Saturday, July 17, 2010

Dr. Demento leaving radio for the web

The legendary Dr. Demento (Barret Hansen) will stop doing broadcasts for regular radio and will do internet radio only.
On the web, he tells Associated Press, he can play even a wider selection of music, including tunes too raunchy or outrageous for FCC-regulated terrestrial radio.
“With the increasingly narrow casting, as they call it, of radio where stations will pick one relatively restricted format and stick with it 24 hours a day, especially in the music area, my show just got perhaps a little too odd of a duck to fit in,” he said.

Read the entire story here:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20100702/NEWS/7020450/1011/newsrewind

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