Congratulations Clear Channel, you've killed Hartford Radio

[CTListener]

With all the stations to listen to online, why would anyone choose a Clear Channel station??

The same reason millions and millions of people choose to listen to them on FM: Because they play familiar, mainstream music that tests well with a large percentage of American listeners in focus groups.

[kms575]

With all the stations to listen to online, why would anyone choose a Clear Channel station??

The same reason millions and millions of people choose to listen to them on FM: Because they play familiar, mainstream music that tests well with a large percentage of American listeners in focus groups.

Well, millions watch American Idol, The Hills and HLN, but that doesn't mean they are quality TV. We have been dumbed down by mainstream media, this includes radio.

[CTListener]

With all the stations to listen to online, why would anyone choose a Clear Channel station??

The same reason millions and millions of people choose to listen to them on FM: Because they play familiar, mainstream music that tests well with a large percentage of American listeners in focus groups.

Well, millions watch American Idol, The Hills and HLN, but that doesn't mean they are quality TV. We have been dumbed down by mainstream media, this includes radio.

I agree, but I was just answering your question. America as a whole has been dumbed down and wants dumbed-down entertainment. CC knows the masses don't want anything adventurous or unexpected when they turn on their radios, just generic happy voices telling generic jokes, reading time and temp, and playing "songs you like by artists you know," as a slogan on a CC station I heard in upstate New York once went.

[DToTheJ]

With all the stations to listen to online, why would anyone choose a Clear Channel station??

The same reason millions and millions of people choose to listen to them on FM: Because they play familiar, mainstream music that tests well with a large percentage of American listeners in focus groups.

Well, millions watch American Idol, The Hills and HLN, but that doesn't mean they are quality TV. We have been dumbed down by mainstream media, this includes radio.

I agree, but I was just answering your question. America as a whole has been dumbed down and wants dumbed-down entertainment. CC knows the masses don't want anything adventurous or unexpected when they turn on their radios, just generic happy voices telling generic jokes, reading time and temp, and playing "songs you like by artists you know," as a slogan on a CC station I heard in upstate New York once went.

I have nothing productive to add to this discussion, I just wanted to continue the lovely quote train we've got going!

[Whale]

With all the stations to listen to online, why would anyone choose a Clear Channel station??

The same reason millions and millions of people choose to listen to them on FM: Because they play familiar, mainstream music that tests well with a large percentage of American listeners in focus groups.

I completely disagree.   They listen because of successful branding and marketing.  Many people aren't savvy enough to find stations on their own, they go with the URL that's pushed on their radio.   Most markets have only one station per format.     Clear Channel stations are not listened to because of their quality, it's because they've been allowed to buy away any competition.

[PaulRAnderson]

I would love it if an FM station played "songs you like by artists you know".  All I hear is commercial pap from artists I've barely heard of.  The recent switch of "Mix 98.5" to "Mix 104.1" in Boston had me listening to the station for the first time.  What I heard was self-indulgent babble from the people on the air, a commercial break with at least ten commercials and songs that are barely listenable.

No wonder I stopped listening to FM radio years ago.  It has nothing to offer me.  Millions and millions of Americans have stopped listening too, but I certainly realize that, at the same time, millions and millions still listen.

Even in the days of mass-appeal radio like WABC, they played new songs by artists you didn't know.  The people programming stations then took chances that I suspect no station does today.

Paul

[WPPCProductions]

Hear the same ole tunes all the time On CC stations and others not  owned by CC  too,How often the station test the songs out,  on all formats .