Blackdown said:
i disagree that inner city londoners make up a small minority of london's population. furthermore why should their needs be ignored just because they're either poor or in some kind of minority?
My point is that their needs are being met by pirate radio. They're being ignored by the mainstream, but who gives a shit about that really? It would be daft for there to be a big FM station purely for innercity grime heads - there simply aren't enough fans to make it financially viable. As Logos says, not everyone who lives on an estate is into grime. FM is wide reaching, and expensive - it makes sense for stations to play accessible, mainstream material, which is what the majority want to hear, and which will help them cover their costs.
Pirate radio is perfect for all the grime fans and innercity dwellers in London - they're compressed into small spaces, big tower block estates, so can all pick up local channels, and the fact that these pirate stations are defined by their locality can be potentially very beneficial to a community - someone in this thread, or possibly even in your piece on pirate radio, I can't remember, was talking about youth group events and community activities being organised and sponsored by pirate radio - you'd never get anything like that with a big FM station that was trying to appeal to everyone in London, or even the whole country.
