[BC] Listening in the car

[nakayle@gmail.com]

 Well Steve, it's not the same industry that was paying my salary years
ago.  Today it's formula radio, where everywhere you go you hear the same
things.  I think the local oldies station has a playlist of the same 50
songs they've been playing for years because some stuffed shirt in NY said
those of the ones they should play.   And while I know their must be ads,
there doesn't have to be five solid minutes of ads, PSAs, promos and
whatnot.  Don't PDs realize that by the fourth minute of this the listener
has hit his tuning button to go find music somewhere?  And because every
station is like this now that somewhere is likely his Ipod where he can hear
what he wants when he wants and without the yak.

 - Nat Kayle


On 8/4/06, Steve Newman <shnewman at alaweb.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm... Yes, time marches on but I wouldn't put down the very industry
> that
> supported me for 30 years. :) Those "droning ads" paid your salary.
> I share your disgust as well but the very thing I see as an art is now in
> the hands of every kid who wants to do radio. I won't argue the
> over-compressed/iPod contradiction. I'll leave that one alone. :)
>
> Have a good one Nat
>
> Steve Newman
> Steve Walker Productions
> Opp, AL  36467
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