Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 18, 2021 at 21:19:39
Aaron 01 Audiophile Posts: 741 Location: Golden Colorado Joined: July 18, 2004	Yes I do. That's all they played back in my day on the radio. Cart tapes looked like 8 tracks and that is what radio stations put commercials on. Some station even transferred the songs from albums or 45's to cart tapes to make it easier to play music on the air. Growing up on vinyl could be why it sounds "right" to me now.

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 18, 2021 at 22:56:55
musetap Audiophile Posts: 31878 Location: San Francisco Joined: July 8, 2003 Contributor Since: January 28, 2004	When I co-producing a show on KCSM we were still using records. CDs would have been MUCH easier for laying down music under voice tracks. When the the DJ's needed a bathroom break or a smoke break the go to was always "My Favorite Things" from Afro Blue. "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure

KBYU, the classical station in UTAH..., posted on April 19, 2021 at 07:22:02
Ivan303 Audiophile Posts: 48887 Location: Cadiere d'azur FRANCE - Santa Fe, NM Joined: February 26, 2001	had one DJ playing classical vinyl well into the 2000s. When he retired in mid 2000s the TT and vinyl went off the air. A lot of the studio gear was tube as was the older FM transmitter. Great sounding station when received on a Kenwood KT-8300 FM tuner. First they came for the dumb-asses And I did not speak out Because I was not a dumb-ass

My local jazz station still plays a lot of LPs. Link., posted on April 19, 2021 at 07:32:49

viridian

Link below:

KMHD

RE: Of course, posted on April 19, 2021 at 07:39:13
B. Scarpia	There was a Jazz station above the super market my buds and I would visit ca. 1960. The DJ taught us how to cue for airplay. Our fav station a little later, WMMS, was "underground" AOR and a mainstay throughout college when ay home as was WLS for me when on campus.

KLOS 95.5 Los Angeles, posted on April 19, 2021 at 07:44:49
Sibelius Audiophile Posts: 1368 Location: S.F. Bay Area Joined: April 4, 2000	Sunday nights as I recall. The DJ would drag out the K...L...O...S... to give you time to cue up your tape deck to record.

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 19, 2021 at 07:45:22
miner42 Audiophile Posts: 473 Location: Texas Joined: April 28, 2007	KSHE95 - real rock radio

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 19, 2021 at 12:51:35
orthophonic Audiophile Posts: 861 Location: Central Florida Joined: January 21, 2003	Or Course, I even played it on the air in the 70's. If you want to hear some airchecks of 60's on the air, check out the WQAM tribute website, they have hours of air checks from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I listened to that station a lot in the 60's.

Of course! But I also remember. . . , posted on April 19, 2021 at 13:20:00

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. . . when one of our local classical stations (KDFC? KKHI?) made the transition to CD's, the announcer came back on the air after playing a CD and reported that he'd just had a call from a driver who'd been listening on his car radio and was so amazed at the sonic improvement (again, on his car radio!) that he pulled over to call from a pay phone in order to congratulate the station on their their sonic advancement! He didn't know what they'd done, but he sure heard the change for the better! ;-)

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 19, 2021 at 13:46:01
Blackmore Audiophile Posts: 71 Location: St. Louis, MO Joined: March 28, 2008	KSHE in St. Louis has "Vinyl Exam" on Sundays at noon and they usually credit the cuts from vinyl loaned by a local record store. Lots of talk about the featured bands and also concert memories from the hosts.

local small station still does and usually with a Stanton, posted on April 19, 2021 at 15:58:11
Story Audiophile Posts: 10453 Location: NJ Joined: December 11, 2000	a friend is a DJ and they kept the vinyl and also play everything else depending on circumstance and bathroom trips. They still have small FM stations here and there, so why not spin a few when they know how and before they dump the collections. It's still a ritual to some.

