The most unusual standards station you'll ever hear...

[Nick Gerard]

...may be this one: http://www.hezzie.com/kbrd/ .

Thoughts on this one?

Nick Gerard

 

[cadillacjack]

Wow! I'm listening to the morning drive show playing Gene Austin - "Without That Gal" going into a vintage Red Cross Blood Drive PSA recorded from a scratchy 78 into Ventura Romero singing "La Burrita". Now they are playing Burl Ives - "The Girl That I Marry" (sounding creepier than I remember) into Johnny Mercer's "Ace In The Hole" played on an upright honky-tonk piano!

I noticed a few records that sort of end! a few moments early and go into the next, but what a station. Be sure to read about Skip & BJ!

CJ

thepenthouseradio.com

 

[dx7]

This is one unique and GREAT radio station! Wonder how many local over-the-air listeners they have? Thanks for sending us the link, Nick!

 

[4dude]

Merci Beaucoup

 

[Bongwater]

This is one unique and GREAT radio station! Wonder how many local over-the-air listeners they have? Thanks for sending us the link, Nick!

KBRD 680 up here in the Puget Sound has a small but fiercely loyal hard core of dedicated listeners (mostly in the Olympia-Thurston/Pierce County areas, due to it's 250 watt daytime only signal). You'll hear KBRD piped into a lot of nursing homes here.

Most of it's listeners are 60+, as you can imagine but there are college age people that like them too. They are to the standards genre what KEXP is to alternative music-BIG!

Another, lesser known purveyor of standards and old time radio on tap is KMRE-LP 102.3 out of the American Museum of Radio and Electrictiy in Bellingham, WA (120 miles north of Olympia):

http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/index.phtml?sgenre=&maxbitrate=999&numresult=25&s=kmre

Not even Florida has better radio for the senior citizen crowd than right here in the Puget Sound.......

Cheers!

 

[The Atrium]

If you knew susie like I knew susie.....

Tiny Hill huh? I am going to listen to this station tonight, sounds interesting!

 

[Chad]

I've listened to a little of this station. Pretty interesting playlist. If you['re a fan of Dr. Demento, and especially some of the older stuff he plays, then you might enjoy this station as well.

 

[Groove1670]

I noticed that KRBD has a sister station KLDY what format does it have. It also looks like it has nighttime power. It looks like it gets second billing to KRBD why?

 

[Bongwater]

I noticed that KRBD has a sister station KLDY what format does it have. It also looks like it has nighttime power. It looks like it gets second billing to KRBD why?

KLDY was a classical sister station to KBRD on AM 1280. "The Lady".

After KBRD/KLDY's owner Skip Marrow passed away in 2005, he left both stations to a public trust "BJ & Skip's For The Music Foundation" (BJ was the name of his pet cockatiel.) But the reality was there wasn't enough money to run both stations. So KLDY was sold. 1280 AM still has the KLDY call letters, but now runs ESPN Espanol.....