Yeah, but radio is so fragmented these days. There's the early middle sub later classic rock station, the later late hyper early classic rock station, the sub-under oldies station, the newer new rap station, the middle new older rap station, the older heavy metal station, the newer new middle heavy metal station, the .... You get the point.

And precious few stations for people with grown-up taste except in the really, really big or really, really small markets (saving of course college stations, and thank God for those!).

In a different venue we just had a discussion about the good old days when you could hear a rip-snortin' rockin' number, then Barry Manilow, then a disco number, then a country crossover hit, back to back, all on the same station. Such a station could easily fit novelty tunes into its playlist. The modern, mass-market stations, programmed by computer (literally), have no room for anything out of the shallow but swift-moving channel they have moored themselves in.

Alex