If you're a radio geek like myself, there are a few crucial links you ought to have stashed away in your special bookmarks folder titled "Nerd Alert!" It's how I stay so up-to-date on current events in the radio industry, and it's also how I got this hot ass.
First, of course, is FMQB. I first discovered this site the morning Jamie called me in a panic early one morning in February 2005 to tell me that Y-100 was going to flip formats that day and that she had been maced and drug out of the studio by Radio One riot police along with the rest of the interns. I read updates on that site for the rest of the day and have been hooked on it for industry news ever since. One of their feature articles today, FCC Opens Commenting On XM/Sirius Merger, deals with a topic we've touched on here at Open All Night a couple of times, and is worth checking out.
The second link was relayed to me by one Dany Sloan and is called Arcane Radio Trivia. It can be a bit dry at times but for the most part it's filled with interesting, uh, trivia. What did you expect?
The last link is one I found while trolling around the internet looking for dirt on a former employer that fired me some years ago (not obsessing, I swear - just bored). The search was sparked by a link Bob sent me regarding a station I've applied for work with on more than one occasion and it ultimately led me to this message board: Radio-info.com. Here is the Philadelphia sub-forum, where people call each other names, geeks with delusions of grandeur claim to have inside information, and radio snobs quietly peck at each and every change or rumored change in the #7 market. It is here that I have delightedly taken to trolling the folks that claim that the Kidd Chris show is the zenith of talk radio, or that contestant callers on Power 99 are to blame for the skyrocketing murder rate in Philadelphia. (It's pronounced "Sep-tem-BER" not "Sep-tem-BAH"! If those black folks would only talk right, we might see an end to the violence around here! )
Speaking of racism and radio, check out this commercial for WHIT - Power 102FM if you haven't already.
Link - [FMQB]
Link - [Arcane Radio Trivia]
Link - [Radio-info.com]
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Radio rock sucks
Proof.
(my apologies if you've seen this a million times already, but there are a lot of folks who still have to see it and it never gets old for me.)
(my apologies if you've seen this a million times already, but there are a lot of folks who still have to see it and it never gets old for me.)
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
104.5 flips to Alt. Rock
Rumba 104.5 (formerly Alice 104.5 a.k.a. Sunny 104.5 a.k.a. Star 104.5) flipped formats today, to what sounds like an alternative rock format aimed at YOUNG PEOPLE! Introducing Radio 104.5FM.
Not counting Skin Radio 1340AM and Y-Rock on XPN HD-2, this is the first alternative rock station in Philadelphia since Y-100 went off the air in February 2005. Why not count Skin Radio? -- because they're on AM, which is dumb for any music station. Why not count Y-Rock? --because no one has HD Radio (although they still sound great on the Internet stream).
Apparently ClearChannel moved the Hispanic dance format to WDAS 1480AM to make room on the FM dial for this. I've been listening to the Internet stream for just a couple minutes now, and I'm still withholding judgement until they get some real people on the air in a couple days/week. Don't get your hopes up, though: bets are that they'll just continue to automate their playlists. And it's ClearChannel (fuck them), which means don't expect very much variety from their rotation. It sounded pretty bland up until a minute ago when they started playing some old Gorillaz track -- they allegedly played "The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio" as their first track.
It might turn out to be complete shit, but it's enough for me to bump something else off of my car's presets -- maybe I'll get rid of the WPVI simulcast. No more Jeopardy when I'm driving around aimlessly every night at 7PM!
"Your alternative to radio status-quo: Radio 104.5"
Oooh -- edgy AND imaginative!
Head over to my new hangout at radio-info.com where the Philadelphia forum heard this as soon as it went live and promptly posted five different threads about it.
Not counting Skin Radio 1340AM and Y-Rock on XPN HD-2, this is the first alternative rock station in Philadelphia since Y-100 went off the air in February 2005. Why not count Skin Radio? -- because they're on AM, which is dumb for any music station. Why not count Y-Rock? --because no one has HD Radio (although they still sound great on the Internet stream).
Apparently ClearChannel moved the Hispanic dance format to WDAS 1480AM to make room on the FM dial for this. I've been listening to the Internet stream for just a couple minutes now, and I'm still withholding judgement until they get some real people on the air in a couple days/week. Don't get your hopes up, though: bets are that they'll just continue to automate their playlists. And it's ClearChannel (fuck them), which means don't expect very much variety from their rotation. It sounded pretty bland up until a minute ago when they started playing some old Gorillaz track -- they allegedly played "The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio" as their first track.
It might turn out to be complete shit, but it's enough for me to bump something else off of my car's presets -- maybe I'll get rid of the WPVI simulcast. No more Jeopardy when I'm driving around aimlessly every night at 7PM!
"Your alternative to radio status-quo: Radio 104.5"
Oooh -- edgy AND imaginative!
Head over to my new hangout at radio-info.com where the Philadelphia forum heard this as soon as it went live and promptly posted five different threads about it.
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