Community Chat

[ECBG]

On Sunday mornings, Carson Daly does a music review with history of the artists and sometimes he'll play past tunes.  He sometimes tells us a little about his 4 yr. old daughter.

He's very enjoyable!

[deepwaterdotter]

WFMT and WDCB are also my music stations of choice.  I'm old enough to remember "Kathy and Judy" in the afternoons on WGN.  And Larry Lujack on WLS when I was a teenager.

[ECBG]

Did anyone listen to Ft Wayne, Indiana?

Amazing my transister radio picked that up in the NC mountaines!

Seems later, but I also remember "Wolf Man Jack"!!!

[SeaMaiden]

I listen to talk radio and have it on most of the day at home and in my car when out. I never listen to music.  I just  have regular Am Fm radios n several rooms throughout theta house that  I bought from Amazon.

[Another new name Sue]

Loved Car Talk back in the day.  They sure helped a lot of people.

I listen every day to my local NPR channel, even at night.  

I even got a toy for a new baby called the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy.  Looks like a little transistor radio.  I remember my grandkids loved that toy.

[just bee]

I grew up on radio and still listen to it.

For those who listened in Chicago, do you remember Franklyn MacCormack?

[Oznell]

Oh, definitely, radio's a lifesaver.  I like the way you can use your imagination with it, since it lacks the visuals. 

In childhood, at night listened to "Starlight Serenade",  out of Toronto, for relaxing classical music as I fell asleep.  Think it was on CFRB. 

Toronto talk radio was smart, funny, entertaining, sometimes raucous, and catered to the intellectually curious.

That's how I got my lifelong interest in talk radio, which continues to this day.

Now, we have wi-fi radio, so we get stations from all over.  I have two saved podcasts I listen to on that, in addition to regular radio stations.

When I can remember, I tune into jazz stations, like the one in Pittsburgh--  WZUM FM.    Have to get back to listening to that.

Through my husband, I discovered Redeemer Broadcasting, which beams out of suburban NYC--  it carries fantastic sermons by my favorite Scottish-burred pastor and theologian, Colin Smith out of Chicago.  That lilting accent makes for a great radio voice.

One funny thing about Redeemer is that technically, as radio professionals, they very much admire the long-established trademark "sound" (not the content) of NPR. But unlike many here, I do not care for what I consider to be the NPR 'ultra-smooth, over-rehearsed' sound that many of the contributors there have.  (Hoping not to offend the sensibilities of those here who love that-- it's just a personal quirk of mine.)  But for Redeemer, I just try to overlook that in their announcers...

I do tend to be persnickety about voices, always notice them, and perhaps a lifelong attachment to radio exacerbates that...   

[just bee]

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@Oznell wrote:

I do tend to be persnickety about voices, always notice them, and perhaps a lifelong attachment to radio exacerbates that...   

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@Oznell 

Oh, I hear ya.

[ninjawife]

I love to listen to the radio but I only listen in the car.  I listen classic rock stations as well as progressive rock, college radio and local talk radio. 

[ValuSkr]

Certain voices on NPR annoy me too.  Just because someone is good at back-office (i.e., preparing the news) doesn't mean they should be on-air.  But we could have an entire thread about that. 

The BBC, on the other hand, is quite good at finding news voices.  They employ a great variety of people and I'm rarely, if ever, annoyed.