This is correct. Especially with early FM radio. Most rock stations would play complete album versions of songs instead of the shortened AM versions. Also most FM DJs didn't blab useless fluff that drowned out half the song intros. They would announce the song, shut up and let it rip. Some even had the audacity to play an entire album side, uninterrupted. What a concept. Radio was great back in the day. Really sad to see how it has devolved. You now have to purchase satellite radio to even get close now days. Been there and done that. Not worth it to me. Not when I can access gigabytes of my own music collection and play directly through my car/home stereo.
As for discovering new music in this day and time...Youtube.

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Posted by Zappas Stache

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Posted on 4/15/16 at 3:56 pm to TAJSJ

Like others have said, 120 minutes was greatness. Before that, USA network had a TV show called NightFlight that played some different stuff. New Wave Theater on Night Flight was my introduction to punk.....Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Bad Religion....The Host was Peter Ivers was murdered in '83 and the show went off the air.

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Posted by Midget Death Squad

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Posted on 4/15/16 at 4:07 pm to TAJSJ

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Radio was great back in the day. Really sad to see how it has devolved.

No shite. I worked in radio for a few years back in the early 2000's, and I would have friendly arguments with the program director. I would constantly suggest he start putting more songs in rotation and limit the play counts of the overplayed crap, and all he ever said was that's what listeners want to hear. I left every conversation with him frustrated

The sad part is that he and I had similar tastes in music, and he would have loved to have played more stuff. Unfortunately he, along with every other PD in the country, believes this garbage and stick to it.