A major new survey of Rock radio listeners around the country, conducted by Jacobs Media and Edison Media Research, reveals that while many are concerned with indecency on the airwaves, they overwhelmingly feel that the government should stay out of the business of regulating radio programs.
For the last decade, programmers have had it drilled into them that what matters is no longer the records but what’s between them. But today’s programmers aren’t given a lot of time or encouragement to give “what goes between the records” enough care and feeding. Over the years, I’ve accumulated a number of pet peeves about the way stations are produced and executed. Some of them will undoubtedly strike you as a little too inside—particularly if you’ve got real fires to put out today. But at least one or two will likely resonate. And you’ll undoubtedly have some of your own to share.
You didn’t really think teen pop was going away, did you? Even if programmers thought they could wish it away, Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Stacie Orrico, and their friends had other plans.
Some songs will never research well until somebody starts playing them again. The new gold-based alternative stations have proven that to some extent. So is somebody finally going to put the rhythmic hits that defined top 40 and R&B radio in the early ‘90s back on the air?