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Does anyone besides me think AC today is a joke?

Peter Pan said:
Oh, yeah? Well, the country station in my hometown still plays Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, etc. mixed in with the newer artists and this station is doing just fine.
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Still plays Keith Urban and Shania Twain? Has it come to that now?
 
Unregistered said:
@DavidEduardo

I've answered that a few pages back.
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Entertainment is for everyone, from the youngest child to the oldest senior.

But the kind of advertiser supported free entertainment that is commercial radio is only available specifically focused for those between 18 and 54 because there is essentially no ad money available for kids and teens or for seniors over 55. Those excluded groups must pay for their radio via satellite, Pandora, Slacker or similar methods (including bandwidth charges).
 
Han Solo said:
1st - I don't think that Unregistered guest is not skeptical about everything he or she hears reported in the news.

2nd - That Unregistered guest answered that a few pages ago. BigA said that entertainment is just for the young and the Unregistered guest explained that that is not true.
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Tell me, how can you be certain there isn't more than one "Unregistered"?
 
DavidEduardo said:


Entertainment is for everyone, from the youngest child to the oldest senior.

But the kind of advertiser supported free entertainment that is commercial radio is only available specifically focused for those between 18 and 54 because there is essentially no ad money available for kids and teens or for seniors over 55. Those excluded groups must pay for their radio via satellite, Pandora, Slacker or similar methods (including bandwidth charges).
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When commercial radio had formats that they liked, which was when many radio stations were still locally owned instead of owned by a handful of large companies, as they are now, those groups weren't excluded. Big companies are killing radio. You can deny that all you want but many of us ex-commercial radio listeners know it's the truth.
 
Most people listen to the radio in their cars. When internet stations are as easy to play in the car as terrestrial stations then the terrestrial stations are toast.
 
Speaking of playing music in cars, most of my music collection is homemade CD's and my car will not play those. I hate the choices on radio and have no auxiliary port to plug in my iPod or my smart phone. What can I do in a case like this?
 
Speaking of playing music in cars, most of my music collection is homemade CD's and my car will not play those. I hate the choices on radio and have no auxiliary port to plug in my iPod or my smart phone. What can I do in a case like this?
 
What is the format of the music files? mp3? Regular CD audio?
Make sure that you 'finalize' the CD's after you've burned them.
 
That explains it. You need to convert the files to mp3 (or CD audio) before you can play them in your car.
 
Unregistered said:
Big companies are killing radio.
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Big companies built radio. Companies like RCA, Westinghouse, General Electric, CBS, and more. These were much bigger companies than the ones that own radio now. This idea that radio was once locally owned, and was better then is all mythology.
 
frankberry said:
That explains it. You need to convert the files to mp3 (or CD audio) before you can play them in your car.
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iTunes automatically converts m4a files (which are AAC format) to CD audio format when you burn a CD. They will play on computers (at home and at work) and they will play on my stereo system at home and they will play on my boombox at work. They will play on a relative's car but I don't drive that relative's car on a daily basis. I don't understand why they will play on a car other than mine.
 
Unregistered said:
When commercial radio had formats that they liked, which was when many radio stations were still locally owned instead of owned by a handful of large companies, as they are now, those groups weren't excluded. Big companies are killing radio. You can deny that all you want but many of us ex-commercial radio listeners know it's the truth.
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A is correct about the relative size of the companies that built the industry to the major players nowadays, but I thought I should add that the only place you find clusters of stations commonly owned by the big companies dominating are in the top-50 markets. Some companies, like Cumulus and Univision, do operate clusters not only in the majors but also in markets below #51 (Albuquerque comes to mind) but for the most part you're going to find local or regional companies as the multiple-station owners.

In small and unrated markets, you're still going to find standalone stations owned by local interests.
 
K.M. Richards said:
A is correct about the relative size of the companies that built the industry to the major players nowadays, but I thought I should add that the only place you find clusters of stations commonly owned by the big companies dominating are in the top-50 markets. Some companies, like Cumulus and Univision, do operate clusters not only in the majors but also in markets below #51 (Albuquerque comes to mind) but for the most part you're going to find local or regional companies as the multiple-station owners.

In small and unrated markets, you're still going to find standalone stations owned by local interests.
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#52 Hartford is basically a duopoly -- CBS and iHeart. The K-LOVE people own one of the other three FMs, so that's basically a wasted signal. Connoisseur, a small regional chain (which programs no differently from the bigs: ultra-tight playlists, voicetracking, shared morning shows) tried to acquire it, but was outbid by the Godcasters, so it settled for Buckley's venerable oldies/classic hits WDRC-FM, which it has since flipped to classic rock.
 
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