Streaming outside Los Angeles.

[shirleyschmidt]

I was wondering how many people on this board find streaming a station that is broadcast outside of Los Angeles their first or second choice over local stations on the radio dial. I am not talking about satellite.

 

[hillbillyRockstar]

I have streamed before, but do it so rarely that I could say I never do it.

Here's a tip: Don't cross the streams.

 

[Hunter]

I was wondering how many people on this board find streaming a station that is broadcast outside of Los Angeles their first or second choice over local stations on the radio dial. I am not talking about satellite.

Just wondering why you ask? Your question would suggest (to me) you are asking how many may be dissatisfied with LA radio and have a fav somewhere else. Those that participate on this board have many reasons to stream from outside the market and don't represent any sort mass opinion. Most of us are weird and actually find radio fascinating and therefore actively tune in stations in other markets to see what they're doing.

I tend to stream many local, but KROQ probably more than any other. I collectively probably spend more time streaming several other market stations and formats too. This morning for example I was checking out the new Rock 100.5 in Atlanta that went on yesterday.

 

[ocer]

I listen outside the market quite a bit...but then again it's mostly to the stations from where I used to live. I listen to stations here easily the most but sometimes it's fun just to check in and see what's going on back in my old home.

 

[nmoore6676]

As a country music fan I largely streamed out of town during the KZLA days and until we got a half decent station locally in KKGO. My stations of choice were KMGO, Centerville, Iowa and KUPL, Portland, Oregon. Also a favorite is WBZI, Xenia, Ohio which I still listen to regularly as they are "Classic Country" and have a terrific historian DJ, Chubby Howard, on weekends. KMGO lost their Classic DJ, Billy Cole, last year (he unfortunately passed away).

I also listen to Kim Kommando's computer show as she has no local outlet that I can receive over the air. Another favorite for Rock and Roll Oldies is WDJO from Cincinnati. I'm considering purchasing a Wi Fi radio to use but now I have an older computer dedicated for streaming stations hooked to my stereo system.

Have I given enough plugs? ;D

 

[Hunter]

As a country music fan I largely streamed out of town during the KZLA days and until we got a half decent station locally in KKGO. My stations of choice were KMGO, Centerville, Iowa and KUPL, Portland, Oregon. Also a favorite is WBZI, Xenia, Ohio

Being a country streaming fan, I'm surprised you didn't list WSIX from the country music kingdom, Nashville. They used to be a godzilla of a station...and I assume it still is.

 

[nmoore6676]

As a country music fan I largely streamed out of town during the KZLA days and until we got a half decent station locally in KKGO. My stations of choice were KMGO, Centerville, Iowa and KUPL, Portland, Oregon. Also a favorite is WBZI, Xenia, Ohio

Being a country streaming fan, I'm surprised you didn't list WSIX from the country music kingdom, Nashville. They used to be a godzilla of a station...and I assume it still is.

I'll give them a shot. I actually picked the Iowa station having heard them over the air while I was there. I have friends from Portland and I used to live near Xenia. I forgot to mention that I do listen to WSM online, but mostly for the Opry. I just recently discovered an entirely automated station from Columbus, Indiana "WYGB" and they hide their legal ID better than most I've ever heard and their liners and drops rival the stuff on Jack FM here. There is also WUBE and WYGY from Cincinnati, they're co-owned, one being Todays' Country and the other like Classics, kind of Legends and Outlaws.

Thanks for the tip. Also I listen to Rich Brother Robbin's stream for oldies but it's not an actual radio station though he has a lot of ID's, Jingles and other cool stuff from the golden days of Rock and Roll radio.

Is there any pay potential for professional full time listeners? :

 

[radiocph]

Some years ago, I used to listen to a station somewhere on the East Coast, to get Bruce Williams. (At that time, BW wasn't really available over the net). Then during the commercial rights bro-ha-ha, they stopped streaming, and I lost my Bruce Williams fix....

I also used to listen to "Soca" music from Radio Grenada, and occasionally I'd stream a Brazilian station and listen to the music there....

 

[scooty430]

I listen to this stuff streamed.....

Radio Free Phoenix (from Phoenix....)
WLNG - Long Island (good oldies station with pre-64 stuff)
WCBSFM - New York (for the Sunday night programs)
KFOG - San Francisco (for 10@10 each night)
KCSN - Northridge (Chuck Cecil, and a couple other shows....reception bad on Westside....)

....and sometimes WHRB Harvard University during their "Orgies."

I'm looking forward to when streaming sounds better. It's still a big compromise sound quality-wise.

 

[oaktree]

I do it all the time, especially with a Roku Internet radio, which I never turn off. I listen to Imus at 3 a.m. on KABC then catch the rest on WABC, then listen to morning news on WBT, 10-10 WINS, back to CA for KGO, then 'CBS-FM, K-EARTH 101, stations in Philly, Delaware, South Jersey and Maryland, then Chicago and Texas. Sometimes, I listen to KNX online and KOGO in San Diego.

