American radio listeners are listening less
"They make their money, they pay the bank, everybody is happy... And music is very low on the totem pole." American radio listeners are listening less. In 1993, they spent an average of 23 hours per week with the radio on; last year, it was down to 20 1/2 hours, according to Arbitron numbers.
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I can't speak from a national perspective, as I haven't travelled 'far and wide' in some time.
Speaking from the Southeastern perspective, however, I can say this: The airwaves have become so unpalatable as of late that it just grinds me to listen to the stations that I once enjoyed.
This is a big statement, as I am a fervent music fan/listener. There's simply not much that's musically enjoyable and it seems that the same handful of sub-standard songs are beat to a ragged, gasping death day after day with overplay. I blame the 'big money' industry execs who are putting out crap music and I blame the programmers for taking the payola and playing it.
*sigh* One of two things will happen:
-Either the industry will wise up, or
-We will be so numbed and dumbed by the ugly discordant nonsense available that we will regard music in the same way we approach politics and culture: the sheeplike tendency to believe someone wholeheartedly when they glad-hand us and tell us that 'THIS is WONDERFULLL stuff!'
Posted by: Jett | June 28, 2002 2:26 PM