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hhsrat
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response 25 of 67:
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Feb 15 03:22 UTC 2000 |
My alarm clock is set to 107.1 (WKQL) . My car radio bounces around,
but usually either 107.1, 94.7 (WCSX?), or 950 (WWJ). At work, the
radio's usually on 107.1, 101.3 (WRIF), or 1130 (WDFN) because that's
almost all we can get. Saturday mornings I usually try to listen to Car
Talk on 91.7 (WUOM).
I don't really have favorite DJ's, although there are a few that I can't
stand. Notable terribles are Dick Purtan (WOMC mornings), Delilah (WQKL
evenings), and Stony & Wojo (WDFN afternoons). Lately, WDFN has had
Damon "The Dawg" Perry on as a guest anchor, he was annoying when he
was with One on One sports, and he's still annoying. He's got a really
nasal voice that just grates after a while.
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senna
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response 26 of 67:
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Feb 15 05:32 UTC 2000 |
Dan, do they broadcast Real Madrid football matches?
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danr
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response 27 of 67:
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Feb 15 12:47 UTC 2000 |
No. They're only hour-long broadcasts. They sometimes have sports news,
though.
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senna
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response 28 of 67:
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Feb 15 18:38 UTC 2000 |
Rats. It was worth a shot :)
I like listening to distant AM stations at night, particularly during
football season. 870 AM from New Orleans comes in rather crisply, and
they have rights to LSU football. One night I was amused to find that
they were broadcasting something with local flavor. A fishing show.
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lumen
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response 29 of 67:
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Feb 15 21:28 UTC 2000 |
No one will recognize the stations I listen to, of course, so I'll have
to briefly explain a few.
88.1 "The 'Burg," which is CWU's radio station. I usually switch to it
when I'm tired of the mainstream stuff on heavy rotation. The station
pretty much covers all the things a college radio station is capable of-
- audio coverage of some sports games, plenty of promos and shows for a
variety of genres, and DJs that aren't bound by commercial obligations.
90.7, which is our area NPR.
102.1, Wenatchee's soft rock station.
103.1, KQBE, Ellensburg's mainstream station that covers anything else
that is not country. It's a pretty narrow niche. It's a smattering of
adult contemporary, boy bands, and 80's pop rock. Forget the DJs;
there is ABSOLUTELY no talent here. I'm also annoyed by the fact that
they like to cover high school sports games. I want music-- if I
wanted sports, I'd attend the games.
105.7, Yakima's soft rock. One of my wife's favorite stations. I like
Delilah, personally =P but I can see why some people would tire of the
saccharine, syrup, and cheese.
107.3, KFFM, Yakima's pop mainstream station. The target audience
seems to be women 18-34, and the type of music is based on the industry
formula-- mostly dance, pop, r&b, and any hiphop that crosses into
those areas. Not too far off from whatever MTV is playing on the tube.
That's what I can get here; I add 92.5 Sunny FM when I'm in Yakima and
can get better reception.
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keesan
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response 30 of 67:
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Feb 15 23:11 UTC 2000 |
I could hear a Texas AM station in Skopje (Macedonia). Along with the three
local stations. Don't know if they have FM now, it does not do well in
mountainous areas. Skopje, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Thessaloniki (N. Greece) all
broadcast loudly at the same frequencies so that you could only hear the one
in your own area - political differences were greater than the language
differences. In the seventies.
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mcnally
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response 31 of 67:
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Feb 16 01:09 UTC 2000 |
With the exception of a couple of shows on some of the area's college
radio stations (primarily Wayne State's WDET, and Eastern's WEMU and
Umich's WCBN to much lesser extents) not much of the music I like these
days gets any radio play to speak of.
As a consequence I primarily look to the radio for news coverage and
stick to selecting my own music from my CDs..
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keesan
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response 32 of 67:
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Feb 16 02:00 UTC 2000 |
Does anyone listen to WDTR? They seem to have dropped their 1.5 hours of
classical music in the evenings. It used to stop abruptly in the middle of
whatever they were playing at 8:35 p. m.
