Comment on End of an era as Radio City tower hosts final live broadcast on Christmas Eve | Liverpool
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 year ago
All these local radio stations being rebranded as “Hits Radio” is quite sad. Instead of every area having their own unique station identity, we’ve now got these very generic, bland stations. I think many are controlled from the same place and broadcast the same music at the same time but then have DJs for each local station.
It’s kind of like a local, well loved brand that’s been around for decades gets bought by some nation wide company and turns it to shit.
It’s a tricky industry I think.
We’re seeing about a 4% year on year decline in FM listeners if I remember correctly. Advertisers like metrics that radio can’t deliver. Spotify and YouTube are the main winners.
I still run a volunteer run community station and we’re able to break even, but with power bills over $1,000 a month plus insurances and other fees, it’s not so easy. We’re still having fun though :)
It’s really, really hard to get a licence to broadcast in the uk, so there’s really very few radio stations that reflect modern music tastes outside of large city centres
I still listen to radio, however its almost all online radio.
Modern Pop, 2000’s Pop, 90’s Pop, 80’s Pop, just really don’t interest me or anyone else in my family, however its the vast majority of the radio.
Soma FM for me.
I listen to Radio Fip from France, that’s pretty fantastic
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 year ago
They’re mostly very, very, very automated.
Any human that can possibly be replace with a server, or multiple humans replaced with one central one, they’ve done it.