Originally posted by Ayeka
What would you expect off a new Heavy Metal radio station?
What would I expect? Nu-Metal, Rap Metal, "Hard Pop", and pretty much anything except metal. If they did play any metal at all, it would be consigned to antisocial hours in the middle of the night. Hell, even Totalrock seems to be heading that way. I used to listen to Charlie Andrews playing serious quantities of power metal every afternoon. He still does, just now it's late at night.
So that's what I'd expect. What would I
want? Well that's a different proposition entirely. I'd want a station that played metal. Yes, there would be specialist shows catering to power metal, black metal, and other niche sub-genres. For for the primetime shows, though, I'd like a variety. I don't expect to like every track they play. I accept that they'll even play stuff I absolutely hate. But I want a radio station I can listen to and know that I'll like most of what they play. Perhaps on average, I'd expect to hear one track an hour that I really loved, one I hated, and a bunch of other stuff that lay somewhere between the two. The way radio used to be... Hmmm. Having just reread that, I think I'll go and get my pipe and slippers now
I wouldn't want
any Nu-Metal (or Mallcore as it should more properly be called). In this idealised hypothetical world of yours, you explicitly said it was a new Heavy Metal station, and I'm afraid that Mallcore doesn't fall into that category for me. But realistically, it would probably have to be broadened into a general rock station (including the various "fake metal" genres), in order to gain enough listeners to be profitable. See Totalrock again...
Oh, BTW, I'd also like it to be streamed on the internet in a format I can listen to (i.e., NOT Windows Media). Ideally Ogg Vorbis like the BBC are doing, but MP3 or RealAudio would be acceptable.
How would you expect it to be named? What would you not like to see in a name?
I don't care what it's called in the slightest. I can't see that the name is relevant. Obviously if you're going to call it "Country Music FM", then you're going to struggle to pull in the desired target audience. But that's just a marketing problem for the station. Whether I tuned in or not would be solely dependent on the music they played.
