I am sitting here fondly recalling FM in the old days, especially before it went commercial. In those days I was a budding audiophile and loved the stereo and better frequency resxponse. Programming was unbelieivable in those days, since there was no commercial incentive to play to any specific audience. Often you would get whole albums uninterrupted. Today, FM plays the same dreck as AM did in the old days. Music is sliced and diced and categorized to death, then interrupted by puerile DJs and obnoxious commercials.
This whole train of thought was started when a buddy told me that a friend of his was dumping his tuner collection, because there are no more radio stations in Chicago worth listening to. All the programming has been taken over by the syndicates with the music coming from hard drives, heavily compressed to save space.
Finally if this is the fate of Chicago, how much longer until PGH ends up in the same boat! We already lost DUQ.
Is QED or YEP next?
I will finish with a plea to support local radio while it still exists.
