allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (07/18/85)
In article <8840@ritcv.UUCP> mwg8908@ritcv.UUCP (mwg8908) writes: >I'm always trying to find more good instrumental, synthesized, >interresting type music. This proves quite difficult in a city >where EVERY major FM station is top forty. Yeachh. Hooray for >college radio! Is radio this bad in other cities? I won't include >NYC, LA or other major cities in this question but how about the >rest of the world. What about other countries? Yes, what is the status of alternative radio around the country and the world? We're pretty well settled in the Bay Area, we just lost a commercial outlet (KQAK-FM) that occasionally tended to the less poppy (especially during their great Sunday program "Early Tremors", sure going to miss that), but we still have KUSF, KALX (ucb's station), KZSU (stanford's), KFJC, KPFA, etc...
dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc) (07/19/85)
Just finished a whirlwind tour of the Eastern US, from roughly Naples, FL
to Hamilton, Ontario. . .all spent in a car. Yes, as far as I can tell, radio
is still just as bad as it was last year. Two years ago, Buffalo-Rochester NY
used to have plenty of alternative music (read, 1 cut/hr); now, these markets
have developed brain rot.
There is WDVE Pittsburgh (102.5), which makes the time from Zelienople, PA
to Morgantown, WV ok (also, W.V.U. has a good college station, but they don't
have enough power to cook a hot dog).
and (snif) THAT WAS ABOUT IT. Oh, if you stick your tuning knob on 87.9,
you get all kinds of really creative and neat stuff, but only in places where
there is no 65 dBu channel 6 contour (or greater); these also flup-flup in
the car unless you're in the station parking lot.
Greensboro, NC has alternative music, 10 watts, on 106.1 mHz. Other than
that (and the area connected between Greensboro - Raleigh- Charlotte -
Greenville/Ashville/Spartanburg is the most signal rich but content poor
area outside the northeast corridor).
WOOJ (Naples-Ft. Myers/Cape Coral, FL) 107.1 occasionally suprises me
at nite.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. CHR audience dilution proves once again that no
matter how many stations you can cram into the dial, they will all seek
uniform mediocrity and divide the mindless masses among them...leaving real
music lovers high and dry. Canadian FM's are quite refreshing, btw, even
if they play typical CHR records quite a bit.
******* BUT THERE IS HOPE ********
IF there is interest, I'll post the cities where the FCC has allocated
NEW CHANNELS in a proceeding called 80-90. There are 690 of these channels
(the majority being the 3 kw/339 feet AAT kind) available and the potential
for some drop-ins to the creative and sneaky. The lottery was just held last
month to determine in which order the applications would be accepted.
IF no one applies for an 80-90 channel in your area after the 'cutoff'
period (which they say, OK, channel 221 (92.1 mc), we'll accept applications
from X to Y) THE FIRST GUY WHO APPLIES FOR IT GETS IT NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
So stop bitching about radio, get a new printer ribbon, and for once,
DO SOMETHING TO FIGHT CHR AUDIENCE DILUTION AND MINDLESS TRIPE. You can put
a 3 kw FM on the air for under $50,000! Send those applications to the FCC,
and do something GOOD for America TODAY!
People don't miss the records you don't play...
David Anthony
Chief Development Engineer
DataSpan, Inctynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) (07/23/85)
Next time you drive through Atlanta, check out WREK (91.1FM). It's the
student run station here at Georgia Tech. They broadcast 24 hrs. a day at
40,000 watts. It's about as alternative as you can get! So alternative
that there have been several attempts to force the station managers to
changer the format. Lot's of avante garde jazz, noise, classical, punk, you
name it.
Also, I'm constantly surprised at how popular the nightly 'Jazz Flavors'
show (on one of the kiddie-pop stations, 94.3). A great jazz show every
night, 8pm - midnight; 7pm to midnight on sundays.
Steve Tynor
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Steve Tynor
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!tynorconnolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (07/24/85)
If you find yourself near Albany for any (odd) reason, WRPI at 91.5 is um, er..."alternative". They're into all sorts of odd things; most of the noises emitted from that station are electronic in nature. When school's in session, in any given week you can hear just about any type of music (electronic oddness, folk, jazz, classical, country, even Indian). I believe they still hold the title of being the most powerful college FM station in the country, at 10,000 watts ERP, but correct me if this is wrong. Therefore, you can hear WRPI well down into the Hudson Valley, and well up into the Adirondacks. -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.
connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (07/24/85)
Foo and damn. I probably meant 10 kilowatts into the final amplifier for WRPI. ERP probably isn't so hot since the antenna's in the Hudson valley. -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.
davida@umd5.UUCP (07/25/85)
In the Washington, DC area there's an interesting radio station, WHFS, which specializes in 'home-grown radio'. THey play a nice alternative selection, sometimes getting as pop as the current hit by the Talking Heads and obscure cuts from The Wall (Floyd). Definately NOT pop/top 40 radio ! -- David Arnold University of Maryland usenet: ...!seismo!rglvax!cvl!umd5!davida
hhs@hou2h.UUCP (H.SHARP) (07/30/85)
While talking about the DC area: WPFW around 89 is a Pacifica Network station playing blues, jazz, Caribbean, and African music. WLTT (Light FM) at 94.7 (I think) on Sunday nights has a great show called Music Americana focussing on folk music. Of course, WHFS is still one of the few remaining commercial alternative radio stations left in the country (i.e. all revenues come from advertising). I have found I can pick up WHFS starting at the MD - Delaware border on I-95. It is actually in Annapolis, Md. I must agree that the drive down I-85 between Raleigh, NC and Atlanta, Ga. can be very taxing if I don't have a tape player.