Indy Radio

While trying to find something decent to listen to on the radio this morning, it occurred to me that this city has only one good radio station. I'm not going to promote it, other than to say it is an oldies station. They advertise they are an oldies station and they actually play oldies. It's not always my favorite musical type, but when I do want oldies, I know that I can get them when I go to the oldies station.

For every other kind of music, forget finding a station that will satisfy your needs. At least in this 'burg. For example, we have a station that calls itself, "The Rock and Roll Station". The only problem is that for 6 hours of each day they play no music at all and the remaining hours are filled with mostly oldies by a handful of artists. Another station claims to delve deeper into the albums they play, but fall far short of this when you actually listen. Has anyone heard more than "Cadillac Voodoo" from Southern Culture on the Skids? We have 2 stations who play "Pop" music, but besides the oldies music they throw in, their mix is so diverse, you could never expect anyone to like what they play. Rap is pop music, Brittney Spears and Jennifer Lopez are pop music, even Creed and Matchbox 20 are pop music. But who wants to listen to all of these distinctly different genres of music? We have the Adult Contemporary format, who also don't seem to be able to figure out just what that means. And finally, the R&B format here is just gone. Toni Braxton to rap. What is that all about?

I just wish you could turn the radio on and whatever type of music you were in a mood for at that time, you could find and listen to. I guess this being a medium market, we just can't support that type of variation. Or at least that is what it seems.