[BC] Listening in the car

[Robert Meuser]

nakayle at gmail.com wrote:

> .  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.

I think you should be looking at Texas.  A lot of radio is controlled 
from Dallas or San Antonio.

>   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?  

They do which is why in many markets everyone runs spots at the same time.

R