Excesso de rádios musicais; consequências
«In Britain, the BBC has increased its market share to 55.1 percent, according to surveys, taking its lead over commercial radio to its widest point in three years. The same trends are taking hold in the Netherlands and in Germany.
Youth-oriented commercial rock stations - once a standard teenage emblem of identity and rebellion - are facing a revolt themselves. , L’Actu, a youth newspaper, published a front-page article in January about falling audience levels with a cartoon of tearful radio In France, where three rock stations lost a total of about one million listeners in surveys in the last quarter of 2005executives clutching the wayward heels of a listener with dangling ear buds.»
Youthful disaffection has had an effect in the United States, too. In New York in January, Infinity Broadcasting transformed K-Rock from an alternative rock format to talk radio, saying the station had been losing too many listeners to music downloads and Internet radio.
(fonte: «Seeking new wavelengths for radio», IHT, de Doreen Carvajal, International Herald Tribune, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2006)
