i don't listen to the radio much, and that is by choice. on most stations, it seems like an endless cycle of overplayed, inoffensive music followed by irritating disc jockeys, screaming car ads, and lame-o station identifications. it wasn't always this way. growing up, i (unwillingly) listened to every oldies station eastern north carolina had to offer, and i actually learned to enjoy it. later on, i used to do homework listening to 96 rock every night (when it came in well all the way from raleigh). so i thought radio was cool-- i could hear new (at least to me) music and didnt have to go buy cds.
i don't know what happened, but at some point, some company bought some other companies and became like one gargantuan one, radios dials got shifted and we ended up with one station that played "more than a feeling" on repeat and of course 83 country stations.
so i got to work at davidson's radio station, which was awesome, cause i could play all this crap and make others listen to it (supposedly). so i figured i could do the same at carolina. well, i basically got laughed out of the room in my interview with the station there because so many of the bands i talked about were "just white people with guitars." so oh well.
i guess it is hard to find a happy medium among all people's tastes and interests, but i think we'd all be better off with more choices in radio stations (at least for those of us without satellite stuff). variety is the spice of life or whatever, so that would be a good policy to follow. not that i want to listen to mongolian post-polka played by blind children with sticks all the time, but i mean, there is a lot of good stuff out there and it'd be cool if it got played.
but nobody asked me.
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Well, the funny thing about WXYC is that they're a bunch of snobs who think they know what's good in music, yet I never met a single person who actually listens to their station. WQFX, at Guilford College, however, is ranked in the top 10 of college radio stations in the country and they play the kind of stuff you're into.
As far as commercial radio goes, yeah, Clear Channel owns the biggest market share with 1,200 stations (comparatively, CBS is 2nd place with only 180 stations). And that basically sucks b/c they play the same damn songs everywhere now and on rotation.
I like 100.7 The New River the b/c they're indepedently programmed and they don't play those songs much in our market, but I can't get it much farther than Burlington.
Oh, and the station identification thing is mandated once an hour on the hour by the FCC, but the stupid Clear Channel stations do it more often.
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