Put 'em up. Someone put up the usual Floyd Zep ... Hendrix Marley... etc



/plkx
//94(.1)YSP '97 GRAND PRIZE
///dinner w/him, Cheri Moon (Zombie now), 5 record execs, a friend of my choosing
..he signed my hooka
.long since lost, thanks aforementioned pete gfd

So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

Sports Radio 1310, The Ticket.

RodneyToady: 93% tune in at least once a week... which is a pretty weak metric. You can't draw meaningful conclusions when the guy listening for 8 hours a day is conflated with the guy who is tuning in for 5 minutes every weekday just for the traffic report.

You can if you're trying to secure advertising dollars.

oldebayer: So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

In St. Louis, the long-running classical station was converted to a contemporary Christian station. Goddammitsomuch.

Our local NPR stepped up and created a classical HD station that also streams online.

That being said, any farkers actually have an HD radio and would you recommend it?

they play the radio where i work, so i don't really have a choice.

wee: I pretty much leave it on NPR.

Same here.

I listen to music on the radio all the time in the car. I don't feel like making playlists for the ipod and since I usually have one or both kids in the car it's just easier to skip around to the popular hits stations or turn it off during commercials. I just don't want to have to think that much about what to listen to while driving around most of the time.

Now when I'm by myself or at the gym it's a different story.

fenianfark: oldebayer: So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

In St. Louis, the long-running classical station was converted to a contemporary Christian station. Goddammitsomuch.

Our local NPR stepped up and created a classical HD station that also streams online.

That being said, any farkers actually have an HD radio and would you recommend it?

just try and find the one with the least buttons on it

fenianfark: oldebayer: So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

In St. Louis, the long-running classical station was converted to a contemporary Christian station. Goddammitsomuch.

Our local NPR stepped up and created a classical HD station that also streams online.

That being said, any farkers actually have an HD radio and would you recommend it?

My brother has one in his car and he really likes it, not sure what stations he listens to though.

wee: I pretty much leave it on NPR.

Now that my telephone can tell me the score of any sporting event at any time, and it can do so without forcing me to listen to loud, obnoxious commercials, there is no need for radio stations other than NPR.

/especially with the demise of KTRU

I tend to listen to my iPod in the car, and even then, usually podcasts; but my radio is tuned to two classical music stations (well, four, but they are doubled up for when I drive into different regions), one jazz, one contemporary (because they do an awesome 80s show of an afternoon).

Why yes, I am 36 - why do you ask?

NetOwl: wee: I pretty much leave it on NPR.

Now that my telephone can tell me the score of any sporting event at any time, and it can do so without forcing me to listen to loud, obnoxious commercials, there is no need for radio stations other than NPR.

/especially with the demise of KTRU

But you might miss the local used car dealer's INVENTORY LIQUIDATION SALE! EVERYTHING MUST GO! ad.

So 12-17 year olds listed to broadcast radio once a week.

A.K.A. listened to whatever was playing in the car at the time as their parents were driving them around.

Haven't listened to the radio in years. Got fed up with the local rock station that somehow had 25 different Nickelback songs, but couldn't find any Van Halen tunes other than "Panama."

Twin Cities: The Current.

fenianfark: oldebayer: So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

In St. Louis, the long-running classical station was converted to a contemporary Christian station. Goddammitsomuch.

Our local NPR stepped up and created a classical HD station that also streams online.

That being said, any farkers actually have an HD radio and would you recommend it?

It totally depends. IF you have stations in the area that sound like they've got something interesting on their HD-2/HD-3 channels, give it a listen online since most of them are already streaming there. There's some potentially good stuff, mainly from non-comms and the occasional big station with some creativity.

That said, HD Radio is all but a failed experiment. Radios cost too much due to proprietary decoding, the radios that do exist have a hard time keeping the signal because they are send out with less power. The guys who engineered and financed it did a horrific job marketing, and largely spent their time expecting people in 2005 to spend hundreds on a radio with possibly 2-3 stations they'd want to listen to. Then they spend little time creating content that would warrant a change: most HD stations are satellite-fed generic formats or a rebroadcast of AM stations.

Radio Shack was doing a fire-sale on HD Radio add-ons for IPhones, at around $15 at last check. If you're interested, give it a try.

/works in radio with HD stations
//maybe 5 calls in 5 years on the HD stations

KUT, the NPR affiliate here in Austin, plays excellent music

As long as there is classic rock, there will be broadcast radio. And as long as there are middle aged people on the way to their soul crushing jobs who just want 15 minutes of sweet nostalgia going back to a time when their lives revolved around scoring weed off their best buddy's older brother at a keg party and finger banging Suzy down the street, there will be classic rock.

InmanRoshi: As long as there is classic rock, there will be broadcast radio. And as long as there are middle aged people on the way to their soul crushing jobs who just want 15 minutes of sweet nostalgia going back to a time when their lives revolved around scoring weed off their best buddy's older brother at a keg party and finger banging Suzy down the street, there will be classic rock.

Yeah, but now *I* am one of those people and *my* form of classic rock is Black Flag and the Offspring....

