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hhsrat
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Radio (a)musings
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Feb 13 03:37 UTC 2000 |
What do you listen to on the Radio? What station? Which shows? Any
DJ's in particular that you like? What DJ's will you positively avoid?
What stations will you not listen to if paid? And on.
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gelinas
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response 1 of 67:
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Feb 13 04:07 UTC 2000 |
I usually listen to either WUOM or WKAR. Sometimes, WEMU and WKQL. I've
also put a Windsor station on my preset, for its Classical music. Finally,
there is either a country station or WCBN that sometimes gets my speakers.
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pfv
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response 2 of 67:
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Feb 13 06:03 UTC 2000 |
Up here, the Bear, is the only station.. I want classic R&R, and
the less said about sports and news-BS, the better.
Golden-Oldies is a viable alternative for a time, and classical?
Forget it in this area. C/CW? I'd kill to reach the off switch.
OTOH, I miss ol' Dr. Demento on Sunday..
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scott
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response 3 of 67:
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Feb 13 13:32 UTC 2000 |
NPR news, and the occasional talk show. The goal is to spend little time
driving my car, so not much radio listening occurs these days.
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keesan
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response 4 of 67:
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Feb 13 22:03 UTC 2000 |
I don't have a car. I listen to lots of radio. CBN (?Windsor - sometimes
they play classical). WKAR. WDTE (Toledo). WUOM only in the middle of the
night when they play canned classical. Tapes from 4-7 pm and weekends.
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glenda
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response 5 of 67:
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Feb 13 22:14 UTC 2000 |
I pretty much quit listening to radio when I noticed that the Oldies stations
were playing the music that I had switched to the Oldies station to avoid.
I switched to 105 for a while a couple of years ago when they were playing
classical. Dropped that when after listening to pratically non stop ads for
their classical Christmas party they changed to rock the week before the
party.
When I think about it and remember, I will try to listen to Prairie Home
Companion and most of the rest of WUOM's Saturday night line up.
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bruin
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response 6 of 67:
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Feb 13 22:45 UTC 2000 |
I switched to the local NPR member stations at about the time the Bill
Clinton/Monica Lewinsky business began to dominate the news, and now I have
the darndest time listening to commercial radio, even in somebody's car or
being played on some PA system.
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gull
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response 7 of 67:
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Feb 14 00:35 UTC 2000 |
I mostly listen to the radio when I'm in the car. Usually it's WOLV, WMTU,
or NPR. Depends on who's playing something listenable. I only listen to
NPR for the news programs, since I'm not a big classical music fan. Every
once in a great while I'll listen to Rush Limbaugh on WMPL, to see what he's
going on about lately.
(I've noticed an interesting phonomenon, here. With the exception of WOLV,
people tend to pronounce the call letters of local stations. WMTU is often
referred to as 'wimtoo', and even WMPL's own promotions often refer to it
as 'wimple.')
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eprom
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response 8 of 67:
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Feb 14 01:12 UTC 2000 |
I like falling asleep listening to Art Bell on this AM station in Philly
(1210 WPHT) but then come 5 or 6 in the morning Imus is on...there is some
thing about his voice I can't stand...
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carson
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response 9 of 67:
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Feb 14 01:37 UTC 2000 |
(WUPX, unless it's my alarm clock in the morning, which is set to WNMU.)
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krj
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response 10 of 67:
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Feb 14 01:50 UTC 2000 |
(( winter agora #138 <---> music #234 ))
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gnat
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response 11 of 67:
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Feb 14 02:07 UTC 2000 |
I used to have my car radio set to WCBN, CIMX, 96.3, WDET, WIQB, and
whatever the station that used to be WQRS is called now... but I
mostly listened to WCBN. Then my car battery got replaced and the
settings got erased. Now I only listen to WCBN, or else I listen to
tapes. I got tired of turning on the radio and hearing a song I
hated that I'd heard fifty million times before, or else hearing
fifty million ads.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 67:
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Feb 14 02:10 UTC 2000 |
None at home and WKAR in the car - until I get out of range, when I
hunt for NPR stations, until they all fade. Then I listen to NOAA
Weather Radio on 162.55 (etc) MHz.
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krj
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response 13 of 67:
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Feb 14 02:14 UTC 2000 |
My birthday present from Leslie is a tape recorder which will timeshift
3 hours (four cassette sides) of radio. So, I can tape "A Prairie Home
Companion" on Saturday and have it for my commuting enjoyment during the
week.
Other radio shows I try to catch include the "Progressive Torch & Twang"
country music show on MSU's student radio station -- not audible in Ann
Arbor except on the web -- and Bob Blackman's Sunday folk show on WKAR-FM.
Sometimes I listen to WKAR-FM's classical music during the day, WUOM's
syndicated "Music Through the Night" show around bedtime.
