RadioBanter - View Single Post - HD radio is not the only IBOC standard

Don Pearce

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:24:48 -0700, wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:31:53 -0700, SFTV_troy

There are not enough radio stations. Which is why some
people can't find anything worth listening to, and complain
"Today's radio is all crap".

Utter ********. A thousand stations of crap is still crap. It is the
dilution of funds by excessive quantity that prevents radio stations
putting together a competent programme list, which takes money
Fewer, better funded radio stations are the way to quality.

Is "quality" playing old Big Band music, Jazz, and Classical?

Personally I'd call that, not crap, but definitely "boring". I like
those genres, but I also like Pop, Rock, and Hip-hop on top of that.
I like variety. Most people my age like variety, sampling a little of
everything.

Music, music music - all we hear about is pigging music. That is not
what I want from radio - I have my own collection of music that I can
dip into any time I want. What I don't have, the internet is there to
tell me about. Music is a shameful waste of radio resource.

I'd rather see lots and lots and lots of channels, and then let
Darwinian Survival of the Fittest happen..... good channels survive,
and bad channels starve & die. I prefer the invisible hand of the
market, rather than the dictatorial control of someone saying, "Let's
revoke some stations' licenses," because they think there are too many
of them.

Sometimes Darwin needs a little help, and arguably that help is just
as Darwinian as anything. Channels don't survive or die based on their
quality - if there were a million, then on average perhaps they would,
but when we are talking about a few dozen, Darwinian statistics don't
work. My view is that simply playing records is a waste of radio
spectrum, which is far too precious a resource to waste this way.
Radio stations must generate material that is not available through
other media.

d

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