I hadn’t heard of WUMB. Thanks. It sounds like it’s worth checking out.
His “politics” *are *hate, combined with simple stupidity. The fact that there are so few people here who are interested in what he has to say, even for entertainment value, is a *good *thing.
Why should anyone give a damn?
Yes.
Well there goes my productivity today.
No, I mean BEFORE that, in its infancy, not its adolescence.
Wait, who pines for what now? Have I expressed an opinion about the quality of any of the content of either radio or TV?
Yeah, yeah. We all get it. Republican = Evil.
Can’t we at least agree that a Democrat who listens to dance-pop is much worse than a Republican who listens to Rush and Frank Zappa?
No, *stupid and hateful *= evil. Unless you’re identifying the coining of juvenile nicknames for Democratic public servants, which is the heart of Carr’s act, with Republican “politics”? Whatever, perhaps you typify his fan base, in which case there’s no point exploring the topic anyway.
Two words : Internet Radio
Ok, a few more. The cheap way to do this is with an App on your smartphone/iPod (or get an old used one just for that purpose). You can get as simple or fancy as you want to get the signal to speakers.
This. When you spend four years not supporting a company, can you blame them for tailoring their product to people who do?
Howie does come up with juvenile nicknames for Democratic public servants. However, he also comes up with juvenile nicknames for Republican public servants.
You don’t get a chuckle every time you see a bumper sticker that says:
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Muffy.”
But like I said, the heart of Carr’s act is his insider knowledge of the corruption.
Anyone who wants to learn about the sausage making that is MA state politics should read his book “The Brother’s Bulger” about Whitey and Billy.
Cue the cash register sound that his show always plays when he plugs his own books
He goes after the big stuff, like Whitey and Billy. But he also goes after the small stuff. Like the example I posted: It’s perfect. A legislator votes to raise the MA tax on liquor and then gets busted loading up his government plated car at the NH state liquor store just over the border. This stuff is funny. Even if it’s not exactly curing cancer.
Howie’s Column from yesterday is a perfect example of the sort of inside baseball that he’s great for.
Dude, pitting terrestrial radio for its shitty programming is like blaming dial-up internet service for its slow load times. The 20th century ended a while ago.
So, when you said radio “has changed” in post #2, you meant a century ago, after a couple of exploratory years? That’s what you meant in response to a guy who has taken a brief 2 or 3-year hiatus from classic rock radio? Okay. Excellent point. Totally wrong re ad generation, by the way. Radio has relied on ad revenue since 1920, which is the same year the first continuous broadcast went on the air.
Anyway, you said it wasn’t an instrument for entertainment, which is blatantly false. As is your point that the market doesn’t support classic rock stations. It does.
Oh for fuck’s sake, you win.
Apparently some cities have both NPR and college radio stations.
Ooh! I love reading threads where the OP somehow doesn’t understand that HE himself is (part of) the reason his problem exists.
I’ll address each bolded section separately.
**I just woke up from a coma that I’ve been in for the past few years.
I’m in the mood to listen to the radio. **
Awesome! Radio stations live and die by having people listening to them.
[H]ow could this happen?
It really does suck when a station that feels like a local icon or one of the city’s cultural bedrocks* disappears. Perhaps it had been influential and popular for so long that people just took for granted that it’d always be around…?
[…]shocking turn of events.
Disappointing? Sure. Upsetting, even? I can see that. But “shocking”? I’m guessing it’s a relatively safe bet to think that if you haven’t listened to the radio in years and feel that’s not unusual (the tone of your writing doesn’t suggest defensiveness or like you think we’ll be weirded out by the idea of not listening to the radio), others in your general radio demographic likely have as well.
So how, exactly, is it shocking that a radio station you (and likely others) stopped listening to was shut down?
Do we absofuckinglutely need to have another three vapid dance-shit stations on the radio in addition to the twelve we already have?
Well, I think your question will be answered soon enough. If a station doesn’t get enough listeners, it dies. If you already have 12 “vapid dance-shit stations” yet 3 more have popped up, it seems pretty damn obvious that demand for “vapid dance-shit” is really strong.
Who listens to this shit anyway?
Pick whichever answer you like:
[ul]
[li]People who are not you. [/li][li]People who aren’t yelling at whippersnappers to get off their lawn. [/li][li]*People who are still actually listening to the radio instead of tuning in ONCE after FOUR YEARS away. *[/li][/ul]
C’mon, dude. I do understand your annoyance (I still miss Detroit’s Z-Rock 102.7 and that’s been gone for yeeears, and more recently, 106.7 The Beat, though I suspect you’d sneer at it for being “vapid dance-shit”, which seems to include “anything made in the last 30 years that isn’t rock, country or rap”).
I even understand the weird catch-22 of not listening because there’s not much on that you like, which then means what you DO like has ratings go down, which means MORE stuff you don’t care for is on, making you LESS likely to listen and on and on.
But seriously! Your argument boils down to, “What the fuck?? How DARE they close down the radio stations I am not listening to??? :mad: :mad: :mad: They don’t know for sure I won’t suddenly come back! What, they can’t stay afloat on their fans’ quadrennial tuning in?? Psh! Please! :rolleyes:”
- No, that’s not meant in a sarcastic “ugh, pop culture is soooooo beneath me” kind of way. An area’s culture is a complex tapestry of “high brow” and “low brow”, big institutions and tiny roadside signs. All of it contributes.
Yes, that’s typical - calling every single person on a government payroll a “hack”, portraying every government appointment as the result of hackery, and using juvenile nicknames and an ethnic slur or two to fill the other 90 percent of a very short column. The fact that you admire such an “effort” and its like says quite a bit about you and your fellow “get off my lawn” types, unfortunately not positively.
zweisamkeit, the OP is still getting used to the idea of this newfangled FM band on his portable transistor. Give him time.
Since I haven’t been the one arguing with you, I hope you don’t mind answering a sincere question: could you clarify what/when the radio era you’re talking about was? Like just a rough time frame, maybe, and what things were done (or NOT done) that makes it awesome?
I’m not trying to do some GOTCHA YA but want to understand where you’re coming from. Only then can I maybe say you’re wrong. 
Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.
*All we hear is, radio ga-ga . . . *