"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Mike Terry wrote:
The reason for this is well known, the radio stations are essentially
bought
and paid for by the record companies through what is known as Payola. So,
they aren't in the business of helping you and I enjoy music, they are in
the business of making money...

No, not at all. Payola is long gone.

Untrue. A PD was fired in Rochester for accepting the latest record company
scam, giving gift cards 2to give to listeners" which the PD kept... that was
last week. There were a half-dozen indictments about 5 years ago in CA,
resulting in two convictions.

Back when there was payola, PDs
were happy to play new music, because the record companies paid them to
play new music.

The practice was never prevalent, and most PDs knew it was illegal and a
firing offense, too. Few station staffers ever took payola. And even when
givin, it affected only the biggest stations in the biggest markets.

Now everybody is terrified of playing new music, so they
all have become followers.

Everyone realizes the average listener only wants to hear a small bit of new
music.

Payola is what kept radio fresh and interesting
for years, and what you're seeing with the current homogenization of
commercial
radio is what has happened as a result of it being eliminated.

It was never widespread. Your theory is wrong.