I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.
I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.
Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
All India radio was worldwide.
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.