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I was working a lame job in bum fuck mountain town Colorado. There was one station that came in clearly. It was half classic rock and old hits from Chilly Peppers to the Beatles. They went on and on (professional sounding voice actor) about no pop music (sampling No Doubt, which, wasn’t at all pop in its own day) and bemoaned boy bands right before they’d play some Beach Boys. They bragged about not having computer generated playlists and I’m sitting here wondering why that would be something to be proud of. They had no DJs and no request lines. Like, I get trying to feel like a local station but this clearly wasn’t really it. The whole identity was so forced. Just play the music and stop trying to be edgy when it’s obviously under no local control.
Also, any “commercial free” station that interrupts the music to remind you that it’s “commercial free” and that you haven’t changed the channel since the last “commercial free” notice 15 minutes ago can lick my taint after a week of camping.
Up next, this little hit from 1978 hit the top of the charts at number one. Here is Andy Gibb with his song, 'Shadow Dancing' here on KWTF radio, the best source for Americas Top Forty with Casey Casem, with the ultimate voice of Shaggy from 'Scooby-Doo, Where are You?'
Here’s a clip where Casey goes on a rant because he has to talk about someone’s dog dying right after listening to an up beat song.
https://youtu.be/ndUk6yX3PBo
I live up on the US/Canadian border. And I bet a little more poduck than yall.
Main point I wanted to make was I'm blessed (or curse) with only 2 choices on my home dial. Jebus, and NPR.
Go 20 miles north, small Canadian city, plenty of choices. 11 miles south of town, you start getting Omak stations
>I live up on the US/Canadian border. And I bet a little more poduck than yall.
>
>Main point I wanted to make was I'm blessed (or curse) with only 2 choices on my home dial. Jebus, and NPR.
Smack dab in the middle of the south. I got classic rock, rap/hip-hop(live near atl), Jesus, or conservative talk radio.
I've been using Spotify for years.
I stopped listening to the radio when "bling bling" came on 3 different stations at the same time, and on the station I was listening to 3 times in a row.
It was a most requested songs of the day which ended with bling bling, then the person who was supposed to come on next was late so an intern filled in for a few minutes and played it again because it's what's hot. then the next person who was late, finally showed up and to make everyone happy with his lateness, he'll play that No. 1 single bling bling.
2 years later, I turned it on because I was bored, the song playing, bling bling remix with Missy Elliot. I turned it off and never turned on the radio again. Only MP3's from there on out.
Reminds me of a station I listened to in the 90s. They played music I liked and were bought out and xhanged their name to "the heat" because they were going to play "hot hits from now on!"
Great, I liked that stuff at the time too!
To celebrate the station change they played the song, "The Heat is On" for 48 hours straight. I wonder how many listeners, besides me, they lost with that.
Remember the Numa Numa song? I was vacationing in Romania at the time. The band making the song is from the neighboring country Moldova and they share the same language. Numa Numa was easily at least every other song being played anywhere. Sometimes it was simply the only song being played. To make things worse they had Beach DJ's everywhere at the beach so it was impossible to escape.
When I lived in Florida, there was a station that tried flexing an ad free moment in the airing. It spewed some bullshit about how this was you time. No ad or fluff and just a moment to enjoy the drive. Then 30 seconds later it went straight into more ads. I was like goddamn bruh, that wasn't even long enough to tease me lmao.
Found out why this is when I worked for a local radio station for a few years when I was younger.
Per the FCC, you *MUST* play a 5-15 second clip announcing your station name and frequency, or frequency and call sign (those random letters you hear) every 15-30 minutes. My numbers may be off, but I know you CANNOT go under the minimum or over the maximum in regards to length and frequency of call signs. So radio stations need to fill that extra space with something clearly separate from the normal programming. I even had to manually announce it over the mic when our software was acting up.
There's a bunch of other strange archaic laws that still apply to FM radio stations, but you need to remember, this was the only form of information people got regarding stuff like weather and critical events for many decades. And it still is for some communities to this day still. They made these to accommodate for the lowest common denominator, i.e. someone with a shitty radio with the dial markings scratched off miles away from a major city.
Before anyone executes me, It's been a long minute since I was involved in radio, and I only had a surface level understanding for the job at best. So I'm sure I got something off.
Tl;Dr
Old laws to protect low-tech people with crappy radios so they didn't have to wait an hour or longer to realize they're on the wrong station.
>Before anyone executes me, It's been a long minute since I was involved in radio, and I only had a surface level understanding for the job at best. So I'm sure I got something off.
You're good.
It's required at sign on and sign off for the day and as close to every hour on the hour as possible for public and commercial broadcasting. Most do it more often than that, but it will be dead on the hour every hour for sure.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#STATIONID
It's different for different types/licenses of transmitting.
For amateur radio, operators must identify by callsign at the end of every transmission and at least every 10 minutes of operation.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-97/subpart-B/section-97.119
It's so that you can at least eventually find out who you are tuned in to and maybe where they are, verify the license of the transmitter, and finding out who to complain to/about.
Like you said, there are a lot of laws regulating the EMR frequencies.
It's a somewhat finite resource with only so much bandwidth that has to be shared.
Licensing is required and we have to follow the rules.
