Anybody remember when FM radio was GOOD?
Waaaayyy back …late sixties into the seventies.
WNEW…ALLISON STEELE
excerpt from link..
"Allison Steele was one of the Disc Jockeys working at WNEW-FM New York, in the late 1960’s through the early 1970’s. Probably my favorite announcer of the time, along with the other announcers at WNEW ( Zacherly, Rosko, etc.), a leading "Progressive" radio station of the day! (Meaning at that time a station for "heads" that played any album tracks they liked!)"
http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/eccentric/alison.htm#one1
The "classic rock station" out here in SEATTLE won’t even play inna gadda de vida.
I hear T REX…bong a gong.
Wheres jeepster?
Coorection…
T Rex…BANG a gong.
Jeepster
You can thank the deregulation of the radio industry for the state of how radio (ALL radio, not just FM) has become. Now that one owner can have up to five radio stations in a given market, the sense of "competition" is gone. Radio stations are doing formats that are totally "safe" and aren’t doing anything that is groundbreaking or innovative anymore.
That is why people have broken away from radio and are going to alternate sources such as iPods, satellite radio and (for as long as it can), Internet streams.
Allison Steele….a legend!
August 25th, 2010 at 12:47 am
I do. I can’t stand listening to the radio anymore.
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August 25th, 2010 at 12:55 am
I’m so old I remember when AM radio was good!
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August 25th, 2010 at 1:37 am
Heartbreaking, isn’t it? I don’t even bother with radio any more. But the new technology is good. I’ve got an ipod shuffler that’s great and I have loads of cd’s in my car. Who needs radio?
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August 25th, 2010 at 2:15 am
While you get a couple of public access stations that keep it from being a total flop, for the most part, FM radio is absolutely horrid.
Nowadays, there’s little spontaneity in FM radio. They have set playlists, designed to overplay whatever garbage the large record labels are trying to shill to the general public.
There’s very little legal room for the DJ to improvise anything.
Internet radio is much better, IMHO. It plays more than just the usual large record label albums. (Naturally, the large record labels are threatened by this, so they’ve been doing everything in their power to sink the internet radio stations.)
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August 25th, 2010 at 2:26 am
I do, I do…..1960’s WCOP Boston
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August 25th, 2010 at 3:12 am
You can thank the deregulation of the radio industry for the state of how radio (ALL radio, not just FM) has become. Now that one owner can have up to five radio stations in a given market, the sense of "competition" is gone. Radio stations are doing formats that are totally "safe" and aren’t doing anything that is groundbreaking or innovative anymore.
That is why people have broken away from radio and are going to alternate sources such as iPods, satellite radio and (for as long as it can), Internet streams.
Allison Steele….a legend!
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