The "Progressive" Promised Land
On Jul 13, 10:29*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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On Jul 12, 12:55 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
we had 2 top 40 stations back then, including the one where i got to
pick my own top 40. we listened to other stations because there was a
wide selection and variety available to people back then.
Top 40 stations played 40 songs, give or take. And WDGY was a Storz station,
and Todd Storz was very rigid about playing the list and nothing but the
list.
properly
interpreted, it means we had options. but even our top 40 stations
played a wide variety. today you get a selection some corporate toady
picks for you.
The music is picked the same way it was done 40 years ago.
And variety, as a perception, is not created by playing more songs, it is
created by playing songs the indivudual listener likes without the ones they
don't like. That means commonality and concordance on the biggest hits, and
nothing else.
Now, there are many more stations. For example, in the case of Northport,
they had two AMs giving day, but not night service, in 1960. Today, it has
over a dozen usable signals day and night. They have 8 or 9 distinct
formats
to chose from, and have no need to listen to static and fading on distant
AMs.
we know music went to f.m. that does not mean they are locked into a
playlist some corporate toady has chosen for us to hear.
And, of course, that is not the way it happens. In the best of cases, all
but the brand new songs are picked by the listeners themselves.
Yes, I am sure that not-so-subtle references to drugs amuse you... uh,
pardon me, befuddle you.
it was funny. just like itsibisty yellow polka dot bikini, monster
mash, or purple people eater, nether of those could make it with
today's corporate feverish grip on the media.
I doubt anyone would play the drug reference song, as that would likely fall
under being outside community standards and subject a station to a $325
thousand dollar per play fine. But I know of plenty of novelty songs like
Monster Mash and the like that have been played in the last decade...
nothing has changed.
only you believe this market crap, the rest of us know better.
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