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corporateradiosucks said:
I've been saying for years (since deregulation) that dinky market programming is often better than big market programming, if they have actual human talent instead of a machine running it. Anyone who remembers GLU92 in Johnstown will agree with me on that...
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Ah yes, the days of Mark St. John. (Mark Workman) and the rest of the gang.
I still have my GLU92, YOU GOT IT! T shirt that I picked up at NRM.
GLU was almost as good as DVE use to be back in the "old days".
 
borderblaster said:
All those lines in front of the Apple store for the iPhone 4s does not indicate to me a yearning for simpler devices.
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That was going to be my point as well. The products people really get excited about now are phones and tablets.

But if someone wants to drive around in an old car hoping another AM station picks up Pork the Tork, that's their choice.
 
But don't those break really quickly? Or become obsolete really quickly? Do we really have never ending money for that?

I'd like to think America isn't as dumb as Apple thinks we are...unfortunately I am wrong.
 
corporateradiosucks said:
But don't those break really quickly? Or become obsolete really quickly? Do we really have never ending money for that?

I'd like to think America isn't as dumb as Apple thinks we are...unfortunately I am wrong.
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Look, I don't want to lump you in with the Dave Ramsey crowd (the way to financial prosperity is to never buy anything) but the future is now. Yes, the stuff changes faster than ever, but if you're willing to spend $200 every 2 years there's a whole universe of entertainment out there that is never coming to terrestrial radio. The argument of not buying the new technology is like not getting cable and complaining there's nothing on TV.
 
I don't complain that there's nothing on radio. You keep accusing me of this and you're obviously confusing me w/ someone else. I complain that stations don't fulfill their stated purpose (the X is lacking in actual modern rock, Star just flat out sucks and I'm pretty sure their station profile isn't "sucky station"). Be what you say you are. If you don't want to be it, don't say you are it.

The only thing I'd like is an urban AC, but knowing this market, it gets watered down unless it's Black-owned. Issues like that have nothing to do w/ technology (low or high).
 
At the risk of being "taken outside," allow me to say... I bet everybody agrees with Fox News on this:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/01/local-radio-getting-tuning-out-thanks-internet/

Clear Channel hopes its own online iHeartRadio service can fend off the Internet upstarts. But by eliminating some local content, it may have blunted the appeal of iHeartRadio... Without some of the local programming, say from Albuquerque or Waco, Clear Channel's digital service may grow to sound more and more like what everyone else offers online. It may also sound more like the nationwide satellite service, SiriusXM.
 
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