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From: "Bill Fox" <billyfox@soundscapes.us> > Matt Davignon wrote: >> Wasn't there once a time when radio playlists were more regional? > Once upon a time, that was true. That was how local bands became >regional > bands became national bands. As more and more radio stations picked up >on > an act, the bigger the act got. (That the slow path as opposed to being > "discovered.") Now Clear Channel is the McDonald's of radio. Each > hamburger tastes exactly alike no matter where it's served. > > These days, a radio station won't play anything except: > 1. bands that the corporate office tells them to play. > 2. bands that can tell them what other stations are playing their music. > Of course that's none because getting that first station to play your > music without being able to say... Well, you know it's Catch 22. > Sounds a bit like the selectively-locked doors that the games business sometimes seem to have on their open positions. An exec with an unnamed company once told me, "The best way to get a job in the games business is to have a job elsewhere in the games business." Hopefully this path to disaster via stagnation won't be followed too long... Stephen Goodman * * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack * The Loop Of The Week since 1996! * http://www.earthlight.net/Studios