I'm not an oldies format fan. If it works in Sanford, Maine, good for them.
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I ran into someone over the weekend who was extolling the virtues of "LoFi" music. He said the LoFi DJ's are in high demand. So of course I had to look it up. From Wikipedia:
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The genre name originates from the low fidelity ("lo-fi") aesthetic of the music, which tends to be deliberately less "polished" than high fidelity ("hi-fi") music and features audio imperfections, distorted sound quality, and less professional audio equipment.[6] Lo-fi hip-hop originated within the underground beatmaking hip-hop scene of the 2000s, particularly after the advent of Roland SP-303 and Roland SP-404 samplers, each of which featured the "lo-fi" effect as a separate button.[7]
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There ya go. Finally, the perfect format for 560. (ducking for cover)
Dave B.
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The genre name originates from the low fidelity ("lo-fi") aesthetic of the music, which tends to be deliberately less "polished" than high fidelity ("hi-fi") music and features audio imperfections, distorted sound quality, and less professional audio equipment.[6] Lo-fi hip-hop originated within the underground beatmaking hip-hop scene of the 2000s, particularly after the advent of Roland SP-303 and Roland SP-404 samplers, each of which featured the "lo-fi" effect as a separate button.[7]
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There ya go. Finally, the perfect format for 560. (ducking for cover)
Dave B.
Like Static 560? The current format cost nothing to run. All Noise All the Time, Commercial Free… Static 560! Set a button!
"Why pay 50 bucks for a white noise generator when you have a radio? Save a button for "Static 560"."
I actually used to describe really boring stations when I programmed back in the 70s as "non-prescription sleep aids".
Different music categories, but SiriusXM has several “Lo-Fi” offerings such as Lo-Fi Sleep, Lo-Fi Cafe, and Lo-Fi Study among its “Xtra” streaming channels. All have suppressed upper audio range so are strictly unobtrusive background music.
If someone needs a sleep aid up there in CapRadio-land, your erstwhile employer programs the perfect solution in the hours preceding Morning Edition*.
(* BBC World News, complete with their stuffy Brit accents. Guaranteed to be the ultimate cure for insomnia.)
I’d rather have intelligent coverage on NPR than nonsensical ranting on typical talk radio.
I remember having a conversation at K101 with conservative host Barbara Simpson that happened to call my office line at the station. Aside from the fact that it seemed odd that a talk show host would call an APD/MD of a Hot AC, I enjoyed our chat. Anyway, I told her I remembered her on KTVU as an anchor. She then quipped, that was boring, I’d much rather to talk radio.
It’s telling that some people find news, information and facts, boring. But punditry? Exciting 🙄. To paraphrase
a quote from Rush Limbaugh, Don’t read or listen to the news, I’ll explain it to you.
The "stuffy" thing is actually offensive. The folks in the UK have a wide range of accents, just as the U.S. does in different regions. And, to them, there is nothing "stuffy" about how they speak as it is absolutely normal. No different than the differences between a Boston accent and a Southern drawl.
I think he's referring to Received Pronunciation, the standard BBC-dialect, AKA "The Queen's English". It is different even from accents in London, and used to be even stuffier in the past. Now they're working in a bit of Estuary into it.
Margaret Thatcher needed training to change her Northern accent into RP.
There are many people -- my wife being a classic case -- who cannot have a British accent on the radio or telly without dozing off. We love watching John Oliver's HBO show, but whenever we watch it she falls asleep in minutes, she can't help herself, and then I have to rewind the show after she wakes back up. The Beeb has a similar effect. She will tell me she can't get to sleep, I throw the BBC on the bedroom Bose radio (KQED, KALW and Mike's former employer all run it in the hours around midnight), and she's out within 10 minutes. It's your prerogative if you want to take offense at the comment, but it's a true statement.
But, nowadays, you hear a variety of accents on the BBC, more so than you would hear on American radio or television.
Unrelated to the BBC but back on track with 560 - Mark, do you still have the audio you recorded of the KZAC redirect loop before they signed it off? I meant to get on an SDR out there and record it but never did.
You may joke, but in the days when there were fewer FM stations, I would use interstation hiss for that purpose. It's not exactly white noise, thanks to the de-emphasis curve in every FM receiver, but it was close enough. Can't do that now; too many FM stations have crowded in.
I don't use white noise any more; I've worked in far too many open-plan offices where they had that going in a futile attempt to reduce noise from conversations, etc., and I learned to dislike it, and to dislike open-plan offices generally.
So let's just say it caught on. PPM's pick it up and it gets ratings. Now... How to sell it? What would a LoFi commercial sound like?
Dave B.
Oh, yeah, I know...from getting up early to fill in for Steve Milne.
I actually like the "posh" Brit accent in certain settings, news being one of them. I know he bored @DavidEduardo, but I loved Michael Jackson (the KABC talk host) and I'll die on that hill.
My stock joke about that is that Americans used to be so impressed by it that we immediately assumed intelligence, no matter what the voice was saying:
(Picture John Cleese doing his best "posh")
"I dropped out of third grade and started eating lead paint."
(Americans)
"He's so brilliant, so cultured."
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In this folder: MediaFire (includes other audio, 5 files each in FLAC and MP3 formats). Let me know if you can't access it.
Having also made the transition from TV news to talk radio (though not to that particular brand of talk radio, at KTAR in 2000), she was probably enjoying the freedom to openly express herself.
Well, there's a difference between talk radio and punditry (or used to be), and I was lucky that I was in it when agenda-free conversation and interview skills were more valuable than an opinion that produced outrage.
I love Oliver and can't imagine anyone having time to fall asleep between bursts of laughter.
John's continuing the tradition begun by Cleese that you can say anything if you say it in a British accent.
There is still incredible pushback against dialect on the U.S. airwaves, unless you happen to be in an area where that dialect is
At KFBK, I hired an Asian reporter who (forgive me, @DavidEduardo, because I'm sure I'll use the wrong term) "sounded Asian". She was the child of Vietnamese refugees born in America into a household that didn't speak English, learned it as a second language in school, and had worked in broadcasting before I hired her. It was a very gentle Hmong lilt on top of otherwise perfectly fine English and a pleasant voice.
We got complaint calls, as we did for another reporter I had who pronounced a few words in a way that sounded "too black" (their words) to some of our listeners who called in to tell us they "weren't racist, but..."as they did for our Asian reporter.
Even NPR is not immune. We heard from people who "just could not listen" to Ayesha Rascoe on Weekend Edition.
Nobody's encoding it, so it can't be picked up.