Death to Radio Homogenization!
Posted by David | Filed under Music
I’m decades late on this rant, but this issue has really been bugging me as of late: I hate the current state of the mainstream radio broadcasting industry.
I live on the east coast, in New Jersey for crying out loud, where the concentration of people is greater than that of plant life and where almost every frequency has a radio broadcast. Yet because of the FCC’s latest deregulation (read: grant for monopolization), the only contemporary stations I get are 2 national Top 40s disguised as local channels.
It’s bad enough that they play the same 40 songs throughout the week with little variation, but the charts don’t even change more than a song or two by the time next week rolls around. Oh, and these aren’t really the Top 40, merely the Top 40 Recording Label-Sponsored, including such soon-to-be-classic hits as Britney Spears’ latest sensation(s) and whatever Creed-wannabe rock ballad is popular right now (I keep losing track).
These ‘local’ stations are not merely content with playing the same 40 songs, however — almost every single day when trying to escape one bad song by switching the radio, I inevitably catch the other contemporary station playing the exact same song. This past weekend both had seemingly unrelated 80’s Weekend broadcasts.
Which brings me to another point. Why do we have to have the "Best of the 80s, 90s, and Today?" Ditch the 80s already and just give me the past decade and a half. If you haven’t convinced me by now that Duran Duran is the greatest pop group ever, it ain’t gonna happen.
Now, excuse me while I broadcast my own pirate radio via iPod.
One Response to “Death to Radio Homogenization!”
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SonsMelody Says:
January 4th, 2005 at 4:08 pmSome of us happen to like the 80’s
Though I understand the rest of your plight. I also cannot stand having to pay around $15 for a whole cd when all I want is one song - the rest of them stink so why bother? Blah - something NEEDS to change!
