OUR VIEW: Trapped in Cache Valley’s music bubble

Just beyond the narrow passage of Sardine Canyon lies a quaint city called Logan. This city at times seems blocked off from the rest of Utah, and the nation for that matter, because decent radio waves can’t seem to get through.

While most of the state is enjoying the huge selection of Salt Lake City radio stations, Logan residents are settling with a few stations that are anything but music to their ears.

Driving in the car and getting ready in the morning just isn’t the same anymore without something good to listen to in the background.

Utah State University students are being deprived of good, quality music on the radio because of the lack of good, quality radio stations.

It seems like the only stations to choose from are news radio, sports talk, oldies or elevator music. Granted there may be one or two stations that play country and alternative for the varied tastes around the city. That’s just the point. There are only one or two stations. There is no selection. Even a university station that actually plays music would diversify the bland selection we have to choose from.

As quality radio stations linger in Logan, people’s CD collections around the city will pile higher and higher. Pretty soon, people in Logan won’t even need to listen to the radio because they will have their own CDs with good music to listen to. Some people already do. Not to mention the proliferation of music downloads and MP3s that take up virtually no physical space at all.

Someone should take the initiative and provide a wider selection of stations for the listening ears of the nearly 44,000 Logan residents. Then maybe Logan will begin to fit in with mainstream society and not within the little bubble we call Cache Valley.