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iHeartRadio is the company that nobody asked for, who attempts to shove their music down your throat with moderate success. The sooner it's gone, the better off
by brickmort 9y ago
iHeartRadio is the company that nobody asked for, who attempts to shove their music down your throat with moderate success. The sooner it's gone, the better off the music industry will be.
- samfisher83 9y agoIt was originally called Clear Channel communication, and they are the biggest radio company in America. The business is actually ok. The issue is that a few years ago Bain capital did LBO. Basically they have a massive amount of debt on their balance sheet which they can't service. If you look through their earning they are generating about 800 mil or so in profit. The issues they have like 1.2billion dollar interest payment. This has kind of the been the MO for Bain Capital.
- Aloha 9y agoYou don't have to listen to the radio if you don't like what's on.
- sp332 9y agoI don't get to listen to what I want on the radio if they keep closing stations I liked.
- khazhoux 9y agoWhy the hate? I sometimes catch Martha Quinn's 80s show in my morning or evening drive and enjoy it. No throat-shoving there!
- jhayward 9y agoThe hate is because the Clear Channel business model destroyed local music stations, with ties to the local community and culture, by buying up stations, firing everyone, and running them as automatons by remote programming. Complete with phony "we love XYZ" promos by well-known local personalities whose entire involvement was 15 minutes in a sound booth and a check. It's a business model designed to mine the value of local radio, extract the money, kill the host organism, and move on. The zombie shells left behind are vanilla, deceptive, and empty.
- mi100hael 9y agoThe irony of Bain doing the same thing to them.
- spaceflunky 9y agoThis is a perfect summation of what has happened. Turns out after you remote play Rhianna, Bieber, and Katy Perry on loop for 15 years, (with a 60/40, commercial to music ratio) people stop paying attention.
- khazhoux 9y agoEh, pop radio has been like this as long as I remember (back to the 80s). Then as today, pop radio is just rotation of a few tracks every single day, and if you want anything non-robotic, you go to college radio, jazz, classical, or NPR. Even before Clear Channel, pop radio stations would have you believe that Bruce Springsteen and Prince only ever recorded 3 tracks each, Radiohead recorded a single track in 1991 and then stopped, U2 got stuck at Joshua Tree, Soundgarden made a single track... I could go on. That fine tradition continues today, where at any given moment I can turn on the radio and find Portugal The Man's "Feel it Still", or one of ten other predictable tracks. Looks to me like Clear Channel just replaced one brainless programming model with another.
- msla 9y agoThis is an undead trope: Mass-media radio was shoved down people's throats to some extent back before there was any serious alternative to radio in general, but there are so many ways to hear music now it isn't justified anymore. It reeks of hating something simply because it's popular, as if you're wounded by the notion that popular music is popular because a lot of people like it, as opposed to some vast conspiracy.