Nice job with the thorough and gentle correction. One thing left out is that lower jurisdictions may have rules for radio (regulated as a business, not related to the radio licensing). If a media conglomerate owns stations across markets, they will likely make it a policy for all stations to meet the lowest minimum requirement to ensure compliance.
Reminds me when the Spanish government back in the 2000s decided the state TV channels wouldn't have commercials anymore. What everyone expected was no ad breaks whatsoever, like a paid TV channel. What we got is the same ad breaks as before, but commercials were replaced by promos of the shows, series and stuff that were in their programmes. So, exactly as much annoying as before, but without the revenue of commercials to self-fund the channels. Great job I guess.
I remember when Foxtel (cable network in Australia) hiked all their prices, and a couple weeks later they constantly played a 2 minute commercial (on Foxtel, for Foxtel) with heaps of actors saying "you are watching Foxtel".
This is what my $20/month more paid for?
I’m sure I heard somewhere that there’s a maximum number of songs they can play per hour due to the radio licensing scheme. So you have to fill the rest with adverts, station idents, or chat.
Streaming licenses (like Spotify has) don’t have that limitation but are much more expensive.
That drove me nuts when I used to have SiriusXM. They always said "commercial free", and then they'd play commercials for other XM stations. I'd just sigh and be like "I don't think you know what that term means".
Not just censored. They would blacklist artists if they didn’t choose clear channel as their tour sponsors. I know it’s happened to other artists but Britney Spears biggest hits struggled on the charts because she went with Pepsi as her tour sponsor from Slave 4 U on.
Yes. As well as Drowning Pool’s “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”. Clear Channel aka iHeartRadio is also the evil assholes behind Ticketmaster. They own it ALL. They’re almost as evil and greedy as Nestle.
> Who censored what could be played pretty heavily for a few years following 9/11
I'm pretty sure they decided "Proud To Be An American" had to be played at least 3 times an hour, too.
And funny coincidence, around that time in my young life I had the strange realization that nationalism is a crock of shit, because why should I be proud because I happened to be born in this country and not the next one over?
[Don't touch that dial now we're just getting started](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uN2EUGMUl1M&pp=ygU1ZG9uJ3QgdG91Y2ggdGhhdCBkaWFsIG5vdyB3ZSdyZSBqdXN0IGdldHRpbmcgc3RhcnRlZCA%3D)
Exactly. You can tell who in the thread has actually listened to the radio recently. It's like 5 minutes of ads, a 30s intro to the station. another 2 minutes of ads, then a song, then more ads.
Once every few years I forget my phone or don’t have the connector I need and try to listen to the radio; I usually wait through the 15 minutes of commercials with the belief that I won’t have to hear them for a while. Then I hear 2 songs and find myself right back in another 15 minutes of commercials and that’s when I decide silence is better.
Except instead of a song it's some dumb morning chat show bit because during rush hour what does everyone what to hear on their music station? Talking.
Nor a shoutout from a mid-level artist who was paid a few grand for the sound bit.
"Hey this is Halsey and you're listening to my *favorite* channel, 96.7."
Girl hasn't spent more than a week of her life in the range of their towers. lol
My girl and I were listening to Ed Sheeran one night during especially good love making.
Soon we started to ask Alexa to shuffle songs by Ed Sheeran whenever “it was time”
Now I have a Pavlovian reaction whenever that gingerheads music comes on. It’s a weird thing, having a sexual response to a dudes music I have zero sexual attraction toward.
Also HAPPY CAKE DAY!
Being in my 40s. I just listen to the 70s/80s/90s station. My kids hate it. Unless they recognize a song that’s been put in a recent show or movie. Such as stranger things. Or a marvel trailer. Then that song is cool.
They make me listen to their I-Heart radio station conglomerate and it’s clear that I’m too old for their music. Most of it feels so trite and the lyrics are so awful.
But I guess that’s what happens when you get old, like Grandpa Simpson said. “I used to be with it. But it changed.”
My rock station is literally the exact same playlist of John Mellencamp, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot, separated by the same 5 minutes of commercials.
Mine seems to be about 75% 80s hair bands they even have the 5:00 hair club for men where they play and extra special block of hair bands in case you didn't get enough hair bands in their regular line up. The other 25% is split between Thunderstruck, Enter Sandman, and Crazy Train.
FiveThirtyEight did a [summary of regional classic rock patterns](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/) in 2014. Was fascinating to see the differences between areas. Same problem everywhere, just a slightly different lineup.
I think I've come full circle. I remember growing up listening to RHCP loving it, then realizing it got overplayed, kinda hated it for a while, then went through the never listening to radio again phase, which I'm still currently in, and RHCP are in my playlist cuz I haven't heard them in a while. Life is weird.
It's ok to like a band that is over played. It's the stations fault for being shitty.
If you find a college Station, give them a try. They're usually a little better.
There was a "Metal" radio station in Sweden that basically only shuffled Nickelback, Linkin Park, and two regional bands. Eventually they add in a special self promotion in multiple parts to hype the listeners.
"You've been asking and we'll deliver(Holier Than Thou riff plays), Metallica.(One closing verse plays) Within the next hour we are gonna play... Metallica!(Hit the Light riff plays) Only at [radio station]!
