I must confess, when I started this thread, I didn’t forsee the most delicious side-effect of it. We’re sharing locally produced and played programming, and now we can all go around to various Web Sites run by these stations and enjoy programs that we’d not have heard of otherwise.
Ooooooooh, this is cool !
Whoo–eee! Happy Day! The pledge drive at KUNI is over and the pledge drive at WOI ends today. Back to regular programing tomorrow! No more pledge editions of Car Talk, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, An American Life, Big Tent Radio, Mountain Stage and Prairie Home Companion for another six months. Let joy be unbounded.
The pledge drive IS over! I had started turning my radio of for 5 minutes at a time.
KJZZ, 91.5 FM, Phoenix
Morning Edition
BBC World Service
Marketplace (PRI)
All Things Considered
TOTN Science Friday
Talk of the Nation
Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
Car Talk
I don’t get to listen to much more than Morning Edition most weeks, though.
KNPR, 89.5. Do we have the coolest call letters or what? www.knpr.org
Anyway, it’s a pretty under-supported station, so we don’t get many of the programs here. Still, we do get This American Life, which I love, and Marketplace, which is great because I know nothing about how the markets work but am given insight into business by their stories. A great local program is “Guess Who’s Playing the Classics”, where one of our local TV weathermen hosts guests who get to choose classical music for an hour. Little interview bites in between pieces. Pretty rockin’.
When I lived in L.A., I listened to KPCC, 89.3 or KVCR, 91.9 (out of San Bernardino). I loved Talk of the City on KPCC with Kitty Felde. That woman knew how to inform voters, let me tell you. But I really miss Science Friday and, on a lighter note, Rewind.
Nope. The campus station at my college was KAOS.
90.1 WHYY Philadelphia checking in. Minor hijack: Am I the only wierdo that alternates between the NPR morning show and the Howard Stern Show?
I certainly hope so.
I guess I’m middle brow.
I think the term you’re looking for is ‘bipolar’.
Now now, we’re all friends here. 
If we all cannot get along nicely, I’ll just take my server and stomp on home, y’hear?
Besides, I’ve been known to make what is commonly known around the Tri-State Area as " The Chasmic Leap " from the soothing dulcetory tones and thought-provoking repartee’ of Morning Edition to the bodily-fluids-drenched gutteral patter that is The Howard Stern Show.
To be honest, sometimes the morning news is a bit much and if it’s a full-bore long morning commute, after two rotations of the same agonizingly depressing news, I can do with some gutter filth. It lightens the heart, puts a spring in my step ( a helpful side effect whilst driving ) and lets you feel good about laughing very hard while sitting alone in your car. You look around you, and see OTHER people in their cars, laughing out loud. You feel at one with the Common Folk, and are pleased that you’ve taken a side-trip down the sullied lane of banality.
Then again, there are those days when I never change from my N.P.R. station all morning. Then, I get to the tolls on the G.W.B. and look around, and everyone is laughing but me. I know why, too. They’re laughing AT me. Fine.
Fine. I hate them all. Let then laugh, while I weep copious tears of empathy for the latest story I’m hearing on. M.E.
This raises ANOTHER query. Who here has pulled over on the side of the road to either A) Finish listening to a story on NPR, or B) Wipe away tears produced while listening to a story on NPR, which made driving a completely unsafe activity?
I’ve done the first quite a few times. I pull into my own driveway and sit there. My kids glare out the window at me, knowing I’m lost in a good story. I’ve done the second once or twice, but cannot recall the story now.
Let’s beat him up, fellas.
91.7 WVXU
I listen to most of the shows, with the exception of the old time radio shows like “The Great Gildersleeve.”
I just love Cah Tawk but am rarely listening to the radio when they are on here.
Really enjoy Diane Rehm. I enjoy politics and think she consistently presents a well-balanced panel, although she cannot help but occasionally interject her own opinions. I really think the person who said he can’t stand listening to her is missing out. She may speak haltingly but it’s almost always worth the effort.
My favorite, though, is Fresh Air. I agree that TG has a sexy voice. She was in town a few years back for a lecture (which I missed, damn it) but she was interviewed for the local paper. They showed her picture and I’ll admit to being shocked because I pictured her to be entirely different! In the interview, she was asked what people’s biggest misconception about her was and she replied, “That I’m pretty.” Regardless of whether she’s beautiful or not, I love her voice and her show.
Here’s a link to the show, along with a picture of TG.
BTW, this is a great site for people who have never heard the show. They have archived shows for the last year or so and you can listen on your computer. I don’t know if they have the interview with Gene Simmons of KISS but I remember listening to it with my mouth agape.
I love the first hour Diane Rehm, especially when she does the News Roundup on Fridays. The second hour I’m a little more iffish about. Same goes for Talk of the Nation, but it depends more on the topic there.
On the weekends, I like Car Talk, Wait Wait, and Motley Fool. Ocassionaly I’ll listen to All Things Considered (or the weekend version), but I usually end up switching between NPR and WEND whenever they (wend) play the same freakin’ Red Hot Chili Peppers/Nickleback/POD/Puddle of Mud song for the eightieth time that day.
As for Terry Gross, can’t stand her. I hate her voice, I hate her show, I do not like Fresh Air. Unless it’s the Mannheim Steamroller type and then I’m happy.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the local show “Charlotte Talks”. For real fun, check out the shows where they talk about the arena and/or the Hornets. Bitter? Yes, but it’s a fun kind of bitter.
I must sadly retract my support for WBEZ in Chicago as they just cancelled Thistle and Shamrock!!:(
I am seriously pissed off.