Secrets of the City

i still listen to drive. it’s comforting; it’s like i’m perpetually 18 years old because the playlist never changes.

I’m pretty similar to you holyman, but for TV. I watch most of my TV on the internet now.

Another Stern fan here. Sirius is great. The Current is pretty good as far as terrestrial radio goes.

I sometimes listen to KFAN to get my local sports fix even though I realize that the station sucks.

I am a Howard Stern fan

’nuff said.

I still listen to The K and KSTP fer my Twins fix, however, I work at a giant (non-evil) wholesaler. After we close and while we’re cleaning up, I’ve discovered the “Lucy” channel on XM. They’ve got a little amp that can blare anything from the TV to the entire floor. . . really loudly.

Man, it made me realize why all those people can listen to the same songs over and over on KQ. A couple of tracks into “Lucy” and I’m 25 again, and blasting The Rev in my U of MN campus mail van.

Still, The K keeps my heart young, my street cred intact and I doubt I would ever pay for radio.

The Current is great.
The rest mostly sucks.

My heart and ears belong to KFAI.

my ipod on shuffle picks much better playlists than any local radio station. For radio, mpr news is about the only thing I can stand, except for occasional doses of Jazz 88.5, which is really good.

“I watch most of my TV on the internet now. “

It’s going to be a LONG LONG time before I watch any tv over the internet. Broadcasters are showing no interest in ensuring accessibility for the HOH, which I doubt will happen without lawsuits or legislation.

I confess, I listen to FM107 (aka, Edina Mom Talk Radio). And MPR. which is technically not free as I’m a member.

I can’t stand to listen to the Current for more than 10 minutes at a time, but I do enjoy their Song of the Day podcast. More useful than that downloader thing the City Pages has. Imp, is it?

I only watch internet tv.

I also don’t have a radio.

I’m weird.

Free radio is terrible for music — you get the same rotation over and over, and the one station that doesn’t repeat the same song every hour (Current) just flat out plays bad music.

If you ask me, you can’t beat KFAN in the AM, and 91.1 for Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Marketplace Money and The World

On a related note…

I listen to radio (usuing an actual radio) quite a bit. I usually have 91.1 (MPR news and information service) on all morning while I’m getting ready for work, at the gym, and often in the car. When I’m in the mood for music in the car, I switch around between Cities 97, 107.9, Jack FM (104.1) and KS95. Ocassionally I’ll check out The Current, but I don’t usually stick around long. However, I rarely listen to music radio stations outside the car. For that I’ll use my iPod.

I still wish iPod would build in a radio. That way I could get my MPR news fix without having to switch devices. Judging by the hype about the forthcoming iPhone I’m probably in the minority, but I’d rather have an iPod with a radio than an iPod with a phone.

i still listen to drive. it’s comforting; it’s like i’m perpetually 18 years old because the playlist never changes.

Hey, yep, Drive 105 spins at Park Tavern tonight for free bowling! They will surely play, “White and Nerdy” by Weird Al which video I watched over and over on You Tube last night at work.

I, too, have a soft spot for Drive 105 because I have Current faitgue. Bleh.

I do listen to internet radio a little bit, but mostly just KCRW out of Santa Monica.

I used to listen to Mischke on 1500 all the time when he was on late at night. It’s hard to catch him now at noon.

Back in the day I also used to listen to Art Bell. There is something oddly comforting about his voice…even though he’s talking about aliens.

I used to listen to Mischke on 1500 all the time when he was on late at night. It’s hard to catch him now at noon.

Back in the day I also used to listen to Art Bell. There is something oddly comforting about his voice…even though he’s talking about aliens.

Love Mischke and everyone on KSTP except Bob Davis, who is a simpleton and a idiot. The morning show is highly underrated.

I stay up til midnight on weekends just to hear Art, he’s about to become a daddy. And he talks about more than aliens. On Saturday he talked about the universe or something.

K102 is a pretty good station for music.

KFAI and Radio K are two of the things that I would put very, very high up on my list of things that make living in Minneapolis-St. Paul such a delight.

