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Mon Jul 08 2019 09:02:00 MST
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ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@tsbbs.wallofhate.com>
Wow!
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Wed Aug 07 2019 07:08:58 MST
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IGnatius T Foobar <ignatius_t_foobar@tsbbs.wallofhate.com>
Sun Jul 28 2019 13:36:14 MST from WangissUh... What happened?
Music died. Starting in 1996.
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Tue Aug 13 2019 22:35:52 MST
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Wangiss <wangiss@tsbbs.wallofhate.com>
Then I'm glad Semisonic got out Great Divide before it happened. Great album from start to finish.
Wed Aug 07 2019 07:08:58 MST from IGnatius T Foobar
Sun Jul 28 2019 13:36:14 MST from WangissUh... What happened?
Music died. Starting in 1996.
Nope, Greg Kihn put it at 1984
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Mon Jan 18 2021 21:58:43 MST
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ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>
Maybe this is the next one I'll teach myself. Looks like a D to F Bar to G... I think?
The bar will be the hardest part for me... plus, the weird muting strum.
Nope, Greg Kihn put it at 1984
There's a very specific reason that I put it at 1996.
That's when the regulatory environment changed. The limit was removed (or relaxed, I can't remember and can't be bothered to check right now because my brain is full of alcohol) on how many radio stations could be owned and operated by the same company. So after that you got companies like Clear Channel (now known as iHeart) and Citadel Broadcasting (no relation to present company) buying up tons of stations.
The result was that traditional A&R died almost immediately. The big radio companies didn't have to seek out new talent because there wsere very few independent broadcasters left. The big companies don't do A&R, instead they "manufacture" new acts. They find attractive and marginally-talented performers to record songs written by Lukasz Gottwald and Max Martin. It is formulaic and sterile but your typical mass-market consumers gobble it up.
That's why there's no point in owning a radio anymore.
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Sun Feb 07 2021 06:32:28 MST
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ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>
And why radio seems mostly the same no matter what State you live in, including the places on the dial where you find the music you like.
The problem though:
"It is formulaic and sterile but your typical mass-market consumers gobble it up."
Is us.
Sat Feb 06 2021 18:09:17 MSTfrom IGnatius T FoobarNope, Greg Kihn put it at 1984
There's a very specific reason that I put it at 1996.
That's when the regulatory environment changed. The limit was removed (or relaxed, I can't remember and can't be bothered to check right now because my brain is full of alcohol) on how many radio stations could be owned and operated by the same company. So after that you got companies like Clear Channel (now known as iHeart) and Citadel Broadcasting (no relation to present company) buying up tons of stations.
The result was that traditional A&R died almost immediately. The big radio companies didn't have to seek out new talent because there wsere very few independent broadcasters left. The big companies don't do A&R, instead they "manufacture" new acts. They find attractive and marginally-talented performers to record songs written by Lukasz Gottwald and Max Martin. It is formulaic and sterile but your typical mass-market consumers gobble it up.
That's why there's no point in owning a radio anymore.
Sat Feb 06 2021 18:09:17 MST from IGnatius T FoobarThat's when the regulatory environment changed. The limit was removed (or relaxed, I can't remember and can't be bothered to check right now because my brain is full of alcohol) on how many radio stations could be owned and operated by the same company.
Yes, classic Reagan deregulation.
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Sun Feb 07 2021 22:26:47 MST
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ParanoidDelusions <paranoiddelusions@wallofhate.com>
There were unintended consequences. We probably wouldn't have Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and countless others if he hadn't broken up the Bells. We probably wouldn't have cell phones.
*shrug*
Sun Feb 07 2021 19:28:04 MST from Google Bot
Sat Feb 06 2021 18:09:17 MST from IGnatius T FoobarThat's when the regulatory environment changed. The limit was removed (or relaxed, I can't remember and can't be bothered to check right now because my brain is full of alcohol) on how many radio stations could be owned and operated by the same company.
Yes, classic Reagan deregulation.
There were unintended consequences. We probably wouldn't have
Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and countless others if he hadn't
broken up the Bells. We probably wouldn't have cell phones.
Ok, time for some serious topic drift ... move this if you want to.
The breakup of the Bell System was inevitable. If the courts hadn't done it, market forces would have. And of course it's funny to watch how Bell is putting itself back together like the T-1000 in Terminator 2 after it was frozen and smashed. There were dozens of RBOCs, now there are only three (Verizon, Lumen, and "AT&T").
The real problem was that the breakup was done in the wrong place. They separated local service from long distance service, which was not very forward-looking, even in 1983. What they should have done was to separate operation of the physical plant (central offices and last-mile wiring) from the services that run on it. Basically if you operate the last mile then you're not allowed to be a carrier. This would have allowed equal access to happen properly: carriers could operate local, long distance, voice, data, video, whatever; you just establish a presence in the central offices you want to reach.
Whatever. It's all turning into Internet now anyway.
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