Re: listening trends....

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

> Why has it happened? I guess you mean why have people begun to spend less
> time with radio? Most stations.....not all of them...but most stations in
> the US that are owned by the huge groups are so obsessed with maximum
> profit, that the passion and quality of programming isn't  that important
> any more. Cookie-cutter, safe-safe-safe music rotations/libraries,
> liner-card-mentality-version 2001, and voice-tracking, voice-tracking,
> voice-tracking has sucked the passion out of the industry. The public,
> especially the more-active younger core, has begun to express it's
> dissatisfaction by spending less time with radio.

And they keep right on thinking that boring and repetitive tight playlists 
maximize ratings.  And in a couple of years, new cars will come with 
satellite radios.  Then, as satellite radio begins to penetrate, watch the 
terrestrial ratings drop.




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