On Jul 11, 4:09*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message

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"0baMa0 Tse Dung" wrote in message
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On Jul 11, 9:12 am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
We may have the 'freedom' to choose what we listen to on the radio, but
the
choice, thanks to corporatized radio, is miniscule.

Ja, unt Government will give you more for less - bwaHAHAHAHA!

You have never had a greater choice in radio programming in all of
history.
STOP with the Liberal Fascist propaganda lies!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

The choices of radio formats in most cities have dwindled to but a few:

Hip Hop
Oldies
Country (not in many east coast cities)

Except for New York, name me two East Coast metros without a country
station.

Sports/talk
Rock

Well, let's look at LA. Around 13 million people, 91 or 92 licensed
stations.

We have:
Liberal talk
Sports talk
Conservative talk
All News
Christian Talk
NPR / Talk
Childrens' (Disney)
Contemporary Christian
Christian Teaching
CHR
Alternative Rock
Classic Rock
AAA
Rhythmic AC
Traditional AC
Oldies (actually "Classic Hits" as we have no real oldies station)
Country
Jazz
Rhythmic Oldies
Urban
Classical
Hurban
Smooth Jazz
Adult Hits
Americana
CHUrban
Spanish CHR
Spanish AC
Spanish Adult Hits
Spanish All Sports
Spanish talk
Spanish Regional Mexican (equivalent of country)
Spanish rhythmic
Spanish religious
Spanish regional Oldies
In addition there are stations in Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese as well as
ones that combine various Asian languages.
And, finally, there is a station 24/7 in Farsi.

I can't really think of anything that is missing. And compared to the 60's,
the number of viable alternatives has more than trippled.



Gone from almost all venues are classical, opera, jazz, easy listening and
MOR.

The audience for classical has declined as it died; changes in school music
programs have pretty much eliminated the creation of a new generation or two
of classical listeners. Opera is simply an extension of this... there was
never an all.opera station, as opera was an occasional feature of classical
formats.

- Jazz was never a broadly successful (read: it
- did not have many listeners) anywhere.
- My first job was at a jazz station, WCUY,, in
- Cleveland, so I have followed the genre, and it
- has few followers, even in the few places where
- there are pockets of interest. Also, it is an art
- form that is dying due to the ageing of its artistas
- and fans.

'Smooth Jazz' KKSF 103.7 FM becomes KKSF "The Band" 103.7 FM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKSF
http://www.kksf.com/main.html
http://radiotime.com/station/s_33596/The_Band_1037.aspx
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kksf-103-7-t...-san-francisco
http://www.infinitedial.com/2009/05/...37_the_ban.php
http://radioinsight.com/kksf-san-fra...oining-a-band/
http://www.sfradiomuseum.com/blog/20...-for-band.html

-but- Smooth Jazz lives-on via the Internet
and via FM Radio on 98.1 HD-2 [HD-Radio]

KKSF 'Smooth Jazz' Streaming Audio
http://www.kksf.com/pages/hdradio.html?_show

'Smooth Jazz' via 98.1 KISQ [KISS] FM HD2 [HD-Radio]
http://www.981kissfm.com/main.html