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mziemba
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response 25 of 145:
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Mar 19 13:55 UTC 1997 |
Bill: Ann Delisi is the best. I've caught that show, "Tunes From the
Missing Channel", on the 93.9 FM Windsor station, too. She and
her co-host do a fine job.
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orinoco
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response 26 of 145:
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Mar 22 23:16 UTC 1997 |
Me and a couple of friends are trying to put together a radio-drama type
thing. I know someone who knows someone who knows someone at WUOM, and
there's an infinitesimal chance we might get it performed, but first we have
to make the damn thing. Does anyone have any knowledge/experience in this
area?
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mziemba
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response 27 of 145:
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Mar 23 11:00 UTC 1997 |
Well, it's fairly straightforward. Helps to have a sound person, who will
use a few things to punctuate the portrayed activities...
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tpryan
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response 28 of 145:
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Mar 23 18:21 UTC 1997 |
Continue on Sunday Night on 93.fm at 9pm with Acousitic Cafe,
produced right here in Ann Arbor, hosted by Rob Rhinehart. A very
good folk/accoustic show. or at 10pm, halfway thru the above show,
you can switch over to WIQB,102.9fm here in Ann Arbor for Blues
Delux. Of course after that it's Dr. Demento at 11pm. (Dr. Demento
also has a real-audio net feed on the Web at sometime).
I started in radio as a discjockey for our AM carrier
current station in Wadworth Wall at Michigan Tech-no-logical
University, WRS (pronounced WoRSe), but established as Wadsworth
Radio Systems. This is up in Houghton, Michigan, the very Upper
part of the Upper Pennisula. With two local stations that did
not satisfy the listening habits of the student population, this
station was actually listened to. Not much else on the radio,
even hard to get AM radio on the nighttime skip in the dorm. I
was not only a disc jockey, I raised half the budget by selling
commercial time to the local businesses. The Pizzarea finally
got to their market, the student, via a few ads, runing in the
evening around 9pm-11pm, when they were getting hungry. A tremendous
boost in sales followed. Believe you me, it was hard to sell ads
on a station that the local merchants could not hear, not under-
stand the fact that I was competting with the other local staions
(WHDF, pronounced WipH-DiF, and WMPL (pronounced WiMPLe). Yes,
we sold time, just like the University supported newspaper sold
ad space, except we could not get the money that a full-page ad
bought by Busweiser could bring in--we did not sell anything
alcohol tothe mostly 18 to 21 year old audience, though we could
sell for the local bars (good food at both The Library Bar and
Spanky's). The college supported/budgeted station, more NPR
like, classical music and such, WGGL (pronounced WiGGle) was on
FM and low power in it's beginning years. Later they got permission
for more power, put the new antena up on a local high and got great
reception troughout the area, expect the college campus, where the
shadow of that hill kept out the signal--really served the college, eh?
Egads, maybe more later.
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lumen
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response 29 of 145:
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Aug 15 03:12 UTC 1997 |
When I was at Whitman, we had a great student radio station that ran 24 hours
a day in about 1 (2?) hour block formats. Students had permission to play
any kind of music they wanted to, or just talk (for one student had a talk
radio show for a small time). Hot Poop, Walla Walla's locally-owned music
store, sponsored the station a little bit. The owners got a time slot, so
"The Heavy Metal Sledgehammer Show" was always on the schedule.
I had a show-- for a day. I played mostly Depeche Mode, with b sides and
alternate mixes. When my friend finally showed up (he got the time slot for
me and all), we mixed in requests, some speed metal, some Jim Croce, a public
service announcement and a plug for KWCW t-shirts, among other things.
We don't have much in the Tri-Cities. We have a classic rock station, a best
of rock station, a popular rock station, a pop/adult contemporary station,
a dance club/urban music station that comes in weakly from Walla Walla, a
Spanish radio station, a Christian pop music station..ah, did I say not much?
Well, I should mean not a whole lot worth listening to. There is a old-time
Christian music station, and then the rest of the dial is country, save NPR.
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mcnally
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response 30 of 145:
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Aug 15 05:09 UTC 1997 |
Not sure how I missed this item the first time around but I could
spend days complaining about the Detroit-area radio market. I'll be
merciful, though, and try to stick to the things I really like and
a few of the things I just can't stand..
