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08-08-2009, 09:29 PM
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I respect some of what the OP is saying. WDVE was just rated #1 in the Pittsburgh radio market in the recent Artbitron ratings. That is all we need to know about Pitsburgh's music scene. My answer to that was to purchase a satellite radio for my car. I just could it take it any more. The purchase of a satellite was the best purchase I made in a while. Of couse, commercial radio sucks pretty much in every major city, but especially here. Other than that, I think Pittsburgh is a great city. That has nothing to do with the Steelers. Although having professional sports, great universities, cultural amenities, restaurants, and so on, all go into making Pittsburgh an attractive place to be.
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08-09-2009, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by nuwaver88
I respect some of what the OP is saying. WDVE was just rated #1 in the Pittsburgh radio market in the recent Artbitron ratings. That is all we need to know about Pitsburgh's music scene. My answer to that was to purchase a satellite radio for my car. I just could it take it any more. The purchase of a satellite was the best purchase I made in a while. Of couse, commercial radio sucks pretty much in every major city, but especially here. Other than that, I think Pittsburgh is a great city. That has nothing to do with the Steelers. Although having professional sports, great universities, cultural amenities, restaurants, and so on, all go into making Pittsburgh an attractive place to be.
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Do young people really listen to radio much anyway? I don't know many that do. Most folks I know younger than myself get all their music online (one way or another) and then take various forms of MP3 storage into their car. They hate FM radio, and they'd never ever pay for satellite radio (although I can imagine they'd be willing to, for the convenience, later on when they have higher paying jobs). I feel like traditional commercial radio these days is running on empty, convinced by a completely incorrect "man behind the curtain" ratings organization that millions upon millions of people are listening who...aren't. Kind of like the way TV ratings are completely made up and wrong, all because everyone likes their business models too much to admit the emperor has no clothes.
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08-09-2009, 10:17 AM
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I respect some of what the OP is saying. WDVE was just rated #1 in the Pittsburgh radio market in the recent Artbitron ratings. That is all we need to know about Pitsburgh's music scene.
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Actually I don't think that says anything about the music scene. It says more about who's listening to FM radio (as khyron said).
The twenty-somethings I know never listen to a radio... yet they are VERY into music.
The people of MY generation are the ones making DVE #1... most have no iPods or satellite.
DH and I amaze our 50 something friends because we have and use iPods and satellite radio. They just consider those unnecessary new-fangled things... not worthy of purchasing or learning how to use. |
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08-09-2009, 10:21 AM
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Ugh I hate WDVE, I swear the only thing that has probably really changed on that station is the date in the past 30 years. Sometimes to be fair they can be funny, but they play the same old music from 30 years ago every day. What may be sad to some of you though is I know people my age (18) who like it.
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08-09-2009, 12:42 PM
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My problem with radio is I'd far rather listen to newstalk radio. Or moneytalk radio. Now -- that could be because music radio is stuck in the 60's hippie Haight Ashbury crap out here or is Hispanic.
I swear, if I ever meet that guy that sang that song about San Francisco and wearing flowers in your hair, they're going to have to pry my hands away from his neck....
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08-09-2009, 03:15 PM
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Don't get me started on the singles scene here...
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No one asked you to get started, and personally, I wish you wouldn't have. My wife and I are both in the age range you mentioned, and the only problem we have in finding something to do is where to start. |
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08-09-2009, 03:33 PM
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Ugh I hate WDVE, I swear the only thing that has probably really changed on that station is the date in the past 30 years. Sometimes to be fair they can be funny, but they play the same old music from 30 years ago every day. What may be sad to some of you though is I know people my age (18) who like it.
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I love the oldies stations...but I really wish there was more of a presence of newer music in the city.
But what really can you do in this day and age about it? Clear Channel pretty much dominates the airwaves and they dictate what gets played, which isn't really all that special...especially for someone like myself that remembers the diversity of pittsburgh radio stations in the nineties.
i don't listen to the radio. I opted to do a radio show on WRCT in order to bring new music to Pittsburgh and it got a great response...the thing that killed me though was walking into CMU was the amount of college student with white ipod earbuds in their ears....the audience I WANTED to grab. Because of that, I just recorded the show every week on a portable digital recorder to podcast the show every week.
It's not that I'm against specific types of music...what makes music great is the existence of all types and being allowed to co-exist.
Oldies dominating Pittsburgh airwaves is just reflective of the older population of the city. Many doo-wop and R&B groups from the 50s and 60s still can play shows to their audience and make out like kings! Whereas rock bands from ten years ago can barely fill up certain venues.
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08-09-2009, 06:11 PM
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I for one LOVE Dance,House music...and I am over 45..It is played in public places in Orlando and
Chicago...There are some people in this city who don't even know what House music is...
One guy asked me actually "What is house music?"...or "People who play that kind of music must be gay"
This city is pitiful...with such musical attitudes...
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08-09-2009, 07:21 PM
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Guys, there is a large amount of house and dance music in Pittsburgh. I would say we've even got one of the better electronic scenes in the country, especially for a city our size.
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