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Do you remember Rock and Roll radio?

Back when the radio business wasn't so over run by corporations!

Update:

Being a teen in the 70's the station I listened to was free form...not as corporate as today!

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    Back when radio was good and wasn't owned by huge corperations that told dj's what they could and could not play. Huge radio conglomerates are as bad as the FCC alomost like a bunch of Hitler's. Now with the corporations radio stations are changing formats more often than people change underwear.

    I also remember Rock n' Roll Radio by the Ramones

  • 1 decade ago

    I remember when everything switched to FM, AM used to be the format everyone listened too.

    You could call a radio station and ask them to play a song no matter if it was a hit or not and it would get played.

    If it weren't for request lines then we wouldn't have some of the classic's we have today, because how would classic radio stations know which songs to play?

    This is what hurts radio stations today. NO REQUESTS.

    Program Directors take their orders from companies who are wanting to move products, so PD's take all of the power away from DJ's and the listeners.

    DJ's are a dieng breed. Today 1 DJ can run 3 or 4 stations.

  • 1 decade ago

    I wish I could too. It's been corporate since the 70s, dude.

    I Really wish I could've experiened radio in the 60s & earlier. When the *djs* had the power to play what they wanted. You got WAY more of an eclectic mix for it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yep! Cruising in the old car back and forth on the same street listening to all the rock a station could pump out! Miss it...!

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  • 5 years ago

    Being close to to 50 yeah I recollect it, I even remember seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan tutor back in 'sixty 3 so remembering the rest isn't all that onerous no be counted what number concepts cells I killed off interior the various years considering! listening to now: ASP - Nie Mehr

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Rock' n

    Rock and roll radio

    LET'S GO!!

    We need change, we need it fast

    before rocks just a part of the past

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes I remember, why do I remember, I don't want to remember, I don't remember any of it, I'm not that old, I'm not, I won't look in the mirror, I'm not going to look, I'm too young to remember, that's it!, I'm young, I'm young!!

  • joe
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I love the Ramones.

    great song.

  • 1 decade ago

    oh, yes. I lament it every time i switch on radio here..

    Emmis blows! (STL)

  • wish i could! i was born in the wrong decade!

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