I think part of it is who listens to the radio and buys the majority of the music, and it ain't us. We're busy paying rent and making car payments. Those damn fourteen year olds can afford to buy CD's with their allowance. How do you compete with that?
Then you get into how much it cost to buy a radio station these days. When you have to spend 50 or 60 million or more to purchase a station you have a huge debt to service and you can't do it playing Classical Jazz or Gordon Lightfoot. Just ask the folks in Houston who just lost their one and only classical commercial station when Radio One bought their third station in the market for 72.5 million.
quote:Originally posted by searam:
Music is timeless! Or, so the perfect thought would lead us. I still listen to Bach and he's over fifty ( I think )! The Pop/Rock gen is aging. Who makes the rules that their continued artistry cannot be played? We should "throttle" the program managers!!!
Sean
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