[BC] Quote of the Week

[SteveOrdinetz]

Dave Schreyer wrote:
>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 )


Pretty strong words from a washed-up teen idol who hasn't had a hit in over 
20 years.  Pray tell, what station gets a list of 20 songs from corporate 
and is told "don't deviate"?  No station I've ever worked for.  What's the 
matter...is he jealous because David Lee Roth, Danny Bonaduce, Rupaul & one 
of the Monkees all got radio gigs and he got passed over?  :-/



>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???


If the record companies aren't producing anything worth listening to then 
where will XM and Sirius get THEIR product?  Last I knew they had any 
number of channels featuring current music.

Satellite radio is another choice (one that didn't exist 5 years ago), but 
it has a long way to go before it's a significant threat to terrestrial 
radio.  As far as todays Contemporary Hit Radio goes...how old are you?  If 
like many/most of us on this list you're on the far side of 40...you're not 
in the demo they're trying to reach.  My father didn't like the Beatles or 
Rolling Stones either.