mine are the following (no particular order)
1.way too many comercials
2.if i hear that (insert band here) im gonna scream
3.clearchannel
4.contests when we just wanna hear music
5.nothin but crap is on the radio
6.hearing the same song 5 times in one hour on 3 dif networks

those are mine, what are yours.

1. LA has no true Hard Rock/metal station like KNAC
2. The ARROGANCE of Program Directors in terms of narrow minded thinking and catering to POPfans only.

3. Old jocks like Jim Ladd who really think I give a s#it about what he thinks about music written before '75.

4. All stations only play "ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE" from KISS when KISS has HUNDREDS of GREAT songs from their 30 + year run...I HATE THIS!!!!!

5. Program Directors(they more or less choose what's heard) who are 50 + years old and think ARROW FRIGGIN SMITH is THE ONLY hard rock band that matters...another thing I HATE!!!

6. The fact that HOWARD STERN helped greedy companies realize people apparently WILL SIT through 15 + minutes of spots

7. One company owning everything...one company trying to take control of CONCERT VENUES with the result being some artists get played IF they "play ball" with those radio station owned venues......if they don't...well ask BRITNEY SPEARS what happens when you don't......Senators are looking into this BTW...ahem

8. Repeating artists to the point that it hurts them.

9. Request lines.....YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME FOLKS!!!! THEY NEVER PLAY WHAT YOU WANT UNLESS THEY WERE GOING TO PLAY IT ANYWAY OR THE SHOW WAS SET UP TO DO SO LIKE "LOVESONGS".

10. not enough Bjork...I'm serious

Whats...radio?

1. Morning shows: today I'm on my way to school and all I hear on the radio are talk shows when I want to hear some music.

2. Same sh*t... differant toilet: It seems like every station has turned into a top 40 station, I even hear rocks stations play Eminem.

God those two things annoy me so much, and because of that I rarely listen to the radio.

1. COMERCIALS!!!!!!! The incessant babble makes me want to hurt someone

2. The assenine idea that people want to hear the same songs in heavy rotation for months. Yeah, like I really want to hear the latest single from Nickleback 15 times a day

3. Playing only the singles off albums. Yeah, fine, it's probably a licensing issue, but there are SO many good songs on albums that never get played b/c they aren't on a single.

4. Editing/limiting song play times to about 5:00. Most of the music I like times in upwards of 8:00. Nothing annoys me more, for example, than to hear an 8+ minute Dream Theater song edited down to under 5 so the radio weenies will play it (cough...."Pull Me Under" cough...)

"Loveline" with Adam (arrogant holier than thou pr**k). I find this show really really annoying.

That one Jane's Addiction song they play ad nauseum on HFS.

the use of the word 'effing' on HFS, how immature.

Morning shows in general, I would seriously go postal if I had to listen to anyone of the Washington DC radio morning shows, all of them love just talking to hear themselves speak.

the fact that opie and anthony aren't on it anymore

agreed about the morning shows, the person talking is either an idiot (Grham on hfs) or all they do is talk non stop sex or just love to laugh at lame jokes. this station is probably out of your range but if you work in baltimore city in the morining, 100.7 the bay plays actual music in the morning which no one else does. also what i find absolutly pathetic (98 ycr does this in york pa) where they have a morning show but also play music, they must have the lowest playlist ever since they will play the same 5 or 6 songs in the morning.

also i really hate contests. we really dont need to hear some woman on the phone screaming to the top of her lungs about winning $106.50

That more stations aren't more like Rice University's KTRU. To see what they have played today, go to:

www.ktru.org and click the setlists link. They update it as they go, so you can actually see what is being played.

Radio in general is one of my pet peeves.

i also hate this, censoring of certin songs but not of others.
example, that "just like a pill" song, all radio stations censor the word "bitch" BUT when eminem is playing the majority of the language is in there. is there a reason for this.

I hate it when DJs talk through a great intro to a song, and stop right before the lyrics start. Usually, the instrumental portion is my favorite part!

That's called "hitting the post," and its the first thing DJs are taught to do.

What annoys me the most now is that 90 percent of the stations in this country have nothing to do with the community they are based in. Playlists are made at a regional, if not national level; the playlist for a DC alternative station owned by ClearChannel will likely be exactly the same as a Philly station owned by ClearChannel.

I don't remember the last time I heard a local band played on the radio. It's sad.

RS

They have to be taught? Hell, I've been "hitting the post" since I was eleven or twelve thanks to my mom's old "McCall's" magazines. It's not rocket science.

Same here.

Thats why I stopped listening to it 3 years ago. Radio is dead to me.

I don't have any complaints about radio but then again I don't listen to FM or AM. I would have that complaint of no real rock stations in Los Angeles like KNAC but that problem is gone for me now. I have a rock station in Los Angeles but I do have to pay for it. I love my XM radio!!!!

coming soon to an XM radio near you....spots

don't think it won't happen.

I must admit I do listen to thsi show but I also must admit that most of the time it's nothing more than an sexcuse to talk to 15 years olds about their vaginas and pierced boobs under the banner of "Education"

1) Repitition, repitition, repitition

2) Every DJ thinks they're Howard Stern. I don't find it entertaining when stern bitches about his staff for 20 minutes, why does some local schmuck think their whining will be any different?

3) Repitition, repitition, repitition

4) Commercials with a) cell phones, or b) police sirens. I'm sorry, but if I'm driving in my car, a siren is pretty distracting, especially when the moronic radio cop is pulling over a moronic radio driver to tell them about a sale on a goddamm cheeseburger!

5) Repitition, repitition, repitition

6) Isn't there anything else to talk about in the universe besides sex and right wing politics?

7) Repi... well, you get the idea.

8) Inappropriate music. I'm not talking about dirty words or clear channels inane list of banned post 9-11 songs, but really dumb song choices. Cool or not, "Welcome to the Machine" is not a good friday afternoon, windows down, heading home from work, bring on the weekend type of song.

i think clear channel has lifted the ban since i hear those certin songs now.

what's the deal with Clear Channel?

thanks for the link, they have some pretty good playlists.

Where to begin?

Why even bother?

radio

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As far as Clear Channel goes...

A couple months ago Entertainment Weekly did an article on XM Satellite radio. They received the following reply from Steve Smith [Production Director/Imaging Director, Clear Channel]:
What a schmuck.

1) Morning Radio. I hate listening to those morons laugh at their own jokes, and hit on interns. Play music for the love of god.

2) The best station in town has incredibly poor reception. Up the signal for the love of god.

3) There are 5 country stations in my area. Five.

4) There are 3 rock stations in my area. One plays ACDC and Led Zeppelin (The same 2 or 3 songs no less) incessantly. The only new rock they play is crap like Disturbed and Drowning Pool. The other plays decent songs, but it is not uncommon for me to hear the same band twice non-consecutively in 1 hour. The third station is great, but see #2.