“Did you hear about that nuclear accident out west that killed 35,000 people? Bummer.”
Strictly playlist stations. That’s how I got to hear the same Sheryl Crow song 11 times between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm.
We have another local DJ who tries to pass himself off as the master of the urban lifestyle. I went to high school with this bohunk and the rest of us hillbillies considered HIM a cracker…
If its rock you want, WCCC isn’t so bad. They have broken many local or regional bands, like Gargantua Soul, Grey Cell Green, Hatebreed and Staind, they are the only station in the area to play bands like Pantera or Iron Maiden, and they mix it all in with current stuff like Korn or Creed. Overall, a great mix of hard rock.
On 104 in the mid morning (after BubbaSpongePants) , is Wilcow still on? His playlist is the same as the rest, but he spouts off some interesting politics for an “alternative” DJ.
I’ve found the biggest problem is Clear Channel also owns The Meadows, Oakdale and books the Hartford CC, so not only do Clear Channel stations play the the same 9 songs, they play only the artists that are coming to their venues.
Don’t even get me started on morning radio in Hartford.
…that city is Baltimore.
JuanitaTech - never actually had to listen to the radio in Baltimore, but I have heard rumors …
… and from what I have heard, you are completely correct. I am SO sorry.
No need for the sympathy, rockle. I’ve got xmradio.
When they say their motto is “Light Rock, Less Talk” and they have about 15 commercials in betweeen songs!
Sadly, this sounds like a corporate formula as well. KSHE does pretty much the same thing on Sundays. They call it “The Seventh Day” or some such.
Man, I hear that! The station I tolerate has a “no repeat” policy. The fine print is “no repeat between 8 am and 5 pm” !:eek:
This means I suffer through the 3-4 same crappy songs they are foisting that day on the way to work, sometime during the day again, then on the way home!
At this point I would also like to add: DAVID GREY SUCKS WOMBAT GENATALIA! There is a very good reason this guy languished in obscurity for so long. He is a talent-less, monotone hack.
Why do the artists that complain the loudest about free downloading get so much radio airplay?
When the drive-home DJ on the biggest (probably) radio station in the city is an idiot of incomparable incompetence and either no one else notices, or else they’re all pretending he doesn’t make a complete ass of himself every time he opens his mouth. (I generally channel switch all the way home to get a nice mix of genres and thus will sometimes have to listen to this moron for a full three seconds or so.)
When the drive-home DJ on the biggest (probably) radio station in the city is an idiot of incomparable incompetence and either no one else notices, or else they’re all pretending he doesn’t make a complete ass of himself every time he opens his mouth. (I generally channel switch all the way home to get a nice mix of genres and thus will sometimes have to listen to this moron for a full three seconds or so.)
Oops, sorry for the double post.
or DC, There are no good stations around here. I swear I wake up to the same songs every morning. I either get Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins or some other band that I don’t know, but it’s the same songs rotated. I guess they think we don’t notice but I sure do.
I’ve been really tempted to sneak into the old radio station across the street and see if I can get it working again.
You ain’t kiddin’. That’s why I tend to listen to talk radio these days (NPR, or The Score when it’s football season). XRT is good but streaky, and the Drive is decent. For top-40 alternative, 94.7’s okay. Those are the only half-decent FM stations in town, unless you really LIKE Nelly.
Seattle Radio is just as bad… there is one pretty good station, if ypou happen to live near the university, Live across the lake and you can’t pick that up worth shit. Any of the rock stations and you are surte to hear Nirvana at leas once every hour and a half, alice in chains 4 times dutring the day and Soundgarden twice… which wuldn’t be so bad if i even remotely liked the bands or the fact that they only play about 6 songs from the band’s playlists.
Nothing but CDs and MP3s for me.
When the only jazz station in town plays nothing but “smooth jazz”, which ain’t jazz at all, but some watered-down elevator music. A sad, sad situation.
I was up that way back in November 2002, and there was a nice smooth jazz station that the airport limo guy had on (as well as the heat-on-high). I do know that not everyone goes for this music as well.
AFAIK, they’ve been doing this forever, or at least since their inception in 1976.
They are owned by Citadel communications…while they may have a hand in many cities, I haven’t heard anything like the Clear Channel-attitude, so to speak, from them. Might it be not so much a corporate thing as much of a holdover from when FM was a pioneering medium and this activity was commonplace? Also, maybe your station got it from KATT, or vice versa.
And, if this is definitely a corporate medium like you suggest, it doesn’t really matter to me; I mean, they play seven whole albums in a row! It’s a great way to get acquainted with new music, although sometimes they’ll play a lemon.
Do you live in Winnipeg? Our brand new jazz station claims to be playing Miles Davis, Monk, Ella, etc but I have yet to hear them. I hope I’m just listening at the wrong times.
The no repeat workday is great. It allows them to play a song at 7:57 and the same song starting off the workday at 8:01. If I had a dime everytime I’ve heard this…
Terrible.
Count me in on the MP3’s and CD’s only group.
I have a bone to pick with them.
You know your city’s radio stations suck when…
“Classic Rock” is really classic schlock, and the other stations are so limited that you would rather switch to AM and listen to Dr. Laura.
There was a rock station here a while back that actually started out pretty good and was getting better, until the brain-dead program director decided to change their format. He changed it to, get this, ALL COMMERCIALS, ALL THE TIME Yep, they were playing old radio commercials one after another. I would like to see the poll that indicated that there could possibly have been a target audiance.
Welcome to Phoenix!
Pick the oldies stations because they have mature DJ’s, better music selection, and play more quality music. Harrisburg Pa is pretty good with music stations. They just need to get rid of those crappy rap stations and the city would rock.