Executives killed the Radio Star

[evilcreamsicle]

I post here today to mourn the loss of traditional radio. Up until two days ago, there was a local station that I listed to with some frequency. They played a nice mix of rock/alternative. Mostly current, but they'd throw in a bunch of stuff from the 80's and 90's - like The Smiths. The DJ's usually had some entertaining or witty banter and

Comments

[mat_t]

Yeah, I've heard of that happening before and it sucks. Most of the time they don't advertise it...they just switch suddenly. It blows.

That's so lame!

[jerseygirlcat]

106.3 was a good radio station from the time we were in high school at least. That is so lame! My definite sympathies.

[jdnnj]

I was reading something the other week about a similar fate of an LA area radio station… wish I could find it now. Basically their viewpoint was that Clearchannel is all to blame. From JT's mug on the new station's homepage I might guess they're part of your stations change. They control a lot of radio stations and also billboards. It used to be a corp could only have control of so many stations, then they were deregulated. They give priority to their artists or artist of record companies who advertise with them and punish 'dissenters' appropriately.
http://www.corporateswine.net/clearchannel.html

[geekbearjeff]

oddly, I kinda liked 106.3 of olde, except when we were driving, the combination of drivers and 106.3 tended to make me want to ram the car in-front of us, even if I wasn't driving and even if they weren't doing anything particularly heinous.

At home and at a suitable background volume level, it was OK.

Of note - "old 106.3" was a godsend during the power outage a couple of months ago, the broadcast studios (were) down the street from the failed electric sub station and they offered G/text updates and status reporting via SMS msg - cool.

...kinda sad to see another local station drop into the gigantic NYC media shit tank...

thank the gods for Sirius radio.

[choochoo68]

ah give it another couple years and they'll be playing that stuff on the oldies station