Though I can hear it clearly on air at night on AM, I still listen to the stream of KGO for late night talk. Oldies in Florida and Standards from Denver and Longview, TX, too. also listen to Hy Lit Radio from Philly, KYA (once in awhile) and some Smooth Jazz stations including one in Belgium, "Cruise FM." I'm big on 'net streaming and I am "out of the demo," technically (2 years out, in fact.)

Actually, I listen to very little "terrestrial" radio anymore ... unless it streams online. I think the quality on many stations is exceptional.

Also, "The Radio Racket" from Philly every Friday nite.

 

[Nick Gerard]

Being a lifelong francophile, the opportunity to listen to French language radio has been an ongoing joy since I purchased my first computer in 1998.

I most frequently listen to France-Inter, the enormous state-operated news, talk, and music station. I also check in with RTL - the commercial French language service of Radio Luxembourg. It is in reality a station for France, not Luxembourg, with studios in Paris and programming targeted exclusively for a French audience. This is the station where SoCal's Mike Pasternak, then known as "Emperor Rosko" - ("je suis la!!!") made his big splash in the 1960's.

Another favorite is "Nostalgie.fr." This is a bright, up-tempo pop music station, playing, as the name suggests, oldies from the 60's to around the early 90's. It's about a 50-50 mix of French and English hit songs.

I love the ability to podcast programs. I regularly download the 7AM news from RTL. There's significant coverage of the US presidential race, far more than American mass media cover European politics.

I also enjoy loading the iPod with France-Inter's "Le Cinq Sept" hosted by Nicolas Stoufflet. He has a friendly down-to-earth on-air demeanor. It's their weekday 5AM - 7AM show and features interviews with authors, trivia contests, and a very eclectic blend of French, English, and frequently African music. Way different from AM drive in the USA.

European media don't have the same restrictions on including music in their podcasts as US based media. I welcome this because personally, I'm much more of a music radio listener than a talk radio listener.

Enjoying French radio online is fantastic! It's a far cry from the old days of dial-twisting through the crackles and squeals to hear Radio France International on shortwave.

When the iPod is playing thru the mini-FM XMTR in the car and I'm listening to Georges Brassens sing "Je Suis Un Voyou" on France-Inter while cruisin' PCH, heck, I might as well be on the Cote d'Azur!

Nick Gerard

 

[pberger]

www.gila1019.com streams country music from Globe, AZ. I think it sounds pretty good, but wonder what others think. It is small town, and you will know it when they do the news, announce school board meetings, etc.

 

[nmoore6676]

www.gila1019.com streams country music from Globe, AZ. I think it sounds pretty good, but wonder what others think. It is small town, and you will know it when they do the news, announce school board meetings, etc.

The music mix is to my tastes. Not a highly produced automated format, which is refreshing for a change. I am listening mid day so I probably missed the school lunch menus and all of that.

 

[ronkaram]

I think all the local stations suck and only listen to news. For music all are not only out of Los Angeles but out of the country. I like dance music and there are only a few stations in the US that play it. Clear Channel was responsible for it getting dumped twice at 103.1. My favorite is freshfm in Amerstdam then dancereadio in Prague. I also like mixfm in Lebanon which also has a good 80's at 8 show that you can listen to at 10:00 PM as it is 8:00 AM in the morning in Lebanon.

 

[david]

Being a lifelong francophile, the opportunity to listen to French language radio has been an ongoing joy since I purchased my first computer in 1998...

Nice to see you in here Nick, and let me voice my appreciation for the late, great K-Mozart (along with its prior branding as Classical 105.1 KKGO).

Now to the thread at hand...
* I used to listen to ParisLiveRadio.com - an English language station in Paris - but alas they are no more.
* www.RivieraRadio.mc - an English language AC station with a 20 year legacy on the Côte d’Azur. Not as slickly produced as LA radio
* www.Virginradio.co.uk/listen - the most popular terrestrial radio on the web
* www.Capitalradio.co.uk - London's version of KIIS-FM (CHR)
* Israel's Radius 100 - www.100fm.co.il - check out their English language oldies show "Voice of Peace" - Monday-Wednesday at 8a Pacific and Fridays at 6a Pacific. The show is available ON DEMAND on their site - http://www.100fm.co.il/video.asp?videoGallery_id=22 - and contains tons of 70's & 80's tunes that never made it State side but were massive hits overseas.
* Radio Tel Aviv - www.102fm.co.il - Tel Aviv's CHR
* Surprised that no one has yet mentioned one of the USA's premier AAA stations: www.WXRT.com Chicago - which as a CBS station was for a long time not streaming online - but it does now!
* I would also advise anyone interested in international streams to seek out posts from CHRles here on Radio-Info. CHRles writes mostly on the European boards and periodically posts the most amazing and comprehensive lists of international radio streamers.

