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Originally Posted by nostatic
That's what radio is for
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You are kidding, right? It must be better around you, but up here broadcast radio is a wasteland.
This area used to have two good rock stations (KSJO, KOME), one excellent alternative station (KITS) and 2 or 3 classic rock stations.
In 1994, one of the rock stations (KOME owned by Infinity Broadcasting) switched formats to semi-alternative, playing a mix of the songs it used to play, and some of what the good alternative (KITS) station played. Still, between the 3 stations, there was always something on worth listening to.
In 97, Infinity Broadcasting (since absorbed by CBS Radio) purchased the company that owned the good alt station, and the quality of the programming dropped. A year later, Infinity purchased another family of stations, and part of that deal, they were required to sell one of the other stations they owned in the area. The alt-rock station KOME got sold to the company that owned the other good rock station, KSJO, and one of the classic rock stations. KOME was killed off, and the frequency used by the classic rock station.
The parent company has since been absorbed by Clear Channel, which decided a few years later to kill off the last remaining Rock station in the area when they turned KSJO into a Mexican Oldies station.
Thankfully, one of the classic rock stations (KSAN) shifted their format a bit and play sort of a mixture of classic and current rock music, and for some unbelievably stupid reason, Pro football games. The other classic rock station broadcasts Hockey games.
The two that play current music have pretty short playlists with heavy rotation. Frankly, neither of them are much worth listening to any more. Radio sucks.
I do find it amusing that the music industry loudly proclaims that the reason they are losing money is because people are downloading music instead of buying it, but they overlook the possibility that people are not buying music simply because there is so much of what being put out is crap. I can't remember the last time I had any interest in buying a new CD.