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void
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response 62 of 145:
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Sep 11 08:20 UTC 1997 |
when i'm up late (or early, depending on one's perspective) enough
to catch it, i love wqrs's "sousalarm," a john philip sousa march
played sometime between 7:00 and 7:30am.
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omni
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response 63 of 145:
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Sep 11 18:22 UTC 1997 |
It's at 7:20 and this morning was "Washington Post". I love that march.
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orinoco
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response 64 of 145:
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Sep 11 21:38 UTC 1997 |
Wow...I'm never up quite *that* late, and wake up earlier than that during
the week anyway. Oh well...
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bruin
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response 65 of 145:
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Sep 12 00:10 UTC 1997 |
BTW, what Sousa march is also known as the theme from "Monty Python's
Flying Circus?"
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krj
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response 66 of 145:
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Sep 12 02:12 UTC 1997 |
I forget the title, but the military band played it immediately before
Bill Clinton was sworn in as President. Some people found this an omen. :)
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void
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response 67 of 145:
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Sep 12 07:58 UTC 1997 |
the "liberty bell march."
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bruin
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response 68 of 145:
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Sep 12 12:01 UTC 1997 |
Thank you, void. I just love hearing that song as the "Monty Python" intro
with the last note replaced by the squish of the bare foot coming down.
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orinoco
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response 69 of 145:
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Sep 12 22:14 UTC 1997 |
I assume that represents a change from Sousa's version...:)
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lumen
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response 70 of 145:
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Sep 13 05:43 UTC 1997 |
Indeed...:)
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krj
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response 71 of 145:
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Sep 21 04:53 UTC 1997 |
Getting back to the demise of CBC Radio's NIGHTLINES, the
Friday & Saturday late night show (response #57):
CBC Radio 2 shows still have DJs whose personalities color the shows;
it also sounded like host David Wisdom had a big role in picking
the music. NIGHTLINES had a loose structure. From midnight until
around 0200, the show played noisy rock, what might have been
categorized as "alternative." Until around 3 or 4, the energy level
slowed down, and Wisdom would play lots of midtempo rock, some folk
and folk rock, and world music. (As you can guess, this was
generally my favorite part of the show.) Then as the show wound
down towards 5 am, the program would play some quiet jazz,
some new age and ambient stuff, some quiet classical.
Of course, the schedule could get thrown out at any time.
Wisdom has a taste for kitschy old MOR songs. There was also,
every two months or so, "Covers Weekend," when every song played
on Friday and Saturday night would be a pop or rock cover.
"Guilty Pleasures" was another recurring theme.
The show also had these quirky call-in tapes where callers from
around Canada (and the border USA states) would ramble on about
topics which Wisdom had picked, and then request songs, which
would follow.
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goose2
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response 72 of 145:
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Oct 11 03:31 UTC 1997 |
Nightlines is no more? Damn, that's too bad.
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krj
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response 73 of 145:
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Oct 11 05:38 UTC 1997 |
A good deal of CBC "Nightlines" rock personality seems to have been
carried over to David Wisdom's new show, RADIOSONIC, which is on between
7 pm and 11 pm (I think) on Friday and Saturday nights.
RADIOSONIC doesn't seem to have the jazz/folk/world music/ambient touches
which Nightlines had, though.
Leslie and I were driving back from Detroit last Saturday night; we tuned
in CBC, listened to the music for a while, and we said, "Yup, this sounds
like a David Wisdom show!"
RADIOSONIC has a second host, Leora Kornfeld (?), and there seems to be
a bit of friction between their styles.
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diznave
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response 74 of 145:
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Oct 21 18:36 UTC 1997 |
The best radio station I've ever heard is in Tampa (WMNF 88.5). Unfortunately,
I am *just* out of range, as I am 2 1/2 hours north of Tampa now, in
Gainesville. I can still hear 88.5, but it's not clear at all, due to two
local religious stations on either side of 88.5, which bleed over. There is
actually one spot in Gainesville where I can pick up 88.5 almost crystal
clear, but unfortunately, its somewhere in the first three car lengths of a
left turn lane near the downtown Gainesville area. Needless to say, the only
times I am able to hang out and listen to WMNF is verry, very late at night,
or very, very early in the morning.
WMNF is a community sponsered radio station. Now, when I say community
sponsered, I mean 100%. Truly every penny (supposedly) they get is from
listeners. They have week long pledge drives twice a year. Its not, obviously,
a college radio station, but college radio is the closest thing I've heard
to WMNF anywhere. They also have live internet "broadcasts". Which is great
for WMNF fans who are out of the Tampa area.
