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Hello!! Anybody under 60 on here??

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spew

Perhaps it is the nature of a dying medium but it seems like there is no one under 60 on this board what with the obsession to oldies formats, dying AM stations, DXing, hippies and old radios in Mustangs. Where is radio's next generation?
 
I'm 25...and the only one NOT listening to an iPhone. Wait, that's a lie - I listen to KKPK out of Colorado Springs religiously. 1. I'm dying to move to CO. 2. Nashville has a major Hot AC void. There are TONS of people that want an oldies station etc that are under 35. They want their kids to grow up on the "oldies" that were "oldies" when they/we grew up with.

What's concerning is one of the college interns in our offices only knows 2 nashville radio stations because he always listens to his iphone music or iHeart radio. Sadly that's what's killing radio; well that and 107 and 98 playing the SAME SONGS over and over!
 
What I find ironic is hearing spots plugging this "APP" or that "APP" that allows you to make your own playlist..."commercial free"...seems to me stations are programming their own demise by running those spots...but I guess a dollars a dollar...
 
deltas69 said:
What I find ironic is hearing spots plugging this "APP" or that "APP" that allows you to make your own playlist..."commercial free"...seems to me stations are programming their own demise by running those spots...but I guess a dollars a dollar...
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Didn't they used to also run spots for Sirius/XM radio? I'm thinking that they did.
 
Thought Buddy and Romer were the only ones over 160 on here. Actually, I think most of us are under 60! We all have just covered all the main stations so many times that there is nothing to say since they haven't changed anything in a decade.
 
Yeesss, under 60 and had a radio in a Mustang I did. Love new technology. Hate how people use it. Not a fan of corporations who took local fun out of radio. Maybe I was part of the last days of a lot of good things, including Top 40 radio. Enjoying the American Top 40 flashbacks on the Hippie. You'd have fond memories of it too, if you had been there for any part of it. When I think about all that people don't have today, it makes me wanta spew as well.
 
I am 32, and outside of WAY FM (for their morning show) I do not listen to much FM Radio stations.

Not a fan of oldies -- to be honest. Just not my cup of tea (don't really care for rap either).
 
spew said:
Perhaps it is the nature of a dying medium but it seems like there is no one under 60 on this board what with the obsession to oldies formats, dying AM stations, DXing, hippies and old radios in Mustangs. Where is radio's next generation?
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The young ones like me (24 going on 60) are busting our butts behind the scenes. Sadly, most people in my generation don't care about radio that much anymore. (sighs) Do any of you think that a 24 year old who busts his butt in the production room and trys to do the best airshift he can has a future in this industry, or should he just give up and stay behind the scenes?
 
We will be long gone by the time your 60 so you can have this board all to yourself...that is if radio is still around when your 60.
 
barely under 60 and stopping by to prove I'm still here:
I'm just curious as to why anyone resonds to these trolling posts (?) but I guess indirectly, I just did.
he whose name must not be mentioned is like a two year old looking for attention...
 
I'm 24 and when I'm in Nashville, I almost always use the iPod. This is because Nashville has no Alternative station, save for a handful of tracks on Lightning and Buzz. If there was a Hot AC, I'd listen to it, but the market doesn't have that either, so sadly, I use my iPod there.
 
jetfli said:
Yeesss, under 60 and had a radio in a Mustang I did. Love new technology. Hate how people use it. Not a fan of corporations who took local fun out of radio. Maybe I was part of the last days of a lot of good things, including Top 40 radio. Enjoying the American Top 40 flashbacks on the Hippie. You'd have fond memories of it too, if you had been there for any part of it. When I think about all that people don't have today, it makes me wanta spew as well.
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Exactly! One of those "you had to be there to appreciate it" moments! 8)

I'm 48 myself, the wifey is much younger than me, and she probably has more appreciation for the oldies than even me! She's a big Elvis fan! 8)
 
I'm 51. It's not just kids that listen to music and their own playlists through their smart phones. I work with a couple of people that are in their late 40s and early 50s that would rather listen to music through their phones than anything on the Nashville airways. And my sister-in-law, who is 48, is the same way. All three have basically told me that Nashville radio sucks!
 
I'm in my mid 40s and have no problem with new technology. I listen to Pandora, various online stations and XM whenever I rent a car, but my first love will always be radio.

While I love the internet, I hate hearing news like the Times Picayune in New Orleans as well as the Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Mobile Press Register will soon no longer be daily printed newspapers. How long before The Tennessean follows suit?

Just as radio can never truly be replaced by these other alternatives, the daily newspaper can never be replaced by the digital version. We lose something in our community when these "old school" media go away. It would be one thing if they were being replaced by something just as good but they are not.

Streaming audio does not replace Grant Turner, Hairl Hensley, Ralph Emery, Coyote McCloud, Carl P Mayfield, Scott Shannon, Hoss Allen, Mark Damon, Clarence Kilcrease etc. A blog does not replace John Siegenthaler, Fred Russell, Larry Daughtrey, Red O'Donnell or Jerry Thompson.

I guess I'm just an "old soul." While other teenagers were listening to KDF and KQB, my favorite station was WSM.
 
I still remember when WWGM was the "Wonderful World of Great Music"...with studios in the Capitol Towers on Gay Street.

<Wanders off to push elevator call button again.>
 
I'm under 60, barely. And by the time i was able to start DJing at my local radio station, the "radio" I grew up listening to and wanting to be a part of, was on its way out. I hated hearing that the radio I enjoyed as a listener wasn't what people wanted to listen to anymore. I've always wondered did listeners actually say that or some programmer/consultant somewhere just trying to prove his worth. I can't help but notice that as programmers changed radio, listenership declined.
 
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