Put another nickel in…

May 30, 2002

Aww. Clear Channel is losing money. How sad. I particularly like this ‘graph from the article:

You’re also likely to hear a lot of commercials. During peak periods, Clear Channel’s stations carry anywhere from 16 to 20 minutes of ads per hour. One rival station has seized on this as a marketing opportunity; Z104-FM, owned by Bonneville International of Salt Lake City, runs radio and TV commercials that promise “Fewer Commercials. More Music. Guaranteed.”

A good 40% of the reason I don’t listen to commercial broadcast radio is the commercials. There’s just too many of them! Another 20% is probably the bulk programming they do — manufacturing playing lists for large groups of stations, so the same 20 songs get played over and over everywhere you go.

The other 40% is that modern rock has just become dull. About which
more later also.

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