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What Do I Do Now?

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BJohnson

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I am an older black male who lives in Pinellas County. With the death of WSJT, I now officially have no local radio station to listen to. Except for an occasional oldie on Q-105, or ballad on DUV, there is nothing on FM I can relate to. Rap and hip-hop are for the kids. I'm a grown-ass man and like grown up music. That eliminates Wild and The Beat.

WTMP has a weak signal and even weaker programming. Both morning and afternoon drive are syndicated, and the rest of the day is mired in mediocrity. WRXB's signal is virtually non-existent, plus they've gone all gospel. By default I've been listening to sports on AM, but that's not really an option for females of my age group.

Like I said on the subject line, "What do I do now?" :-[
 
1) Listen to stations online
2) Listen to stations with your cell phone
3) subscribe to satellite radio
4) Buy a Zune player or Ipod and load it up with all the music you're into
 
I think it sucks. I am not an older black male and don't expect to be, but I love the music and I think that Urban AC would have been the best choice. Bright House Cable has various old school music channels and you can stream KBLX from San Francisco. It is fantastic or at least it was. Of course WUSF is retaining jazz on its Tampa station and sending Classical down south, so that too will be mostly gone unless 89.1 has a better signal than I anticipate. Now you can hear the same songs on more stations than ever. However, Pittsburgh (my other haunt) has zero stations with any version of an Urban format including no station focusing on young adults either.
 
Jazz is still at 98.7-2.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I guess I'm just sooooooooooo lucky cause I L-O-V-E Q105 and my second fave is smokin DUV.
 
As we have a dozen of similar formats in the area, unique ones like the Jazz one are going away. I really think a lot of radio people have no idea of what they are doing. This is the bad part of consoldation.....bland formats with little competition. Wait till the classical music junkies lose WUSF in a couple weeks and wont be able to get the new station from Venice.... They will revolt.
 
One addition to my original post. The Beat does become much more adult at night and overnight with their "Sweat Hotel" show. But during the day it skews much younger.
 
As one of the other posters mentioned, all you need to do is buy an HD radio. Most of them are still on the shelves? Great... then grab one. I've had mine for quite awhile. You'll be amazed at the variety.
 
Is 89.1 coming all the way from Venice, not Sarasota?
 
89.1

It will be coming from the same tower that 92.1 and 107.9 are on now. On US 41 on the north side of the Venice connector. That is the freeway that connects US 41 and I75. The new 89.1 will not put a decent signal in the northern Tampa Bay area
 
Creative Loafing states USF will put a translator on their campus. Any ideas on that?
 
BJohnson said:
I am an older black male who lives in Pinellas County. With the death of WSJT, I now officially have no local radio station to listen to. Except for an occasional oldie on Q-105, or ballad on DUV, there is nothing on FM I can relate to. Rap and hip-hop are for the kids. I'm a grown-ass man and like grown up music. That eliminates Wild and The Beat.

WTMP has a weak signal and even weaker programming. Both morning and afternoon drive are syndicated, and the rest of the day is mired in mediocrity. WRXB's signal is virtually non-existent, plus they've gone all gospel. By default I've been listening to sports on AM, but that's not really an option for females of my age group.

Like I said on the subject line, "What do I do now?" :-[
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The programming on WTMP is nearly the same as Star in Orlando. It works well enough for them. They are often number one in that market. WTMP is AM; but, you may want to give it a try via the internet.
 
Another thing you can do: If you can find a station you like, internet or otherwise, record a number of hours on CD and carry the CDs with you in your car. Obviously, the more CDs you make, the less likely that you'll tire of them.
 
Just picked up a Sony XDR-S10HDiP tabletop HD radio on sale at BestBuy.com for $89.99 and used in store pickup. Sale price in store is $99.99. Very good reception and sound quality and WSJT-HD2 smooth jazz picks up great in Clearwater with no commercial interruptions. Several other HD2 and HD3 stations that I never knew existed too! Great Buy!
 
Mr Johnson..if you can..listen to the stream of WALR Kiss 104 in Atlanta on SATURDAY mornings..

http://streaming.kiss1041fm.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=WALRFM

It is just about the coolest thing I have heard in decades. I grew up listening to "soul" stations in the late 60's and eventually cut my teeth in the studio at Buffalo's WUFO and this guy has the chops and the songs..If you are able to record the stream all the better. It is just amazing the music I forgot that this guy plays.
 
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