Just about all of the things I like are college radio stations. Of the
five radio-station presets in my car, 4 are devoted to college stations
WUOM for NPR, and WCBN, WEMU, and WDET for their excellent specialty
musical programming, particularly WEMU's "Stan and Evy's All-Star Rhythm
Revue" and WCBN's "Down Home Show". Unfortunately these shows are only
on for a couple of hours per week and the rest of the time I wind up
hoping to catch some sort of NPR programming because if I don't my options
are generally limited to the obligatory college-radio Unlistenable Jazz
Hour, the classical stations' Music to Mar Guardrails By (hey, I do like
some clasical music but the selections on the radio are generally pretty
far from my tasts and make pretty soporific driving music..), or the
astonishingly uncreative and predictable muddle that is Detroit's
commercial radio scene..
Having spent a reasonable amount of time travelling this summer I'm
at a loss to explain why our radio stations suck so much worse than
those in other major metropolitan areas but take it from me when I
assure you that they do.. I understand that my tastes are too far
out of the mainstream to make a good match with any money-making station
but can anyone tell me why we can't do better than 4 or 5 identical-
sounding "alternative" stations who're too timid to put anything out
of the ordinary on their playlists, a couple of "classic rock" stations
that sound as if they're run by a gigantic underground marketing computer
located somewhere beneath the Nevada desert, and a couple of "Lite Rock"
abominations that exist only so offices can be stuck with some sort of
least-common-denominator station guaranteed to crush what's left of the
worker's spirits? Surely there'd be at least *some* market share in
a station (in any format) that sounded just a little original..
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scott
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response 31 of 145:
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Aug 15 12:18 UTC 1997 |
Hey, try checking out the AM band sometime.
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orinoco
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response 32 of 145:
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Aug 15 15:38 UTC 1997 |
Well, I don't know much about other metropolitan areas, but when I was in
Maine for a week this summer Detroit's stations seemed incredibly varied by
comparison.
Of course, that could just be because we only got two stations up there, but..
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mcnally
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response 33 of 145:
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Aug 15 17:10 UTC 1997 |
re #31: I've tried checking out the AM band and all I ever seem to
pick up are baseball games and self-help/advice shows..
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bmoran
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response 34 of 145:
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Aug 15 19:15 UTC 1997 |
Maybe it's time to try again. AM has about 100 possable stations on a bad
day, lots more on a good clear night. Slowly scan from the bottom, 530, to
the top, 1710, and see all the stuff you can get. A middle of the winter
forecast for showers and a high of 75 usually makes me stop to see just
where I've landed!
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lumen
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response 35 of 145:
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Aug 16 08:32 UTC 1997 |
Oh, but most AM stations don't do stereo. :/
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scott
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response 36 of 145:
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Aug 16 13:28 UTC 1997 |
You got a problem with mono, buddy?
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bmoran
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response 37 of 145:
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Aug 16 19:30 UTC 1997 |
Yea..You gotta problem with mono, buddy? You tell 'em scott! 'sides,
radio's supposed to be fuzzy.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 145:
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Aug 16 20:07 UTC 1997 |
I couldn't care less about stereo when I'm in the car, which is where
I do 99% of my radio listening, but either my car's got an extremely
lousy AM tuner or I'm surrounded by a perpetual field of localized
sunspot/solar flare activity.
Having just switched cars, I'm leaning towards the former hypothesis
because I've discovered that I can now pick up one or two all-news
stations (one's from Chicago, don't recall where the other originates)
which are decent diversion except when they're giving me extremely
irrelevant traffic reports about conditions on the Kennedy (*not* the
part of I-94 I'm worried about..)
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scott
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response 39 of 145:
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Aug 16 22:46 UTC 1997 |
I like listening to ethnic music in my car, so AM around Detroit is pretty
fun.
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lumen
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response 40 of 145:
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Aug 17 03:54 UTC 1997 |
Eh, I'm one of those silly people that has a mild interest in car audio-- but
then, I guess radio was never meant to sound really great. All we have on
the AM band here is oldies and talk shows, anyways. (I'm from a small city,
remember?)
