There’s something wrong with CBS Radio’s press release announcing the launch, complete with silly “countdown,” of 92.3 Now FM in New York City, a contemporary hit radio station that will replace K-Rock on Wednesday, March 11, at 5:00pm. (Contemporary hit radio, in plain English, means garbage pop songs, distinguished by their use of auto-tune and use of lowest-common-denominator song-writing.) CBS Radio Senior Vice-President of Something or Other, Don Bouloukos, is quoted in the release as saying, “Our assets in the country’s No. 1 market include among them the best known brands in the business. From the most listened to news and sports stations in the country, to the classic sounds of WCBS FM and the adult contemporary styling of Fresh 102.7, CBS RADIO offers something for everyone in the market – including young adults who are using the radio to discover today’s most popular music as featured on 92.3 NOW FM.” [Emphasis added, obviously.] And that, friends, is why the radio business, as we know it, is truly doomed. No, Mr. Bouloukos, young people are not turning on their radio to discover new music; they’re certainly not sticking around through the commercials to listen to new music on a radio station. No, sir, that’s what the Internet is for, and that’s why your business has no future.
Some background information is needed here. For only one more day, 92.3 FM in New York City will be known as K-Rock, a typical rock station that you can find in any city in the U.S. If you can think of a rock song from the past 20 years, odds are, the station will play it. Twenty times per day. The latest ratings put the station at 21st place, one spot higher than a gospel station—there’s people who listen to gospel music in New York City?—and right behind a Univision-owned Latin Rhythm station. K-Rock, as a whole, isn’t doing too well. In fact, it’s doing so poorly that CBS Radio decided it was necessary to completely flip formats. Out with the Green Day and in with the Beyoncé! Opie and Anthony, a show I’ve enjoyed for several years now, was let go, according to Opie’s Twitter. It, apparently, doesn’t fit in with the station’s new direction. Fair enough, it’s for CBS Radio to decide if the show is relevant to the demographics it’s now targeting.
So CBS Radio in particular, and commercial radio in general, besieged by scary new technologies—your Imeems, Pandoras, iTunes(es?), YouTube, BitTorrents, iPhones, etc.—decides that rock doesn’t cut it anymore, and that a switch to CHR was in order. (There’s already another CHR station in New York, a fact CBS Radio decided to spin by saying that New Yorkers now, for the first time, have a choice of which frequency they wish to hear that Taylor Swift song. (As if people care what station they’re listening to a song on, provided they’re tuning in at all.) The thinking here, one can only assume, is that radio companies feel that station formats like rock, classic rock and whatever else—radio formats with large back catalogues—don’t work in an iPod world. Why pay a DJ to spin Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the millionth time when a good chunk of your potential audience already has the song on their iPhone (or other music-playing cellphone) or iPod (or other portable media player)? Better to program a music station with NEW! HIT! music. That way there’s less of a chance of your audience having the song on their iPod, and there’s less of a chance of your audience saying, “Good God, again they’re playing [this song]! Time to listen to something else!”
We now turn to Mr. Bouloukos’ comment, that young people—most of you guys are young people, I would guess!—are “using the radio to discover today’s most popular music.” First off, that wording is just wrong. If a song is already popular—remember, 92.3 Now will only only play “hit music”—then the odds are that people have already heard it before; in other words, hit music is already popular! A song becomes popular when a lot of people know it, and enjoy it. If a song is popular, then people aren’t, by definition, “discovering” it! (Amateur Hour at CBS Radio, apparently.) Even giving Mr. Bouloukos the benefit of the doubt, that what he meant to say is that people are using radio to discover new music… well, good luck bro. I’d like to find the last 17-year-old in America who is using commercial radio as his primary source of new music. I mean, it’s not like these kids are using THE INTERNET to find new music, right? MySpace Music, music blogs like Hype Machine, sites like Imeem and YouTube, etc. (Then these kids turn around and buy said music either directly from the band’s Web site, or use iTunes or, yes, download it “from BitTorrent.” (BitTorrent is an Internet protocol; you don’t download things “from it.”)
