Article: Music stations drop local programming: cheap Internet radios are coming and, when they arrive, on one will care much about the drivel pumped out by the commercial stations.(am/fm)

More local programming is disappearing from the music radio stations.

Clear Channel's hit music formatted KSLZ (107.7 FM) is the latest station to add syndicated fare. The station is now broadcasting the "Ryan Seacrest Show" out of Los Angeles, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., weekdays.

Morning drive on KSLZ-FM was already syndicated, featuring the "M.J. Morning Show," originating from Clear Channel's WFLZ (93.3 FM) in Tampa, Fla. So the first eight hours of the day on the primary contemporary music station in our city is no longer local.

That's hard to imagine for those of us who remember how connected the Top 40 stations were to the community. Our Top 40 stations, KXOK (630 ...

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