@WEFR When all the corporations bought all the stations and a few companies own hundreds of stations individual stations had no record libraries anymore and got their playlists from a remote location. They don't do their own programming like they used to.
A station I know of north of Toronto in Huntsville gets their programming from Texas believe it or not. Even smaller town stations are owned by some big corporation and they are just satellites and don't do any local programming. There used to be on air people...remember when they did requests and dedications? Radio likes the 18-49 age group and and that's what the advertisers want to get listening so the most popular format is adult contemporary which is just synthesized pop. If you want to hear real musicians playing real instruments radio has left you behind. Even country is not real country anymore. Sad that even the Rolling Stones new album won't get airplay...or the Beatles "new" song.
And I mentioned this in another post but the demographic radio wants for an audience isn't even listening. They have their phones, Spotify, and even in a car they just use a phone to pair with the car audio system. I give out radios to people in my area if they want to listen as they don't even have radios in their homes. Show me a 25-30 year old that listens to radio. They listen to their phones. And not terrestrial radio. And yet it's the boomers that are left behind.
And then there's the 5+ minutes of endless commercials every 5 songs. The talk stations have more commercials than program an hour.
Yes you are correct. No more local anything for the most part. Even most mornings are live but comes out of another city by satellite to many stations across country. Automation replaced me about 13 years ago. And I was out of a job and career. But I'm having fun doing this part 15 station. Seems to working out better than I thought it would.
@wefr I know.... The automation is destroying radio,not saving it. The phones are taking over for sure.
@WEFR When all the corporations bought all the stations and a few companies own hundreds of stations individual stations had no record libraries anymore and got their playlists from a remote location. They don't do their own programming like they used to.
A station I know of north of Toronto in Huntsville gets their programming from Texas believe it or not. Even smaller town stations are owned by some big corporation and they are just satellites and don't do any local programming. Their used to be on air people...remember when they did requests and dedications? Radio likes the 18-49 age group and and that's what the advertisers want to get listening so the most popular format is adult contemporary which is just synthesized pop. If you want to hear real musicians playing real instruments radio has left you behind. Even country is not real country anymore. Sad that even the Rolling Stones new album won't get airplay...or the Beatles "new" song.
And I mentioned this in another post but the demographic radio wants for an audience isn't even listening. They have their phones, Spotify, and even in a car they just use a phone to pair with the car audio system. I give out radios to people in my area if they want to listen as they don't even have radios in their homes. Show me a 25-30 year old that listens to radio. They listen to their phones. And not terrestrial radio. And yet it's the boomers that are left behind.
And then there's the 5+ minutes of endless commercials every 5 songs. The talk stations have more commercials than program.
This post was modified 3 years ago by Mark
Sorry Mark..I think I messed up you posting...I really can't see much . I miss the older days of radio. It's dying, radio. There's not much on it anymore. A total waste land. We had a emergency where I'm at now but nothing on the local radio about it. The reason is it's not local at all.
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@1620am-w9xaz I see what you did, you quoted me and it got duplicated. Is that what you wanted to do? I can delete the duplicate.