How Satisfied Are You With Your Favorite Local Station?

[wadio]

What happened to our original Doug McIntyre's Red Eye Radio. None of his fans could believe that
he was replaced by a trucking show. This is New York. They had no right to do that at all to us.
Also most of the WABC radio lineup has gotten very stail. I have listened to WABC for years and years
and what I do now is listen on the net.
Someone that is now in charge doesn't know their job or the business for that matter.
I do know that times are very hard for everyone and including business.

butterfly

Since McIntyre's departure I've been streaming Jon Grayson out of KMOX in St. Louis. He's not Doug McIntyre but he does a similar show -- varying topics, doesn't "lecture," isn't partisan -- it's a good overnight listen. The show is syndicated but apparently has only a handful of affiliates, the closest to us is in Boston, I believe.

If Cumulus felt they needed McIntyre to save KABC, they would have done much better to hire Jon Grayson (or someone like him) to take over Red Eye Radio. I can't imagine the truckers getting any traction (sorry!) in urban markets like NY.

 

[ansky212]

I for one don't care whose on the air, as long as music is being played and I don't tune to another station from another market and hear that same song on that same type of station.

There have been times when I heard the same song playing simultaneously on Hot 97, Z100, and Power 105. It can't get much worse than that...

 

[Jersey Maiden]

I for one don't care whose on the air, as long as music is being played and I don't tune to another station from another market and hear that same song on that same type of station.

There have been times when I heard the same song playing simultaneously on Hot 97, Z100, and Power 105. It can't get much worse than that...

Particularly when it's a horrible song. One time, all three of them were playing Rihanna's "What's My Name" (I'll never understand why it was a #1 hit).

 

[frozenfiresb]

It's not just the current hits stations- CBS and Q104 could be playing the same Elton John song. It seems like very little of Q104's playlist is unique to them anymore. Since CBS plays a lot of rock hits that they never played before the switch to Jack.

 

[MarcR]

One of the Boomer posters on the Dentist's board thought that Mumford and Sons were an obscure bar band from Long Island, so I get the gist of what you're saying.

Listeners to various forms of Black or Hispanic music, fans of country or AC, partisans of rhythmic CHR, and those who like talk or news radio or jazz or standards are likely to have no clue as to the identity of Mumford and Sons.

Mumford & Sons are a multi-platinum selling act, so I think most music listeners would have at least a vague knowledge of who they are.

 

[Ike]

I'd give a 5 to my favorite local station: WFMU! This is where free-form radio lives, and as you can hear right now, even their pledge drives are entertaining. In that respect, NPR could learn a few things from them.

Long ago, I got tired of commercial radio stations playing the same thing over and over again, so I switched to non-commercial radio. WFMU was not my first choice, but over time, I learned to appreciate and then to love the avant-garde sounds, the scratchy old 78s, the Edison cylinders, the classic country, the comedy records, the mind-bending psychedelic stuff... and most importantly, the expertise with which the dedicated LIVE volunteer DJs mixed it all together.