I listen to a lot of talk radio, most often WWJ-AM news. In the morning
and in the evening I'll listen to WJR-AM, but I refuse to listen to
Dr. Laura on that station. Late at night I have two favorite crazy
preachers on clear-channel AM stations. On 870, there is David Jay Smith
and "Newswatch Magazine: The Interpretation of Current Events in the Light
of Bible Prophecy," from about 11:30 pm -12:30 am. And on 1530, from 1:30 am
to 2:30 or 3:00, is the even more surrealistic Brother Stair,
"The Last Days Prophet of God."
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tpryan
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response 14 of 67:
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Feb 14 02:43 UTC 2000 |
Strangly, it's Sunday night, and I'm listening to Dr. Demento....
...timeshifted by about 4 years. This week, Silly Love Songs.
Why wouldn't WOLiVe be pronounced wolive? Is that the 1400am
some FM combination that used to be WipHDiF?
In the olden days WiMToU used to be WoRSe.
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keesan
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response 15 of 67:
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Feb 14 04:15 UTC 2000 |
Jim experimented with recording Music Through the Night on an old VCR, which
would let you record audio without also recording video, for three hours
at low resolution or 6 hours at even lower resolution (mono). But it is
easier just to record library CDs onto ordinary tape. Three hours of recorded
music would get us through the 4-7 pm gap in the broadcast music when all you
can get is NPR. Or Saturday evening.
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krj
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response 16 of 67:
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Feb 14 07:47 UTC 2000 |
I have done the FM-radio-recorded-to-VCR trick a number of times,
mostly for Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. I have been able to do it with
every VCR I have tried; with a 4-head "VHS Hi-Fi" machine, there are some
60-cycle hum artifacts from the rotation of the video heads,
but I think you would find the sound OK for casual listening.
The trick is to find out where the "auxiliary audio/video input"
is selected, and if I remember correctly, one usually finds it by
clicking the channel selector down below channel 0. The VCR is supposed
to make up a "black" video signal if only an audio signal is present, and
that lets the recording system do its work without being confused.
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gypsi
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response 17 of 67:
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Feb 14 15:39 UTC 2000 |
The presets on my car are, in order, 96.3 (old and new alternative, punk,
trance, etc), 102.9 (rock), 105.1 (groovy oldies and funk), 88.3 (UM's
station...various student programs), 93.9 (rock/pop that is tolerable), and
I think 94.7... not sure. I mostly listen to 96.3, so the other ones are
just preset stations that are good for backup. I also use seek to find other
things like classical, jazz, and oldies. My tastes run too broad to narrow
it down to six presets. =)
I love Darren Revell's Big Sonic Heaven program on 96.3 Sunday nights. He's
a great DJ,very entertaining and knowledgable of the music he plays, and the
show is perfect. I get a lot of ideas of things to buy from that program,
and in four weeks time, he'll play *maybe* one song I don't like. If you know
how picky I am about music, then you'll know why I like him. =)
(It's stuff like the Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau
Twins, New Order, Portishead, etc, plus LOTS of bands I'd never heard of but
wish I had)
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jep
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response 18 of 67:
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Feb 14 16:21 UTC 2000 |
I listen to WJR in the morning so I can catch Frank Beckman's sports
report at 7:40. I have little respect for main host Paul W. Smith,
after hearing him lose control of himself when talking to a couple of
his guests, but haven't switched much because I'm too lazy.
I've been listening to WJR in the afternoon because the radio is set
there, but the Mitch Albom show can be pretty painfully bad. I switched
to 99.5 a couple of times last week. I might keep doing that.
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gull
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response 19 of 67:
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Feb 14 21:20 UTC 2000 |
Re #14: Actually, WOLV is known simply as "the wolf," because that's the
name they use in their promos.
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orinoco
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response 20 of 67:
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Feb 14 21:33 UTC 2000 |
When I was in Ann Arbor, I listened mostly to 88.3 and to whatever the number
was for the CBC2 station we got. Usually I only listen to the radio in the
car, so I didn't bother to keep track of all the format changes.
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jep
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response 21 of 67:
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Feb 14 21:47 UTC 2000 |
When WOLV was started, it was WHUH. (Really.)
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tpryan
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response 22 of 67:
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Feb 14 23:23 UTC 2000 |
My car radio buttons, first is the one tap button, second is the two tap
button:
1) 93.9/ ??.?
2) 94.7/ 95.5
3)101.1/101.9
4)102.9/105.1
5)104.3/107.1
106.7 might get one of those.
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danr
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response 23 of 67:
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Feb 15 01:31 UTC 2000 |
I listen to radio all day: WUOM, WKAR mostly, but I'll also listen to WTKA
when I want a hit of U-M sports radio.
Right now, I'm listening to the English language service of Radio Nacional de
Espana from Madrid. I also like to listen to the BBC, Radio Havana, Radio
Nederland, and other shortwave stations.
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gnat
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response 24 of 67:
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Feb 15 03:15 UTC 2000 |
Oh, and at work (where I have better software than at home) I sometimes
listen to Radio K, which is a Minneapolis college station, and I also
listen to something called Orange Twin radio, one o'them new-fangled
MP3-streaming stations, which plays all sorts of crazy stuff from
Harry Partch to Bulgarian folk music.
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