tommyknocker schreef:

Dan wrote:

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:16:54 +0100, Ruud Poeze
wrote:

You might be right on the music-radio thing.

Pretty sure I am. The most common music consumer - 15 to 25 year
olds or thereabouts - is not listening to much radio these days. I
have a 17 year old daughter, so I have valid data here! :-)

MP3 players could open the eyes of the broadcasters and force them to
introduce longer playlists before they loose all the audience.

We can only hope.

BTW I feel that 40+ people are not likely to walk around with MP3
players, so there will be a second chance for music-radio to address
this group - and drop the (crap) music for a younger audience.

Probably true as a rule, but I'm way over 40 and I have several MP3
players. Like I said, for music, radio is completely hopeless these
days.

Dan


And then you have the idiots at Voice of America, who think that the way
to spice up their format is to switch to music, and that broadcasting
rap music to Muslims who are inclined to view everything American as
satanic will keep said Muslims from flying planes into our skyscrapers.
I would think that if Muslim extremists want to convince the rest of
their people that America is evil, all they have to do is tell them to
listen to Radio Sawa playing Eminem. OTOH, VOA's old format (before News
Now) was widely listened to in the Soviet Bloc even with all the
jamming, and some people insist that it helped win the Cold War. I think
that having the world's major power have essentially no voice on SW is a
big mistake.

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Agree.
I was also wondering about VOA's format to the ME.
I feel that any music format from Classical Music till (Classic) Rock,
including Oldies, Big Band, Standards and you name it, fits better than
this Urban crap.

BTW: More music for the typical SW listener (Male 35-60) could enhance
audience figures for SW. The Beatles still sounds fine in AM-quality did
not we grow up with it?
ruud