You wanna know how I “discovered” Buraka Som Sistema, this ridiculous electronic group from Portugal? (Yes, I readily admit that my tastes in music are a little on the unusual side, at least by American standards.) On What.cd, a popular BitTorrent site, I was reading the profile of M.I.A., the girl who sings all those songs in Slumdog Millionaire. There’s a little related artists diagram, and one link leads to Buraka Som Sistem. I grab their latest album and say to myself, “holy smokes this is amazing.” (My favorite song of theirs happens to be “Yah! (The Count and Sinden Remix)”.) These guys are coming to New York in May, so barring some sort of catastrophe, I will be there and I will enjoy every last minute of it.
Never mind that commercial radio in New York City will never play Buraka Som Sistem!
Let’s try another example of how people discover new music in the year 2009. Opie, from the aforementioned Opie and Anthony show, had tweeted—there’s this thing called Twitter, CBS Radio, that I’m sure you’ll try to use before the year is out—a picture of a couple of CDs he had in his car. One of them was MGMT, an indie rock band that I had never heard of till then. Before you know it, hey, I’m now a fan of MGMT. What introduced me to this band? Nope, not crusty old commercial radio, but Twitter, a largely rubbish Web 2.0 site that, for all its faults, lets people talk nonsense rather effectively. One Tweet later, I now have another band to see when they swing by New York City.
CBS Radio, that is how people are “discovering” new music in the year 2009. They’re not listening to the radio, sitting through commercials, waiting for the marble-mouthed DJ to say, “Hey, here’s [Cool New Band].” Yes, we know. We heard about [Cool New Band] two weeks ago via Twitter/Facebook/MySpace Music/whatever. Thanks for trying to remain relevant, though!
Now, I still think radio, as a medium, isn’t dead yet. Plenty of people listen to talk radio, whether it’s of the comedy variety à la Opie and Anthony, of the political variety à la Hannity or Rush, or of the sports variety. (My God does sports radio delve into minutia!) Radio is great for news, too: nothing wrong with listening to the headlines while you’re stuck in traffic on the BQE. But this idea that CBS Radio, and others, cling to, that commercial music radio has a future, that people still seek out commercial radio to listen to new music, is laughably outdated.
This article says EVERYTHING about the doomed radio industry. If Sirius XM can make it past this deep crash of the economy they will be the best thing out there. Then again Internet radio is now everywhere so I may be using my iPhone to listen to O&A on my way to work.
Terrestrial radio as a media entity is turning into what your local “pennysaver” is compared to local newspapers. Terrestrial radio will be aimed at the very poor and the very old — just like your local ‘pennysaver’ or free newspaper.
The ad rates will drop and the talent and ‘listenablity’ will decline even more. We’re a few years away from the vast majority of terrestrial radio stations aiming their content at the Spanish-speaking market.
Best wishes to O&A and Little Jimmy Neutron.
the problem isn’t with commercial radio, but with what the station does. I live in NY as well and I can’t stand listening to the radio stations. All the DJs sound the same (and have no personality), they play the same garbage all day long, with 5 minutes of commercials followed by 8 minutes of music.
If radio was as good as it’s supposed to be, twitter would be meaningless. If you have a truly great DJ that has something interesting to say and plays fresh music that’s under his control and doesn’t exist on a station’s playlist then radio would not be in as much trouble as it is. Now all the stations play it safe and keep the “talent” on a tight leash so they don’t get into trouble.
They don’t understand in rock you’re not supposed to play it safe.
As it is, I find my music through different sources:
-Pandora/last fm
-word of mouth
-music podcasts like all songs considered (still radio but NPR is all that’s left)
-or I guess technology blogs and twitter (thanks for the heads up on MGMT!)
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. It isn’t an issue of a technological revolution rendering radio obsolete. It is that radio stations have become so boring that they make even some random guy’s RSS feed of what he happens to be listening to at the moment seem exciting.
There is nothing stopping radio stations from getting great music, before it is released to the general public, and playing nothing but new music literally no one has ever heard before, in themed shows dedicated to specific kinds of music (you know, kind of like they used to do back before the Internet even had a graphical front end).
Unfortunately, they don’t do that. As a result they, rather than the Internet, have rendered themselves irrelevant.
I totally agree with this. Let me suggest KCRW in LA as the perfect example of how radio can still introduce listeners to new music. I still can’t get over how many bands I hear in trendy stores and even the most “indie” commercial stations were playing live sets over a year ago on Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Great DJs who stay ahead of the crowd with day/night jobs spinning in clubs and supervising music for film and TV, total respect for new and established artists, and a focus on 24/7 availability on air and online. That’s the formula for great radio. Oh, and being public radio helps a lot, too.