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senna
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response 41 of 145:
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Aug 17 04:59 UTC 1997 |
My cars used to have audio, but I removed that from them. It was rather fun
to do, I might add :) If you have to destroy a car audio system, bassing it
to death is probably the best way.
I can't complain too much about Detroit radio. There are five stations on
the dial that can play rock music when they feel like it. I eternally mourn
the demise of 98.7, but 97.1 pretty much fills the void it left.. just in
time, too, since the Planet has turned from bad to worse and plays good music
only 20% of the time now. I mainly flip between just three stations and a
tape now, with occasional meanders to WIQB or the pLanet and even less
meanders to a classic rock or pop station.
Used to listen to AM radio, then I got into high school.
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krj
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response 42 of 145:
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Aug 18 03:47 UTC 1997 |
I have to agree with Mike's assessment of Detroit radio; Lansing is
essentially the same. Arabella & I always look forward to our
East Coast trips so we can listen to some less annoying radio.
What makes Michigan radio so annoying? In the 1970s I was convinced
that the problem was the belief that local heros Bob Seger and Ted
Nugent were the apotheosis of rock & roll. More recently, I have
no ideas.
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senna
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response 43 of 145:
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Aug 19 08:04 UTC 1997 |
When I travel abroad, I listen to the Underground Network, which seems to have
good taste in music, or did last time I listened. They play mainstream type
rock, but the underground refers to the radio stations. for some strange
reason they don't exist in Michigan. Ah well.
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bruin
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response 44 of 145:
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Aug 19 11:59 UTC 1997 |
RE #43 You probably haven't heard the fundamentalist minister in Adrian who
is spreading right-wing propaganda on FM radio and considers the FCC as
interfering with his First Amendment rights.
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senna
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response 45 of 145:
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Aug 19 21:55 UTC 1997 |
No, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I hear plenty of people
spreading left wing propoganda, though that's not always on the radio.
I'm talking about a specific network of radio stations that play music that
call themselves the underground network, and it has no outlets in southeastern
MI.
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orinoco
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response 46 of 145:
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Aug 20 01:31 UTC 1997 |
That would, I suppose, explain the fact that I haven't heard of them...
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mziemba
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response 47 of 145:
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Aug 23 09:56 UTC 1997 |
I was fairly excited about moving to this area, actually, several years
ago, just for the radio. I came from a small suburban town that coughed
up nothing better than the usual prefab standbys, you see, so this was
heaven, compared to that. Recently, I've begun to reasses that.
I called into a big local station, the other day. My first time calling
them, actually. My favorite DJ was spinning the tunes. I was busy doing
some things around the house, and I thought it would be fun to hear
something cool, but I didn't feel like going and getting it out, myself.
Even though what I was asking for was a real stretch -- a fairly obscure
musician released only through her own label -- I was assured that I would
be able to hear it on the radio.
Two years ago, I had been pulling up to a dime store, listening to the
same station, and I *had* heard it, on that radio station, as a
matter-of-fact. Someone had even called in to request it, then. My
favorite DJ was working that morning, as well, and mentioned how
interesting it was to receive such a request. I was absolutely delighted
to know that I lived in a city where I could experience such unexpected
delights on the airwaves.
Apparently, however, this was only a fleeting pleasure. For while even
though the DJ seemed intrigued by the request that I made, as she had
been, before, she didn't play it. And, not only did she *not* play it,
but I think she even played the same thing, some banal popular
"alternative" anthem of one sort or another, twice, within a few hours.
Okay, maybe she was having a bad day. Maybe she forgot. Or, maybe, just
maybe, it isn't quite the same radio station it used to be, and maybe I'll
be far better off listening to college radio, if I want to be pleasantly
surprised, anymore.
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orinoco
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response 48 of 145:
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Aug 23 20:45 UTC 1997 |
I think WCBN is the only way to go for pleasant surprises.
Problem being, I'm so used to their being surprising that they can't surprise
me anymore.
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snowth
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response 49 of 145:
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Aug 24 01:43 UTC 1997 |
But you can't say that they're *less* surprizing then when you listen to your
cd or tape players. Even if you do have a general idea of what could be next,
you're never sure until it's actually on.
Besides, I have found that WCBN is an amazing station to quilt to.
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