Re(2): Why no 60s Music Posted on April 21, 2021 at 04:35:03 AM by Just sayin
If that were true, no one would try anything new for it's rarely profitable until a market is developed. That's what entrepreneurs do!
My observation is that radio executives tend to play it pretty safe and listen far too much to each other. THey are copycats from the word go and anybody whose been in the business any length of time knows this. Radio hasn't done much innovating in years but now that I Heart is doing something new, here comes Audacy and there'll be others.
Course nobody does copying like the Chinese but their culture is extremely conservative; perhaps a byproduct of their cultural feudalism and now communism where thinking outside the box is frowned upon.
Radio's taken YEARS to embrace the internet and now has discovered they're missing a new vehicle. Televison's leaping now that badwidth has made video streaming possible. Say goodbye to longlines affiliates now that the networks are selling streaming bundles to cable.
Railroads did the same thing... always thinking they were into railroading. Finally someone who read Megatrends explained they're in the Transportation business, and now here comes piggyback semi trailers and containers! One day America will make cars powered by electricity and houses built assembly line instead of one piece of wood nailed onto another taking 3-6 months to build houses! hard to say if we'll rejoin the rest of the world with high speed trains instead of flying metal tubes with wings on em.
Holding back progress is the antithesis of progressivism, and conservatives by nature are the last to embrace new ideas.
As to oldies no longer profitable, well radio will struggle a lot to catch up to the music innovators who passed em by. Me, I've pretty much lost interest in OTA oldies stations because they're too afraid to play anything that hasn't already been overplayed into the ground. So we have alternatives and we dont' mind paying a few bucks a month for em. That's the same price as lunch for one at McDonalds!