The sheer weirdness of “Crap From the Past,” “Some Assembly Required” and “Sound Affects” simply do not translate into any other medium.

They also remind me that, though terminal smartypants though I may be, there is so much that is worthwhile in this world that I do not know diddley-shit about, and would probably have never known about without the work of these two stations and the maniacs who run them.

Here is the problem with radio. If you want to hear the same thing over and over, you buy the CD, or the MP3, or the format of your choice, and you can listen to it over and over. What a radio SHOULD be for is to find new music that you would like to hear over and over.

It is the problem with the iPod, etc. I have heard all my music. What do I do if I want to hear something new? The Current doesn’t fit my taste too well. Forget Teeny-Bopper Top 40. Since Craig Eichorn left KBEM, they play less jazz that I like. Thus, I listen to my music and talk radio. Trapped without anything new!

I stay up til midnight on weekends just to hear Art, he’s about to become a daddy. And he talks about more than aliens. On Saturday he talked about the universe or something.

K102 is a pretty good station for music.

anyone else wondering why kevin is still single?

IPOD and XM radio for me. Too many commercials and repeats on regular stations. Although, I turn on the Current at home. Love having on in background while cleaning the house.

Not sure if you could call my AM/FM habits “free radio.” I’m default on 91.1, but I don’t pay them. Saturdays I belong to KBEM 88.5 (and I do pay,) and Sunday mornings after church it’s KFAI until 3:00 (and I do pay).

No iPod stuff or satellite business for this boy, though.

I would love to have an iPod or Sirius, I can’t justify it as I really only listen for ~30 minutes per day (15 in the AM, 15 in the PM), so I settle for scanning for a song between KFAI, Radio K, Current, JackFM & Drive105…if I’m in the mood for music & they aren’t cutting it, I’ll put in a CD…occasionally tune to ESPNradio in the morning for a recap of the previous night’s scores, or KFAN in the evening to hear Barreiro gripe.

I’ll fess up to listening to Drive for the most part (occasionally The Current) but tune in KFAN from 12-2 and AM 950 from around 9 AM-11 or so. The bit of information and talk breaks the monotony of music that over time can get repetitive. I also have my iPod too which makes me laugh at the idea of paying for satellite radio.

91.1 anytime I want to pay attention. 89.3 is good. KFAN for a laugh. The Current is so damn broad in its programming format that it often sounds like; “good song, good song, someone dropping dishes down a staircase, Motown song, screaming, good song, Mark Wheat talking and me trying to figure out if he’s South African or English or a Kiwi or what”

I NEVER listen to the radio. Why let radio dictate what I listen to? ME LOVE IPOD!!!!!

Anyway, regarding the question, commerical radio might die someday. Not anytime soon. I think public radio will be fine for the time being as well. I think Howard Stern is retarding America and I don’t listen to the radio enough to make paying for it an expense worth considering.

More than anything though, I use an ipod like everyone else, and podcasts to find new music.

I think public radio will be fine for the time being as well

Ya, because the closest thing to eternal life is a government program!

Sure, there’s a LOT of worthwhile stuff on free broadcast radio. In order of how much I tune in to them: Classical 95, Jazz 88, Cities 97 (mainly Sun. morning’s Accoustic Sunrise), MPR News-&-Info 91.1., and Twins ballgames on AM (1500, formerly 830).

I have little patience with commericals and deejay yacking, so it’s important for me to be able to quickly switch channels to avoid that stuff. Always have my hand ready over the programmed channel buttons in the car. And at home, I’m listening to radio a lot more, now that my old stereo, which lacked a remote, died, and the replacement I got came with a remote. Now I channel-surf radio just like I channel-surf broadcast TV.

I would listen to Jazz 88 much, much, more if the signal were better — and I’m not even that far away (I live right in Mpls.). A lot of the time there’s pretty bad distortion in stereo, and it’s really a shame to have to listen to their great programming in mono.