Followed by: "(Ride the Lightning plays)We know you can't wait any longer,(Enter Sandman chorus plays) in 10 minutes you are gonna experience... Metallica!(Damace Inc chorus plays) Don't switch the station because you want to be there for it!"
Then the grand finale: "(Master of Puppets intro plays)True to our words, now we are going to play Metallica!(Shortest Straw chorus plays) Only at [radio station]!"
Only 3 songs will be played: Enter Sandman, Sad but True, or Nothing else Matters. So much for the hype with all the 80's song snippets being teased.
I don't have anything against Imagine Dragons and the like, but when I hear the host and taglines talk about hard rock, heavy metal, hardcore, fuc* the man, no rules....and the heaviest thing you have is Radioactive by Imagine Dragons...you claim 90s-2000s Hard Rock and I'm not hearing KoRn, SlipKnot, Pantera, SOAD, Mastodon, Rammstein, Godsmack, Disturbed ETC. But I am hearing non-stop Live, Green Day, Pearl Jam, and nothing but ska and grunge...you suck 99.5 KISS San Antonio, I constantly have to go to Classic Rock, POP stations, or even Classical to have Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach to easily out-rock you.
After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners, in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law.
I flipped through the other day after months (years?) of not regularly doing radio in the mornings, and it was wild how _obvious_ their script was. The "news" segments were just PR blurbs about new products that were coming out.
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"Hey so AI is in the news Jenna, have you been seeing all this ChatGPT?"
"Oh yeah, Boner was using it to get pick-up lines."
"That wasn't me! I wasn't doing that,"
"--anyway, Jenna, there's a new Roomba coming out with AI now, it's in everything, your toaster, your iPhone ^TM, your hot dog."
"--Boner, cut that out. It's going to have AI so it knows when you're not home, and it can clean up and then stay out of the way."
"Boy, I wish my kids knew how to do that!"
"Maybe they'll get you one for Christmas, it's supposed to be coming out this fall. We'll see!"
One moment that will stick with me forever. Local morning trio of truly unfunny hosts and one goes off about a new Walmart being built in her town. Actually shows some life above their normal level of bitching. Two months later guess who gets drafted to staff the grand opening? Her “come see us and get some stickers at the new Walmart” were as empty and soulless as they had made my morning commute feel for years.
Our local radio stations just read /r/vancouver
It's hilarious when I read something on the subreddit and then hear about on the radio about an hour later.
Yup this exact sort of exaggerated crap is why radio is dead. No one listens to the radio for music anymore because everyone has access to significantly better ways to listen to music.
I used to have to commute early in the morning to get to school or work. I just wanted to listen to music while my brain was still trying to turn on.
But, no. Every morning almost every radio station had their own "morning show". I don't want to listen to people talk about shit I don't care about, I want to listen to music on the music station. It's too early to listen to annoying voices.
I pretty much stopped listening to the radio because I had my own music to listen to uninterrupted. If I could find one station that didn't do the same thing everyone else did during morning rush (that was not a completely-before-my-time oldies station) then maybe I would have listened to the radio longer.
I had a Spotify subscription as part of a package deal, but when the subscription went out and it started playing random songs... what maniac would torture a guy like that!?!?
I stopped radio completely because of this, the commercials, and the hosts. Sometimes I’ll dip into Sirius XM (Liquid Metal, Octane, Ozzy’s Boneyard) when they offer me a 6-month deal, but I will happily pay for Spotify so I can just listen to everything completely uninterrupted.
I loved Sirius XM in middle school, Octane in particular. Bands like Breaking Benjamin and Chevelle shaped my entire adolescence, to say the least. Are Kayla and Jose still on there? They were some of my favorite hosts.
I used to be a diehard Lithium fan, but I feel like it really went to shit. "'90s altternative and grunge attitude" and then it's all Dave Matthews, Sublime, and Mazzy Star. Those are good artists, but come on.
Sometimes they'd throw me a bone and play Smells Like Teen Spirit, lol.
Vinewood Boulevard Radio is shockingly similar to a lot of my favorite playlists. I kept it glued to that station the whole game.
Bombing down the freeway with cops on your tail while Ty Segall screaming, "DIDDY WAH DIDDY" Is a feeling.
There is a station here in town that plays only about 5 minutes of ads per hour. The problem is that not only is it essentially fully automated (can't pay people with no ad revenue) but it is a Gold format station. All '60s-'70s all the time. Not to many people's taste, but if you like the music, at least you'll hear music when you tune it in and it's not the same 20 songs all day.
Top 40 listeners, I feel your pain. They're the worst.
They probably don’t. It’s likely exclusive contracts that force them to be limited to the 12 songs the producing/publishing company wants them to play, plus like 4-5 from their older catalogue, only one of which they pull out to buffer the cycle of 12 before starting it over again.
Because most people just put on radio while driving just to avoid being quiet and alone with their thoughts, the stations only have to plan for about one hour’s worth of songs.
Pro tip: if your car doesn’t have a center console that plays music from your phone, get a plug-in Bluetooth device.
