JayKeeley said:
What's the reasoning behind taking the rock stations off the air? Is it some morality issue?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2900894
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What happened at KLOL was probably an inevitable result of music trends, said Joseph A. Kotarba, professor of sociology at the University of Houston.
Kotarba, who has taught about rock music for 20 years, said the traditional audience for hard rock and heavy metal has decreased since the 1980s. That audience is not as lucrative for radio stations and their advertisers as the quickly growing, young Latino audience, he said.
"Traditional hard rock is falling into the category of oldies," he said.
That means the music will be heard from time to time but with less and less talk about who the performer is, where the band is touring and so forth, Kotarba said.
"Hip-hop dance music, techno and various other styles of pop music are taking over in popularity," he said. "So that is what radio stations like the ones owned by Clear Channel go for. Everyone wants a more lucrative segment of the population."
Being part of the change can be painful, Kotarba said.
"There's a real sadness when one sees the style of music one grew up with fall into that neverland of the oldies bin," he said. "It's no longer fashionable. That hurts and contributes to a sense of aging."
They revived on the internet a few years back, but I don't really keep up with that anymore.
