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Scott Delinger's avatar

Radio, where to start. Hyperlocal?? Hundreds of markets all running ClearComm programming. When there is a local element (morning "shows" which don't SHOW anything), it's the inane chatter you mentioned. Inane chatter plus more ads than cable TV leave small blocks in which two 3.41-minute long pop songs play, followed by another 20 minutes of chatter and ads. The radio stations that played music (classical music radio) have now disappeared like small-town daily newspapers. Radio sucks.

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Amplifier Worshiper's avatar

I don’t understand how people are not discovering new music. Podcasts include clips, movies and tv play songs, friends talk about stuff, ads are displayed all over a city, etc. these are all entirely passive and not unlike your radio example.

If we are not finding new music we likely don’t care about music that much and shouldn’t be too concerned. If you care about exploring music, it has never been easier.

Note: radio is not far off an algorithm if you listen to the same channel consistently.

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