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Monday, April 23, 2012

Another dinosaur: FM Music Radio

I've come to the conclusion that FM music radio stations are, like the US Postal Service and paper catalogs and so many other things, just one more dinosaur of the last age.

Think about it, we have our MP3 players or our iPods or iPhones or Shuffles or Android phone or Sirius XM radio or whatever. They play all our own music already, without all the talk time and commericials. Or if it isn't that, we're listening to Pandora or Spotify. It's a much better solution to our music choices, too, since we don't have to listen to some irrelevant babble from people we either don't know or don't care for and advertisements we REALLY don't want to hear.

It even, finally, applies to our cars, too, the last bastion of need for the FM music radio station. This is one more benefit of computers, too, since we get more of either our own music or new things we wouldn't otherwise hear because the radio only plays mind-numbing familiar top-40 songs. Some stations have tried to play different things over the years but it never works. It's not as though it's not some of their faults but most radio music is pretty stale if not out-and-out dreadful. No catalogs and no mail? Great. Less trees cut down. No FM music radio? Good riddance. Sorry, guys. You're outta' here. Eventually, anyway. Find new jobs now, while you can.

4 comments:

Donna. W said...

I hadn't thought about it, but you are right. I go to sleep listening to my Pandora folk station on my Grace Internet radio, most nights. Cliff has his satellite radio playing all day long in the shop: his station of choice is "Willie's Place", which is old country music from the 50's through the 80's.
We very seldom listen to actual radio stations.

Mo Rage said...

And everyone younger than us is WAY ahead of all this, too.

So many things going away and/or just changing a great deal. Some good, some bad but lots and lots of change and changes.

Anonymous said...

So I was in kcmo last week in a rental car with no aux cable for my iPhone, so no Pandora for me. I listened to KKFI. They played local music. It was mostly blues, but also a variety of local stuff. The DJs were informative about the local music scene. That's the 1st time in recent memory that I didn't cringe at FM radio.

Mo Rage said...

Well, that's good news for radio, KKFI and even Kansas City. Good to hear.