its time w (your name) said:
adma said:
its time w (your name) said:
Some of the most graceful and elegant people you will ever meet live miles away from metro areas.
And they aren't listening to commercial radio.
Actually they have better terrestrial radio than we do. Their stations serve the local community.
Hey, New York's stations serve the local community, too--though it's increasingly the nonwhite/ethnic/Hispanic that dominates. And you know--the "white middle" (or at least, the "graceful and elegant" element thereof) doesn't necessarily feel disenfranchised by the fact. After all, it wasn't like the old whitey commercial outlets served them any better. (Remember: I offered
this as a NY-based demographic rule of thumb in another thread.).
This is also sort-of directed at LinoNYC, too; but what puzzles me in these oldies-based threads is that there *is* that chronic feeling of disillusionment and disenfranchisement re present-day NYC--not merely its radio, but the place itself. A real whiff of "My City Is Gone", like it was Akron or Flint or something; or just like you're complete fish out of water.
Now, I'm not claiming the city hasn't gone downhill in certain ways; but on balance, I find NYC to be at least as great as it ever was. Its present multicultural mosaic is a plus, not a minus; so is its arts-friendliness, its queer-friendliness, etc. There's a lot more to do, a lot more to see, a lot more ways to expand our minds. And as for the past, take heart; it's still with us. We generally don't blithely discard it the way we might have a few decades ago; in fact, it's there to be celebrated.
So, in that context, there *can be* a place for a WCBS, even a "true oldies" (i.e. going back to the 50s) WCBS; though conversely, there may not be the same kind of in-depth, monolithic need for terrestrial radio to serve the local community--there's too many other resources out there (alt-weeklies, blogs, etc). Maybe that's the way it was meant to be; and in terms of 2007 (and looking beyond a radio-professional's frame of reference), is that bad, really? Perhaps we're *better* off--those days of being fixated on radio might have been fun, but rather primitive, and past is past (even if said "past" is, as I said, still with us)
So, it's like parents beseeching their kids away from their computers, or the experience of a lot of NYers after the '03 blackout. Turn off your radio dial, and go outside and feel a world beyond terrestrial radio. You might find yourself richer for it. (Heck, that's probably the reality for a fair number of bereaved WCBS listeners--they took advantage of the hiJACKing by discovering a world beyond radio.)
