What's Your Favorite Radio Station?

Hillbilly61

I hadn't been listening to much radio here around the Albany, NY area because most of the radio had slowly morphed into bland Clear Channel dominated content. Today I fired up the tuner and sent it into seek mode. Discovered this small 60s-80s rock station out of Hudson, NY. 93.5 WZCR.

I've been listening to it straight 6 hours so far and have not heard a song repeat. Few commercials too. It's earned a place in the presets.

Any other great stations still left out there?

ben62670

I used to like "The Legend" Great old country with few commercials, but a limited amount of music:(
http://www.967thelegend.com/main.html
If that aint country I'll kiss your A$$

Norm Apter

KCRW 89.9 (L.A.-based station, mix of NPR news and music...music program managed by Nic Harcourt)

ben62670

Yeah the NPR here has good tunes when they are not talking. Unfortunately I have no tuner:(

sucks2beme

None. Radio sucks. Has sucked for almost 20 years. At some point
all the *holes from AM radio and their marketing spilled over into FM.
Big check DJ's, loud compressed ads, short playlists took over.
Time for grassroots. There are still some areas of the country that
never got bought up by the CLearchannel clones. Once in a while
I hear one driving around the country.

Toolfan66

F#$K THE RADIO!!!!!!

Sorry i just don't like it, i listen to very little radio.

BeRad

Howard 100 and Howard 101 is my fav. for talk radio.
Octane, Classic Rewind, and Lithium for music.
All Sirius of course since commercial radio BLOWS! Especially around here.
I only listen at work though.

schwarcw

In Pittsburgh, mine are all NPR stations. Jazz WDUQ (college station Duquesne University), WQED (classical, one of the finest in the country) WYEP (alternative). All three stations have no commercials. Especially those obnoxious automobile commercials or soliciations for **** enlargers and get rich quick deals. Oh, don't forget the promos for the monster truck pull!

Knucklehead

mostly online radio at home, streams really nice with the Verizon Fios through my H/T PC. IPOD or CD's in the car.

ben62670

schwarcw wrote: »

In Pittsburgh, mine are all NPR stations. Jazz WDUQ (college station Duquesne University), WQED (classical, one of the finest in the country) WYEP (alternative). All three stations have no commercials. Especially those obnoxious automobile commercials or soliciations for **** enlargers and get rich quick deals. Oh, don't forget the promos for the monster truck pull!

What do you have against ~M~ truck pulls?
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

lightman1

WSGE 91.7FM. Local college station. That's how I find artist that don't have that "They look pretty and super-cool and we'll make them sound good in post-pro, call the A and R man, we've got the flavor of the month!" look. I.E. musicians. Lots of local bands, indies blues etc. You know? The good stuff.
They stream on the net. Check it out.

Jstas

93.3 WMMR


Then again, I live near Philly. You can't go more than 3 frequencies down the dial without hitting a radio station.

jimbo1421

KUNM 89.9 in Albuquerque
http://www.kunm.org/home.php
The links to their stream is on the right.
It's the local college station, plays afternoon freeform, an eclectic mix of all genres. Lots of specialty music programming in the evening.
Plus NPR, Democracy Now, and other good news sources. Best local radio news.

sucks2beme

There's a station at every spot on the dial in Dallas. Mexican, talk, Mexican,
talk, urban, Mexican, talk. Rock died except for the forementioned clearchannel crap .
Smooth jazz is gone, and the public radio classical station doesn't have the
wattage to pop popcorn.

markmarc

Portland, OR 101.9 KINK
Boulder, CO 97.3 KBCO

These two stations still play the other songs on the album. KINK works hard to promote new artists.

bikezappa

http://www.radio-locator.com/

Just plug in your zip code and this site will list all the stations and what they play in your area.

By the way WGBH, 89.9, in Boston plays the best live and classical music with very very little compression.

Hillbilly61

lightman1 wrote: »

WSGE 91.7FM. Local college station. That's

A college station of "fame" in the Albany area is WRPI. I suspect that those engineering students there have the transmitter a wee bit modified too, as it gets out suspicously far for a college station Cool stuff, but they are all over the board (depends on which student is manning the station and which semester it is). One time this student (had to be a single person) would play acopello material every evening. Not bad in and of itself, but the stuff played was really bad Japanese sounding material that sounded like cats mating. It went on for a couple of years.

sucks2beme wrote: »

Smooth jazz is gone, and the public radio classical station doesn't have the
wattage to pop popcorn.

Jazz is gone in the Albany area. The last holdout station that broadcasted from Rutland, Vt decided to chance a market share increase by going to religous content. The sole public radio classical station at the low end of the dial is still holding on.

Pauly

Howard 100/101 at work.

102.5 The Bone in the car

bikezappa

[QUOTE=Hillbilly61
Jazz is gone in the Albany area. The last holdout station that broadcasted from Rutland, Vt decided to chance a market share increase by going to religous content. The sole public radio classical station at the low end of the dial is still holding on.[/QUOTE]

Sad, maybe they will make music illegal in the future.

kevhed72

In the ATL area...88.5 WRAS Georgia State College radio.
While you sometimes have to put up with listening to College DJ's monkeying around on the air, they are the best music station I have heard in either the Atlanta or Chicago areas.

zombie boy 2000

kevhed72 wrote: »

In the ATL area...88.5 WRAS Georgia State College radio.
While you sometimes have to put up with listening to College DJ's monkeying around on the air, they are the best music station I have heard in either the Atlanta or Chicago areas.

I stopped by this thread to post the EXACT same station. Creepy. Anyway... it's my understanding that the station has the longest signal range in the country. I even believe that was a question on Jeopardy a couple of months back.

edit: highest power of any college radio station in the country

MKZ

103.5 KTU in NY.
107.9 KISS 108 in Boston.

bikezappa

MKZ wrote: »

103.5 KTU in NY.
107.9 KISS 108 in Boston.

I haven't listened to Kiss for many years but that station compressed the music quiet a bit If I remember correctly.

I was the station to listen in the car because it was always loud.

Danny Tse

Just the 2 NPR stations here in the Bay Area....88.5 KQED and 91.7 KALW. And then the talk radio station 810 KGO-AM.

Hmmm....just realized I don't even listen to the radio station I'm on each week (KVTO 1400 AM)

jflail2

They still waste time broadcasting commercials err.....radio? Interesting indeed. I should turn off my cd player sometime in the next few years.

I'm overloaded on advertising as it is...

zombie boy 2000

jflail2 wrote: »

They still waste time broadcasting commercials err.....radio? Interesting indeed. I should turn off my cd player sometime in the next few years.

I'm overloaded on advertising as it is...

Let it be noted that I ONLY listen to college radio if I'm not destroying my CD's. Anything right on the dial is garbage.

ben62670

zombie boy 2000 wrote: »

Let it be noted that I ONLY listen to college radio if I'm not destroying my CD's. Anything right on the dial is garbage.

I have some of your destroyed CD's. Pick them up on the weekend of the 8th

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82291

zombie boy 2000

I shall and you suck. The end.

thebluemonkey

q-95 out of indy and espn radio

Serendipity

96.3 WQXR in NYC. Excellent sound quality.

capecodder

88.5 WXPN out of Philly, home of the "World Cafe"