How important is local to you?

[donnikhan]

I think that stations underestimate the loyalty that local audiences have to local talent. It's practically a proverb that local radio is dead but who is making any effort to save it?

Spinning a Ted Leo track during a Beatles cover specialty program today, thats pretty local!

 

[Holland Cooke]

"stations underestimate the loyalty local audiences have to local talent"

True!

If you want shoppuhs to cawl a coppit store in Wo-ick, you need to tawk-the-tawk.

 

[donnikhan]

By the by, if anyone wants to hear alternative rock covers of the Beatles today, 'BRU is the place to be at 3.

 

[Skynet74]

By the by, if anyone wants to hear alternative rock covers of the Beatles today, 'BRU is the place to be at 3.

WBRU is such an awsome station. I didn't care for them while growing up. That's when Pro-FM was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Jimmy Gray, David Simpson, Nancy Grimes. Can't beat those days! But now WBRU is first for music on my dial. On an added note I was spinning the dial last night and came across 101.1 Frank FM on Cape Cod! If they were in Providence they would be giving stations here a run for their money. The Playlist is awsome! They play everything~! I was actually enjoying listening to the radio just like the old days.

 

[MissAM]

Hey Holland, you talk wicked good Rode Island!

 

[MissAM]

But the BRU play list is the same all the time. You don't get tired of that???

 

[Holland Cooke]

Hey Holland, you talk wicked good Rode Island!

Well, TECHNICALLY, that should be "vicked good Vode-eye."

HC

 

[Skynet74]

But the BRU play list is the same all the time. You don't get tired of that???

I never noticed much repetition. Probably because I don't listen for more than an hour at a time.

 

[MissAM]

Holland... since when do Rhode Islanders speak with a Punjabi accent?? "V"'s???

Skynet...1i/2 hour is all anyone can take of BRU, unless they like to fantasize about the on air kids...

 

[Holland Cooke]

Vody

Holland... since when do Rhode Islanders speak with a Punjabi accent?? "V"'s???

It's "transposition," swapping "V's" for "R's," as-in "My fviend Vichid...Veh goin' to de mawl..."

More often heard in Cvanstun than Bavvington.

And it's ADORABLE!
(a-DAW-vubble)

 

[MissAM]

I've heard many Brits do that and I always thought it was just a speech defect!

 

[wknd92]

Re: Vody

[More often heard in Cvanstun than Bavvington.

And it's ADORABLE!
(a-DAW-vubble)

By girls named Chevyl....