An Open Letter To Whoever Owns the New Radio Station in Sydney.

I fail to see the reason for a new/not new radio station.
I use the term 'not new' because really.....what are they bringing to the table?
Another bowl of lame maybe??
Well pass the talent spices because this Nickelback is tasteless!

You would think that the purpose behind something like this would be to open a new station and expose thousands to terrifically written songs.
Really show the majority of people out there that music hasn't died and been replaced with everything from the 80's and 1997
(OMC - How Bizarre.....i'm looking at you.)

A new station should provide an outlet for more local content. More content worth hearing.
It's a new chance to reignite an important relationship.
With everything gone the way of digital, it becomes increasingly important that we continue our connection with radio.
It is a dying medium. For a breif moment, I had hopes that this new station could help re-engage listeners. Wake Cape Breton
up out of it's musically challenged slumber.
But now, as I sit and give radio another try, it occurs to me that yet another station has hacked away at the importance of
it's own exsistence by airing a song by some guy named "Hip Joint".
I can't imagine what the real musicians out there think of all this.

It's ironic in a way.
We'll hear debates about the merits of radio and how important a tool it is. How it can't be lost in the new digital takeover.
But then when they play music slightly above the level of stepped on bubble gum, it makes me laugh. Because the same people who
are trying to protect radio are actually setting it up for failure. Who wants to save something that makes us cringe and long for a mute button?

Instead of musical growth and something worth our time, we just end up with another station that has provided the option of
hearing the same horrible sludge on a different set of airwaves.
Congratulations Marimiters, you've just been given the same trash somewhere else!
It's the equivalent of a washed up music yard sale.

Shame on you new/not new radio station, for assuming people don't want to hear something a little more intelligent than
*insert new song by artist with an ironic name*.




*****was published in the Cape Breton Post back in may...

magine.

love justin.