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Tk now doing the morning show on indie1031

hotpatrick2004

hotpatrick2004

Makes me wonder why they got rid of joe escalante. They replaced him with tk so was it joes call or entravisions that he left???

I like tk as a jock i know some of you do not but just surprised they put him on in mornings. I thought they would just end up doing music in the mornings. And by the way the station just turned five years (back when ryan seacrest was still at the former star 98.9) old december 26th 2008 who woulda thunk half a decade with this kinda format as radio is today. But we are los angeles home of hollywood.You would think nyc could support a station like this oh well different topic for different board but i must ad i am very surprised indie has lasted and very very very did i say very happy:)

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With Entravision dumping the Super Estrella network this week, how much longer can this loser station last? For that matter, how much longer can the local Super Estrella last?
 
Internet radio in the car is now here.

It's already available in your house and office.

Free, unlimited choices, and easy to sync up with your itunes and ipod.

Radio will probably be as obsolete as your 8 track quite soon.
 
scooty430 said:
Internet radio in the car is now here.

It's already available in your house and office.

Free, unlimited choices, and easy to sync up with your itunes and ipod.

Radio will probably be as obsolete as your 8 track quite soon.
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Now come on, it may be a "reality" today, but do you think even 10% of the drivers in the USA will rush out and replace their antiquated dash radios with the Internet variety? And at what price? It's not going to be "quite soon" I think. Don't get me wrong I am happy about this news, as for me and my '04 Turbo MazdaSpeed MX-5 (Miata), I've got 66,000 miles on her and I'm going for 200,000 miles which will be another 5 years or so. As long as my CD changer continues to work, I will continue to record my choice of Internet radio and burn those recordings onto CDs for my personal listening use in my car. Most other drivers (not radio nuts like we all are here) will probably not even be aware of in-dash Internet radio for at least 5 years if not more.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
scooty430 said:
Internet radio in the car is now here.

It's already available in your house and office.

Free, unlimited choices, and easy to sync up with your itunes and ipod.

Radio will probably be as obsolete as your 8 track quite soon.
Click to expand...

Now come on, it may be a "reality" today, but do you think even 10% of the drivers in the USA will rush out and replace their antiquated dash radios with the Internet variety? And at what price? It's not going to be "quite soon" I think. Don't get me wrong I am happy about this news, as for me and my '04 Turbo MazdaSpeed MX-5 (Miata), I've got 66,000 miles on her and I'm going for 200,000 miles which will be another 5 years or so. As long as my CD changer continues to work, I will continue to record my choice of Internet radio and burn those recordings onto CDs for my personal listening use in my car. Most other drivers (not radio nuts like we all are here) will probably not even be aware of in-dash Internet radio for at least 5 years if not more.
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I am trying to figure out if you are being sarcastic. You make recordings of internet stations and burn them to cd to listen in the car, but then you doubt that 10% of americans will be interested in internet radio in their car.

IF you are able to purchase this unit this year, then in 2-5 years the 18-34 demo will become interested in it. I could see sales in larger american cities doing pretty decent. If it starts becoming an option or standard in new cars that will have an effect.

Death to terrestrial radio? no. Just another listening option.

Back to the original subject matter, TK is a dang good jock and I personally enjoy listening to him. With the internet option in the car slowly approaching but imminent, that shines a new light on indie.
 
No sarcasm intended ;)

Realistically, how many people do what I do? [burn CDs from Internet radio to play in the car] Not even 0.0001% is my guess. I am an anomoly along with you and others when compared to the vast population out there. Couple that with a slow economy and growth of Internet radio units in vehicles will take a while. Just saw on the news last night attendance is down at the CES in Vegas because of the economy. All these gadgets that people might like are not a neccessity so they're going to hold off purchasing.

Now maybe when I was in my teens and 20s things were different and choices were limited because technology was not advanced yet. I remember cursing as to why in-dash cassette/stereo AM/FM radios in cars were not an option easily found. (I didn't care about 8-track though I had one installed in my Firebird back in the day)

Scooty used the phrase "quite soon". You used the time of "2-5 years". Do you think 5 years is "quite soon"? And that's just when they (18-34) will become interested.

Finally, ask any ten people about Internet radio in their cars. Ask them if they even listen on a regular basis to Internet radio. Oh and don't limit the age group to just the lower ages. I'd be mighty surprised if you find anyone who does listen to Internet radio on a regular basis. We all can get persuaded by opinions we read on these boards but we're all radio junkies. Not everyone else "out there" thinks as we do. Interest in other platforms of radio program delivery will evolve but slowly.

Indie has such a loyal following who knows they might be successful in moving to the Internet-only if and when they are removed from 103.1 FM. My guess is their fans are more passionate than those fans of the old Channel 103.1 World Class Rock were when that station made the move in September 2000.
 
I'm another one who listens to internet radio and burns CD's to listen to in my car. Actually I go way back to when I was 14 years old. I got a reel to reel Webcor tape recorder for Christmas in 1955, and I would hold up a microphone to the speaker of an AM table model radio and record the songs to play. I actually still have the tapes, but no longer have a reel to reel tape recorder. David would probably enjoy hearing some of them as they were radio stations in Cleveland and Akron. :D
 
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