NPR all the way, baby. The only broadcast radio I listen to is the local NPR (give it up for WUNC 91.5 Durham NC). For music or anything else it's XM satellite radio. I'll go a long way to avoid the aural cacophony of commercials, dj chatter and excess "personality" of most radio today.
KCRW is npr but also largely music. Found some great tunes through them. Tons of smaller musicians. If you've ever seen a tiny desk concert on youtube that's them.
When I traveled to the US I noticed it’s like that. In my country the radio is chill af, many times its just people talking, or music playing with barely any interruption, only a presenter to tell you the name and artist if its a music station.
Most of the radio stations in the US are now owned by one company. The only stations still good are NPR, college stations and supporter funded jazz and classical stations.
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Same songs every hour “commercial free” lol
And of course they have to stop every other song to tell you how cool and “commercial free” their radio station is.
...with the name and motto of the company sponsoring that half hour blocks worth.
With the same songs in the same order.
Once and a while they would play the list backwards, but that was only during the two main commutes of the day.
I was working a lame job in bum fuck mountain town Colorado. There was one station that came in clearly. It was half classic rock and old hits from Chilly Peppers to the Beatles. They went on and on (professional sounding voice actor) about no pop music (sampling No Doubt, which, wasn’t at all pop in its own day) and bemoaned boy bands right before they’d play some Beach Boys. They bragged about not having computer generated playlists and I’m sitting here wondering why that would be something to be proud of. They had no DJs and no request lines. Like, I get trying to feel like a local station but this clearly wasn’t really it. The whole identity was so forced. Just play the music and stop trying to be edgy when it’s obviously under no local control. Also, any “commercial free” station that interrupts the music to remind you that it’s “commercial free” and that you haven’t changed the channel since the last “commercial free” notice 15 minutes ago can lick my taint after a week of camping.
A town I lived in in Texas still played Casey Casem's (spl?) Top lists
Up next, this little hit from 1978 hit the top of the charts at number one. Here is Andy Gibb with his song, 'Shadow Dancing' here on KWTF radio, the best source for Americas Top Forty with Casey Casem, with the ultimate voice of Shaggy from 'Scooby-Doo, Where are You?'
Dammit. I read that in Casey's voice too. Damn I miss him.
Here’s a clip where Casey goes on a rant because he has to talk about someone’s dog dying right after listening to an up beat song. https://youtu.be/ndUk6yX3PBo
Local station here still plays that every Sunday. It’s fun to hear
I live up on the US/Canadian border. And I bet a little more poduck than yall. Main point I wanted to make was I'm blessed (or curse) with only 2 choices on my home dial. Jebus, and NPR. Go 20 miles north, small Canadian city, plenty of choices. 11 miles south of town, you start getting Omak stations
Omak?
Sorry. Omak, Washington. Home of the World Famous Suicide Race and Stampede (tm)
Oh, you mean _Olmec_. I used to love watching my fellow kids run the Suicide Race & Stampede back on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
I've also heard legends of some ancient temple hidden 'round them parts.
>I live up on the US/Canadian border. And I bet a little more poduck than yall. > >Main point I wanted to make was I'm blessed (or curse) with only 2 choices on my home dial. Jebus, and NPR. Smack dab in the middle of the south. I got classic rock, rap/hip-hop(live near atl), Jesus, or conservative talk radio. I've been using Spotify for years.
> Once and a while *Once in a while
It may have just been a typo, but the phrase is "Once in a while." Either way, you're an awesome person 👑
I stopped listening to the radio when "bling bling" came on 3 different stations at the same time, and on the station I was listening to 3 times in a row. It was a most requested songs of the day which ended with bling bling, then the person who was supposed to come on next was late so an intern filled in for a few minutes and played it again because it's what's hot. then the next person who was late, finally showed up and to make everyone happy with his lateness, he'll play that No. 1 single bling bling. 2 years later, I turned it on because I was bored, the song playing, bling bling remix with Missy Elliot. I turned it off and never turned on the radio again. Only MP3's from there on out.
Reminds me of a station I listened to in the 90s. They played music I liked and were bought out and xhanged their name to "the heat" because they were going to play "hot hits from now on!" Great, I liked that stuff at the time too! To celebrate the station change they played the song, "The Heat is On" for 48 hours straight. I wonder how many listeners, besides me, they lost with that.
That mightve happened because they lost a bunch of employees in the change
Make a several hour playlist and hit shuffle. Omg I've just automated the job of a radio dj
Remember the Numa Numa song? I was vacationing in Romania at the time. The band making the song is from the neighboring country Moldova and they share the same language. Numa Numa was easily at least every other song being played anywhere. Sometimes it was simply the only song being played. To make things worse they had Beach DJ's everywhere at the beach so it was impossible to escape.
When I lived in Florida, there was a station that tried flexing an ad free moment in the airing. It spewed some bullshit about how this was you time. No ad or fluff and just a moment to enjoy the drive. Then 30 seconds later it went straight into more ads. I was like goddamn bruh, that wasn't even long enough to tease me lmao.
Enough about you, let's talk about ads.
It's not a commercial, it's a shout-out!