Hopefully, stations like this will be the last ones standing when the end times come to Top 40, Country, commercial schlock.
Very true about 5 mins of commercials followed by 8 mins of music (or is it the other way around?). I just wanted to also say that it seems the radio stations specifically time their commercial breaks in such a way that they are all in sync with each other. The result is me getting really pissed off because EVERY station you tune to is in a commercial break AT THE SAME TIME! This is why I just turn that garbage off.
goddamit…. and i was just LISTENING TO THAT!!! :(, thats depressing…. ah well………
Now if CBS wanted to really know what their audience wants, they could always pull the information from last.fm which they own. Just thinking, why go to a Top 40 or other rating system when you have the technology to really know what your customers are listening to. I realize the sample size may be low in some markets but they have the opportunity to grow both markets *radio and Last.Fm) by doing this.
Having a choice in terms of which top 40 station to listen to is not a choice. It’s the same crappy songs, over and over. There’s no difference. Congrats, CBS. You’ve ****ed up yet again. “Ooh, top 40. I absolutely HAVE to listen to this instead of the top 40 station I’m comfortable with.” Guess what? People don’t think like that. RIP K-Rock. I’m glad you’re not around to see this.
As for O&A, I’l be switching to XM as soon as possible.
The only reason I listen to the radio is Howard Stern, other than it’s my iPhone for me.
Good article. Your concept about radio not playing songs until they’re popular gets to the point. Is a tv show or movie the new radio–the path to getting known? I’ve been having the most luck getting my music out there through YouTube. The corporate labels still own the radio airwaves. All it will take is for one major artist to break on their own to totally change the industry. Please check out my stuff and thanks: http://www.DavePatten.com
Excellent article that goes right to the heart of the issue with radio and why it’s about to have a massive coronary.
What’s sad is that 6 months from now, CBS’s new format will probably drop from 21st place to the cellar, as this will kill any following that existed for KRock, not help it. I grew up outside of NY and K-Rock was a foundation of NY Radio and up until today the last true Rock Station that I was aware of. What a crime to see it turned into another crappy top 40 station.
RAMOOOOONE, take my colostomy bag and dump it on the heads of all of the execs at CBS!
Best of luck to Opie, Anthony and Lil Jimmy as they move back to a medium that accentuates their talents. I actually think this will be a good thing for their show, as it will remove the riddiculous restrictions on free speech brought about by those useless, bottom-feeding afraid to do anything lawyers that ruined their show as well as most of radio as we used to know it.
good luck bro… linger longer!
I’m glad someone that does what you do finally understands. Opie and Anthony are the only reason I have XM & are the reason I’m planning a trip to NY. The are different from everything else on the radio and it shows how out of touch radio d-bags are.
You can’t even find a talk show like there’s, and you’re gonna replace them with Top 40 non sense?????? Ridiculous. I just feel bad for Op cause I know this is gonna hurt him more than anybody. Great article, keep attacking. ONA PARTY ROCK!
Ziggy
go get Sirius and listen to Stern. That is why you should go to NYC. He invented morning radio. ONA are mere imitators and not very good ones at the that.
Personally, I think this whole FM radio thing is a fad. AM is here to stay, baby.
krock was the last radio station i would listen too.
It’s all this american idol crap Music I cant stand.
XM Full time… smart move CBS
I agree. K-Rock is the only good station in NY, and now that it will be gone in just over 24 hours, there is no station in NY worth listening to. I cant stand that American Idol crap either. Its all vocals and nothing else, wheres the talent? Bands have more talent then those pop, r & b, (c)rap “artists” will ever have.
It’s going to be a one track bore fest of variations of rap and pop. The top ten is the same garbage week after week.
Time for XM/Sirius.
Yeah I have to agree, certain Radio formats have had it’s day in it’s current form, but I do think it will evolve
While I agree that radio will have to evolve, I do not think it’s quite dead. Why? Because when you look at any of iTunes/Amazon/etc’s top selling singles and albums, they are still dominated by artists that are built up by and played on popular radio. While us nerds use other means to discover new music, not everybody is there yet. Will everybody be there soon? Probably. But music radio will evolve because it will have to. Beyond that, talk radio will be around for a long time to come too.
This article is awesome, thanks for writing this. Some people just don’t get whats going on. New to radio is old to imeem/twitter/music blogs/ etc.