//All right Harvey Danger! Living my teenage years!!!
///I just showed my lack of age, didn't I?
///Suzy's the village bicycle by the way.

My clock radio picks up one top-40 station. I can't hit the 'off' button fast enough. Auto-tuned predigested crap.

llfennell: InmanRoshi: As long as there is classic rock, there will be broadcast radio. And as long as there are middle aged people on the way to their soul crushing jobs who just want 15 minutes of sweet nostalgia going back to a time when their lives revolved around scoring weed off their best buddy's older brother at a keg party and finger banging Suzy down the street, there will be classic rock.

Yeah, but now *I* am one of those people and *my* form of classic rock is Black Flag and the Offspring....

//All right Harvey Danger! Living my teenage years!!!
///I just showed my lack of age, didn't I?
///Suzy's the village bicycle by the way.

Yeah, but I doubt anyone ever caught chlamydia from a bicycle.

I have an eight minute ride to work at 4am. I don't feel like picking two songs on an mp3 player for such a short ride, so I listen to 93.3 The Planet.

fenianfark: oldebayer: So there are no more classical or jazz stations anywhere?

In St. Louis, the long-running classical station was converted to a contemporary Christian station. Goddammitsomuch.

Our local NPR stepped up and created a classical HD station that also streams online.

That being said, any farkers actually have an HD radio and would you recommend it?

The Zune HD isn't a bad choice if you can find one for cheap which gives you portable functionality as well.

llfennell: Yeah, but now *I* am one of those people and *my* form of classic rock is Black Flag and the Offspring....

//All right Harvey Danger! Living my teenage years!!!
///I just showed my lack of age, didn't I?
///Suzy's the village bicycle by the way.

Listening to the local "Alternative" radio station the other day and I realized everything they were playing was from the 90s. Then I realized those song were old. Then I realized that my "Alternative" radio station was really just rebranded Classic Rock for people in their 30s who didn't realize they were now in the Classic Rock demographic. Then I realized I don't stay up past midnight much anymore. Then I realized I need to get a good life insurance plan.

wee: I pretty much leave it on NPR.

yep, or iPod or Listen & Learn Spanish.

/Sí, estoy aprendiendo, pero muy lentamente

phrenicmonkey:
My clock radio picks up one top-40 station. I can't hit the 'off' button fast enough.

I keep my clock radio tuned to a top 40 station for just that reason. Irritating music first thing in the morning? Wakes me up right off the bat.

So, in the study's way of thinking, I listen to radio about seven times a week. For 10 seconds at a time.

93% of Americans are too mainstream.

I have Sirius, and listen mostly for Howard. I like stations like "Outlaw Country" "XMU" and "Spectrum", and "The Coffee House", but during the week, WFUV in New York has a way better playlist than any of the Sirius Stations, so I still do listen to broadcast radio, only not commercial stations.

Unfortunately, broadcast radio is the only choice I have for music at the moment, since my stereo crapped out in all ways but the radio. It kills me, because it's too cold to ride in the mornings (in which situation I could stick my iPod in my ears and go), and they pick out the crappiest songs for the morning spin around here, nothing motivational at all, and the last thing I can listen to when I'm trying to get ready for the day is talk.

/1st world problems, I know

I work for a news station, and we are doing quite well thanks to the people who only listen on their commutes and while sitting around at work.

InmanRoshi: As long as there is classic rock, there will be broadcast radio. And as long as there are middle aged people on the way to their soul crushing jobs...[snip]...there will be classic rock.

Very, very funny! I'm in the target demographic, but hate such stations. I've heard those three-minute tunes a zillion times, and don't care to hear them more than, say, once a year.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: In other news, 93% of Americans commute to work in their car.

wee: I pretty much leave it on NPR.

My wife always rags on me for listening to NPR all the time. I reply that I've never heard a car dealership commercial, Nickleback, or Kid Rock on NPR.

Three words, subby: Bob and Tom

My wife and I have a game where we put a dollar in a jar at home every time we hear katy perry on the radio. There's nearly $900 in that jar now.

/I once heard her on three different stations at once
//I think I might live in the worst radio market on earth

I haven't listened to broadcast radio in years. The advertising is obnoxious. As for NPR, I find it too dry for the most part, but the handful of NPR/PRI shows I do like I listen to online, because I can listen when I want that way.

When I drive, all I hear is the sound of the other person's voice if someone's riding with me, or the sound of the engine if I'm alone.

I have XM radio in my car, which is nearly a necessity because I'm a traveling contractor and I'm not going to constantly change CDs or hunt radio stations while driving cross country, sorry.

And honestly? It's almost worth the subscription fee to hear Opeth on the radio occasionally.

/*headbanged my way through four 17 hour drives this year
//on the other hand, if I find out who's responsible for putting commercials on Blue Collar Comedy, I'm garroting them

I listen to the radio every day (AM, no less). In the Delaware Valley, KYW is the only thing left on radio worth listening to.

/come on, sing along. You know you want to!
//Philly represent!