 

[ajhenderson]

I'm the opposite. I lived in So Cal for awhile, and now that I'm back where I was before I moved there, I'm listening to the same streams of LA stations that I had always listened to.

 

[nmoore6676]

I'm the opposite. I lived in So Cal for awhile, and now that I'm back where I was before I moved there, I'm listening to the same streams of LA stations that I had always listened to.

Maybe some truth in that old adage about the grass being greener.....

I think listening to streaming is a little like what I did as a kid, with an AM radio with a long wire antenna listening to the distant stations I could pull in at night. I'd put on headphones and listen with the lights out so my parents wouldn't know. I could pull in The Wolfman, John R., Dick Biondi and lots of others. The stations and the DJ's all had character in those days. Today you get pretty much the same cookie cutter formats with DJ's who have no personality so we scan the internet to find those distinctive people who are still out there somewhere.

 

[TattooQueen]

I was wondering how many people on this board find streaming a station that is broadcast outside of Los Angeles their first or second choice over local stations on the radio dial. I am not talking about satellite.

Just wondering why you ask? Your question would suggest (to me) you are asking how many may be dissatisfied with LA radio and have a fav somewhere else. Those that participate on this board have many reasons to stream from outside the market and don't represent any sort mass opinion. Most of us are weird and actually find radio fascinating and therefore actively tune in stations in other markets to see what they're doing.

Following this thread from its inception the question posed seems to be a valid one in that it shows that many people for whatever reasoning chose to stream stations worldwide rather than listening to what their radio dial has to offer.

Maybe some truth in that old adage about the grass being greener.....

I think listening to streaming is a little like what I did as a kid, with an AM radio with a long wire antenna listening to the distant stations I could pull in at night. I'd put on headphones and listen with the lights out so my parents wouldn't know. I could pull in The Wolfman, John R., Dick Biondi and lots of others. The stations and the DJ's all had character in those days. Today you get pretty much the same cookie cutter formats with DJ's who have no personality so we scan the internet to find those distinctive people who are still out there somewhere.

I agree that many stream in order to find the one of a kind radio personalities of years ago, or a format that isn't found on conventional stations where they are located.

I do not listen to conventional radio for the most part because of many of the reasons stated in previous posts. I occasionally will tune in the local country station or stations that have recently switched formats or tweaked the format they are currently playing.

The internet and stations that stream provide a VAST sea of music genres, radio personalities and great radio shows.

Surfing the web, if I come across a station that has a DJ I am familiar with from stations of the past or a format that is not currently on a local station I will stream to see what the stations or formats have to offer.

 

[whirlwizard]

Actually it is a great question. I stream a couple of stations as well. Since I have spent a lot of time in both Nashville and Detroit, I do stream stations out of those two areas just for the old hometown feel. It is fun to hear some local stuff that is happening in both of those places.

Finding great DJs you use to listen to who have moved on is always a treat. When I get a hold of one of those, I tend to stream that station. The well seems to be drying up on those.

I do miss the classics here and wish 105 would go back to KMZT. AM stations don't come in to well right now.

 

[shirleyschmidt]

I was wondering how many people on this board find streaming a station that is broadcast outside of Los Angeles their first or second choice over local stations on the radio dial. I am not talking about satellite.

Just wondering why you ask? Your question would suggest (to me) you are asking how many may be dissatisfied with LA radio and have a fav somewhere else. Those that participate on this board have many reasons to stream from outside the market and don't represent any sort mass opinion. Most of us are weird and actually find radio fascinating and therefore actively tune in stations in other markets to see what they're doing.

I tend to stream many local, but KROQ probably more than any other. I collectively probably spend more time streaming several other market stations and formats too. This morning for example I was checking out the new Rock 100.5 in Atlanta that went on yesterday.

People do have many reasons for streaming a station, but I did not pose a "why" portion of the question above. I was just wondering how many on this board do stream stations from outside the local market. There was no ill thought with that post. I also did not think because a person streams a station outside a local area that they were dissatisfied with radio were they live. I don't think that is the case.

The reason I even posed the question is somewhat two-fold. First because that does show a population who gains their listening pleasures elsewhere. Or maybe a format exists outside a local area they cannot get here. Of course, I could pose this question on several other boards here, but ask instead "How many people stream stations that broadcast out of Los Angeles?" Both of which, from a old ratings system standard, creates a bit of a dilemma.

Second, as a local market programmer, one might ask why or what their listeners like about the formats other stations program that listeners venture elsewhere to hear.

As one who see the internet and streaming as a viable source, I was curious as to the numbers that might be found here. I was not worried that individuals on this site skewing the numbers a bit, just thought I would pose the question because peole ehere are radio savvy. I am delighted at the answers.