When companies like Clear Channel and Infinity began taking over radio stations, they removed the local DJ, often an aesthetic leader and hero in his/her community, and replaced charisma and passion with a computer algorithm for its decision-making process of which artists to promote through the radio program. The content of commercial radio became very boring, and has remained emotionless and sterile. Commercial radio lives in a Payola nightmare beyond the imagination of Alan Freed, which is why nobody listens to music radio anymore.
It is astonishing that Muzak has taken up the slack. Muzak in the past has been synonymous with banality, for example in Michael Moorcock's 1977 novel, The Condition of Muzak.
When companies like Clear Channel and Infinity began taking over radio stations, they removed the local DJ, often an aesthetic leader and hero in his/her community, and replaced charisma and passion with a computer algorithm for its decision-making process of which artists to promote through the radio program. The content of commercial radio became very boring, and has remained emotionless and sterile. Commercial radio lives in a Payola nightmare beyond the imagination of Alan Freed, which is why nobody listens to music radio anymore.
It is astonishing that Muzak has taken up the slack. Muzak in the past has been synonymous with banality, for example in Michael Moorcock's 1977 novel, The Condition of Muzak.