Not about commercials, but about radio

DJ Voiceovers over a song have always been a pet peeve of mine, but now they seem to have taken it one step further. They will do a voiceover while the Beginning of a song plays, but when he stops yammering the song stops, and is replaced by a COMMERCIAL.  (It's bad enough that Commercial Breaks on TV are long, the ones on the Radio are EVEN WORSE, I once drove a distance of 5 miles from my House to Church, the speed limit was 40 MPH, and I was stopped at 3 of the six Stoplights along the way, and the Station played NOTHING BUT COMMERCIALS. I have to admit if I were a DJ I probably wouldn't last very long if I did this, but whenever a Commercial Break would come on I would actually tell the Listeners HOW LONG the upcoming break is, after all we all have BETTER Things to do than listen to long Commercial Breaks.

It all has to do with MONEY.  Probably simular to why TV Stations do "Block Programming". Play a minimal amount of songs to avoid paying royalties, and listeners like us get SCREWED!

Back in the '80s and '90s, when 'oldies' stations still included music from the pre-Beatles era, on long weekends, a lot of stations would do countdowns of the top 300/400/500 songs(basically every song in their library)..even if their usual playlists only included about 100 songs. Most 'classic rock' stations today might have only 50-75 songs!

A local "classic rock" station fits the stereotype disscussed in this topic. I doubt their playlist contains anywhere near 100 songs. I call it the AC/DC station. You can count on 1 of 6 or 7 AC/DC selections every hour along with 30 minutes of obnoxous commercials. I intentionaly did not call AC/DC selections songs. I will never consider "screaming" to be singing.

Thor wrote: sgtrock21 wrote: A local "classic rock" station fits the stereotype disscussed in this topic. I doubt their playlist contains anywhere near 100 songs. I call it the AC/DC station. You can count on 1 of 6 or 7 AC/DC selections every hour along with 30 minutes of obnoxous commercials. I intentionaly did not call AC/DC selections songs. I will never consider "screaming" to be singing.   I was perusing the list of streaming audio stations on IHeartRadio this morning, and noticed a station that plays only the Beatles and the Stones.  I thought about it, and figured it might be OK.  Good chance they don't just play the Beatles/Stones stuff that we've heard a million times before.  Maybe there's even some rare stuff.   edit:  I just tuned in, and they're playing Hey Jude.  Not what I'd hoped for.   Now it's Let it Be.  Christ almighty.  Like I ever need to hear that song again.

I know what you mean. It seems the most popular Beatles (and most other artist's) songs tend to be my least favorite. Let me guess. The next song on their playlist was Get Back.