Hi John,

I will post a new thread with a link that answers one of your questions. There is a serious shortage of new music. Because it sucks. Because there is no link to movies or fads any longer. Because radio is dead to the youngest listeners and it provides a crap service to begin with.

Radio is in competition with Youtube, Pandora, SXM, plethora of free legit or non legit apps, bluetooth, USB flash drives in cars. On and on. They have done nothing to entice the younger generation and fend off the other technology. Well, except load on more commercials per hour chase the younger generation and the people with money and means to stream elsewhere. Do not consume the BS from those in the industry. Radio P1 listeners are the less rich and they do not bring in more ad dollars. Their revenue is shrinking and not growing. Look at EVERY young format out there that is floundering. When your commercial free local NPR is #3 in the market nipping on the commercial news outlet AND another non-comm NPR just increased their footprint in the Southern lakeshore area/NWI if you are a PD on a commercial outlet, you have issues.

Radio would call any type of Dance format that is Euro, ethnic, Gay or otherwise not hip hop a non winner. Or Active Rock is for unemployed drunk Men. Thats OK, they are gone and consuming elsewhere now. Great formula losers!

Z