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gnat
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response 33 of 67:
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Feb 16 02:21 UTC 2000 |
What stations are playing classical music these days? There's the
Canadian station and WUOM (sometimes)... anyone else?
I really miss WQRS and the "Cheap Pencil Contest."
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krj
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response 34 of 67:
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Feb 16 02:28 UTC 2000 |
WKAR-FM (90.5) from Michigan State is mostly classical, with the
following key exceptions:
NPR morning and evening drive time news blocks
Sunday night: 4 hours of folk programming
Friday night: jazz
Saturday evening: A Prairie Home Companion
WKAR can be received in Ann Arbor in mono with a good receiver and
antenna.
WJR-AM plays the broadcasts of the Detroit Symphony: I think they have moved
to Sunday nights.
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scg
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response 35 of 67:
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Feb 16 04:27 UTC 2000 |
Also WGTE (91.3 from Toledo).
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bruin
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response 36 of 67:
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Feb 16 14:07 UTC 2000 |
And WKAR also has a low-power, daytime only, AM sister station. And, during
the Clinton Impeachment malarky, the AM station carried the hearings and the
trial, while the FM station continued with regular programming.
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gypsi
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response 37 of 67:
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Feb 16 15:18 UTC 2000 |
Does anyone know if the local NPR affiliate carries "Thistle and Shamrock"?
I used to listen to that all the time in Kalamazoo.
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jiffer
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response 38 of 67:
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Feb 16 16:28 UTC 2000 |
"Thistle and Shamrock" is carried on Sundays on NPR in Ann Arbor.. I believe
91.7.
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gypsi
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response 39 of 67:
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Feb 16 16:32 UTC 2000 |
What time?
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keesan
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response 40 of 67:
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Feb 16 17:05 UTC 2000 |
WGTE plays classical music Friday evenings. Nobody does Sat. eves.
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katie
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response 41 of 67:
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Feb 16 19:32 UTC 2000 |
T & R is also on WDET on Sunday afternoons.
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drewmike
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response 42 of 67:
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Feb 16 22:00 UTC 2000 |
michiganradio.org should be able to tell you.
Theoretically I *should* be able to tell you, but I don't remember.
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hhsrat
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response 43 of 67:
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Feb 17 01:57 UTC 2000 |
Does anyone know what the call letters for AM 1050 WTKA mean?
I know WAAM is Ann Arbor Michigan, WDET is Detroit, WPLT is Planet, WQKL
is supposed to be Kool (not quite sure how on that one either).
WHYY and KRAP (also CRAP in Canada) are pretty obvious :) So is KRUD
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mcnally
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response 44 of 67:
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Feb 17 03:34 UTC 2000 |
One of the few interesting things about the totally pre-fab highly-
formatted radio networks (like "the Planet") which have a presence
in cities across the country is the amusing scrambling for call
letters that occurs when you have to find 3- or 4-letter variants
for their trademark name in seven or eight major markets..
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bruin
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response 45 of 67:
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Feb 17 14:14 UTC 2000 |
WTKA-AM 1050's call letters used to mean "The TalK of Ann Arbor," but now that
it's primarily a sports station, they now mean "The Ticket."
Interestingly enough, when Tom Monaghan owned the station in the late 1980's
and early 1990's, the call letters were WPZA (can you figure out why?).
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gypsi
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response 46 of 67:
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Feb 17 14:50 UTC 2000 |
Pizza!!! Now gimme my Scooby Snack...
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mcnally
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response 47 of 67:
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Feb 17 16:45 UTC 2000 |
First you have to make that "arooooo?" Scooby-noise..
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gypsi
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response 48 of 67:
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Feb 17 17:36 UTC 2000 |
Arrooo?
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gull
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response 49 of 67:
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Feb 17 19:05 UTC 2000 |
My favorite examples of station "vanity calls" are KORN (Mitchell, South
Dakota -- home of the famous Corn Palace) and KAOS (Evergreen State
College's station.)
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