[compcoffee]

>stop playing the top 4 songs (of any genre) over and over and use some real music innovation and variety.

If this model could make money, they'd be doing it.

Terrestrial radio economics are such that when you tune-in (which far fewer people do nowadays) you want to hear "that new song you like".

[mtberatwork]

That's only an American phenomenon due to severe market consolidation. The model works when there's competition. In Europe, even the for-profit radio stations are far more diverse and play a wide variety of songs and genres. Plus the public radio stations blow anything stateside out of the water. They bring lots of innovation/musical diversity and aren't afraid to push boundaries, unlike the pure news/talk/tepidness that defines most NPR stations.

[tomjen3]

I tune in - to whatever I was listening to on my phone the last time. I do that using my big noise canceling phones and it works great. My question therefore is: what could radio offer me, at all?

[bradknowles]

That's what she said.