On Oct 10, 12:54 am, Skybird wrote:
David Eduardo wrote:
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The problem is the "personalized" music services, such as Pandor,
Slacker, and Last.FM which allow the listener to program their own
"personalized" music stations. clearchannelmusic.com/hdradio just runs
what some programmer thinks listeners want to hear, not listener
chosen, personalized playlists.

The playlists on terrestrial radio are chosen by listeners.

Not exactly. The listeners only get to choose from among the songs
appearing on a master list which is compiled by someone in the industry.
If a particular song isn't on that list, the listeners obviously can't
choose it for a station's playlist. So the question is, who is the
mystery person that compiles the master list of songs? That person holds
the power of deciding what songs can be chosen by the listeners for the
station playlist.

Death metal in AM stereo is still a fond memory during the Las Vegas
IBOC trials in 2002.