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| Gen 1700th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):OT: Things you hear on the Radio?"
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I was coming home last night when I was flipping around the radio station and ran into this talk show. I'm not much of a talk radio fan but the subject got me listening.
"At home DNA Testing kits"
WHOA!!! What is this a sci-fi movie? I mean I shouldn't be shocked, they do these things for court cases all the time. But it was just freaky to hear.
Anywho, the point of this topic is ...Have you ever listen to any strange talk radio?
Something to make you think (looking at Juan ^_^)
I rarely listen to radio because it switched to playing 95%trash in the late ninties.
I thought it might cause disharmony on the bbs. ok I unhide it The demographics for the radio stations are as follows: Spanish language station, Spansih station, masturbating teenage male station, Spanish folk song station, anything that's popular station, African musicians only station, 80s station but only for a few hours one day a week, oldies station that only plays the same 100 songs forever, college station with bad broadcast signal that plays bad amature trash demos, classical station(ok but still needs more play list), Howard Stern (sometimes he's an ass but he's often funny), morning zoo...you get the idea
Have you heard David Cross' rant on how bad American radio is
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| Juan 3268th Post
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| "Re(2):OT: Things you hear on the Radio?" , posted Mon 16 Jun 13:37
Dont hide your text! show it to the world wide web!
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I was coming home last night when I was flipping around the radio station and ran into this talk show. I'm not much of a talk radio fan but the subject got me listening.
"At home DNA Testing kits"
WHOA!!! What is this a sci-fi movie? I mean I shouldn't be shocked, they do these things for court cases all the time. But it was just freaky to hear.
Anywho, the point of this topic is ...Have you ever listen to any strange talk radio?
Something to make you think (looking at Juan ^_^)
I rarely listen to radio because it switched to playing 95%trash in the late ninties. <begin paranoid conspiracy theory>The demographics for the radio stations are as follows: Spanish language station, Spansih station, masturbating teenage male station, Spanish folk song station, anything that's popular station, African musicians only station, 80s station but only for a few hours one day a week, oldies station that only plays the same 100 songs forever, college station with bad broadcast signal that plays bad amature trash demos, classical station(ok but still needs more play list), Howard Stern </end>(often funny), morning zoo...you get the idea
Have you heard David Cross' rant on how bad American radio is
Buttermonster??
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| Mosquiton 786th Post
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| "Local Stations and... African music?" , posted Thu 19 Jun 14:36:
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I thought it might cause disharmony on the bbs. ok I unhide it The demographics for the radio stations are as follows: Spanish language station, Spansih station, masturbating teenage male station, Spanish folk song station, anything that's popular station, African musicians only station, 80s station but only for a few hours one day a week, oldies station that only plays the same 100 songs forever, college station with bad broadcast signal that plays bad amature trash demos, classical station(ok but still needs more play list), Howard Stern (sometimes he's an ass but he's often funny), morning zoo...you get the idea
Have you heard David Cross' rant on how bad American radio is
You're telling me they have radio stations that actually play African musicians like C.K. Ladzekpo???? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!
But seriously, do you speak Spanish? If not, how could you rate the content of the station? And with 36 million people in the US who do speak Spanish, you shouldn't be surprised that there are a few radio stations that cater to them. Especially if you live in CA, which I'm guessing you might. Who doesn't like to hear their native language occasionally?
I have to say, I agree with you, radio is pretty much crap... but you can only really comment on local stations in your area. There have to be one or two good ones out there! ...Maybe!
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| Gen 1707th Post
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| "Re(1):Local Stations and... African music?" , posted Thu 19 Jun 18:53:
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I thought it might cause disharmony on the bbs. ok I unhide it The demographics for the radio stations are as follows: Spanish language station, Spansih station, masturbating teenage male station, Spanish folk song station, anything that's popular station, African musicians only station, 80s station but only for a few hours one day a week, oldies station that only plays the same 100 songs forever, college station with bad broadcast signal that plays bad amature trash demos, classical station(ok but still needs more play list), Howard Stern (sometimes he's an ass but he's often funny), morning zoo...you get the idea
Have you heard David Cross' rant on how bad American radio is
You're telling me they have radio stations that actually play African musicians like C.K. Ladzekpo???? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!
They play American African only music. Don't be offended: There are 3 types these stations play. One is "monkey love" where it's supposed to be a love song but the singer sings notes at random like a monkey jumping around and screaming at random. This is called "R&B" but it doesn't sound like the older real "Rhythm and Blues". I like 0 of this music. The next is rap. I like some rap, but I hate MTV now. And the latest fad is playing retro songs, many of which must have gotten attention because many rap tracks sampled them. They are from like the 70s. A little younger than what the Oldies station plays. They have come up with a marketing word for these "Jamming Oldies".
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But seriously, do you speak Spanish? If not, how could you rate the content of the station? And with 36 million people in the US who do speak Spanish, you shouldn't be surprised that there are a few radio stations that cater to them. Especially if you live in CA, which I'm guessing you might. Who doesn't like to hear their native language occasionally?
I like the Spanish stations more sometimes because the music is more like actual music than modern English language pop. I only know some of what they're saying. There's a huge amount of Spanish language stations. I'm not surprised that there are Spanish stations. I'm from CA.
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I have to say, I agree with you, radio is pretty much crap... but you can only really comment on local stations in your area. There have to be one or two good ones out there! ...Maybe!
Radio is cloned through most of the U.S. so if you went some where else you'd hear the same basic hodge podge of mess. There's a station in NY I think called hot97 that was very successful a few years ago. What did other stations do to compete? They duplicated hot97's play list. There's supposedly only 5 companies that control most of the radio in this country. Recently there was talks in the government to allow one company to own 45% of TV stations. So theoretically 3 companies could own every TV station. Look how bad radio is right now with only the supposed 5... Yeah, radio sucks now. I'm sticking to sound tracks. Video game sound tracks have had the best music for a long time now.
In this country the following often happens. Many noise acts higher promoters... These promoters go to radio stations, and pay them to play their act's songs. So you can produce something that in both musical terms and cultural terms is drek, and the promoter can get it played heavily on the radio and broadcast to millions over a prolonged period of time...
...I vaguely remember reading about some rapper talking about this stuff a while ago, like he was going to take on the rap radio establishment, but then he stopped stopped saying supposedly that he feared for the lives of himself and his family.
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| israfel
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| "Re(3):Local Stations and... African music?" , posted Fri 20 Jun 15:09
has anyone ever heard of KEXP?
KEXP is an independent radio station(which means they let the DJs play what they want to, no corporate sponsorship/commercials/anything) out of seattle, its kinda like a college station, only a lot better.
It has all the DJs just play what they like, so you'll never know what you'll hear next. There are even specialty shows for african music, reggae, electronic music, experimental music, and others. I think its the best radio station ever
i know this sounds kinda like a sales pitch, but just check out their playlist for any given hour, or just listen over the internet at
http://www.kexp.org
and you'll see they have an incredible amount of variety.
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