Buraka are portuguese of angolan descent and their sound is based on typical angolan rythms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYR7ilLbfo
– MV
ugh, are they ever going to figure out what they want to do with 92.3FM out here? They tried to get rid of K-Rock in 2005 or so and that failed, and they’re doing it again?
I guess I won’t be patronizing the station on my regular commutes anymore. I don’t need another Z100 or a WPLJ.
(p.s. I discovered MGMT via 977music.com) ;)
Good article, though I think there is a typo in the subject: Commerical or Commercial
Original talk radio is the only advantage radio has over people listening to their ipods and CBS execs are killing it left and right. Way to kill the medium and make yourself irrelevant!
I for one will linger longer on XM/Siruis as long as O&A are around.
I use exploremusic.com to find out about cool new music.
Good thing 101.9 WRXP is still here. They are proof that rock radio can be done correctly.
In NYC (and without satellite radio), one of the few options is WFUV to hear something new.
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Nobody wants to listen to trade for that each one uses its own list of songs.
Sorry, but your reasoning was terrible. Twitter is a great source of music info because you learned of MGMT, an “indie” band 25 days ago? Their chart topping album was released in October 2007! They’ve already released 3 successful singles that have got a ton of airtime on the radio. They’ve had their song in a ton of tv series and movies. 3 of the top 10 songs scrobbled on last.fm in 2008 were MGMT. They were the number 1 new band in all of 2008 on last.fm. If you just heard of them a month ago through twitter its because you haven’t been listening to the the radio or anything else for that matter. These guys are so over played its ridiculous. And oh by the way they’re signed to Columbia/Sony so they are in no way an indie band.
Your article may have had a valid point but you totally killed it with this example.
never heard of them.. so yeah good example… they would never be on that new station
pwned!
ay yi yi, it has to be the ol’ woo the youngsters that are working and making fresh money. if i see beyonce dancing around with two similarly clad wenches in a leotard twice, i will puke, again. (and the blan ‘where am i?’ facial expressions. hah, music videos. at least beavis and butthead are entertaining. i guess, moving to so called ‘top 40′ is somebodys idea of what the music minded, money spending people are after. i don’t ‘get it.’ someone has to embrace the idea that baby boomers are a huge force too, just by virtue of the number of them. and in many cases, the foundation that the ‘kids’ get their money from. is it obvious many, and many baby boomers included, are not content with a lot of the tunes currently being ’spun?’
Wow! I’m an old guy and just realized that i haven’t listened to “t” radio in years. I don’t miss it a bit. New discovery hasn’t changed much. Most from friends sharing, however, much more quickly now. Thanks TC for sharing new and cutting edge alternatives to get my music fix…
In the UK we’ve been dogged by this kind of myopic and exploitative programming for decades, in fact, ever since the government killed the pirates in ‘66/67. Although Britain has given the world some of the best Pop music ever, our Radio has been nothing but a dull hits sausage machine promoting pure commercial dross and foul mindless advertising.
Our islands have a world leading music scene DESPITE the great disservice accorded it by the dreadful commercial Radio industry for almost the entire existence of Pop & Rock as we know it!
The internet and music – at last an alternative – lets hope the majors can solve the ridiculous licensing issue which has stopped them from using the technology to their advantage and given the pirates the only people able to provide the goods for so long
Gotta love the TechCrunch logic: “I listen to music on the ‘net. That means everyone listens to music on the ‘net. Statistics be damned!”
CBS Radio recently changed the format of the only FM talk radio station in LA to a Top 40 “Hits” station as well. LA already has 4-5 stations that play that kind of music, but I guess CBS thinks they can do it differently. One of their ads for the new station says something like, “If you want talk radio, listen to AM. We play the hits.” Ugh.
Looks like I’ll be podcasting Adam Carolla’s new talk show and my car radio’s dial will always be set to 89.9 KCRW (LA’s NPR station).
The radio stations in NYC in general have sucked for a long time now. WNEW was a cool station, until it went all talk and down the shitter. They went back to music, but it was just never the same.
K-Rock used to be cool, it changed formats a few times and the ratings took a nose dive. The station is just awful and this new format will be just as bad, if not worse.
O&A were funny when they were on the radio. Soon as they went to satellite, it wasn’t funny anymore. Half of the humor was in them trying to describe what was going on without breaking FCC rules. Same thing for Howard Stern, hes just not funny anymore.