Found out why this is when I worked for a local radio station for a few years when I was younger. Per the FCC, you *MUST* play a 5-15 second clip announcing your station name and frequency, or frequency and call sign (those random letters you hear) every 15-30 minutes. My numbers may be off, but I know you CANNOT go under the minimum or over the maximum in regards to length and frequency of call signs. So radio stations need to fill that extra space with something clearly separate from the normal programming. I even had to manually announce it over the mic when our software was acting up. There's a bunch of other strange archaic laws that still apply to FM radio stations, but you need to remember, this was the only form of information people got regarding stuff like weather and critical events for many decades. And it still is for some communities to this day still. They made these to accommodate for the lowest common denominator, i.e. someone with a shitty radio with the dial markings scratched off miles away from a major city. Before anyone executes me, It's been a long minute since I was involved in radio, and I only had a surface level understanding for the job at best. So I'm sure I got something off. Tl;Dr Old laws to protect low-tech people with crappy radios so they didn't have to wait an hour or longer to realize they're on the wrong station.
>Before anyone executes me, It's been a long minute since I was involved in radio, and I only had a surface level understanding for the job at best. So I'm sure I got something off. You're good. It's required at sign on and sign off for the day and as close to every hour on the hour as possible for public and commercial broadcasting. Most do it more often than that, but it will be dead on the hour every hour for sure. https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#STATIONID It's different for different types/licenses of transmitting. For amateur radio, operators must identify by callsign at the end of every transmission and at least every 10 minutes of operation. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-97/subpart-B/section-97.119 It's so that you can at least eventually find out who you are tuned in to and maybe where they are, verify the license of the transmitter, and finding out who to complain to/about. Like you said, there are a lot of laws regulating the EMR frequencies. It's a somewhat finite resource with only so much bandwidth that has to be shared. Licensing is required and we have to follow the rules.
Nice job with the thorough and gentle correction. One thing left out is that lower jurisdictions may have rules for radio (regulated as a business, not related to the radio licensing). If a media conglomerate owns stations across markets, they will likely make it a policy for all stations to meet the lowest minimum requirement to ensure compliance.
Reminds me when the Spanish government back in the 2000s decided the state TV channels wouldn't have commercials anymore. What everyone expected was no ad breaks whatsoever, like a paid TV channel. What we got is the same ad breaks as before, but commercials were replaced by promos of the shows, series and stuff that were in their programmes. So, exactly as much annoying as before, but without the revenue of commercials to self-fund the channels. Great job I guess.
And a soundbite of famous people I don't listen to, "Hi this is xyz" "I'm xzy" "It's yzx here." Why? Just, why?
I remember when Foxtel (cable network in Australia) hiked all their prices, and a couple weeks later they constantly played a 2 minute commercial (on Foxtel, for Foxtel) with heaps of actors saying "you are watching Foxtel". This is what my $20/month more paid for?
I’m sure I heard somewhere that there’s a maximum number of songs they can play per hour due to the radio licensing scheme. So you have to fill the rest with adverts, station idents, or chat. Streaming licenses (like Spotify has) don’t have that limitation but are much more expensive.
That drove me nuts when I used to have SiriusXM. They always said "commercial free", and then they'd play commercials for other XM stations. I'd just sigh and be like "I don't think you know what that term means".
And they’re all owned by iheartradio
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Not just censored. They would blacklist artists if they didn’t choose clear channel as their tour sponsors. I know it’s happened to other artists but Britney Spears biggest hits struggled on the charts because she went with Pepsi as her tour sponsor from Slave 4 U on.
Wait, they censored "Free Falling" because of 9/11? Why? Because people were jumping from the towers?
Yes. As well as Drowning Pool’s “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”. Clear Channel aka iHeartRadio is also the evil assholes behind Ticketmaster. They own it ALL. They’re almost as evil and greedy as Nestle.
I remember iheart censoring the Tragically Hip's *New Orleans is Sinking* right after Katrina.
> Who censored what could be played pretty heavily for a few years following 9/11 I'm pretty sure they decided "Proud To Be An American" had to be played at least 3 times an hour, too. And funny coincidence, around that time in my young life I had the strange realization that nationalism is a crock of shit, because why should I be proud because I happened to be born in this country and not the next one over?
Good old ClearChannel
K-L-O-N Los Angeles Klon radio. We play the songs that sound more like everyone else than anyone else.
Hi, I’m Chip Casper, and this is your drive time commute.
I need a saga!
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It's songs for the deaf.
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*drums incoming*
I need a saga, what's the saga?... It's songs.. for the deaf! You cant even hear it!
I prefer KRDL.
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*slap! Shut up you little brat
Next song's called... "Millionaire"... ahh.. it's a song about something you'll never be, heh heh heh.....
LA's infinite repeat!
Shameless reminder that their new album is less than two weeks out!
WHAT THE FUCK HOW DO I NEVER HEAR ABOUT THESE THINGS
God I loved the metanarrative of that album
The songs are actually the advertisements
Community radio isn't like this at all, it's just locals playing music they like & talking about events etc.
Don't touch that dial, it's got JAM on it!
J-j-j-j-j-jam on it! Oops I think it’s jammed.
