Is it just me?

[Austin83]

I feel like I finally had it with DFW Radio, Clear Channel, and all of the channels I had on my preset. I had 103.7, 102.9, 106.1, 100.3, and one of my favs 102.1, but I think I've had it with everyone of those except for 100.3 Jack FM. Maybe it's just me, but I'm so tired of hearing the same stuff over and over and over. It seems it's either James blunt, Daniel Powter, or Kelly Clarkson on the mix stations, or it's Blue October, Buck Cherry, and Seether on 102.1 The Edge. Seems when an artist comes out with a new song, the radio station pushes it down our throats until we hear it 6 or 7 times a day, and after awhile it gets old. They forget the artist had good songs before the current one. Is it just me, or maybe I've just grown tired of the current music trends. I wish the old Edge was here that used to play Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Creed, Foo Fighters, Collective Soul, Depeche Mode, etc. And as for Lex and Terry well what's wrong with just playing music for the morning commute? Enough talk already! Anyone else feel the same way? ???Austin

 

[radiodial]

Anyone else feel the same way? ???

You just listened most of the reasons that gave rise to satellite radio. Terrestial radio, with their worn out playlists, created the market environment for satellite radio to succeed.And yes, I feel the way you do.

 

[klifhanger]

Ditto..It's satellite or the CD and the internet at home.

 

[gordontalk]

Well if you listen to Jack for more than a day, you'll see that they are just as guilty. I think that all radio stations fall into the same catagory.

 

[nuzguy]

No different as seen from here, either. I usually listen to Sirius both at home and in the car. Tried an experiment last week and stayed on a terrestrial FM for five days at home. Such boredom. Same old songs day after day, some played three and four times within eight hours, even the commercials air in the same rotation every day. Sounds more as if a broadcast day was recorded and is simply played back repeatedly. Yes, satellite radio is alive and well, and sounding better all the time.

 

[little1]

Are you listening 8 hours a day for 5 days straight? Because, yeah, it's likely to get boring. But considering that the average station's TSL is probably 8 hours a WEEK, they face a dilema. Would you program the station for the average listener, who listens 8 hours a week, (i.e a little more than an hour a day, tops) or the rare listener who listens for 8 hours a day? I grew up in Chicago - where Top 40 WLS played the #1 song every 65-70 minutes. They knew that the average commute was 45 minutes. So they were turning audience over every hour. So that person who heard "You Light Up My Life" at 7am was out of their car by 810a. And that guy was out of their car by 920a. And so on...Every radio station is trying to balance cume and TSL. If you're WLS (or Kiss in Dallas ) you can have low TSL because you're cume is so high. But if you start playing deep cuts, trying to grow TSL, you risk affecting cume. Because if I tune in and hear something I don't know (or don't like) I'm off of that station and punching up other stations to see if they are playing something I like...

 

[CatfishJimPrewitt]

Thank you "Little One" for finally explaining to some of these monday morning quatebacks a thing about strategic programming.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Thank you "Little One" for finally explaining to some of these monday morning quatebacks who are so goddamn negative AND clueless.

Clueless? No, we're sick of hearing Unchained Bleeping Melody five times a dayon every oldies station. We're sick of the same 86 oldies and the same10 oldies in permanent power rotation.

 

[CatfishJimPrewitt]

Sorry, clueless was a little strong.

 

[CatfishJimPrewitt]

Unchained Melody? But it "tests" well ;D

 

[Steve Eberhart]

You know, it's the same old argument.If you are a Hit radio station, well, you gotta PLAY the hits, and those are the top 10 to 20 current tunes blended with recurrents and hot testing songs from the last few years. That ensures a hit song is heard whenever one tunes in.If you're an Oldies station, much of the same applies. Listeners are tuning in for familiarity. If you go buy a Whitburn book at Barnes and Noble and start making your list, you will come up with 500 really good songs quick. Ones you don't mind hearing a bunch. Add 500 more and near the end of that list will be songs you think are pretty good and you wouldn't mind hearing every once in a while, but chances are after hearing them 2 or 3 times in a month, you might take them off your list. Now, after your first 1000 songs, you'll notice very few songs you'd care to hear at all. Trust me, Oldies stations have spent enormous amounts of money on research and others on gut feeling to get the same results OVER AND OVER AND OVER. You play over 1000 songs on any Oldies station and your ratings will simply go DOWN. You play between 500 and 800 and your ratings go up. It's been proven over and over again. If you are an Oldies purist who revels on hearing a forgotten song, a typical Oldies station isn't for you. If you are a typical listener that enjoys recognizable music and all the other elements of the station, you are more likely to listen - and despite what you might think - there are a helluva lot more of those kinds of listeners than any other. That, plus the fact that a typical listener just doesn't listen all day long. We in radio would sure like to think they do, but reality is the vast majority just do not.

 

[czechmate]

Yeah, well try listening to radio in Houston... It REALLY sucks... People in DFW don't know how lucky they have it. Move away from those crappy carbon copy stations of homogenized pop music and tap into all of the little gems that a lot of the mainstream doesn't know about... We're lucky enough to have an all-70s NON-COMMERCIAL station, a full-time classical station, another NON-COMMERCIAL station that's real jazz(not smooth), a quirky bridge-mix station of adult standards on 770, some old school gritty soul on 730, genuinely classic country on 1190, a crazy checkerboard format on KNON.... the list continues. I hardly ever feel the need to flip over to the bland, unsalted conglomerate stations. And I'm rarely bored with DFW radio because of it. True, we are lacking in a real modern rock station.

 

[jras20]

Houston Radio really isnt that bad to me any more, I think they have done some changes and made it better, its sounding pretty good now. Just wished KRBE would bring back more dance as what they use to play a long time ago.

 

[GenericMorningShowGuy]

I feel like I finally had it with DFW Radio, Clear Channel, and all of the channels I had on my preset. I had 103.7, 102.9, 106.1, 100.3, and one of my favs 102.1, but I think I've had it with everyone of those except for 100.3 Jack FM. Maybe it's just me, but I'm so tired of hearing the same stuff over and over and over. It seems it's either James blunt, Daniel Powter, or Kelly Clarkson on the mix stations, or it's Blue October, Buck Cherry, and Seether on 102.1 The Edge. Seems when an artist comes out with a new song, the radio station pushes it down our throats until we hear it 6 or 7 times a day, and after awhile it gets old. They forget the artist had good songs before the current one. Is it just me, or maybe I've just grown tired of the current music trends. I wish the old Edge was here that used to play Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Creed, Foo Fighters, Collective Soul, Depeche Mode, etc. And as for Lex and Terry well what's wrong with just playing music for the morning commute? Enough talk already! Anyone else feel the same way? ???Austin

My only question is why has it taken you this long to reach that conclusion? It's sucked for awhile now.

 

[Musicradio]

little 1,I too grew up listening to WLS.Great station -- I miss it.