Do I feel bad for them ? Hell no, Howard Stern has plenty of money and O&A need to find something else to do. Don’t get me wrong, I used to love listening to them, but they are a joke now.
Radio is dying, more and more every day. I hate listening to 10 minutes of music and 25 minutes of commercials. Lets also not forget that anything they are playing, they are playing it because the music industry is forcing them to play it non-stop.
They don’t play music because people enjoy it, they want to cram over commercialized crap down everyones throat.
Nicholas, why are you so angry? Its going down for sure but your article seems as if you have personal beef with this guy. The business is going down for sure. What do you expect this guy to tell his shareholders? That radio is doomed? Its probably true that inspite of the decline (and doom as you call it) they are still the best brand for advertising. Did you check that fact? Everyone knows the points you are making. Its just that you sounded really really angry making them
MGMT is heavily played on commercial radio stations. In fact, I discovered them after hearing them on terrestrial radio last year. Poor, poor example.
I really don’t understand the point of this article though. Should all commercial radio stations just give up and go off the air because you don’t listen to them? Yes, the Internet is great for discovering music. It doesn’t mean that radio stations are completely obsolete though.
I live in NY and never listen to local radio. That’s the problem. Radio stations in the US seem to distinguish themselves as being local because they’re going for local advertisers.
I listen mainly to BBC Radio 1 over Sirius. The new music programs are a great way of discovering new bands and (because it’s a national channel) the quality of the DJs are far better than anything you can find in the US. It also helps that there are no adverts too.
Pandora & co are fine for just listening, but for enterntainment you really need a DJ. I’m hoping for an internet ‘channel’ with a selective playlist that’s targetted to the listener with very few targetted adverts.
You know Buraka Son Systema are getting plenty of Airplay on UK radio, it’s a hit over there.
I remember reading about this Angolan musical sound called ‘Kuduro’ which supposedly translates to something like ‘Hard Ass’ – I didn’t even think for a moment about looking anywhere but online.
Bad day huh???? Had to rant about a lame radio station switching formats? Bummer dude… have your mom bring me down a grilled cheese sandwich when she brings one down for you
WTF????? My 15 year old daughter knows MGMT…
Hummmm changing formats to increase ad revenue? Why would they do that????
If you are getting ALL your music suggestions via Twitter then you NEED to get out!!!
Try KEXP… they are now broadcasting in NY and… independent.
First… I want to apologize for being a prat yesterday. Wrong side of the bed all day. But not an excuse.
Second… Do try KEXP (KEXP.org) and they will re-introduce you to new music. They have pod casts (DJ Shannon my personal choice) of all different types/flavors of music.
KEXP is an excellent choice. The University of Seattle and The Experience Music Project kind of have a joint venture gooing on with this station. In any case they are really well programmed, truly diverse AND ait’s one of the stations available on the iPhone of Blackberry or Android phones via Flycast.
So you can enjoy them everywhere you have a cell signal.
I submitted a couple of intelligent paras – they have not appeared – what gives?
Oops – apologies – Hot Topic!
I’m pushing 40 and I never listen to the radio. My favorite morning show is available as a podcast so I just stick that into my podcatcher and call it good. It’s all about podcasts for me now.
Thank you for this article – I agree with you 100% and don’t think anyone in their right mind could DISagree with you. Commericial radio is the most obvious example of an outdated buisness model. Even turning it on whisks you away to the mid-90s. I live in Boston and the only bands radio stations up here play are Pearl Jam, Nirvana and the occaisional NIN song from 96′. Don’t get me wrong; I loved grunge/active rock … Twelve years ago. And the “Indepent radio” or “Indie stations” play the “underground” bands that were cool three or four years ago. It’s Sirius/XM or Internet radio for me.
Excellent post. I stopped listening to music radio for all the reasons you’ve cited. Not to mention the senseless drivel endlessly espoused by DJ’s and the constant barrage of ads. I just don’t need to tolerate that level of nonsense to get my musical fix anymore.
(This part is personal & I know it but, I’ve got to get it out…) I do, or did, listen to talk radio as well and have pretty much had it with that form of entertainment as well.
The lack of objectivity is more than I can take anymore. It is so blatantly one-sided (pick your side) that it’s laughable (perhaps that’s the entertainment value). Case in point, I called in to a conservative talk show here in Rochester, NY, The Bob Lonsberry show on 1180 AM, because he was making some inaccurate claims about the high-speed rail service proposed by Gov Paterson.