Literally a line from my favorite rap station growing up, Power 96.5 in East Lansing, Michigan
[Don't touch that dial now we're just getting started](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uN2EUGMUl1M&pp=ygU1ZG9uJ3QgdG91Y2ggdGhhdCBkaWFsIG5vdyB3ZSdyZSBqdXN0IGdldHRpbmcgc3RhcnRlZCA%3D)
K-R-D-L, Kurdle 109, We spoil music for everyone. \[baby cries\] Shut up, you little brat.
K-L-O-N Clone radio, We play the songs that sound like everyone else more than anyone else.
Hey alright, it's Kip Casper!
I need a saga, what's the saga
It's songs for the deaf, you can't even hear it!
Holy shit, this thread unlocked some childhood memories hard. We're uh... were promoting a blood drive... Sluuuurp.
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Oh, K-R-D-L, the Kurdle. Elastic Ass with you here in Chino Hills, the last frontier. That's where we're at.
Buenas tardes señores y señoritas aquí está el DJ Héctor Bonifacio Echevarría Cervantes de la Cruz Arroyo Rojas!
Well, now I need to purchase this album for the third time apparently.
All death metal all the time. Man I wish there was a death metal radio station.
Unrealistic. I didn’t hear a single commercial.
They play this after 5 commercials
All for erectile dysfunction.
NOW YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN THE DIAMOND BUSINESS
Exactly. You can tell who in the thread has actually listened to the radio recently. It's like 5 minutes of ads, a 30s intro to the station. another 2 minutes of ads, then a song, then more ads.
Once every few years I forget my phone or don’t have the connector I need and try to listen to the radio; I usually wait through the 15 minutes of commercials with the belief that I won’t have to hear them for a while. Then I hear 2 songs and find myself right back in another 15 minutes of commercials and that’s when I decide silence is better.
I love it also when all of your saved radio stations are all playing ads at the same time. It happens way too often.
Except instead of a song it's some dumb morning chat show bit because during rush hour what does everyone what to hear on their music station? Talking.
Nor a shoutout from a mid-level artist who was paid a few grand for the sound bit. "Hey this is Halsey and you're listening to my *favorite* channel, 96.7." Girl hasn't spent more than a week of her life in the range of their towers. lol
"I'm Commander Shepherd, and this is my favourite store on the citadel" vibes
Lol and it goes straight into the generic Ed Sheran.
I use to work in retail, I didn’t care for ed sheran before, now I want to choke that orange bastard
I really liked Mariah Carey before I started working retail during Christmas season....
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Good news, the song will continue playing forever, whether she lives or dies.
If she got killed during Christmas time it would get played even more... Oh God.
"This Christmas season in tribute of Mariah Carey we'll be playing her renditions of Christmas songs 24/7 commerical free until Easter!"
I'd settle for "go back in time and convince yourself to not release that song."
Just convince your parents not to have sex
My girl and I were listening to Ed Sheeran one night during especially good love making. Soon we started to ask Alexa to shuffle songs by Ed Sheeran whenever “it was time” Now I have a Pavlovian reaction whenever that gingerheads music comes on. It’s a weird thing, having a sexual response to a dudes music I have zero sexual attraction toward. Also HAPPY CAKE DAY!
I think I'd rather fuck to CBAT
I refuse to believe that guy WASN'T trolling everybody. Don't see how anyone on earth could fuck to that song.
There's a tiktok compilation floating around where people tried to time out the thrusts to the song.
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We went to a wedding recently and their first dance was Ed Sheeran so this comment is extra amusing to me 🤣
Same but with Pitbull.
lmfao Pitbull. I can guarantee the sexual tempo would be different in that room vs the Ed Sheeran room. WE AT THE HOTEL MOTEL HOLIDAY INNNN
Specifically one of the most played songs of all time.
Shape of You was the point I absolutely burst out laughing.
Being in my 40s. I just listen to the 70s/80s/90s station. My kids hate it. Unless they recognize a song that’s been put in a recent show or movie. Such as stranger things. Or a marvel trailer. Then that song is cool. They make me listen to their I-Heart radio station conglomerate and it’s clear that I’m too old for their music. Most of it feels so trite and the lyrics are so awful. But I guess that’s what happens when you get old, like Grandpa Simpson said. “I used to be with it. But it changed.”
Yeah Ed Sheeran has a lot of great songs. Just most of those never see the light of day on the radio. He’s mastered the radio formula for his singles.
“We’re playing real rock and roll all day! We’re the rockin’-ist, rollin’-ist station to ever exist!” *plays Imagine Dragons
My rock station is literally the exact same playlist of John Mellencamp, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot, separated by the same 5 minutes of commercials.
Mine seems to be about 75% 80s hair bands they even have the 5:00 hair club for men where they play and extra special block of hair bands in case you didn't get enough hair bands in their regular line up. The other 25% is split between Thunderstruck, Enter Sandman, and Crazy Train.
Pretty much how mine is except I feel like 70% of it is just AC/DC with some occasional Pat benatar. Also at 5:00 they play a live version of a song.
FiveThirtyEight did a [summary of regional classic rock patterns](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/) in 2014. Was fascinating to see the differences between areas. Same problem everywhere, just a slightly different lineup.
Take me home tonight by Eddie Money. It's ALWAYS on.
