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.67 responses total.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.')
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...
(WUPX, unless it's my alarm clock in the morning, which is set to WNMU.)
(( winter agora #138 <---> music #234 ))
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Re #14: Actually, WOLV is known simply as "the wolf," because that's the name they use in their promos.
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.
When WOLV was started, it was WHUH. (Really.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dan, do they broadcast Real Madrid football matches?
No. They're only hour-long broadcasts. They sometimes have sports news, though.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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."
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.
Also WGTE (91.3 from Toledo).
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.
Does anyone know if the local NPR affiliate carries "Thistle and Shamrock"? I used to listen to that all the time in Kalamazoo.
"Thistle and Shamrock" is carried on Sundays on NPR in Ann Arbor.. I believe 91.7.
What time?
WGTE plays classical music Friday evenings. Nobody does Sat. eves.
T & R is also on WDET on Sunday afternoons.
michiganradio.org should be able to tell you. Theoretically I *should* be able to tell you, but I don't remember.
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
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..
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?).
Pizza!!! Now gimme my Scooby Snack...
First you have to make that "arooooo?" Scooby-noise..
Arrooo?
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.)
Weren't they the ones who were always trying to Get Smart?
I thought there was an album called "Radio KAOS" by whatsisname from Pink Floyd (whose name totally eludes me now).
yeah, Roger Waters.. he did have an album by that name..
How about WOOD in Grand Rapids? Do they much of a furniture industry there anymore?
Except for Steelcase and Herman Miller, hardly any.. ;-)
I heard that the only station whose call letters formed the unabbreviated name of its location is KING, the NBC station in Seattle. (King County).
I know they had the template name before the call, but I would think CYDR would be "Cider" or "The smashed Apple" before it would be "The River".
My primary station is WOMC. They play a nice assortment of songs. I have been known to be a horrible flipper, though.
What a wonderfull thing it is to have the receiver remote next to
me at the computer here. No station wants to pay just one or two
commercials, it has to be a 4-5minute commercial fest. Well, if they
have commercial breaks that are longer than tunes, I can always change
stations and get more tunes.
Ok, except at about 10 minutes before the hour, when all stations
go to their long set of commercials. Even WDET, NPR stops in that time
to give a thank you shout (commercial) to one of their sponsors.
Classical stations all do news for five minutes past the hour.
A Prairie Home Companion is touring Scotland and Ireland, which might interest a few of you. Tonight's broadcast is from Edinburgh, Scotland; it will be repeated on WUOM at 1 pm Sunday. The March 4 broadcast (Saturday at 6 pm) will be from Dublin, Ireland.
I also noticed a broadcast from Limerick, Ireland, on February 29, 2000. Any idea if Michigan Radio plans to air it?
If it's part of "A Prairie Home Companion"'s regular series, they're planning on airing it. Garrison Effing Keillor. The man blows his nose and public radio listeners ooh and ahh about how whimsical it is. Yeah, don't think for a second he'd do something like that without getting stateside mileage from it. www.prairiehome.org should have more official information.
The website says that the Limerick show is not a broadcast. It's being taped for an unspecified future date.
(I thought it odd that GK referenced buying football tickets during this weekend's show.)
I have not been able to find much of interest on the radio lately, AT ALL. Ive started listening to some Rap/Hip-Hop on the radio, but most other stations have been rubbing me the wrong way. Im also pretty sure that -hoe how much do you cost?- songs are gonna get old quick. My presets are- 88.3 WCBN 88.7 CIMX 93.1 WDRQ 93.9 CIDR 94.7 WCSX 95.5 96.3 WPLT 97.9 99.5 105.1 105.9 106.7 WWWW
the only @*$%!@#!! stations i can get are WKQL 107.1, WIQB 102.9 WCBN 88.3 and WUOM 91.7, and the last one only with a notch filter to block 107.
I drove thru Chicagoland last Saturday and stopped listening to CD and tapes to listen to the radio. It was easy, my main pre-sets worked for Chicago. Oldies 104.3 was still Oldies 104.3, but 101.9 was Classic Rock, not NPR-like. 105.1 was not "The Groove" at least not as I could tell as it was neuvo _______, uno nuno ceico pointo uno, and sounded like a broad range spanish station.
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