Radio stations becoming too corperate

Barely annoying because radio has been a dying format for years. Satellite radio and MP3 players now offer even poor dirtbags the opportunity to not be bombarded with 22+ minutes of commercials for every hour of music. Radio is simply awful these days. . .outside of sports, news, and a necessary weather forecast it's almost useless. [Although NPR can be interesting or very boring depending on the guest(s)] Ten years ago I would have rated this higher. . .now it's like rating the passing of the dinosaurs after they've been wiped out for a few million years. . .

Apart from the student run and funded radio station when I was in university, and a local co-op radio station that takes the phrase "bizarre programming" to entirely new levels, I've never heard a station that wasn't corporate. Therefore I'm not sure what "too corporate" means. And for an example of "bizarre programming" consider this. They once broadcast the movies "Battleship Potemkin" and Murnau's "Nosferatu." For those among you who are unaware, those are silent movies. So in each case, you had 90 minutes of imposed music, occasionally interspersed with someone reading the caption panels.

I don't find it annoying because almost without exception, when I am listening to music I am not listening to a commercial radio station unless it is incidental, like in someone elses car or in a retail store. I can't stand DJ's and their inane banter, there is no more shrill form of advertising than the 30 second radio spot, and the sound of a DJ interjecting his wise-crack commentary during the 60 seconds an hour dedicated to news with a hip perspective is enough to make me drive my car off a mountain road. There are a couple of news and information format radio stations in my market that command my dial and, fortunately, three campus radio stations that play absolutely NOTHING that you will hear on commercial radio.

As nice as it is to listen to the music you like on CD's or an ipod, or whatever your personal favorite way of listening to music is, broadcast radio is still the cheapest and most widespread way of being able to listen to new music (I can't listen to internet radio in my car, for example). It's also nice to be able to get a local weather forecast in between songs every now and then. So I do still listen to a lot of radio, but I do get annoyed at the overabundance of repeat songs, untalented bands (cough, Rascal Flatts, cough) that are clearly being pushed by the music industry, and annoying radio personalities that seem to be a result of corporate radio stations.

Irish is pretty right on that radio stations have been overly corporate for a long time. Payola has been going on just about as long as Rock n Roll has been around. Most radio stations also lost their locally owned and independent status years ago. The problem with radio is that its hard to survive without having to sell a lot of ad time. Rascal Flatts isn't real country to many country music fans, but the reality is that most people listening to that station want to hear that music over Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings. The program directors have done their research. Classical music is great, but many areas of the country don't have enough classical music fans for a company to justify losing money to keep classical music on the air. There is one good independent station in my area, but the reality is that its signal is so weak that I can barely hear it broadcast from 25 miles away. There is a reason that many people have made the switch to XM or Sirius over the last few years. Th... Read more

I've lost my favorite classical station CBC radio 2 because of this. Ever since that I've resolved to listening to a Francophone station although I can't understand a word they say, but at least the music is quality.

I am really surprised nobody has rated this yet. I can't stand when a corperate office changes a station that you really like into a station that is nothing more than a copy cat of other stations and there is many of those other stations already on the air! Why???