In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"David Eduardo" wrote:

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
...
David Eduardo wrote:

But none breaking new ground. Far be it from me to agree with
Rickets,
but he makes the same point I do. Breaking new ground, taking
risks is not even on the radar, today. So, what the listeners
pick is what they hear, what sounds familiar, and with very few
exceptions, what they've come to expect from contemporary music.
More of the same. Different names. Different performers. Same
clothes, same sounds, same haircuts. Interchangeably, more of the
same.
Most stations that play currents add new songs with a certain
regularity. These are always songs listeners have never heard,
since promo copies, even with the internet, get to radio before
anyone else.

I don't like music formats of any kind. Short playlists are only
good one time. When I hear that list start over I change stations
or turn it off. After years of doing this I got sick of hearing the
same damn thing over and over again so I don't bother anymore and
listen to CD's if I want to hear music.


I'm not so sure that what's driving SiriusXM subscriptions, other
than Howard Stern's noise, is a desire to get something fresh. Most
of the music channels are programmed in the same way as terrestrial
radio, sometimes by the very people who ****ed up radio in the first
place. But there are channels that are counterintuitively programmed.
And those can be refreshing. VERY long playlists, well mixed, and
with music that just isn't heard on the radio. I listen to XM's Fine
Tuning channel for hours at a time, often day after day, when I get
into the mood, and never hear a repeat. And always music that's more
interesting than anything that's on the air, today. There are other
channels with deep playlists, you just have to search for them.

And there are alternatives to the talk stations. Hell, if Rush
were
on XM, I'd have no reason to have my tuners, anymore.

Interesting coincidence....WBEZ, here..the public station has
overhauled their weekend lineup. I used to turn on WBEZ and carry it
through till midnight on weekends. They still have Car Talk, but
they've gotten rid of Michael Feldman's Whaddayaknow, and moved This
American Life to after Prairie Home Companion. Filling the time
between 10a and 5p, with shows that are less than interesting.

At the same time XM had picked up most of the shows I used to enjoy
on WBEZ nearly in the same order with the same time slots. Guess
where my attention went.

XM has since made some changes in the lineup, so I still have to hunt
for something after 3 till PHC, but it's not as dramatic a change as
WBEZ.

I find that I listen to terrestrial radio less as time moves on. No
big surprise. Terrestrial radio stopped serving me years ago.

I suspect that you're in the same boat: Short of patience with
programming for idiots, and long enough on experience to want more
from your media than cash cow, commodity programming.

After all, that's what's driven many of us into shortwave
listening.

I have always liked radio and trying to find interesting programming is
one reason I listen to short wave.

My brother is an XM subscriber and has it in several vehicles and at
home. I've listened to a few channels and some of them seemed pretty
good. I think I managed to tune in the BBC for a bit at one time. All in
all I found XM to be mildly interesting.

I consider the FM band to be a total loss these days with the exception
of the NPR stations that have the programs you mentioned along with the
classical music. The last commercial classical station went dark some
time ago. That was very disappointing. There were only two of them, one
in LA and the other in Santa Barbara. The one in SB was taken over by
NPR and it still has classical music. The station in LA started playing
music from Hades.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California