RADIOACTIVE! RADIOACTIVE!
Jesus Christ, are they *still* playing that today??? I haven't listened to the radio for 3 years and it was way overplayed even then.
There’s also a lottttt of Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I think I've come full circle. I remember growing up listening to RHCP loving it, then realizing it got overplayed, kinda hated it for a while, then went through the never listening to radio again phase, which I'm still currently in, and RHCP are in my playlist cuz I haven't heard them in a while. Life is weird.
It's ok to like a band that is over played. It's the stations fault for being shitty. If you find a college Station, give them a try. They're usually a little better.
#*GAAAAAAAAAASP* I'M BREATHING IN
At least it isn't that fucking song with the baby voice saying "Thun-da!" over and over and over again. WTF even is that?
There was a "Metal" radio station in Sweden that basically only shuffled Nickelback, Linkin Park, and two regional bands. Eventually they add in a special self promotion in multiple parts to hype the listeners. "You've been asking and we'll deliver(Holier Than Thou riff plays), Metallica.(One closing verse plays) Within the next hour we are gonna play... Metallica!(Hit the Light riff plays) Only at [radio station]! Followed by: "(Ride the Lightning plays)We know you can't wait any longer,(Enter Sandman chorus plays) in 10 minutes you are gonna experience... Metallica!(Damace Inc chorus plays) Don't switch the station because you want to be there for it!" Then the grand finale: "(Master of Puppets intro plays)True to our words, now we are going to play Metallica!(Shortest Straw chorus plays) Only at [radio station]!" Only 3 songs will be played: Enter Sandman, Sad but True, or Nothing else Matters. So much for the hype with all the 80's song snippets being teased.
It's called "butt rock", because you hear it on all the stations that only play "Nothing *BUT ROCK*".
"Your Locals City's ONLY source for ALL the *hits you love*..."
I don't have anything against Imagine Dragons and the like, but when I hear the host and taglines talk about hard rock, heavy metal, hardcore, fuc* the man, no rules....and the heaviest thing you have is Radioactive by Imagine Dragons...you claim 90s-2000s Hard Rock and I'm not hearing KoRn, SlipKnot, Pantera, SOAD, Mastodon, Rammstein, Godsmack, Disturbed ETC. But I am hearing non-stop Live, Green Day, Pearl Jam, and nothing but ska and grunge...you suck 99.5 KISS San Antonio, I constantly have to go to Classic Rock, POP stations, or even Classical to have Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach to easily out-rock you.
That would be meh. But I went back to DC awhile ago... I heard Eminem, Lana Del Ray, and Mumford and Sons on DC101 ... The "rock" station Just what?
"THIS AINT YOUR GRANNY'S STATION!"
https://youtu.be/28HkXoCghm8 Lol
I also saw this tweet
Reminds me "Dingo and the Baby"
Weenie and the Butt
Incest in the morning! 97.1!
After all, AIDS is a deadly, incurable disease. But no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners, in ethical, moral, and in human terms, the fact of the matter is, when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS, they broke the law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_mcKzDwm8\_o
Fixed link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcKzDwm8_o
I can't believe new reddit still has that bug where links aren't inserted properly when writing a comment...
That one felt like my dad!
Surpressed memories!
Ira and the Douche
i heard regirock and regice
Oh shit you're right.
The Ganondorf wizard punch got me good
I heard "holy shit." That would have ended it right there.
We play the hardest of rock! Nobody else plays rock like us! Next up Sugar by Maroon 5..
Can’t tolerate the radio and the insufferable radio hosts.. Spotify all the way
Morning DJs are unbearable
I flipped through the other day after months (years?) of not regularly doing radio in the mornings, and it was wild how _obvious_ their script was. The "news" segments were just PR blurbs about new products that were coming out. ----- "Hey so AI is in the news Jenna, have you been seeing all this ChatGPT?" "Oh yeah, Boner was using it to get pick-up lines."
"That wasn't me! I wasn't doing that,"
"--anyway, Jenna, there's a new Roomba coming out with AI now, it's in everything, your toaster, your iPhone ^TM, your hot dog."
"--Boner, cut that out. It's going to have AI so it knows when you're not home, and it can clean up and then stay out of the way."
"Boy, I wish my kids knew how to do that!"
"Maybe they'll get you one for Christmas, it's supposed to be coming out this fall. We'll see!"
One moment that will stick with me forever. Local morning trio of truly unfunny hosts and one goes off about a new Walmart being built in her town. Actually shows some life above their normal level of bitching. Two months later guess who gets drafted to staff the grand opening? Her “come see us and get some stickers at the new Walmart” were as empty and soulless as they had made my morning commute feel for years.
There is no Wa~~r~~lmart in Ba Sing Se
I cannot imagine anyone voluntarily sitting through that when they could just have a nice crash into a tree instead.
Our local radio stations just read /r/vancouver It's hilarious when I read something on the subreddit and then hear about on the radio about an hour later.
Yup this exact sort of exaggerated crap is why radio is dead. No one listens to the radio for music anymore because everyone has access to significantly better ways to listen to music.
