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Radio is out of touch!

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BossJock1947

Radio One CHR WNOU-FM (RadioNow 100.9)/Indianapolis along with Lincoln Financial's CHR WRST-FM (Star 94)/Atlanta and Beasley CHR WXKB-FM (B103.9)/Fort Myers have jumped on the bandwagon to remove recording artist Chris Brown from its airwaves.

HaHaHaHa...what a joke! Again, RADIO thinks they still matter... HaHaHa...I guarantee you especially with the urban crowd they will still listen and buy Chris Brown's music.

Just like when the idiots at cumulus decided to ban the dixie checks their sales went UP!

Wake up RADIO! You're Ineffective. Play what the people want to hear not a bunch of record thugs, CONsultants and out of touch radio programmers.
 
I totally disagree. I remember Q100 heard from the listeners and many wanted the Dixie Chicks song pulled, if their opinion mattered or not.. it was heard. That is what radio is about.. listening to the listener and what they want.
I also think pulling Chris Browns music makes it a point that what he did is NOT okay. I think many listeners would agree and if asked they would want his music pulled.
Radio does make a difference and should continue to try and do so, when we think we don't make a difference and quit caring, THAT'S when we fail.
 
Agreed, Radio does make a difference, and so does the listener. Yes, it was the country audience that initially supported The Dixie Chicks and made a major difference and stopped buying and listening to The Dixie Chicks, but in that case The Dixie Chicks received what they wanted and the AC audience made up the difference and then some. They were fortunate that they crossed over in time to a more mass appeal or they would have been done. I am sure they are now trying to figure out how to change their name.

Chris Brown will have a harder time crossing over to someone that will want to buy his music now.

Boss Jock, do you sing along to Katie Perrry singing "I punched a girl, and I liked it?"
 
In the case of Radio One, that will be noticed.

their PDs talk among themselves and will share whatever is on their minds with each other.

If one of their outlets drops it, you can bet the others will be close to pulling the trigger on removing him from their playlists.
 
trig said:
Agreed, Radio does make a difference, and so does the listener. Yes, it was the country audience that initially supported The Dixie Chicks and made a major difference and stopped buying and listening to The Dixie Chicks, but in that case The Dixie Chicks received what they wanted and the AC audience made up the difference and then some. They were fortunate that they crossed over in time to a more mass appeal or they would have been done. I am sure they are now trying to figure out how to change their name.

Chris Brown will have a harder time crossing over to someone that will want to buy his music now.

Boss Jock, do you sing along to Katie Perrry singing "I punched a girl, and I liked it?"
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Considering the Dixie Chicks next album sold about a quarter of the copies of their previous CD's (It struggled to get to a million copies), I would hardly say the AC audience "made up for it, and then some".
 
trig said:
Boss Jock, do you sing along to Katie Perrry singing "I punched a girl, and I liked it?"
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That joke is even worse than one I heard linking Chris Brown with the Black Eyed Peas...
 
The Dixie Chicks didn't tick off country radio listeners as a whole, they ticked off vocal country radio listeners who liked former President Bush. Chris Brown has potentially ticked off a much larger collective audience: anyone who's a fan of Rihanna, anyone who's not a fan of domestic violence, and so on and so forth.

I'm not going to throw much blame to music/program directors who might decide that playing Chris Brown's music is just too awkward during his current notoriety. Most people just aren't smart or patient enough to separate their music from their personal comments or actions. (For one throwaway comment by Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks now 'suck' to many listeners when they didn't previously.)
 
Agreed, yes it is! The Punch comment was more of a statement pointing out a major problem that isn't taken seriously enough. Kudos to the stations for dropping Chris Brown songs as well as the stations that did the same with Dixie Chicks.

And I can't stand the Dixie Chicks... but hey, they took five Grammy's in all five category's they were voted for in 2007 after all that, and still debuted at #1 with 526,000 copies sold the first week, so it must be way more than a million copies to date. Any artist that has a 10 million selling album and then only sells a quarter of that moving forward isn't losing any sleep about not having reached that plateau again. Then there's the downloads sold on top of that which is a whole new way of reaching a new audience. Qualitative studies show that country listeners aren't as likely to be tech savvy, unlike AC listeners.

Is Kicks playing The Dixie Chicks again? Probably not much if they are, and for good reason, their listeners made it known that they didn't want to hear them. Formats with Chris Brown being played will do the same., but not as extreme, and for as long.
 
The point of dropping Chris Brown tracks is not to "make a statement." It's to avoid airing material which makes listeners feel angry or sad. When things blow over, those tunes may lose their negative connotation, and be back on the air.

In the case of the Dixie Chicks, that was different. Natalie's comments, and their venue, outraged people so deeply that calls started coming in to stations. That one flashed so suddenly that it demanded acknowledgement on-air, almost like the old disco bonfires. It wasn't just about listeners who liked Bush...it was about crossing a line many people felt was anti-American, even if they didn't like the president.

When Natalie whined about "freedom of speech," she only made it worse, demonstrating that she had no clue what that phrase means.
 
BossJock1947 said:
I guarantee you especially with the urban crowd they will still listen and buy Chris Brown's music.
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Yeah...just like they did with R. Kelly. lol
 
Advocated the crucifixion of gays -- 1992 Shabba Ranks . OK your music career is over ( No major hit after that statement ) .
 
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