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krj
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response 132 of 145:
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Nov 27 05:06 UTC 2000 |
We heard a nice program out of Kalamazoo as we drove back from
Chicago tonight. The Sunday Blues Show, on WRKR, 107.7 FM.
A few acoustic blues numbers, lots of electric blues. The best electric
number, with loads of shimmering guitar, came just before we lost the
station around Chelsea, and I'll probably never figure out who it was.
birdy or anyone else, do you know what this station usually plays?
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tpryan
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response 133 of 145:
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Nov 27 17:32 UTC 2000 |
I would suspect it being a RocKeR.
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krj
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response 134 of 145:
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Dec 2 23:04 UTC 2000 |
resp:132 has a happier ending. A google search turned up the show's
web page, http://www.sunday-blues.com . E-mail with the program's
host gave me a short list of songs which my favorite could have been,
all by Robert Ward; from amazon.com I was able to determine that the
song I wanted was "Your Love Is Amazing," from the album FEAR NO EVIL.
Which I now have. Yay.
This is so much easier then when I was a kid.
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krj
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response 135 of 145:
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Apr 20 18:44 UTC 2001 |
Salon continues it's muckraking series on why pop radio is so bad.
Basically the problem is that radio playlists are now controlled
through corruption and legalized bribery. And as the stations
are agglomerated into larger corporations with fewer owners,
even the local program director, who used to choose the songs to
be played, is being stripped of his autonomy.
http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/04/03/payola2/index.html
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krj
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response 136 of 145:
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Apr 20 18:45 UTC 2001 |
(( Clear Channel Communications now owns 1200 radio stations, according
to the article. ))
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tpryan
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response 137 of 145:
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Apr 20 21:33 UTC 2001 |
That includes the old WIQB, now WWWW (W4) 102.9fm Ann Arbor
and WKQL, Kool107, 107.1fm, Ann Arbor.
Do they own Detroit stations?
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krj
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response 138 of 145:
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Apr 30 19:30 UTC 2001 |
Salon continues its muckraking series with a slashing attack on Clear
Channel Communications, the corporation which controls 60% of rock radio
in the USA, they say, and which is using blacklist tactics to stop
artists and labels from doing promotional work with Clear Channel's
competitors.
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html
A quote from the end of the article:
"There is some evidence that consolidation economics has damaged radio's
popularity.... In just the past seven years radio listening has declined
nearly 15 percent, according to Arbitron. One in three listeners between
the ages of 12 and 24 recently told Arbitron they were listening to less
radio specifically because of the commercial overload."
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raven
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response 139 of 145:
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Apr 30 22:57 UTC 2001 |
This seems pretty directly relevant as to why we need more low power fm
broadcasters as per the pirate radio item in this springs agora item.
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krj
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response 140 of 145:
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May 29 20:50 UTC 2001 |
News item: The Los Angeles Times says it has internal paperwork
from an independent promotion agency proving that this agency routinely
makes illegal payments to radio stations for airplay.
"Experts say the newly disclosed bank data could threaten the licenses
of numerous stations.
"'This document destroys the notion that the new payola is any different
from the old payola,' said Peter Hart, an analyst for the New York-based
media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
"'What you have here is a smoking gun... An appropriate government
investigation could blow this whole industry wide open.'"
http://www.latimes.com/print/20010529/t000044865.html
The web site says this was a front page story.
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mcnally
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response 141 of 145:
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May 29 23:26 UTC 2001 |
With the growing consolidation of music-producing and broadcasting
companies it may eventually wind up being a moot point -- it doesn't
seem too hard to imagine a near future where you tune into the local
station of the Vivendi Radio Network, which only plays that company's
stable of artists.
Still, anything that shakes up the currently dismal state of commercial
radio has at least the potential to do good..
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arianna
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response 142 of 145:
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Jul 19 04:27 UTC 2001 |
Is anyone else into NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" show? (:
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bruin
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response 143 of 145:
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Jul 19 12:24 UTC 2001 |
RE #142 I listen to "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" just about every week.
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tpryan
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response 144 of 145:
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Jul 21 23:10 UTC 2001 |
What time on which station(s)?
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bruin
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response 145 of 145:
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Jul 22 00:14 UTC 2001 |
RE #144 11:00 am Saturdays on WEMU (89.1 FM) and 3:00 pm Saturdays on
WUOM (91.7 FM).
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