How long do you think local radio will survive?
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This is something I wonder often, how long will it be before the radio is a thing of the past? Between XM, Sirius, iPods with Podcast (go All that's Sacred!) and you personalized taste in music, how long will the public radios stations be able to hang in there? The closest thing we have to a decent station in my area (which still sucks) has a commercial that promotes listening to local radio. I just don't see the point. Why would I want to listen to something that what music it plays is dictated by the record industry rather than the listeners?
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
Sadly, the radio station I was referring to as the decent one, doesn't realize Pearl Jam has recorded anything since Ten. :?
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I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
but it means i've been forced to listent the radio a little bit. it is horrendous other than xpn here in philly. 104.5 is the only other one that isn't quite garbage. that said--it will last for a long time because not everyone wants to pay for satellite.
with that said.....i don't see why anyone in their right mind would spend money on an hd radio. i mean you just get all the same shitty stations....clearer. who wants that? who are these people buying these things??
just heard Amongst The Waves about an hour ago
the garbage you have to put up with between those rare gems are not worth it though.
I'll never stop listening
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Really? The record industry? I find that hard to believe. There are 2 'rock' stations in the Seattle area, and Funky Monkey plays WAY better music than KISW will play during the day. Even in Portland, KUFO plays better music than KISW. I have participated in their music polls to try to get them to play more new music.
IF radio were to 'go away'
Who will give away free concert tix? (Every PJ concert I've been to were tix won from the radio station, or a 10c pal) Who's gonna promote big name concerts when they come to town? When a big storm brings down cable and dish programming, who am I gonna listen to?
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Just sayin'
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really? preston and steve are funny sometimes...i can't stand all the ac/dc stuff though. do you listen to xpn?
What I don't really understand why people bother paying for satellite radio when they could listen to their entire music collection or download podcasts or Pandora or Slacker or iheartradio, etc. It seems kind of dumb, really.
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It just seems like radio sucks balls anymore... I'll hit scan until I find a decent song, and there are times when minutes have passed, and I realize it's still scanning because I haven't found anything to stop it on. So many commercials and repeat songs.
I listen to a local station on the way to work, but it's playing a national ESPN radio show, and on the way home I usually play pandora on my phone or whatever.
Drive times are the worst... they try to put all of the "popular" songs on during those couple hours, so every day sounds the same... Evening radio seems to be a bit better.
Besides in a car, I rarely listen to the radio... at home, it's either, itunes, pandora or even the digital cable music channels...
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It might have to do with the area you're in, here in the Memphis area, I don't think anyone even announced the Ed solo tour and free tickets, you can forget about it. Occasionally there might be a giveaway to some show by an 80's has been that's playing at a casino. We don't have a station that has a good variety, it's what's popular at the time with some really old classic rock town in occasionally. I did think about the weather issue, I think eventually it will dwindle down to mostly talk radio stations, such as NPR,which is what I listen to if I'm not listening to a cd.
**I also agree that newspapers are quickly on their way out too. I have a degree in journalism, so I'm from a college of communications, and I just feel like it is all a dying breed.
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I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
Emergencies and the like are probably the only reason local radio will stay on forever..
As far as concert promotion, that ship is slowly sailing... I work in an arena, and more and more concert announcements/giveaways are done on things like Facebook, online ads, e-mail campaigns, cable tv, etc... sure, radio stations are still used, but internet/cable tv is where a big focus of advertising is.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
However, I think the important thing is to keep things such as community radio going, and they won't without listener support and contribution. Our local community station here in SLC is KRCL 90.9 FM: http://www.krcl.org
Albeit the majority of tunes played is generally bleak, hipster indie music, I still give it my support as it has no boundaries as to genres and artists it plays and I regularly discover talented and creative musicians from their airwaves. On this station, depending on the time you'll hear blues, country, bluegrass, world music, rock/alt/indie, vintage rock, Native American music, folk and Americana, ambient, ethnic, reggae, soul/R&B and underground hip hop and everything in between. Not to mention the wonderful talk shows on the station such as Radioactive and Democracy Now!
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We are really lucky in philly as we actually have choices on radio. For rock WMMR is still king but YSP has gotten much better as they have toned down the 80s hair bands/heavy metal and gone with a lot more 90s music. 104.5 and 95.7 are listenable in small doses or when you want something different than regular hard rock.
Jaegs - XPN is pretty hit or miss for me. sometimes i put it on and seems good but other times to me it's pretty blah. it's definitely different but i think more of an acquired taste.
but like a couple of people said i mostly listen in my car these days. at home if im sitting on the deck or something i most likely flip on the Ipod.
i think it will be around pretty much forever, just not as popular. never had satellite radio but to me local radio is still better if only for the home town flavor. sometimes its cool to hear what is going on in your area, promoting events, etc.
newspapers will be gone by 2015 - too expensive for print when you can just put everything online.
Is that 104.5? Occassionally.
I'm not an AC/DC fan either, but I can stomach it. I've been listening for years and I'm a loyal person, sometimes to a fault
i hear you about the local flavor and that's why i held out on satelite for as long as i did. but to me, most of it is unlistenable including the stations you mentioned. mmr--still plays pj which is cool. but i can't stand the other stuff in between. damn this thread is really making me get my ass to best buy to fix my sirius now
xpn is really the only place to hear new and eclectic music in philly. i mean Brad is playing their world cafe next month. where else in philly would year hear that?!
no 104.5 is kind of like the old y100 but not as good. mainstreem new rock/alternative stuff.
xpn is the univ of penn station 88.5. if you like an eclectic mix, check it out.
remember DRE? now that was a station...
DRE was awesome but I think that is just because it was the right place right time in the early 90s. it just rode that wave for a few years.
Jaegs were you a local bar band guy? Remember Strange As Angels? they were awesome in the early 90s. Used to check them out on a regular basis for like a year or two.
right place/right time--whatever it was, that station was legendary. opened with Alive...went out with Alive. there's youtube footage of the party they had when they played Alive for the last time. pretty cool. i think y100 ended with Alive too because so many of their workers were former DRE guys.
don't remember strange as angels. aren't you a few years older than me? i was in middle school/high school early '90's
yes bit older here. Strange As Angels was kind of it for that type of music before Mr. Greengenes came around. forgot about DRE and Y100 with Alive but now that you mention it does bring it back. Was cool Y100 going out with Alive. I'll have to YouTube the DRE party for it.
the end- ALIVE-- fast forward to 8:55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpG36XVOIg
radio has sucked ever since then