. Sad. There is a tiny AM station looking for joxs here, you would be perfect for “solid gospel”.
“Solos Dios basta” . . . but a little pizza won’t hurt.
I did, actually. It didn’t make a damn bit of difference.
I do understand your points. Like I said, I can understand why a station would want to play a new song repeatedly, but why can’t they just LET THE SONGS GO??? It’s strange; some songs get very popular, then disappear forever. Other songs get equally as popular and then are played every 4 hours for eternity. Makes me think the record companies have their hands in somebody’s pocket.
I really have nothing against the DJ’s. None of this is their fault. The only DJ’s I have a problem with are those that think they’re the funniest thing since Abbott & Costello, and attempt to prove it right before every commercial break. It’s kinda pathetic to hear them coming with Monica Lewinsky jokes so tired that even that hack Jay Leno has retired them.
It’s not a powerful tool when every station is owned by the same two companies and all sound the same, as has been pointed out numerous times in this thread.