{"id":15845,"date":"2002-06-20T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-20T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/radio-has-been-terrible-for-a-while-just-when-i\/"},"modified":"2002-06-20T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-20T16:11:00","slug":"radio-has-been-terrible-for-a-while-just-when-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/radio-has-been-terrible-for-a-while-just-when-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio has been terrible for a while.  Just when I start liking a song, it gets played to death and I can&rsquo;t stand hearing it any more.  And the lack of variety doesn&rsquo;t help matters either.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/20\/radio.daze.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clear Channel is the next Microsoft of radio<\/a>.  It owns 1,200 radio stations across the country, 8 in the Washington DC area alone.  This homogenization and commercialization of radio will not get any better until listeners tune out, which is difficult to do without an alternative.  I&rsquo;m looking closely at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmradio.com\/programming\/full_channel_listing.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">XM<\/a>, one of the satellite radio providers that seems to offer a lot more variety, albeit at a cost.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77983808?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio has been terrible for a while. Just when I start liking a song, it gets played to death and I can&rsquo;t stand hearing it any more. And the lack of variety doesn&rsquo;t help matters either. Clear Channel is the next Microsoft of radio. It owns 1,200 radio stations across the country, 8 in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/radio-has-been-terrible-for-a-while-just-when-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}