orinoco
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response 27 of 34:
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Feb 16 19:11 UTC 2000 |
_Oh,_ okay....
For years I've been hearing that as WBLT, as in bacon lettuce and
tomato, and thinking "damn, they must've been running low on letters to use".
PLT makes more sense.
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polygon
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response 30 of 34:
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Mar 7 01:40 UTC 2000 |
I listen to commercial music radio in the car, because (1) my tape player
doesn't seem to work right, and (2) I generally don't want to hear talk
from the radio when I'm driving.
I'm approximately *allergic* to radio commercials. I will not sit through
them. Back when they came up with "20 song blocks", I noticed that 20
songs in a row would be followed by 20 commercials in a row, so it made a
lot of sense to tune out as soon when the commercials started.
Much as it may be romantic and polically correct to like "personable DJs"
and despise "robot radio", what I want from the radio is music, no ads, no
idiotic DJ patter.
My station sequence (switch to the next when an ad or an idiot comes on)
is 88.7, 93.9, 94.7, 94.9, 95.5, 96.3, 101.1, 102.9, 106.7. If the ads
get really intolerable (e.g. a tour of that list finds no listenable music
going on anwhere), then I flee to NPR stations like WUOM, WKAR, WDET,
WEMU.
In the morning, when commercial radio stations all have a heavy idiocy and
heavy ad format, there is usually no point in bothering with anything but
public radio.
The proportion of radio time devoted to ads seems to be increasing,
especially in major markets like Detroit. Detroit stations spend more
time on ads than say Lansing stations.
At home, when I'm not actually driving, there is almost never any reason
to listen to commercial radio.
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tpryan
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response 33 of 34:
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Apr 22 15:32 UTC 2000 |
At least Classic Rock 94.7fm is not sending its audience on a search of
the radio dial to find Alice, as they did many years ago then they where
digging on 'Star FM'. I woke up someone at WCSX when I complained by
saying "I didn't know you where losing in the ratings that bad to Star 97".
Then having to point out, only the loser would be putting down the leader.
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brighn
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response 34 of 34:
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Apr 23 00:35 UTC 2000 |
I hate it when radio stations insult other radio stations. The Bear (? I
think) had a bunch of ads mocking Arthur P. ("Coming up, three hits in a row,
on the flip side of this twenty-minute commercial break!"), and one of the
alt-rock stations (maybe the Planet) has that series "You don't have to sit
through this (burst of Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Staind, or Tool) to get to this
(start of next mildly-interesting alt-pop song)."
The problem with both ad series is, it made me want to listen to the radio
station they were mocking... I'd rather listen to Kid Rock and Staind than
Oasis and Goo Goo Dolls. I don't care where you were when we were getting
high. I wish there WAS a radio station that regularly played Staind and
Tool... RIF comes closest, but only when Art's at the helm, and then it
depends on his mood.
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