InTIMadate said:
Wow! Glad you spent the big money on your MP3 player that will break again in two years or less. Doesn't it frustrate you that you're paying good money for a product that is designed to become worthless? At least radio is free.
Your now listening to the results of twnety years of Arbitron recording the listening habits only of the kind of men that would fill out diaries. Are you shocked that dance and weepy AC are winning? Try tuning back in a year and you'll hear a big difference when the PPM produces actual male ratings from men that listen and enjoy rock, talk and humor.
Meanwhile, buy the new Cult, Foo Fighters, Springsteen, Tool or anything else that rocks and let's try to keep the artists alive until Arbitron catches up.
The MP3 deck came with my 2005 Hyundai Elantra, it's made by Kenwood, and it's OEM spec- warranted with the car, which is still under warranty for another 12K miles- and it's been flawless. Has a good FM AND AM tuner too bad there isn't any good RF coming into the front end really worth listening to like there was in times past. I spent some time last night on GRHOF listening to the beginnings of Power 99.7 (now 99X since about 1992?). Man I remember those days, I was 11 years old then- that was radio. It was also a different time.
We didn't have Internet, MP3, Ipod, cellphones with broadband data/streaming media (back then the first handheld phones were the size of bricks, cost a downpayment on a car, and cost 1.50 a min to use- only doctors and dope boys could afford them), heck CD's were just hitting the mainstream. We relied on the radio for our soundtrack at home, in the car, at work, at school, everywhere. Now we are overwhelmed with media choices, one time I recall an appliance company who sold refrigerators with a built in radio cassette player. I laughed, until I was at HH Greg and saw some high end refrigerator with a touch screen, and had a built-in WiFi with media player (think it had an FM radio too). Point is we are in such a saturated market.
When your damn refrigerator or toaster is also a media center device, we have taken it too far.
Personally it sounds crazy but I prefer to listen to the radio and have someone ELSE choosing the tracks- just wish it would be more than 50 songs. Dave-FM is unique because they spend alot of time focusing on artists, and personalities like Margo are awesome, you can tell they get into their stuff. I just wish they would be allowed to have more control. The Sunday morning show on Dave is awesome, things like this draw me BACK to the radio. I grew up listening to Z-93 and 94Q. While some say Russ Davis' Jazz Flavors split the audience- it was a cutting edge program run by people that knew the music. It turned me on to modern jazz, how else would a white boy from "redneck" Smyrna have gotten exposed to the music?
Unique LOCAL programs run by LOCAL people are the only thing going to save this medium from decay. It's how radio started. Someone cue up Queen's "Radio Ga Ga". So on point even 20+ years after Freddie cranked that one out. And now Steve and Vickie are leaving, how sad. I started listening to Steve McCoy on Z-93 when he replaced Ross and Wilson. I was in friggin Kindergarten and I remember that.
