Tue, 2006 Nov 28
The state of radio
(NB: Yes, this is my third article for tonight. I try to do one from genesis entry a week and have been catching up tonight. This entry is a bit different).
So, I have this weird bit to my nature: I listen to music much more during cooler weather. It beats me why but I can go most of the summer barely listening to music, and avoid it when working. Once autumn hits, I suddenly start listening to the radio even whilst working. The big problem is that the height of my yearly desire to listen to music occurs about the point when every! bloody! radio! station! is playing Christmas music. Don’t get me wrong, I like Christmas music. I don’t like hearing otherwise decent bands trying to figure out how to make a new version of “Silver Bells” necessary.
And when I turn to a rock station, I do not want to hear Silent Night.
But of course, that’s what the radio stations think is exactly what should happen, for a full bloody month. Take, for example, Bob. Bob is a newish station in the OKC area. They generally play music I like and were, for a few months, one of my two favorite stations (KOMA, which plays oldies, is the perennial other favorite.) And then came Jack FM. Whilst I tend to like the selection of Jack better than Bob, what I liked most was that there were two decent non-Oldies stations. I mean, listening to Jack and Ron makes me feel better about myself, but that’s not really a compliment.
But now, Bob has decided that Christmas music is in order. This was a station that claimed to be free of the corporate moronness that dominates contemporary radio. Guess which dial no longer gets pressed?
So, the state of radio is that this year, I’m very thankful for Jack. Oh, and no DJ’s. Super plus. My only complaint is that their ad rates are apparently low, so they get some really dumb ads–If I have to hear that lady say “No, no, we don’t eat sand” one more time…
Oh, coincidentally, does REO Speedwagon’s “Take it on the run” strike anyone else as a really dumb move on some guy’s part. “I don’t believe it, but…” Yeah, bet that line worked well…
