[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: We blog what we want

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
We blog what we want
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2005_10_30-2005_11_05.shtml#1130880732


   This week will mark eight years of living in Southern California.
   Goodness gracious me.
   Fitting then that this past weekend I paid a very brief visit to my
   childhood stomping grounds of Chicago (or to be more precise the
   suburbs). I hadn't been back in quite a long while.
   I basically never listen to the radio. One of the few exceptions is
   when I'm driving around in a rental car. As I made my way through rush
   hour traffic on the Stephenson, I fiddled around with the dial and
   found an agreeable station that had a pretty decent playlist of 80s
   and 90s tunes that I liked. It was Jack FM, a 'new' station that
   advertised they 'play what they want'.
   The amusing thing is after returning to SoCal suddenly noticing Jack
   FM ads on buses in Orange County. While I intellectually knew about
   the trend towards multi-market radio stations with synchronized
   networked playlists and custom local region audio injections.
   Between satellite radio, the decline of newspapers and tv over the web
   on top of cable and directv, local media is getting quite the kick in
   the pants.
   As was my weekend.
   Back to work.