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The 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
by jhayward 9y ago
The 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.