Apparently, the fact that I didn’t agree with him was cause enough to tell me “Screw you” and then call me a “Moron” after he hung up on me. What courage! Whatever… good riddance. He (it) will be quickly eclipsed.
I think you are wrong. I listen to the radio b/c it’s fresh music/talk that I can hear anytime without having to search. I think there are enough people that want to spend a significant amount of time consuming media without having to set it up first.
That’s not to say that I don’t search for music or hear about new bands other ways, but I think it’s tremendously closed minded to say that “radio is dead”, when obviously it’s not and obviously it needs a restructuring, but any mature business needs a sort of “reboot.”
When Howard Stern went to Sirius the death nail was laid for K-rock. No one could replace him, not David Lee Roth, not Opie & Anthony (they are terrible) not anyone. Howard has 20 MM listeners on Sirius, that is where k-rocks listeners are.
Yes, when I am on, every Sirius subscriber changes to my channel. I invented satellite and I will take it down. All you rubes who invested in SIRI, thanks for your cash. My stock options made me millions of your money. Tell em’ Fred
I was not a fan of 92.3 Too mainstream for my tastes. I think the quote above about discovering new music on a hits station is exactly the issue.
Recently, my local alt radio station went CHR, GRock Radio 106.3. Made me sad and mad.
I truly am mystified about whyall these radio stations have the need to sound alike. Give me the Hold Steady, Vampire Weekend, Polyphonic Spree, and anything new to feed my brain.
No guts
Damn, we’re all so hardcore. I also lothe auto-tune but let’s not forget that pop is about fads and there has not been a single minute since 1955 in which the ‘educated’, older music listener hasn’t sneered at the pablum the masses are dancing to. Junk like The Beatles and Abba included.
It’s also worth noting that though the narrowcast American radio model stinks like the carcass it is, there’s plenty of opportunity to make fantastic radio in future. The technology won’t die, or fade away, it’ll simply find a new, smaller, niche and thrive in it (as books, TV and every other old technology does).
You can discover new music on the radio. Try listening to Zane Lowe on the BBC – he’s at least as good as most blogs at finding new music and putting it in context.
Actually music fans still love the hits, the big hits still happen just like they used to, however commercial radio has been taken over by corporations and they are way boring. Because they are owned by corporations their main goal is cutting costs, which is why there are hardly any great personalities or cool things happening… on radio. The internet is the future, as long as we can keep the corporations out!
Agree that the music offered on mainstream radio stations is terrible, but CBS Radio is doing some cool stuff on-line. play.it is an awesome tool.
There are too many audio adds on WINS.
You missed one key point here. CBS will be launching this station as a spoiler for Z100. Even if they peg Z100’s rating back by say .5 of a percentage point, it’s going to change the radio dynamic in NY and help other CBS properties rise up through the ranks. This station is merely a tactic in an ongoing ratings war. It’s got nothing to do with the music….
This is a superb article. I was in my closet last night thinking on how FM radio doesn’t represent me or my community. Broadway musicals should be played on more mainstream medians. I will however welcome a radio station that plays Madonna and the Jonas Brothers. I met the Jonas Brothers once at a LGBT mixer and they let me wear their promise rings. The funny thing was that my hands were busy so I didn’t wear the ring on my fingers. That’s terrible I’m sorry. Once CBS realizes the mistake they made by releasing Opie and Anthony I think the pendulum will be swinging back the other way. Well I’m getting distressed, I’m going to go eat a pistachio for dinner, that’s all I can eat since I have a thimble stomach. . .
* * * RAZZLE DAZZLE * * *
Would you like to kiss me on the mouth? Can I kiss you? I am listening to OutQ, sweetie.
CBS lost me as a view when they fucked over Jericho. Other than LOST and maybe 60 Minutes, I decided to never watch primetime network TV ever again. I would rather wait until the season runs its course then watch on DVD rented through Netflix. I would rather read a book than to watch their crap. I never watch their adds anyway. DVR/DVD FTW
SiriusXM radio has issues too. They are raising their rates for online streaming and for additional radios, but they are so cash starved, they throw the kitchen sink at you if you threaten to churn. And then there are the ENTIRE channels devoted to one band. Grateful Dead, Springsteen, Elvis, Stern X 2. Why does Stern need two channels?
Internet, USENET FTW