[BC] On the FM Dial, Rock Is Sliding Away

[Robert Meuser]

Glen

I remember in my youth living from sky wave signals at night. They brought many 
magical things that I could not find locally. I would not have known to look for 
them. There was wwl with real blues, wnox with R at B,WCFL-WLS-WABC with rock 'nd 
roll. They were all exciting and brought something different into the market. 
Today everything is homogenized. You can take this way past this country. I just 
came back from spending some time with two French women living in NYC who spent 
8 months in Asia. They visited Tibet and Nepal along with Thailand and China. 
They were universally disappointed over how homogenized the world has become.

R

khcs at juno.com wrote:
> Steve observed:
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>>Remember the days when Top 
>>40 used to pull double-digit shares 'most everywhere?  All of the 
>>aforementioned cities have large non-white populations.
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> and Robert replied:
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> What does race have to do with this???  Look who is driving that Subaru.  Its is little Johnny from the suburbs.
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> Yeah!  The guy from the city is driving a pimped-out Escalade!  LOL!
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> No, really, when I was in high school everybody (except me) was listening to Top-40, I listened to the "race music" show that was on a low-power AM in the afternoons, the jazz show on Saturday night, and occasionally to Willis Conover's Voice of America Jazz Hour.  
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> But, our custure has become fractionalized so much that there is no more "mass media."  When there were only 4 radio networks (including Mutual) and 4 TV networks (including Dumont) there was a limited amount of "mass" media.  Sure, there were the local stations playing bluegrass, cajun, western swing and whatever, but those only reached a limited audience.  The limited number of media choices did help to unify our culture, IMO, but now we have "multiculturalism" and a more divided society.
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> Glen Kippel
> KHCS
> Palm Desert, CA
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