Just curious, does anyone still listen to radio in NEPA?
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Even though we actually live closer to the PA-MD border than to the PA-NY border, the local geographic vibes, the architecture, the society, the accents and other factors definitely situate us as 'Coal Country -- northeast PA.'
Average age in this household is 62. That in itself should mean we're outside any usable demo we're likely to find on the dials. We've had the radio on in the house maybe three times in the past few months: to KYW for their snow reports (we have to interpolate between them and stations to our north) ..... WLSH 1410 and their Oldies (ANY pop music to cook by aside from the modern formulaic rubbish will do, but homespun WLSH is pretty good) ..... and our traditional French CJBC on Christmas Eve (which comes off a Hamilton Beach can opener/radio quite well).
The only WB/Scranton station with any sort of decent signal here is WILK 980. It's possible to get about a half-dozen others on AM, but only for DX purposes. (DX is not for entertainment. It's for aggravation, just like any other hobby). None of the FM's from S/WB reach here with any regularity or even semi-regularity.
Car listening, mostly daytime now, consists of WHLM 930 and their Oldies .... Eagle 107's Classic Rock when we travel further west .... and sometimes Magic 105.5 Tamaqua.
So, I'd say 98% of the week's total listenership is off the internet. At night, it's solid Top Shelf Oldies; they're live 8-mid all seven days. We both listen, on separate computers. In the day Linda usually has on Good Time Oldies ; GTO has some nice programming fare live during the day that TSO doesn't.
On Saturday at noon I'll bring up, and tape, Allan Sniffen's Rewound Radio whenever they feature past shows I remember enjoying. (Bobaloo is this week .... there has been Dan Ingram and Jackson Armstrong in recent weeks).
And even when I want a jazz fix, I'll raise the WRTI Temple Univ stream, especially for the great Bob Craig on Sunday evenings. Gawd's truf: I liked his delivery and music a lot even before realizing that was listening to a former PD of mine in Philadelphia!
Still, all of this is off the internet, even though there's a close-by WRTI translator on 99.1 in Pottsville.
I observed a lot of air going out of the tires on these message boards once Arbitron invited admittance to their precious ratings only to the upper-crust hoi polloi. Arb's new owners evidently felt the same way and kept up the boycott. They've got their own rapidly parching gardens to tend ; that's understood. But it's been quite a while since I've read about somewhat extrapolated ratings from the wide-open 12+ books -- in just about every market one chooses to selec and comment.
Additional car radio listening, spurious as it may be, would include trips up 81 to relatives in Scranton. Those would be to those TIS stations.
When they're on the air, that is. One funny one seemed to be doing Solid Gold Weather .... 'The temperature overnight in Binghampton was 39 degrees ..... the temperature overnight in Clark's Summit was 40 degrees ....' etc.
Making a short story long, lfscuuite 1oo : No, not really.
Average age in this household is 62. That in itself should mean we're outside any usable demo we're likely to find on the dials. We've had the radio on in the house maybe three times in the past few months: to KYW for their snow reports (we have to interpolate between them and stations to our north) ..... WLSH 1410 and their Oldies (ANY pop music to cook by aside from the modern formulaic rubbish will do, but homespun WLSH is pretty good) ..... and our traditional French CJBC on Christmas Eve (which comes off a Hamilton Beach can opener/radio quite well).
The only WB/Scranton station with any sort of decent signal here is WILK 980. It's possible to get about a half-dozen others on AM, but only for DX purposes. (DX is not for entertainment. It's for aggravation, just like any other hobby). None of the FM's from S/WB reach here with any regularity or even semi-regularity.
Car listening, mostly daytime now, consists of WHLM 930 and their Oldies .... Eagle 107's Classic Rock when we travel further west .... and sometimes Magic 105.5 Tamaqua.
So, I'd say 98% of the week's total listenership is off the internet. At night, it's solid Top Shelf Oldies; they're live 8-mid all seven days. We both listen, on separate computers. In the day Linda usually has on Good Time Oldies ; GTO has some nice programming fare live during the day that TSO doesn't.
On Saturday at noon I'll bring up, and tape, Allan Sniffen's Rewound Radio whenever they feature past shows I remember enjoying. (Bobaloo is this week .... there has been Dan Ingram and Jackson Armstrong in recent weeks).
And even when I want a jazz fix, I'll raise the WRTI Temple Univ stream, especially for the great Bob Craig on Sunday evenings. Gawd's truf: I liked his delivery and music a lot even before realizing that was listening to a former PD of mine in Philadelphia!
Still, all of this is off the internet, even though there's a close-by WRTI translator on 99.1 in Pottsville.
I observed a lot of air going out of the tires on these message boards once Arbitron invited admittance to their precious ratings only to the upper-crust hoi polloi. Arb's new owners evidently felt the same way and kept up the boycott. They've got their own rapidly parching gardens to tend ; that's understood. But it's been quite a while since I've read about somewhat extrapolated ratings from the wide-open 12+ books -- in just about every market one chooses to selec and comment.
Additional car radio listening, spurious as it may be, would include trips up 81 to relatives in Scranton. Those would be to those TIS stations.
When they're on the air, that is. One funny one seemed to be doing Solid Gold Weather .... 'The temperature overnight in Binghampton was 39 degrees ..... the temperature overnight in Clark's Summit was 40 degrees ....' etc.
Making a short story long, lfscuuite 1oo : No, not really.
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