My older son (who is 8 years old) has recently begun to like country music. Or specifically one band, Rascal Flatts. This started because they did a song on the Cars movie soundtrack. He received their new CD for Christmas this year.
Now I don’t mind him listening to country music. I like country music myself. And he could be listening to a lot worse!
But now that he is starting to pay attention to music and radio stations, I learned about the sorry state of affairs in FM programming. I usually only listen to XM radio. I have the boom box in my office at work and the car kit in my vehicle. The only time that I listen to anything else is I turn on the local AM news/talk station to hear traffic reports, usually only after I am in a traffic jam.
There used to be one station that I listened to on FM. It’s format was 80’s music. But they changed a while ago to 80’s – today, and I don’t particularly care for today’s pop music.
Now the local stations have done a format dance again. The oldies station is now country music (making it two country stations in the area), and the former 80’s station is now oldies (which is now defined as 60s-80s).
It has been tried in the past to have two country stations in the area. It hasn’t worked in the past, but that doesn’t keep radio stations from trying. I just wish the established country station would be the one to change format and dump their morning show. And this is mainly because their morning show has a guy pretending to be an old woman. That just drives me nuts.
As far as I know there are only two FM stations in the area that have kept the same format for years. One is the aforementioned country station, the other is the classic rock station. The one-time 80’s station was a gospel station when I moved to this area.
Enough ranting. Back to regularly scheduled programming 🙂
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