Who Still listens to St. Louis Radio

[JohnnyOhJohnny]

How many people still listen to the radio in their car? (With I-Pods, Cd's Satellite), all the commercials, Fake laughing on the morning shows. I can see listening to KFUO or NPR for local and world news. but for music I don't understand. I listen to KMOX only when I turn on the radio. KLOU is impossible to listen to. clear channel sucks!

 

[JohnnyOhJohnny]

Also I tried listening to WHHL. how can anyone stand hearing parts of the songs popping off and on because of the language? that's enough to drive a person crazy. Wouldn't be better to pop in a CD? RADIO IS DEAD!

 

[Prais]

With all due respect, re; your above comment, many people reading this will be dead before radio.

 

[TheBigA]

How many people still listen to the radio in their car? (With I-Pods, Cd's Satellite), all the commercials, Fake laughing on the morning shows.

You'd be shocked. What if I told you the number is 92%? What if I told you that more than 95% of the people who have the option to subscribe to satellite in their cars choose not to? That, given the choice between paying for commercial free music, and receiving free music with commercials, the VAST majority take the commercials? To the point where even Pandora makes more money from advertising than from subscriptions. People tend to be cheap, lazy, and have horrible taste.

 

[Ai4i]

I will listen to St Louis radio until Tuesday evening at ten o'clock PM.

 

[Hamp]

Also I tried listening to WHHL. how can anyone stand hearing parts of the songs popping off and on because of the language? that's enough to drive a person crazy. Wouldn't be better to pop in a CD? RADIO IS DEAD!

I myself don't really care for Hot 104.1. It is a little too ghetto fab for me. Does anyone think that someone is going to take them (Radio One) on? For some reason, I think Clear Channel isn't giving up not quite yet. Who knows they may flip "The Bull" to R&B/Hip-hop. St. Louis doesn't need TWO country stations.

 

[TheBigA]

St. Louis doesn't need TWO country stations.

Sure you do: For competition. The complaint people have about radio after deregulation is it ended competition. No company should have a monopoly on a format. So this is what you get.

 

[JimTroost]

Since KFUO FM went to JOY-FM, I only listen to Saint Louis radio in the car. At home and work I listened to KFUO-FM's streams or The Journey, a Saint Louis based, commercial online station, which sounds like traditional broadcast radio (at least during weekdays) and is a lot better, I think, than Joy-FM has ever been. No interest in the other stations because I can't stand the morning show banter and other silliness.

 

[Hamp]

St. Louis doesn't need TWO country stations.

Sure you do: For competition. The complaint people have about radio after deregulation is it ended competition. No company should have a monopoly on a format. So this is what you get.

Okay, how come you only apply this to country and not R&B/hip-hop stations? I think you are being a little biased. A lot of markets BIGGER than STL have only one country outlet, why does STL need two?

 

[TheBigA]

Okay, how come you only apply this to country and not R&B/hip-hop stations?

You're the one who mentioned country. There are two country stations in St. Louis because the market supports it. If the market can support two hip hop stations or two jazz stations or two bluegrass stations, so be it. It's up to the owners to see there's an opening, and go for it.

 

[JimTroost]

... If the market can support two hip hop stations or two jazz stations or two bluegrass stations, so be it. It's up to the owners to see there's an opening, and go for it.
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Didn't the FCC used to dictate / limit content or genres licensed in an area? I read that somewhere.

 

[gr8oldies]

You may have had to register your format but the FCC never dictated it. Canada was a different matter.

 

[Mrtraveler01]

Since KFUO FM went to JOY-FM, I only listen to Saint Louis radio in the car. At home and work I listened to KFUO-FM's streams or The Journey, a Saint Louis based, commercial online station, which sounds like traditional broadcast radio (at least during weekdays) and is a lot better, I think, than Joy-FM has ever been. No interest in the other stations because I can't stand the morning show banter and other silliness.

No offense, but I've given Joy FM a shot but I just couldn't take it anymore. I mean I know how much people like Jesus but when every single song is about loving God or Jesus, it just gets too hokey for me.

And I'm Catholic.

 

[JimTroost]

Since KFUO FM went to JOY-FM, I only listen to Saint Louis radio in the car. At home and work I listened to KFUO-FM's streams or The Journey, a Saint Louis based, commercial online station, which sounds like traditional broadcast radio (at least during weekdays) and is a lot better, I think, than Joy-FM has ever been. No interest in the other stations because I can't stand the morning show banter and other silliness.

No offense, but I've given Joy FM a shot but I just couldn't take it anymore. I mean I know how much people like Jesus but when every single song is about loving God or Jesus, it just gets too hokey for me.

And I'm Catholic.

That's why I listen to The Journey online. Except on weekends, when it runs syndicated programming, it features a much more diverse playlist. Many of their songs don't even mention Jesus and are not praise. They've played songs about partying, drugs, broken relationships, cutting (the song by Christian artist Plumb) and allot of Catholic artists mixed in. I just know that because at one point one of their old DJs mentioned that several of the CDs were on some Catholic label out of Chicago and said that we could buy them @ Catholic Supply if our local Christian bookstore didn't carry them. I remember two songs by a guy named John Angotti, I think I've got the spelling right, that were just fantastic and not the shallow stuff usually played on "Joy FM'. Now I need to say that if you tune into The Journey on weekends, the programming isn't so diverse because they carry some praise programming, 20 the Countdown Magazine and Direct Connection both Saturdays & today. These sound too much like typical CCM to me. I like, mostly, their daytime programming Monday thru Friday. Overnights aren't so great because they play too hard rock for me and I thought it was better when they had a DJ.

Well... gotta go. Breakfast before worship.

 

[Hamp]

Okay, how come you only apply this to country and not R&B/hip-hop stations?

You're the one who mentioned country. There are two country stations in St. Louis because the market supports it. If the market can support two hip hop stations or two jazz stations or two bluegrass stations, so be it. It's up to the owners to see there's an opening, and go for it.

I mentioned the FREQUENCY the Bull is on, not necessarily the music itself!!! This was relating to Clear Channel getting into the Urban/Hip-Hop format again.

 

[TheBigA]

This was relating to Clear Channel getting into the Urban/Hip-Hop format again.

I don't see it happening. It doesn't fit well with their cluster. Even a low-rated country station gives them presence in the format in the market, they do it at very low cost, and it occasionally keeps WIL out of the #1 spot, which is worth something to them.

 

[Mrtraveler01]

This was relating to Clear Channel getting into the Urban/Hip-Hop format again.

I don't see it happening. It doesn't fit well with their cluster. Even a low-rated country station gives them presence in the format in the market, they do it at very low cost, and it occasionally keeps WIL out of the #1 spot, which is worth something to them.

I agree. If anything CC would tinker with the Sound again in order to give it better ratings before they mess with 93.7.

 

[JimTroost]

Not a big fan of country music, but me thinks that the Bull does a pretty good job consiering it's country and I don't see them tinkering with it.... but what do I know?!