Excuse me while I ramble for a minute.
About a month ago I was sitting at home doing some work on my computer. I would flip back and forth between some of the "channels" I had set up on Pandora. I started making a list of songs that either I hadn't heard in a long time, had never heard, or just thought "Wow, that's a damn good song!". Over the course of the next few weeks I also started listening a little more to the Comcast digital music stations and jotting down some of those songs as well. What I ended up with was a list of close to 300 songs from various genres if you will: rock, pop rock, hard rock, arena rock, a little reggae, etc. I then started putting together playlists of what I would think would be at the very least a really good rock program or at best a good overall feel for a good rock station. It wouldn't be hard by the way to add another couple hundred songs to the list in a short period of time.
So here's where I'm stuck. Have we gotten so far removed from what radio used to be (see the recent Z-93 thread with the awesome video clip) that no one is taking any kind of chance these days? I mean I've heard songs that were so good and yet they never got any play whatsoever on the radio. Where are the MD's pushing to get this music on the air? There have been many stations that pushed the envelope and made a ton of money doing it ie: KROQ and 99X to name just two. I guess I don't understand how little ol' me who has a limited radio background can put something like this together in my own home for nothing, but corporate radio can't see past a ledger sheet to see that we the people are starving for something like this again. I'm not even going to get into the lack of real personalities on the air. They are so few and far between and frankly that horse has been beaten enough.
About a month ago I was sitting at home doing some work on my computer. I would flip back and forth between some of the "channels" I had set up on Pandora. I started making a list of songs that either I hadn't heard in a long time, had never heard, or just thought "Wow, that's a damn good song!". Over the course of the next few weeks I also started listening a little more to the Comcast digital music stations and jotting down some of those songs as well. What I ended up with was a list of close to 300 songs from various genres if you will: rock, pop rock, hard rock, arena rock, a little reggae, etc. I then started putting together playlists of what I would think would be at the very least a really good rock program or at best a good overall feel for a good rock station. It wouldn't be hard by the way to add another couple hundred songs to the list in a short period of time.
So here's where I'm stuck. Have we gotten so far removed from what radio used to be (see the recent Z-93 thread with the awesome video clip) that no one is taking any kind of chance these days? I mean I've heard songs that were so good and yet they never got any play whatsoever on the radio. Where are the MD's pushing to get this music on the air? There have been many stations that pushed the envelope and made a ton of money doing it ie: KROQ and 99X to name just two. I guess I don't understand how little ol' me who has a limited radio background can put something like this together in my own home for nothing, but corporate radio can't see past a ledger sheet to see that we the people are starving for something like this again. I'm not even going to get into the lack of real personalities on the air. They are so few and far between and frankly that horse has been beaten enough.
