Too much 1980s on the radio in one market

[3970]

I'm in the Hartford CT area and Big Hitz 102.9 which for years and years played 1960s and 1970s top 40 music like The Beatles The Beach Boys The Stones, etc. is slowling sneaking in the 1980s music, like Huey Lewis, John Mellencamp, Genesis and Duran Duran. WTF? I mean, we have 96.5 playing "the best of the 80s 90s and today" which seems like mostly 1980s music anyway, we have 105.8 The River playing the best rock hits of the past 30 years, which means I hear MORE John Mellencam and Huey Lewis. And we're not that far from Springfield Mass, which has 93.1 and 94.7 both playing the best of the 80s 90s and today or "the at work mix" well you know what that basically would sound like----yep. More of what ever everyone else is playing! It's so ridiculous I can't stop laughing!
Why would I want the radio to be saturated with 1980s music? Where is the current music station? 106.9 is what they say a mainstream rock station, basically playing metal music from Van Halen to Audioslave, but they have talk shows and football games too
Two hip hop stations and two pop stations play current music.
I dunno, why is the 1980s so popular on the radio these days? I keep hearing songs like Invisible Touch and Here I Go Again! YIKES!

[Jeff]

Well, '80s nostalgia (including '80s music) has made a comeback.

I was a teenager in the mid- and late '80s, so I'm obviously a member of the target audience for '80s music.

[vstreamer]

I think it goes in cycles, and 20-25 years later things are "in" again. But I commisserate with you -- there's a lot of very bad music from the 80's.
I don't like much of the music from that era, and don't wish to hear it repeatedly, ad nauseum.