Clear Channel and Why Mainstream radio sucks

A clip from the documentary, Before the Music Dies guest starring Erykah Badu, Dave Matthews, ?uestlove of the Roots, and more about Clear Channel radio

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Music

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• Clear
• Channel
• radio
• stations

[dudemandude3]

Fuck the radio...

[misfit12341]

mainstream music is so tasteless its not even funny.

[goohgulliscia]

Clear Channel also hires ACTORS to call into the shows they syndicate: Rush, Hannity, Michael Savage, Dave Ramsey, etc. Raw Story broke the news last year. Search it.

[AirlayLeekoh]

that's what CDs and iPods are for....

[davewoodring]

@manyvideoinerests they program everyone to consume, obey destroy,

[MrCodyMcG]

i mute commercials, on the TV and the radio

[000Mariat000]

@khussett

So true.

I think it's because back then the people were not as desensialized as they are today.

But there is also a little bit of nostalgia, liking the old ones more than the new shit, which people hear on the radio nowadays^^

[manyvideoinerests]

I have heard that Clear Channel is selling a lot of stations, but can't get rid of them in some cases.  They just need to get the hell out of radio though, and should have years ago. Anyone know what station in Michigan they first bought? I noticed they had a lot of them in Detroit in 2001, but the first one I heard about them owning is WOOD in Grand Rapids.

[gr8fullydeadic8ed]

Does anybody know what song is playing in the background?

I use to have an instrumental version of it,It was the driving force behind many of my workout sessions & would love an mp3 of it.

[jjdude630]

love how this ended at 4:20 legalize weed!!!!!

[ajatco]

As far as Pirate/Satelite stations go, they may or may not servive due to emerging content providers. It could be that radio as we know it maybe on the way out for good. All this talk about good or bad my be pointless in the end. Do you have the Bell Telephone that used to hang on your wall at home. Look around their gone having been replaced by cell phones. It can also be said that the transsiter radio from 1954 created pop music anyway. Maybe its the radio that killed off good music after all.

[ajatco]

I seem to remember somewere that our musical prefrence is pretty much locked down by age sixteen. Now without sounding like a smarty pants, it seems that those of us that are music lovers develop our bias in our teens. So of course a lot of the "todays music sucks" talk is just bias. There is good music out there, you just have to dig deeper. Technology has opened the flood gates and loaded the bottom level with a massive amount of content, now the big stations need to narrow their focus more.