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Originally Posted by Griff
I still do. I listen to music, news, and baseball. Thing is, this clearchannel/iheart radio near monopoly kinda bugs me.
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I read in the paper last week Clear Channel snapped up four more radio stations on Cape Cod, in trade for a radio station and a TV station on Long Island.
I was thinking Jesus, Cape Cod is only a little over 300 square miles with a max elevation of a nosebleed 300 ft. Why four (more) radio stations? They must be tailoring the advertising by neighborhood.
But if they're all playing the same thing, why would anybody change stations to get targeted with ads only 20 miles closer to where they are listening from. Who changes stations looking for ads?
Sherman, set the wayback machine for 1958. A Radio station in northern CT starts up with a rockin' 1000 watts, I think it was. They played stuff you wouldn't hear on the established stations where Mom was listening to Arthur Godfrey's ukulele. No, this station had a dead aim on, Tah Dah
(French horns), the "Youth Market". But the best thing was they were too small for a program director, only had four DJs to cover 24/7, and one of them lived right down the street from me.
If I could catch him awake he'd talk music till the cows came home, spinning wonderful tales of magical bands in exotic locations like Philly, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit. Musicians that came in different colors, spoke with different accents, and even different languages. Once in a while he'd even invite me to hang out at the station during his shift.
Um, sorry
... Sherman, back to reality.