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In Reply to: RE: Does any one realize its national radio day posted by painter27 on August 20, 2015 at 18:19:10
Radio is a dead medium
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Radio may not be dead but it sure is doing its best to pull its own plug. Unless you're into right wing talk radio, oldies, or sports talk, there isn't much worth your time. Some salvation with public radio or college stations. If radio would chuck the formula format and go back to more free form radio with DJ's who actually program what they're playing, FM might stall its downward spiral.
Just because you didn't know about it, doesn't mean it's a secret.
Yep, I fondly remember the "underground" FM stations of latter '60s. Made quite an impression on my teen aged mind and my musical sensibilities.
Even though these paved the way for "community based" radio, I miss the free-form, adventurous programming and their VERY laid, nearly non-existent DJ style.One reason I gave up on what's available over the air-ways is the seemingly constant and continuous "blab-fest" most of them have become - hence my unanswered plea "STFU and play some music!."
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I listen to FM more than any other source.
Always have and hopefully always will.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
And that includes while driving. I turn off any radio.
I like to drive when I am driving.. Not pay attention to other drivel.
IMO the 'radio' went out with Lawrence Welk. But it IS true he is still in reruns on PBS... So there are some people left I guess.
you're missing out on some great stuff
For example:
Nothing much left here locally that tickles me
Used to be a tuner/radio guy. My Don Scott modded Sansui TU-9900 got far too little use to justify its rack space.I do maintain a small HDRadio in the bathroom.
I play DJ and make my own radio station(s) via TIDAL.
Believe me, no tuner can equal the SQ I'm getting via that signal chain.
Oh, and I NEVER find myself yelling "STFU and play some music" at my Auralic Aries. ;-)
Edits: 08/21/15
Radio is full of noise. Way too many folks blabbering with nothing to say, and too many commercials.
Seriously I totally stopped listening to the radio. Not even in a car. NEVER. never.
Most radio, like most TV, panders to the lowest common denominator of public taste. Braying jackasses, obnoxious commercials, and popular "music" utterly devoid of melody, intelligence, taste, or artistic merit. NPR not much better -- all yabber all the time, and "all things considered" six times a day.
Fortunately I'm able to pull in one really clear listener-supported noncommercial classical station (KQAC Portland), and a college station (KBVR Corvallis) which plays mostly indy rock but also has a number of specialty blues, jazz, folk, and electronica shows. So I still tune these in to learn about music I wouldn't hear otherwise.
AM and FM will be around for quite a good while yet.
And, how good they sound depends a lot on what a given nation has allowed to happen.
That you have truly crappy FM - sound quality wise - in the USA is down to what you as consumers went along with.
FM is mostly crappy down here too. But we do at least have a lot of community stations which have good sound and good music, including local concerts. And we have a national broadcaster whose classical network is excellent.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Music? Community radio here, great stuff from mostly unknown Indie Rock/Alt Country/Alt Folk and local artists, for the classically inclined a city supported classical station, many sports talk stations, and news/weather/traffic stations.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
No, Edgar Cayce is a dead medium.
Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth
Touche' :D
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