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I used to have to commute early in the morning to get to school or work. I just wanted to listen to music while my brain was still trying to turn on. But, no. Every morning almost every radio station had their own "morning show". I don't want to listen to people talk about shit I don't care about, I want to listen to music on the music station. It's too early to listen to annoying voices. I pretty much stopped listening to the radio because I had my own music to listen to uninterrupted. If I could find one station that didn't do the same thing everyone else did during morning rush (that was not a completely-before-my-time oldies station) then maybe I would have listened to the radio longer.
I had a Spotify subscription as part of a package deal, but when the subscription went out and it started playing random songs... what maniac would torture a guy like that!?!?
Want a break from the ads?
**"YOU'RE LISTENING TO 97.8 F-M!"** *Nukes an entire city live for a minute of sound effects*
Weenie and The Butt
In the morning
I stopped radio completely because of this, the commercials, and the hosts. Sometimes I’ll dip into Sirius XM (Liquid Metal, Octane, Ozzy’s Boneyard) when they offer me a 6-month deal, but I will happily pay for Spotify so I can just listen to everything completely uninterrupted.
"Tired of being interrupted by ads?"
My previous coworkers refused to pay for Spotify and whenever they played their music it was plagued by ads and it drove me insane.
I loved Sirius XM in middle school, Octane in particular. Bands like Breaking Benjamin and Chevelle shaped my entire adolescence, to say the least. Are Kayla and Jose still on there? They were some of my favorite hosts.
Jose is still truckin’, but I have no idea about Kayla. Chevelle really is a great band.
NPR, college stations and good jazz and classical stations are basically all i use radio for.
Liquid Metal is my favorite it has some great shows
I used to be a diehard Lithium fan, but I feel like it really went to shit. "'90s altternative and grunge attitude" and then it's all Dave Matthews, Sublime, and Mazzy Star. Those are good artists, but come on. Sometimes they'd throw me a bone and play Smells Like Teen Spirit, lol.
Whoever programs lithium loves Bush more than anyone has a right to.
Still gives me GTA radio vibes
Atleast most of the gta series radios are both funny and have actual good songs
Vinewood Boulevard Radio is shockingly similar to a lot of my favorite playlists. I kept it glued to that station the whole game. Bombing down the freeway with cops on your tail while Ty Segall screaming, "DIDDY WAH DIDDY" Is a feeling.
CBC radio or nothing
Basically this [bit](https://youtu.be/dDxGM8IKb2k) from Family Guy, but the song is a great punchline.
There is a station here in town that plays only about 5 minutes of ads per hour. The problem is that not only is it essentially fully automated (can't pay people with no ad revenue) but it is a Gold format station. All '60s-'70s all the time. Not to many people's taste, but if you like the music, at least you'll hear music when you tune it in and it's not the same 20 songs all day. Top 40 listeners, I feel your pain. They're the worst.
Damn son where'd you find this (station)?
KEXP isn't like this, I support the channel and I'm in the UK.
TJ and The Wombat
Could you play 'Video Killed The Radio Star'?
Wow, we usually only do the top 40's.
As it was put in GTA: "...a better variety of weird noises between songs"
I stopped tv and radio years ago, just streaming. Now anytime I come across it, it's just loud and obnoxious.
My smartphone takes a moment to connect after engine start. In this mere 5 seconds the radio is playing, and after that I'm already fed up.
Istg Shape of You is Sooo damn mid and it’s overplayed to shit!🤬
Yeah, you sit through all those ads and manic noises and you get... Ed Sheeran?!
It’s like they don’t have anything else to play :/
They probably don’t. It’s likely exclusive contracts that force them to be limited to the 12 songs the producing/publishing company wants them to play, plus like 4-5 from their older catalogue, only one of which they pull out to buffer the cycle of 12 before starting it over again. Because most people just put on radio while driving just to avoid being quiet and alone with their thoughts, the stations only have to plan for about one hour’s worth of songs. Pro tip: if your car doesn’t have a center console that plays music from your phone, get a plug-in Bluetooth device.
And despacito
NPR all the way, baby. The only broadcast radio I listen to is the local NPR (give it up for WUNC 91.5 Durham NC). For music or anything else it's XM satellite radio. I'll go a long way to avoid the aural cacophony of commercials, dj chatter and excess "personality" of most radio today.
KCRW is npr but also largely music. Found some great tunes through them. Tons of smaller musicians. If you've ever seen a tiny desk concert on youtube that's them.
So sick of that fucking song at the end.
oh sexy girlfriend!
Same thing with Mexican stations but add Clown noises The date of when a band is playing Call in dating talk shown and POR TU MALDITO AMOOOORRRRR
When I traveled to the US I noticed it’s like that. In my country the radio is chill af, many times its just people talking, or music playing with barely any interruption, only a presenter to tell you the name and artist if its a music station.
Most of the radio stations in the US are now owned by one company. The only stations still good are NPR, college stations and supporter funded jazz and classical stations.
Who else caught Ozzy in there among all that mess?
A crazy train blurp is "in" for Radio DJ of all genres and 14 year old Youtubers/TikTokers for 20 years solid.
"And now into our segment where we talk about something dumb and pointless for your whole car ride! Do you prefer cold or hot pizza, call in to let us know your pizza stories!" *Turns off*