On 5/15/06, Mark Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
It's been about the same amount of time for me, but I still listen to public radio (http://www.kqed.org) and college radio ( http://kalx.berkeley.edu is great). I also travel a lot and sometimes forget my fm adapter, so that leads to scanning the radio market all over the Western US. It is about the same all over.
I listen to a bit of Internet radio, but honestly, not that much. Finding or remembering a station is a pain, and just because KRCC was playing good music that time I was in Colorado Springs and my iRiver's battery died, doesn't mean they're playing good music right now. When I want a radio-like experience and I'm not home, I tend to just play Last.FM through my laptop. When I'm home, it's easier to turn on a radio and listen to KALX or KQED.
Now, my wife listens to KFOG (http://www.kfog.com) and has for a very long time. In the afternoons they're just as bad as any of the others, but their morning and weekend people predate the decade-long slide into audio hell and they do still play some decent shows. I have no idea why this situation persists, I can only assume that it's part of Chancellor's control group or something. Anyway, even when KFOG is playing utter crap, I notice that my wife barely hears it, it's just background noise. Personally, I can't tune out anything except electronica (hello Groove Salad) or classical.
I haven't listened to radio in almost 10 years.
It's exactly like rudholm states - which is bizarre as the markets are
separated by thousands of miles, political and cultural boundaries and
climate. Yet the problems are the same. Repetitive, formulaic music,
inane, stupid "radio personalities". Unlistenable.
When you hear the same song twice in one hour, and when you hear the
same song twice in one hour the next day at exactly the same times, you
come to realize that after you hear about a week of that tripe, the rest
is all the same.
It's been about the same amount of time for me, but I still listen to public radio (http://www.kqed.org) and college radio ( http://kalx.berkeley.edu is great). I also travel a lot and sometimes forget my fm adapter, so that leads to scanning the radio market all over the Western US. It is about the same all over.
At the time I stopped listening to radio, I decided to give it a chance
about a month later. The same songs, the same idiotic radio chatter,
the same annoying commercials. Bleh. I imagine if I was to turn the
radio on today it would be like I never turned it off.
I used to listen to Internet radio a lot more when I first got my
Squeezeboxes. It was much, much better. I'm not listening to it as
much anymore now that my music library is a decent size, but I'd like
to go back again.
I listen to a bit of Internet radio, but honestly, not that much. Finding or remembering a station is a pain, and just because KRCC was playing good music that time I was in Colorado Springs and my iRiver's battery died, doesn't mean they're playing good music right now. When I want a radio-like experience and I'm not home, I tend to just play Last.FM through my laptop. When I'm home, it's easier to turn on a radio and listen to KALX or KQED.
Seriously, how much longer can commercial radio keep this up? And does
anyone with an IQ above 75 listen to it?
Now, my wife listens to KFOG (http://www.kfog.com) and has for a very long time. In the afternoons they're just as bad as any of the others, but their morning and weekend people predate the decade-long slide into audio hell and they do still play some decent shows. I have no idea why this situation persists, I can only assume that it's part of Chancellor's control group or something. Anyway, even when KFOG is playing utter crap, I notice that my wife barely hears it, it's just background noise. Personally, I can't tune out anything except electronica (hello Groove Salad) or classical.
--
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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