"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.

Easy listening and MOR are similar... they aged with the listener groups and
eventually there was no market. I did (as in managed, programmed and sold) a
syndicated Beautiful Music format and by the ending years of the 80's, there
was neither an audience nor any new music to be had; I had to spend a lot of
money as part of an alliance of syndicators to get familar hits recorded in
instrumental versions to keep the format fresh... even that failed after
time.

MOR died with its listeners.

You have named formats that aged out of existence because new generations
did not like the music and the older ones croaked. New formats based on new
music forms have come to replace them.


Tell us again how we have more choices than ever.. perhaps we have more
choices of where to listen to Rush Limbaugh and George Noory.. more places
to listen to Fitty Cent.. more places to listen to the same tired old 50
or so oldies tracks on the average oldies playlists.. but real CHOICE..
nope.

When I grew up in what was then a Top 10 market, long before any FM "made
the ratings" we had 8 AMs... one a daytimer, and one a suburban Class IV.
There were three formats. 2 were r&b, 3 were Top 40 and 3 were MOR. That was
real choice.

That market now has more than 20 differentiable choices in formats. that is
nearly 7 times the number of choices as before.