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Grex > Music1 > #45: What is your "dream" station? | |
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furs
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What is your "dream" station?
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Dec 26 13:37 UTC 1991 |
If you had a bazillion dollars, and decided to buy a radio station,
what would you do with it? What kind of format?
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goose
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response 1 of 48:
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Dec 27 02:17 UTC 1991 |
Free-form.
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bad
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response 2 of 48:
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Dec 27 06:27 UTC 1991 |
Broadcast the same song all day every day on every band.
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furs
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response 3 of 48:
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Dec 28 18:12 UTC 1991 |
Great.
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bad
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response 4 of 48:
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Dec 29 02:41 UTC 1991 |
And it would be the song they play at hockey games:
Duh duh duh DUH DUH duh "hey" duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh DUH DUH duh "hey" duh duh duh duh
dunka chucka dunka chucka...
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krj
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response 5 of 48:
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Dec 29 07:20 UTC 1991 |
I would find Augusta LaPaix, the original host of CBC's Nightline's show back
around 1984, and put her to work recreating the original show's brilliant
ambience. The show that you hear today is just a pale shadow of those
early glorious days, when Philip Glass, Fred Frith, Lord Buckley, the Last
Poets, the folkies and the punks, all mixed up together with the poetry
readings.
I'd set aside some time for Felix Grant to recreate his long-running
(1950-1980, approximately) classic jazz show from WMAL in Washington, DC.
Grant was the best radio voice I ever heard, and he was a perceptive
fan of the music.
Finally, I'd set aside some time for Garrison Keillor to recreate the
old Prairie Home Companion show, with lots of folk music.
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bad
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response 6 of 48:
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Dec 29 13:36 UTC 1991 |
Ehh, my stations'd blow yours out of the water. :)
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ragnar
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response 7 of 48:
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Dec 30 16:33 UTC 1991 |
I used to have a dream of cutting in on WIQB with a real rock station, but
they've moved to cover enough of that base to make that unfeaseable. I'd
buy WJR in a minute, just for the power!
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bad
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response 8 of 48:
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Dec 30 22:30 UTC 1991 |
Yeah, that's a monster.
Anyone ever caught that in Tenessee, or farther?
Pretty cool.
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craig
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response 9 of 48:
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Dec 31 00:12 UTC 1991 |
I am currently broadcasting to the Gratiot cruisers.
Sometimes I talk, sometimes I repeat a song over and over on the CD player..
Sometimes I make sounds.
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ty
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response 10 of 48:
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Jan 2 18:44 UTC 1992 |
Re8: I've heard WJR in St. Louis.
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krj
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response 11 of 48:
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Jan 3 17:03 UTC 1992 |
I've sometimes wondered why enthusiasts of less popular musical genres
haven't tried to make some inroads in the AM market. AM is now where
FM was in the great days of freeform radio -- a frequency band for
which there is not much market demand.
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goose
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response 12 of 48:
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Jan 3 23:32 UTC 1992 |
Probably because the FCC is such a pain in the ass, politically corrupt group
of people.
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polygon
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response 13 of 48:
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Jan 27 22:42 UTC 1992 |
Nope, actually, the reason is the poor sound quality on AM compared to FM.
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mcnally
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response 14 of 48:
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Jan 28 03:10 UTC 1992 |
The AM band has its benefits, too.. I doubt there are any FM stations
that the FCC lets operate at a power level that makes them easily
receivable 200 or more miles away.
I think the big reason is that there is no real AM band usage now.
When you're scanning the dial looking for something to listen to, do
you check the AM band, too? Why not? Most likely because you know that
there's not likely to be anything there..
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arabella
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response 15 of 48:
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Jan 30 17:47 UTC 1992 |
I would love to create a WHFS-like station out here in lousy
radio land. (That's a station near Annapolis, MD, that Ken
introduced me to.) They play a really neat variety of stuff.
One of the few places I remember hearing Richard Thompson and
Michelle Shocked on the radio within the same half hour. Ken
tells me it used to be lots better than it is now, which boggles
my mind.
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polygon
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response 16 of 48:
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Jan 31 16:56 UTC 1992 |
Re 2. A station in the Lansing area that abruptly fired its entire staff
and went into a very hastily conceived format change (this was just a couple
of months ago, ask ftl@m-net) played the same song over and over and over
again for many hour. I assume while this was happening, they were casting
about to find more malleable employees.
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craig
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response 17 of 48:
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Feb 1 01:25 UTC 1992 |
I listen to Cass Corridor radio.
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mcnally
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response 18 of 48:
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Feb 1 09:16 UTC 1992 |
Probably not anymore.. I hear the police showed up at their door last
night with the FCC.. Apparently they didn't have a warrant, though.
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goose
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response 19 of 48:
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Feb 1 09:54 UTC 1992 |
RE#16 -- What station was/is that?
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krj
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response 20 of 48:
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Feb 2 05:49 UTC 1992 |
Gotta be mobile if you want to keep that sort of an operation going
for very long... (re the Cass Corridor station)
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jlh
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response 21 of 48:
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Feb 2 23:35 UTC 1992 |
DJ's would be female, beautiful, and naked! and play a mix of whats played
on 88.7 and 89.1 as received in Ann Arbor area. Only the station would be
located on an island in south pacific with just me and station full of DJ's.
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bad
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response 22 of 48:
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Feb 3 05:24 UTC 1992 |
Naked radio DJ's? Hmmn...how do you know they aren't all naked now?
(aside: Sheri Donovan [spelled incorrectly here] has been nude in
magazines a couple of times. I believe she's on WLLZ currently)
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polygon
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response 23 of 48:
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Feb 3 11:27 UTC 1992 |
Re 20. Prior to my stay at Cornell, there was a pirate station called
Radio Free Ithaca, which would claim to be broadcasting from a balloon
above Cayuga Lake ...
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krokus
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response 24 of 48:
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Feb 4 04:20 UTC 1992 |
RE #22
Have you any idea what magazine? What issue?
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