{"id":1887,"date":"2008-03-27T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2008-03-27T19:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:18:19","slug":"i_hate_it_when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"I Hate It When I&#8217;m Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the City Pages writes what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/2007\/11\/familiarity_bre.html\">I already knew<\/a>: the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.citypages.com\/2008-03-26\/news\/the-current-shrinks-its-playlist\">Current just isn&#8217;t cool<\/a> anymore. The article mentions that the station brought in &#8220;consultants&#8221; to improve its sagging ratings. Which is another way of saying that the format was blanderized and homogenized to appeal to the suburban types who are looking for something slightly edgier than classic rock, but who freak out a little when they hear a song that wasn&#8217;t played the day before. The Current was an interesting experiment: could a truly free-form radio station attract listeners who have grown accustomed to the prepackaged, market-tested sameness of commercial radio. The answer seems to be a resounding &#8220;no&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I like the Current DJs enough to keep listening from time to time and it&#8217;s fine as acoustic wallpaper, but I&#8217;m going to look elsewhere for my fix of musical eclecticism. <a href=\"http:\/\/radiok.cce.umn.edu\/\">Radio K<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/\">KCRW<\/a> are good alternatives that I need to sample more. Others? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the City Pages writes what I already knew: the Current just isn&#8217;t cool anymore. The article mentions that the station brought in &#8220;consultants&#8221; to improve its sagging ratings. Which is another way of saying that the format was blanderized and homogenized to appeal to the suburban types who are looking for something slightly <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1887' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ur","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}