You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.
When I started to work in Hollywood at a fairly low level delivering scripts around town, listening to AM talk radio, I at first listened to it as a novelty.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.
In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.
Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.
I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
So much time and attention has been spent on streaming that we've really gotten away from some of the things that we could have, energywise, put into working together with radio more closely for terrestrial.
When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.