When did radio become irrelevant to you?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by CupOfDreams, Oct 21, 2014.

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  1. mooseman

    mooseman Forum Resident

    I miss the New York radio stations I grew up with, from the 60's , wabc am station for the best top 40. Then around 1969 fm radio...wnew fm and plj. I miss the cool personalitys of the djs. Alison Steal, the nightbird. Scot Muni for the British hour. We still have wfmu for free form radio here nj.
     
  2. PHILLYQ

    PHILLYQ Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brooklyn NY
    WKCR has an interesting mix of music, mostly jazz. WBGO is almost all jazz. WFUV is a rock(mostly) mixed bag. YMMV, but you might like some of them.
     
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  3. thxphotog

    thxphotog Camera Nerd Cycling Nerd Guitar Nerd Dietary Nerd

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    As long as there is sports, radio will never be irrelevant to me. :) I live in L.A. where FM radio has never catered to me, so I stay on 'classic rock' 7 'oldies' stations most often. We have a relatively new station that plays 'album rock' that's pretty great.
     
  4. PHILLYQ

    PHILLYQ Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brooklyn NY
    I used to love listening to Steele, she was adventurous. Some shows she opened with Mahavishnu Orchestra!
     
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  5. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff

    I still listen to the radio pretty much every single day.
     
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  6. RockWizard

    RockWizard Forum Resident

    I'm in the same boat. The majority of my time is with sports talk shows and if I have a station on non-sports, it is to listen to a morning show that is more that than music. I still laugh when my classic rock station says....we have ALL the hits. Well....PLAY THEM!
     
  7. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

    Location:
    Gilbert Arizona
    As far as music goes the late 70's. I do listen to sports talk radio virtually everyday so I guess I can't answer entirely that it is irrelevant.
     
  8. rbp

    rbp Forum Resident

    About 10 years ago for music - alternative radio stations.
    Got sick of hearing the same boring stuff and stuff I simply cannot stand listening to.
     
  9. CCrider92

    CCrider92 Senior Member

    Location:
    Cape Cod, MA
    I listen to radio every day - at home and in the car > WUMB Boston and WMVY Martha's Vineyard. I am constantly being introduced to artists that I most likely would never hear about.
     
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  10. rockclassics

    rockclassics Senior Member

    Location:
    Mainline Florida
    I grew up listening to free form FM stations in the early 70s and listened all the time. In the early 80s I listened to several of the morning radio shows which seemed to be more talk than music and several had "shock jocks". Listening to the radio on any regular basis pretty much died for me in the late 80s / beginning of the 90s. This seemed to be when radio ownership changed and the repetitive playlists kicked in. I did continue to listen to a couple of shows like Beaker Street and the KSHE Klassics for several more years, but never turned the radio on otherwise. I have never had satelite radio and never bothered with internet radio - no interest in either one. It has been at least three years since I have listened to any radio station. If it went away one day, I doubt I would know it.
     
  11. JeffMo

    JeffMo Format Agnostic

    Location:
    New England
    Still listening to and enjoying radio when we moved to the Boston area in 2003. Had heard about this being a great area for that format and was not disappointed in the least. However, within a decade my two favorites (WBCN and WFNX) both bit the dust and while there are still some good ones (the River comes to mind), once I got an iPod and was using it in the car on shuffle mode, I had more own personal "JeffMo Radio".
     
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  12. Freedom Rider

    Freedom Rider Senior Member

    Location:
    Russia
    When I realized that run-of-the-mill FM music radio is mostly repetitive, obnoxious, in-your-face and just plain boring. At least that's the way it is where I live.
     
  13. Rocker

    Rocker Senior Member

    Location:
    Ontario, Canada
    Quite a few years ago. Got sick of hearing the local classic rock station play the same 3 songs over and over.
     
  14. Coricama

    Coricama Classic Rocker

    Location:
    Marietta, GA
    I still love the radio when driving. I just switched from music to talk radio. I save my music listening time for home.
     
  15. The Wanderer

    The Wanderer Seeker of Truth

    Location:
    NYC
    forgot, so long ago
     
  16. DreadPikathulhu

    DreadPikathulhu Senior Member

    Location:
    Seattle
    I couldn't say the last time I listened to music on the radio. It's probably been at least 15 years. maybe more.

    The only radio I listen to is NPR when I wake up in the morning.
     
  17. on7green

    on7green Senior Patron

    Location:
    NY & TN
    I listen more than ever now that satellite radio is around.
     
  18. Pawnmower

    Pawnmower Senior Member

    Location:
    Dearborn, MI
    I haven't listened to the radio for music purposes since the late-90s.
    AM talk radio is what I work in, and veer into more than FM.
     
  19. conjotter

    conjotter Forum Resident

    What I miss the most about radio are hosts that wowed me with their music choices, blending a number of songs into a set that engaged my mind, my emotions, or simply made we want to tap my toes.

    Then some pithy information or comments before quickly getting back to another two or three songs in a row.

    Now it's more often one song (DJ talks over music intro) and then a too quick fade out (DJ talks over extro) before he-she blathers on about nothing worth hearing before going into a set of commercials.

    University-college radio and some public broadcasters are the last bastions of what radio can achieve when it doesn't reduce the audience to the lowest common denominator.
     
  20. Bull Moose

    Bull Moose Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Portland, ME
    More or less, but what I really enjoy is how the deep classic rock cuts or newer rock is mixed in. For example, the big classic rock station in Portland still occasionally plays a Maine band called The Blend, who released two albums for MCA around 1980. Stephen King owns a classic rock station in Bangor, but they play a lot of James McMurtry and I heard the new Weezer single the last time I listened.
     
  21. Rodney Toady

    Rodney Toady Waste of cyberspace

    Location:
    Finland
    The last time I turned the radio on was in 1985.
     
  22. Cosmo_Kramer

    Cosmo_Kramer Member

    I still listen to ESPN, but I've never really listened to music on it.
     
  23. octaneTom

    octaneTom Man of Leisure

    There used to be some decent college radio stations around the Detroit area in the early 90s, but they dried up around that time, too it seems. I haven't listened to commercial radio since at least then. NPR in the morning now and that's about it.
     
  24. Nice Marmot

    Nice Marmot Nothin’ feels right but doin’ wrong anymore

    Location:
    Tryon NC
    I like listening to franchised morning shows, though I haven't heard one in awhile. Bob and Tom was a favorite... way better than local yucksters trying to sound like they're the hippest thing in town.
     
  25. Thing Fish

    Thing Fish “Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”

    Location:
    London, England
    When I was about 15, so about 1977. As soon as I could afford to buy the music I wanted I stopped listening to radio.
     
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