Being a community radio station, WMNF must satisfy a wide range of tastes,
in music and other programming. They divide the programming day up into one
and two hour slots, where the hosts of each show come in and have pretty much
free reign on what they play. There is everything from the heavy metal show
to the opera show to various jazz shows to various classic rock shows to the
polka hourto celtic shows to international music to folk music toa late night
hip hop show to blues shows. Plus a lot more kinds of music. In addition,
there there is much social and political discussion, news, and speeches,
throughout (most tending to lean to the progressive left). There is also
(which I think I miss most of all) Pacifica programming each morning, with
Alan Watts' speeches on Toaism and Buddism being my favorite.
I invite everyone to check out 88.5 online at http://wmnf.org/ You'll be
amazed!!! ;->
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raven
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response 75 of 145:
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Oct 21 23:31 UTC 1997 |
Also Pacifica evening news is on the web in real audio, I think that's
www,pacifica.org, though I will have to double check that URL.
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diznave
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response 76 of 145:
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Oct 22 04:49 UTC 1997 |
Er,.....that's Taoism, I mean. ;->
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krj
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response 77 of 145:
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Nov 17 19:10 UTC 1997 |
Today's news: Detroit's commercial classical music station, WQRS,
is being converted to some rock format, as yet unannounced.
This addresses the desperate shortage of rock radio in the
Detroit area. (*ahem*)
It's another demonstration of the need to manage the limited resource
of the radio spectrum on socialist principles.
WQRS was making a tidy profit and had the #12 audience share in Detroit.
In a free market, WQRS would have gone on being a profitable
classical station for some time. But radio is an oligopoly with
government licensing needed to play in the game, and it's run on
the absurd premise that delivering desirable buyers to advertisers
is radio's highest goal. (Remember, in commercial radio, you are
not the customer: you are the product being sold.)
WQRS listeners were well-educated and wealthy, but they aren't
young enough.
The NPR station in Detroit, WDET, programs mostly jazz, folk and world
music; the NPR station in Ann Arbor, WUOM, dumped its morning and afternoon
classical programming about a year ago. So neither of them is likely
to pick up the void in classical music programming.
This echoes changes in Philadelphia; I believe that Philadelphia's
commercial classical station had the same owner as the Detroit station,
and they just dumped classical music at the same time that the major
NPR station in the area was dumping classical music.
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omni
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response 78 of 145:
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Nov 17 19:39 UTC 1997 |
This is indeed a sad day in radio. Let us play Mozart's Requiem for the dead.
'qrs had a spot saying they were going on 35 yrs of classical.
I'm going to miss them.
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teflon
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response 79 of 145:
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Nov 18 01:38 UTC 1997 |
Gee, I dunno. I kinda like the RRR (Really Repetitive Radio) stations. I
mean, since they play the same stuff over and over (I listen to WIQB, mostly
for their little sound-clip thingys "Gee, I always thought this was a crack
house) it becomes a little bit like having a CD on random mode in your player.
And ocationally they play something that surprizes me, like once I tuned in
to "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson! I bounced my head off the
roof!
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mcnally
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response 80 of 145:
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Nov 18 04:29 UTC 1997 |
So basically your theory is that you'll appreciate the good stuff a
lot more if it's buried by hours and hours of repetetive dreck? Hmm.
You may be right for a career in modern radio programming (or would
be if 96% of commercial radio programming wasn't done by a Zenith PC
XT clone with a bad randomizer sitting in a closet in Dubuque, IA.)
I'm appalled to find out that I was incorrect in my firm belief regarding
the impossibility of the radio choices in the Detroit market getting worse.
Sigh..
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orinoco
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response 81 of 145:
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Nov 19 03:54 UTC 1997 |
(I heard Crimson's "People" on the radio once...)
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albaugh
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response 82 of 145:
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Nov 20 18:51 UTC 1997 |
So when is WQRS going nonclassical? I better listen while I can, because I
surely *won't* be listening *at all* when it goes rock...
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krj
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response 83 of 145:
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Nov 20 20:55 UTC 1997 |
The unconfirmed rumor is that the WQRS change will be near the end of
November.
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bruin
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response 84 of 145:
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Nov 21 01:25 UTC 1997 |
Do you know what I'll miss most when WQRS changes format? The Sousa march
at 7:15 am. One of the cab drivers I had been riding with at that time
listened religiously to his morning dose of Sousa.
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teflon
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response 85 of 145:
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Nov 21 01:49 UTC 1997 |
re: 80
-Yeah, that's basically it. Of course, I forgot to mention that happens to
be one of the (very) few channels that Ghoti will recieve clearly?
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bmoran
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response 86 of 145:
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Nov 21 14:49 UTC 1997 |
Sounds like, in the Detroit market, classical will become the "new
alternative". My, how times change, eh?
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