Talk radio > Music radio

To make a long rant short, music radio sucks. There is never anything on that you like to hear and it's the same shiet all day. Who finds it pleasant to hear the same crappy song twice an hour, all day?

I discovered talk radio earlier in the year and I'm not going back. Keep in mind, this isn't politcal talk or Rush Limbaugh. These people are regular Joe's who provide content that is always new, fresh and never tiring.

Some of the Floridians here might be familiar with the station, Real Radio 94.3

I listen to both. There was a time when I would only listen to Talk Radio, but my favorite shows have either moved to new markets or have died out completely. These days I only listen to a little of Stern in the morning, and a local show about the happenings in Jersey. And I listen to the music stations for most of the day, even though I rarely hear anything I like, which is why I'm getting a new CD player installed soon enough.

The talk radio here in MN is fantastic, there are programs I can listen to that I love almost 24hrs a day. I still listen to Music Radio quite a bit as well though, love me that Classic Rock and golden Oldies.

Well, you might want to check out this thread.

Im unfamilier with Real Radio 94.3. Where is it broadcast from?

www.wmnf.org is a great radio station with a huge variety of music and with great(albeit very liberal) news talk radio, broadcast out of Tampa. I esspecially like Tuesday at 11 am. They play Michio Kaku's weekly broadcast about science. I've learned of a bunch of great bands and musicians from them. Chuck Profet, Verve 2.0, Rilo Kylie, Wilco, and a bunch more I can't think of right this second.

I usually like talk radio more than music radio, esspecially when driving back and forth between Tampa and Orlando like I often do.

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Originally Posted by Regus

And I listen to the music stations for most of the day, even though I rarely hear anything I like, which is why I'm getting a new CD player installed soon enough.

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I just hope to put a decent tape player in my car. That way, I can get a portable MP3 CD player on the side and use that. My favorite station goes into the music format on the weekends. :\

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Originally Posted by EightBit

Well, you might want to check out this thread.

Im unfamilier with Real Radio 94.3. Where is it broadcast from?

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I'll post the link to my station there. :cool: I'm trying to format my thread so as not to "compete" with your thread.

Real Radio 94.3 is broadcast from Port St. Lucie I believe, I'm not 100% sure. I listen to it in West Palm Beach.

I listen to talk radio 100% exclusively. 610 AM Philladelphia sports talk! Whoo Hoo!

Even if the radio did play anything I was interested in (I don't know, I don't listen to it), I can't stand the dynamic range compression that needlessly kills the sound quality even further than the FM transmitting process does in the first place. Yuck.

For talk, I don't give a damn about the sound quality, so I listen.

I love talk radio. The locally-produced talk shows, Lionel, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Coast to Coast, Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, and so on. Beck and Drudge are my favorites - they're the most entertaining, aren't heavily slanted to either side politically, and don't center every show around politics. Drudge is just hilarious in some of his Hollywood bashing, and Beck's very funny in his own way.

I used to be a huge fan of talk radio on 102.7 WNEW but then... well... after the Opie and Anthony inccident... it went down hill to say the least. Ron and Fez was still strong but eventually WNEW just turned into "Blink 102.7" which it is now, a music station. I don't get Ron and Fez'snew station from NJ. I enjoy me some Love Line week day night's though.

Yeah, music radio aggrevates me more than entertains me these days. But then the same can be said of many Talk Radio acts. Tom Lychis (or however you spell it) and Don and Mike's shows are abominations. I miss O&A

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Originally Posted by Tragic

I used to be a huge fan of talk radio on 102.7 WNEW but then... well... after the Opie and Anthony inccident... it went down hill to say the least. Ron and Fez was still strong but eventually WNEW just turned into "Blink 102.7" which it is now, a music station. I don't get Ron and Fez'snew station from NJ. I enjoy me some Love Line week day night's though.

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I'm in the same situation. I can't wait until O&A return, and man, I really miss Ron and Fez. I used to listen to the Sports Guys, even though I dont give two shits about sports, I just liked Craig Carton, he was an interesting radio personality. Which is why I'm glad he's on New Jersey 101.5 doing the Jersey Guys talk show every weekday.