RE: Do you remember?, posted on April 19, 2021 at 18:32:44

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I remember WHFS progressive rock from Silver Spring, Maryland. A week ago there was a PBS TV segment on a documentary (in production) about the radio station (link). I can remember listening when the DJ ("Weasel") had miscued a track, overshooting the lead-in grooves and had to apologize and ("Let's get this right") do it again. I remember long monologues where he could give band trivia about when a group formed, which group members played in past bands or arcane meanderings like how the emergency broadcast system test is two-tone and it was such-and-such note over that note.

https://weta.org/watch/shows/weta-arts/weta-arts-april-2021

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 19, 2021 at 19:39:49
6bq5 Audiophile Posts: 4387 Location: SF Bay Joined: August 16, 2001	KALW 91.7 & KPFA 94.1 Two SF Bay area stations that do play music and lots of it on Vinyl- KPFA - Especially Saturday from noon to 5:00 PM - Blues, Jazz - F($#^(g Fabulus Happy Listening

RE: One of my favorite stations, posted on April 20, 2021 at 04:27:49

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One of my favorite FM stations was out of Montreal, Quebec: CHOM FM 97.7

It's no longer an independent station but for a time in the 70's it was the go-to station to hear new album releases. Especially late at night and into the wee hours of the morning when they'd play both sides of an LP. I remember on more than one occasion hearing the runout groove repeating over and over and over while the DJ was out smoking another joint. :-)

Tom

RE: One of my favorite stations, posted on April 20, 2021 at 06:47:26
sony6060 Audiophile Posts: 1465 Location: USA Joined: August 8, 2014	Yes and the FM radio stations were much higher sonic quality vs today. Back in the 1960s and early 1970s most radio stations used tubes for low signal amplification. In Detroit the competition was fierce for rock & roll stations.

RE: Do you remember when Vinyl was played on rradio?, posted on April 20, 2021 at 07:47:07
big muck Audiophile Posts: 162 Joined: December 31, 2000	Community radio station KXCI in Tucson has some DJ's that still play vinyl.

RE: Of course! But I also remember. . . , posted on April 20, 2021 at 08:04:27
Tre' Industry Professional Posts: 17302 Location: So. Cal. Joined: February 9, 2002	I remember that time frame and remember hearing just the opposite. Tre' Have Fun and Enjoy the Music "Still Working the Problem"

My first high end system , posted on April 20, 2021 at 09:47:56
Batman Audiophile Posts: 4194 Location: Western Pennsylvania Joined: March 31, 2000 Contributor Since: June 16, 2000	Included a Magnum Dynalab tuner. I used to listen to the local FM classical station. Often I could hear the print through from the records they played. No so today. I have several LPs from flea markets which are labeled "property of XXFM" :-(

Yeah - the stations got so many complaints. . . , posted on April 20, 2021 at 10:44:03
Chris from Lafayette Audiophile Posts: 26465 Location: SF Bay Area Joined: February 17, 2004 Contributor Since: February 6, 2012	. . . that the transition to CD's never happened. ;-)

Still playing today - CKUA, posted on April 20, 2021 at 12:27:01
2chblast Audiophile Posts: 196 Location: Calgary Joined: February 7, 2004	CKUA radio is still playing vinyl (as well as CD's) and has one of the worlds largest collections of vinyl and shellac records. Many shows highlighting old records. You can sample it over the internet anywhere in the world at CKUA.com

Yes I do, some DJs at WWOZ here in New Orleans still play vinyl.nt, posted on April 20, 2021 at 14:05:58
dancingseamonkey Audiophile Posts: 3455 Location: New Orleans, birth place of jazz. Joined: May 1, 2006 Contributor Since: November 24, 2009	nt "Trying is the first step towards failure." Homer Simpson

Yep, the late lamented WLS in Chicago., posted on April 21, 2021 at 04:10:03
Opus 33 1/3 Audiophile Posts: 4184 Location: D.C. Area Joined: February 19, 2014	Plus KOMA in Oklahoma City Opus 33 1/3

Dick Biondi?, posted on April 22, 2021 at 13:14:25

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Did you listen to WLS during the time Dick Biondi was there? Lots of stories about his knock-knock jokes. Some of them possibly even true. ;^)

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Biondi

RE: Dick Biondi?, posted on April 23, 2021 at 20:26:15
J. S. Bach Audiophile Posts: 9576 Location: Chester, SC Joined: November 28, 2001 Contributor Since: June 29, 2004	There is a record "Cruisin' 1960" series that features him. It is part of a series 1955 - 1970; I have most of them. Later Gator, Dave

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