[BC] Quote of the Week

[Dave Schreyer]

Here is an interesting quote I found on MSN's entertainment page this week.
Sort of sizes up today's radio.
 
"Radio has certainly changed over the last 10 years or so," he says, "and
it's really taken kind of a turn for the worse. When 'Jessie's Girl' came
out, it was picked up by radio because they liked the song. That doesn't
happen anymore. Now, radio stations get handed a list of 20 songs from
corporate headquarters and are told, 'Play these. Don't deviate.' The days
of discovering new music and taking chances with it don't exist anymore." 

--Rick Springfield

(BTW: Springfield is returning to ABC's long running soap General Hospital
in January reprising his role as Dr. Noah Drake! Acting over music?
Hmmm...things must really be bad if Springfield's pissed! :-P )

Is it any wonder why Sirius and XM will KILL terrestrial radio's butt!
Record companies aren't producing good product and radio stations have
nothing new and good to play anymore other than the "oldies" which have more
class than the crap owners are playing on their stations and calling it
Current Hit Radio. Perhaps its time to get those engineer job applications
into to Sirius and XM before it's too late??? 

Dave Schreyer

dave at twinportsbroadcasting.com