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Yeah, music radio aggrevates me more than entertains me these days. But then the same can be said of many Talk Radio acts. Tom Lychis (or however you spell it) and Don and Mike's shows are abominations. I miss O&A

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Seriously, Don and Mike were really bad, bu Lychis really goes above and beyond shit.

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Originally Posted by Shinobi128

To make a long rant short, music radio sucks. There is never anything on that you like to hear and it's the same shiet all day. Who finds it pleasant to hear the same crappy song twice an hour, all day?

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Yup. Same here. I never listen to music radio unless I'm in a car with someone who does. I prefer talk radio. My favorite show is Coast To Coast AM with George Noory, which is the former Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell. I listen to that almost religiously. I also enjoy the hilarious Phil Hendrie show (which will be coming on in just a couple minutes here) and some of the local broadcasting. C2C is imho one of the best shows on radio or television! Bravo to Mr. Bell!

I miss Art Bell. That show totally enjoyable.

I spent many a night staying up late enough to catch the first hour or two...

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Originally Posted by Shinobi128

To make a long rant short, music radio sucks. There is never anything on that you like to hear and it's the same shiet all day. Who finds it pleasant to hear the same crappy song twice an hour, all day?

I discovered talk radio earlier in the year and I'm not going back. Keep in mind, this isn't politcal talk or Rush Limbaugh. These people are regular Joe's who provide content that is always new, fresh and never tiring.

Some of the Floridians here might be familiar with the station, Real Radio 94.3

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In CA, the big ones are KABC and MRP. MRP is a little too...same thing I hear everywhere, but good stuff. KABC is coolness, because I'm a fan of Larry Elder's talk show.

I gave up on music radio 9 months ago and now all I listen to is NPR.

Art Bell was great. I kinda wish soembody would have recorded his broadcast so they could rerun it on the web someplace.

Didn't he quit because someone threatened him? I remember he was having problems with people giving him shit but I guess it finally got to him and he just decided he didn't want this anymore.

talk radi has a lot of really irritating personalities though.. I don't like commercial radio, but the college stations around here usually have something interesting on, as well as having the pleasure of having KEXP which is a great station.

When it comes down to it I'd rather listen to shitty music than listen to people bitch back and forth at each other over the phone.

First off, the Art Bell show is still on... It's just hosted by George Noory on the weekdays now. On the weekends, Art Bell hosts the show now. He decided to come out of retirement... partially, that is. So, Art is back but only on Saturdays and Sundays while George Noory hosts Mondays through Fridays.

Art Bell retired last year because of back problems. His back is a little better now which opted him to do two days out of the week but Noory has the seat now. Although I do prefer Art Bell over Noory, the show is still great and for the most part has kept to it's original idea. You can learn more by going to Coast To Coast AM.

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Originally Posted by Tragic

I used to be a huge fan of talk radio on 102.7 WNEW but then... well... after the Opie and Anthony inccident... it went down hill to say the least. Ron and Fez was still strong but eventually WNEW just turned into "Blink 102.7" which it is now, a music station. I don't get Ron and Fez'snew station from NJ. I enjoy me some Love Line week day night's though.

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Looks like the guy who did the deed in St.Pats just died of heart attack:
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/122562p-110137c.html

All of the major rock/alternative stations here are owned by Clear Channel (same 5 songs every hour of every day).

I listen to my iPod in the mornings on my drive to school, and Russ Martin (talk radio) on the way back from school.

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Originally Posted by Regus

Looks like the guy who did the deed in St.Pats just died of heart attack:
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/122562p-110137c.html

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Fucked up. He was only 38. Man, I miss O&A. The weeks before the St. Pats thing happened were golden. We were getting 8 hours of live Ron & Fez, and 6 hours of O&A every day...

Terrible news about the heart attack. Sorry to hear it.

Is there any new of O&A returning?

Those guys will probably be out of radio for awhile. You can go to Foundrymusic.com for all the latest O&A stuff. I do miss those Radio Chick/Ron And Fez/O&A golden days...

They actually still update www.opieandanthony.com as well. I jus tfinally lost hope a few months ago and stopped going.