Overnights, Jazz 88 plays a canned feed from the Bay Area that’s heavenly: excellent music, no commericals, nicely limited deejay remarks, and just a single station-identification interruption each hour. None of the usual traffic and public-service and public-schools announcements that the station has to play during the daytime.

Fresh Air 90.3 has some interesting variety, but I’ve never been able to get myself oriented to their scads of shorter blocks of widely varying programming.

I miss having the second classical-music choice that went away when St. Olaf sold their slot on the dial to MPR for The Current.

Sirius is great – generally those that don’t like Stern have never listened to him. It’s well worth the money considering I can listen to his show, NFL, BBC, Backspin (old-school hip hop), First Wave (80’s new wave), etc whether in my car, at my desk, on my boat, or anywhere online. I realize that this may reveal me to be “retarded” but I’m pretty sure that’s just a coincidence.

I do listen to KFAN at times…but for the most part “free” radio leaves much to be desired. I really don’t understand the fascination with KQ’s ten minutes of talk, thirty minutes of Bob Seger, and twenty minutes of commercials per hour in the AM. Now that’s retarded…

The KQ morning show is the only way to go in the mornings….been listening to it for 15 years at least. I can’t believe KSTP moved Mischke to noon…..wtf?? Also like KSTP for the Twins games, and when they have the night off, Dave Thompson is good listening as he’s very articulate and intelligent with his topics……too bad he’s just too far to the right on his views. Coast to Coast with George Noory and Art Bell is a trip to listen to, nothing but aliens, UFO’s, ghosts, etc….. For music, I’ll do Classical 99.5 or KQ, but it’s mostly CD’s and iPod for me.

“Ya, because the closest thing to eternal life is a government program!”

Yeah, because the endowment that funds it is OVERFLOWING with cash.

The closest thing to eternal life is a donation from private citizen patriot Joan Kroc.

For the record I have listened to Howard Stern and saw many episodes of that show he did on E!. College roomates suck and Howard Stern is still retarding America.

Good call on late night Jazz 88

I’d listen to Jill Riley read the phone book.

Other than that, the Current is good for hearing new stuff but not much else.

Jack is great for driving nostalgia music.

At work Im all about the streams (Big R’s hairbands stream is cheezylicious) and podcasts of classes from UC Berkeley.

i love live radio. there is something infinitely more fun and cosmic about hearing a song you fucking love on the radio than on something you put on your stereo. and the radio has lots of songs I don’t. KFAI is amazing. Especially the bop house and those other shows with great soul music. And “good and country” on the weekends. and i love talk radio. npr is still a source of in depth good news programming.

radio is the best.

Driving home just now I tuned to KFAN and they were talking about George Tenet. Um, what? Talk about sports, morons, that’s your niche.

I still listen to WCCO AM (830 Khz) on a regular basis, mostly with news and weather-related topical material. I also listen to various news/information local radio stations across the state via the internet like KDAL AM, Duluth, KTOE AM, Mankato, KDUZ, Wilmar, and KDWA AM, Hastings.

There is a neat little website that connects to all of the radio stations in Minnesota, including those that broadcast their content on the web.

Not unless if you are into polka music….

Absolutely loathe when I have to take the “other car” that doesn’t have XM. Only problem with satellite, too much good stuff to listen to, and way to little time. Could not go back to terrestrial radio. Love tuning in ballgames all around the nation at night, then switching to jazz fusion, classical (3 channels of that!) or retro rock. The suits killed terrestrial radio by overprogramming it, but they don’t know it’s dead yet.

I surf around: Drive 105 and Cities 97 for music (I’m officially too old for KDWB now). I really want to like The Current, but I can’t do it. I wish we had better AM talkers… I miss WGN in Chicago and the old WLUP-AM (a bunch of comedians with talk shows). Some days I think it’d be fun to get out of TV and go into AM talk radio. Without the rabid political stuff. I do think KFAN has talented hosts, especially when they’re not being deadly serious about sports.

