KLOS doing excellent A to Z program of lesser heard rock nuggets.

[scooty430]

If you like good ol' rock and roll, definitely tune in to this. While their normal playlist is pretty stale, they have picked out all kinds of seldom and never heard tunes for this. I'm lucky I caught them three days in, as they're only up to "C."

 

[zumahans]

Deep Tracks XM 40 takes three weeks to do the same thing.

 

[doublecashkgb]

KLOS has the worst presentation, most unhip-outdated style of AOR jocks I've heard in years.
Why keep these burn out's employed? it's a steamy pile.

 

[scooty430]

Denise Westwood and Cynthia Fox do a nice job, as does Rita Wilde when she pulls a shift. Uncle Joe and Gary Moore (actually he was canned but has made a return,) are fairly dated in their style, and could benefit from just speaking naturally, the way FM jocks used to. Jim Ladd......thinks he's a lot better than he is: so cheeseball. Bob Coburn is still fairly good, and I like Dion.

What I don't enjoy is that between every song you have to hear an annoying, over-produced KLOS promo. I'd love to just hear tracks back to back the way KLOS and KMET used to sound.

Anyhow, lame DJs aside, KLOS is boring 90 percent of the time, but these tracks they're pulling out are really great. Wonderful variety, well chosen, and good memory joggers, if you grew up listening to rock music. You can basically thank Rita Wilde, as I imagine she picks all the tracks.

 

[calguy]

KLOS has the worst presentation, most unhip-outdated style of AOR jocks I've heard in years.
Why keep these burn out's employed? it's a steamy pile.

Because they at least know the music. Ever hear some 20 something do a Classic Rock shift. It's not pretty. I don't care for every jock on KLOS, but I can say that about a lot of other stations, and they do know their stuff. If anyone could use a dose of reality it's Benson, he sounds very forced and that's kind of weird because AOR jocks used to be known for being natural sounding, but he never did lighten up.

There are a lot of great AOR jocks who can do the format, but there aren't a lot of Classic Rock stations anymore, especially in the far western states...

 

[scooty430]

Deep Tracks XM 40 takes three weeks to do the same thing.

XM sounds wonderful, but here's the problem:

I listen to the radio in the car, a few rooms at home, and at work. In order to get XM, I would have to buy an XM player for all those locations, corrrect? That's quite an investment, plus the monthly fee.

Second problem is more dire: It is likely that we'll be able to get the internet in our cars very soon. Passengers would use it to surf the net or do whatever, and drivers could easily listen to audio from it, or check traffic while stuck on the freeway. Everyone already has the internet in the house and at work. These factors make internet radio a far more likely format for people to adopt. Requires no hardware, offers infinite choices, and works seamlessly with your other activities (ipod, watching movies, video games, whatever.) I see satellite radio as the Betamax/Videodisc/DAT format of the moment.

And for your internet rock listening pleasure, when the killer A to Z KLOS fun is over, and they're back to "Small Town" and "Kashmir" over and over, dial up Radio Free Phoenix and Radio Paradise. Superb, and no corporate flavor.

 

[TowerBuzz]

KLOS has the worst presentation, most unhip-outdated style of AOR jocks I've heard in years.
Why keep these burn out's employed? it's a steamy pile.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PURGE MAN, PURGE!!!!!!!!!!

;D

 

[zumahans]

XM sounds wonderful, but here's the problem:

I listen to the radio in the car, a few rooms at home, and at work. In order to get XM, I would have to buy an XM player for all those locations, corrrect?

Good NAB talking point, but not correct.

Put a SkyFi with car modulator in the car. It's easy to slip the radio into your shirt pocket to carry it into the house.

Inside, put the SkyFi in a home kit. I connect mine to a a $30 Crane FM Stereo modulator, cranked it up, and can listen to XM on every radio in the house.

Total hardware investment: $130. Less than an I-pod. Much less than what I paid for a CD player 10 years ago.

NO COMMERCIALS ARE EVER HEARD IN MY HOUSE!

100 channels of commercial free audio.

 

[scooty430]

Well, $130 isn't too bad. They do have some attractive looking programming. If satellite becomes standard, I may adopt it. I guess I'm what you'd call a "late adopter." I'm the type to tune in my 1940 AM radio to KFWB to listen to the Dodger game.

I do like a little "local" feel to my radio too. Discussions about upcoming concerts, traffic, things that are going on around town. Yes, there is less and less of that, but still, it's there in places. Even something like "Jack FM," which is most likely available on satellite, and is basically just a jukebox, would not be the same as the local version on 93.1. That version has an LA slant, with many of the old KROQ tunes from Madness or Depeche Mode stuck on there, mixed in with other local hits from AOR and Top 40.

 

[zumahans]

Listen to 60s on 6 for an hour on any afternoon and you will get more of a "local" feel than any LA FM station.

You want local? How about a continuous LA traffic and weather station?

You confuse "local" with radio that relates to you, the listener. George Taylor Morris on Deep Tracks XM 40 relates to me as much as Jim Ladd on KLOS, the only DJ I ever switch to commercial FM to listen to.

But if KLOS or XM 40 is not your cup of tea, there are 99 other English-language choices that you can relate to - plus a handful of french and Spanish.

I miss the old KACE - old style R and B. XM 60 is just like it.

If i want to feel like I'm drinking overpriced coffee, hear Music on XM 75 is "local" to me.

 

[gerald]

To scooty, you might be right about internet radio in the car. Eventually. But it's still years away, and in the meantime you can get enough deals on XM and Sirius that it's a very reasonable alternative to terrestrial radio.

For listening in your home, you can stream XM through their website. Also can be brought up through the latest version of Windows Media Player (11). So you can play it through your computer, if you don't like that you can feed that signal wirelessly into your home audio system. There are plenty of ways to listen to XM, including small iPod-like receivers.

You can sample XM for free for a few weeks, I suggest you try it and see if you don't get hooked.

 

[scooty430]

Well, I was in a local mom and pop grocery store, (actually, Galco's Soda Shop in Highland Park, if ya really want to know,) and the guy had XM 50s station playing. It sounded so great as I was picking out my old sodas, that I went right home and signed up for the free 3 days of online listening.

After listening yesterday and today, I am totally sold. Yesterday I checked out the Deep Tracks, 70s, "Fred," and a little of the Classic Country. All were fantastic. Today I listened to 60s on 6 for three or four hours. What a great presentation, with all the little jingles, news bulletins, and corny humor. So fun to listen to. Why K-Earth doesn't just play all this stuff (with no oldies competition in town) is beyond me. What a waste.

When the free period is over, I will definitely sign up. I'd like to check out Sirius as well, as I hear they have some good music as well.

So you were definitely right. Thanks for the tip.

Now what we need is a music VIDEO channel system based on the same idea. One station playing old Louis Armstrong clips, another Shindig and other 60s stuff, still another doing classic early 80s MTV. I've got 400 channels just waiting to be filled with something other than crap!