Opie and Anthony were the greatest thing on radio. The Spaz Era was some of the most memorable moments ever recorded. I find it hilarious that after O&A were fired WNEW collapsed and they had to restructure the entire thing and give it a new name. They may be coming back next year iirc.

music in the morning around here sucks. so i listen to Howard Stern on Rock 105.3 on the drive to school. i dont really know of alot of Talk radio stations around here, but ExtraSports 690 is pretty good. only in the NHL/NFL season though. Baseball is damn boring.

most other times i listen to stuff from my CD-MP3 player hooked up to the tape deck through an adapter. soon it will be an iPod.

Here in Southern California. The best talk radio show, is by far, Frosty Hidi and Frank on 97.1 FM. They just talk about whatever. Good stuff.

Oh, and we also have these two guys John and Ken, who like to stir up a lot of stuff in california. They're pretty entertaining as well. I'd go into more detail. But... well... I don't feel like it.

Russ Martin #1

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

Opie and Anthony were the greatest thing on radio. The Spaz Era was some of the most memorable moments ever recorded. I find it hilarious that after O&A were fired WNEW collapsed and they had to restructure the entire thing and give it a new name. They may be coming back next year iirc.

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"iirc"?

If I Recall Correctly. You tool.

I used to listen to a talk radio program on Houston's rock 101 called "Walton & Johnson" back in early 2002, it was kind of refreshing at first b/c I had never listened to anything like it before, they did alot of ripping on celebrities type stuff, injecting common sense solutions to social issues and whatnot, but soon it got tiring when I realized the guys on the show were the same assholes I hated in real life.


In my car I listen to cds 90% of the time, but the radio station is permanently set to NPR (88.7 for us down here in Houston). I love NPR, because even when I'm in the middle of changing cds and their radio station comes on, they never have any loud, annoying and jerk-like commercials/promo spots/ or obnoxious disc jockeys hurting my ears like any other radio station would (especially Rock 101 FM...I'll let my metal cds do my ear hurting thank you). Any voice you hear on NPR is at a nice medium volume, without obnoxious tendencies and mild mannered. Their promo spots are quiet affairs, with a voice simply telling you what station you're listening to... instead of the typical radio bullshit of loud annoying sound effects with booming announcer's voice doing it (do they really think people enjoy hearing that?)

NPR is a good blend of music and talk, the news programs are informative and the music programs are made up of classical music programs, world music programs and on Saturday nights (a must listen for me now) a Celtic music program called "Thistle and Shamrock". Its a nice sensation to hear something soft and quiet when changing cds. NPR is great, intelligent radio.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

If I Recall Correctly. You tool.

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No, thats IIRCYT

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If I Recall Correctly. You tool.

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LOL.

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Originally Posted by wildkat

No, thats IIRCYT

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Even better :lol:.

I hate Leykis, he's terrible. Only one worse is probably that tool "Man Cow".

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I hate Leykis, he's terrible. Only one worse is probably that tool "Man Cow".

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Holy shit Leykis is bad. I thought Don and Mike sucked... nothing compared to the horrible, horrible radio show that is Tom Leykis.

that guy looks like a tool :)

For the O & A fans! Just found this out, it's great. http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?...n&numresult=25
Long live syndication underground! Word has it O&A are going to hit the airwaves in around 7 months.

If the music is crap, talk radio.
If the talk is dull, music radio.
If they can't surpass my coolness, i sing and talk to myself in the car.

I haven't listened to music radio in years. They all play the same thing, and the unique stations we once had have since changed formats to more cookie-cutter stations.

There's a local morning show I listen to religiously, The Rick and Bubba show. They're out of Birmingham, and is syndicated all over the southeast, with a lone affiliate in South Dakota. If you have Turner South on your cable or satellite, the show is shown on there from 7 to 9 am CST. I've been listening to them for almost 5 years now, and they're still as refreshing as they once were. There's very little actually show prep, almost everything that happens on the show is spontaneous, and is very entertaining. They talk about anything, and everything, even revealing the behind-the-scenes stuff of their show, such as stupid things that happen during employee meetings, and their rating books. Give them a try by watching Turner South, or listening online at www.rickandbubba.com.

Any other time I'm listening to the "Sports Monster", Sports Talk AM 690 WJOX (JOCKS, GET IT?????) Their shows are entertaining, especially during football season, and they also an affiliate of the Jim Rome show, which is pretty cool