If I could find a good stereo installer– I’d get a new stereo to hard-wire my iPod in. I hate my FM transmitter iTrip thing.

rev105 stuff i uploaded a while back:

first moments on air, commercials making fun of the edge and their last moments on air (this one uploaded by crap of the past host ron gerber).

Free radio? That’s still around?

I gave up on that three years ago. I got sick of changing the channels when the 50 commercials came on.

Actually, KFAN’s niche isn’t just to talk sports exclusively, that’s why there’s so many devoted followers of Barreiro and the Common Man (it was Barreiro who was discussing Tenet, and he’s got one of the highest-rated shows on the station). They have plenty of sports on that station, they just like to talk about other stuff too and I love it.

Common Man said it best in his classic meltdown, when he said folks who try to make KFAN stick to sports need to “branch it out and broaden it out a bit. If you want sports, go get yourself a newspaper, there are three of ‘em in this town. Read the sports sections… all three of ‘em… and then eat the s.o.b.’s when you’re done! Sports sports sports sports sports sports sports… we don’t care that much about sports! We just don’t!!! And you’re not going to get us to change! What do ya think of that!!!???”

As for my two cents on the topic, I listen to Common and Barreiro, occasionally Superstar’s morning show… I listen to NPR when I want to hear something interesting … when I clean the kitchen or whatever I’ll throw the current on, KFAI, or Jack FM, ’cause a guy needs to hear Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ‘69″ and Journey occasionally, doesn’t he? KFAI has a great country show on Saturday afternoons and a ton of other adventurous music shows… the hip hop show on the Current is pretty good, but mostly I think the Current eats it…. not half as eclectic as they claim to be. The DJ’s also seem very smug most of the time, excluding a few folks, like Mark Wheat, he seems like a nice fellow… I love Mischke … and I wish Chuck & Joel would bring “Cosmic Slop” back to Radio K? Wonder what they’re up to now… Kool 108 plays old Casey Kasem American Top 40 shows from the ’70s on Saturday mornings, which is totally awesome.

For music, outside of those things, I mostly listen to my iPod because it completely annihilates the playlists of all music radio stations combined.

It’s all gone downhill since the demise of the King Biscuit Flour Hour.

I miss WGN in Chicago and the old WLUP-AM (a bunch of comedians with talk shows). Some days I think it’d be fun to get out of TV and go into AM talk radio.

Derusha, I’d tune into your radio show. I grew up in the Chicago area and know what we’re missing. I got into talk radio when had to drive around all day for my first full time job. And my parents were big into Bob Collins.

Wow. Reading this thread has finally made me realize that I NEED to donate to MPR after years of listening and saying to myself, “Someday when I have oodles of cash, I will show MPR how much I love it.”

If the MNSpeak crowd can’t show The Current the love, who will? Me. It’s all on my shoulders. It’s the best radio station I’ve heard anywhere, and I go a lot of places. When I am outside of Minnesota I loathe the trashy, overplayed music, the irritating DJs designed to entertain a tiny demographic, and the constant, annoying commercials. The combination of NPR, The Current and KFAI make Minnesota truly a free radio maven.

I guess it is a sign of who reads/comments on this list that no one mentioned KMOJ FM 89.9. Besides B-96 (which is commerial and exploitive rap and urban) no where else will give you a more than just a taste of the black community and its music. This morning “Sunny Day” helped us celebrate the birthday of James Brown, at noon I had the chance to hear a old Michael Jackson rip and on the way home a newer song by Fantsasia. The old school show with Ray Richardson on Sunday evening is some of the greatest three hours on the radio. The “Voice of the City” is the best our community offers on free radio! The only thing worthwile on Fresh Air is the R & B show on Friday afternoon (thanks Miss Molly – by golly!). While the MPR formula at FM 89.3 can work at times it is nothing more then a rich boys/girls version of Radio K. Of course our Twins can not be missed on AM 1500 or the post game show each evening with the Dark Man on ‘CCO. Who do you like today? Why listen to your MP3s when you have all of this on the dial for nothin? – Sammy, from the Midway