One of the greatest things about the age of wireless Internet is the recent democratization of the world of music. It used to be that in order to discover new music, the average person had to listen to the radio or, eventually, watch music channels like MTV. This used to be a more enjoyable experience, as radio stations were individually owned and DJs were generally obsessed music fans who had a large degree of control over what new music to play. These days, however, the vast majority of radio stations are owned by multinational media conglomerates, and playlists are almost without fail predetermined in corporate offices and broadcast around the country without alteration. There are even some radio stations, such as the ubiquitous JACKFM, that have scrapped the DJ format all together, instead pre-programming playlists and broadcasting them across the country. And music television stations were universalists from the get-go: there was never an amazing about of consumer or individual control over what got played on the video channels.
Peter Kitchell
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