How do I compare the two?

On radio, it seems in every market, there is something for everyone. I mean, here where I live, you have your choice of the following:

Religious
Oldies
Classic rock
New rock
Lite rock
Today's country
Classic country
Smooth jazz
Rhythm and blues
Sports talk radio (local and national)
Talk radio
Nostalgia (even though the closest one is in Washington Court House, 30 miles away, and it usually comes in staticky)

Note: That's not counting stations that broadcast over the Internet!

Talk about diversity! In television terms, my radio menu is like having several channels for 1950s shows, several for 1960s shows, several for 1970s shows, etc. Why is radio so much more diverse than television (at least broadcast TV), besides the fact that there are far more radio stations available than TV stations?

That's becoming not the case in my market. Because of huge conglomerates like Clear Channel and Citadel, radio is becoming less and less unique by station. As far as I'm concerned, terrestrial radio is dead.

I find that TV is much more diverse. Not necessarily by TV stations that rerun TV shows from a certain era (I think that's where you're going with this), but by content.

The day I grade "A" reception quality on ANY Jazz station in Albany, KY (The small town I claim residence in when school isn't in session) is the day one can begin to talk about the diversity of play formats. HERE, approximately 80% of radio playlists are either Country/Bluegrass or Country/"Southern Rock", with another 10% being your usual Clear-Channel-ized "Current" playlists,. The next 5% is 70s/80s/90s (All together). The last five percent is an amalgomation of Religious Talk/Gospel, and Classical. As for Bowling Green: Shift those numbers to 50% Country, 25% is the Clear Channel special, 15% is 70s/80s/90s, and the rest is scattered among other formats.

I've already decided that whatever vehicle I ultimately wind up with (those of you who remember me talking about a 1993 Dodge Dakota, please don't ask) WILL have a Satellite Radio service installed

I think I like radio better. :)

Yeah, I'm going to Sirius sometime before Stern makes the switch.

XM Radio rules! I could never listen to FM again.

Both suck. I listen to more records and spend more time on the Internet. :mad:

I probably have my radio on more than my TV. I listen to a lot of the talk shows from the morning until early afternoon, then sometimes in the evening, too.

I bet those who grew up without TV are surprised that radio is still very popular.

Radio plays the same eight songs(depends on the month). TV plays the same eight shows(Full House, Friends, Seinfeld, Law and Order, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, CSI, and Fresh Prince). It's all the same.

I really only listen to the radio in the car, yet I have the TV on all the time, whether I'm paying attention or not.

Yeah Im the same way. Except I listen to my iPod more in the car now than even my XM radio, except for the Ed Schultz show.

Radio plays the same eight songs(depends on the month). TV plays the same eight shows(Full House, Friends, Seinfeld, Law and Order, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, CSI, and Fresh Prince). It's all the same.
Good observation!

Dealing with variety they seem about the same. They always show the same shows but they also have the same songs. I like T.V. better.

Gah...ever traveled thru the midwest in those spaces where you are near no big towns?? IT'S ALL COUNTRY. Thank GOD for CD players in that case.

The radio stations around here are getting worse. On one of the Clear Channel stations, DJ turn over is disturbing. And the so-called "program" director has the WORST voice for radio I've ever heard. But they play good music, so I listen. Another station plays the same song 5 times a day.

Gah...ever traveled thru the midwest in those spaces where you are near no big towns?? IT'S ALL COUNTRY. Thank GOD for CD players in that case.

The radio stations around here are getting worse. On one of the Clear Channel stations, DJ turn over is disturbing. And the so-called "program" director has the WORST voice for radio I've ever heard. But they play good music, so I listen. Another station plays the same song 5 times a day.


In the greater New York area it's getting to be all disco and hip-hop. Even the MOR stations are getting more disco. My favorite rock station? Clasic dance now. Unless you love the night life baby, and ya got to boogie, do a little dance, make a little love, vogue, let your body move to the music, and get down tonight, unless that's the way (uh huh uh huh) you like it (uh huh uh huh), unless you got the boogie fever and you gotta boogie oogie oogie 'til you just can't boogie no more - at Studio 54 (Awwww. . .FREAK OUT!! Le Freak -c'est C HIC!), unless you just bust a move (U can't touch this!) while yo' down wit O.P.P., unless you dig the bitches and ho's (WHO YOU CALLIN' A BITCH??) (What's my name, what's my name?), well, as Jim Croce - a folk singer-songwriter - once put it, New York's not your home.

But at least we have good urban folk and jazz stations.

Country and western? Ehh, not here!

In the greater New York area it's getting to be all disco and hip-hop. Even the MOR stations are getting more disco. My favorite rock station? Clasic dance now. Unless you love the night life baby, and ya got to boogie, do a little dance, make a little love, vogue, let your body move to the music, and get down tonight, unless that's the way (uh huh uh huh) you like it (uh huh uh huh), unless you got the boogie fever and you gotta boogie oogie oogie 'til you just can't boogie no more - at Studio 54 (Awwww. . .FREAK OUT!! Le Freak -c'est C HIC!), unless you just bust a move (U can't touch this!) while yo' down wit O.P.P., unless you dig the bitches and ho's (WHO YOU CALLIN' A BITCH??) (What's my name, what's my name?), well, as Jim Croce - a folk singer-songwriter - once put it, New York's not your home.

Country and western? Ehh, not here!

:lol:

I think radio station programmers think that we're all hicks that listen to nothing but hee-haw country here in the midwest. Ugh...no! Of course, these radio stations are run buy suits in NYC and LA, so what they know about the midwest couldn't fill a thimble.

Some country is okay; I'm not dissing all of it.