Comments on: Future of Free Radio

By: twinsfansam

twinsfansam — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:19:40 +0000

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

By: Moved to act

Moved to act — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:13:02 +0000

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.

By: kimi

kimi — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:21:47 +0000

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.

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:37:39 +0000

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

By: duderino

duderino — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:40:15 +0000

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.

By: Nancy S.

Nancy S. — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:06:10 +0000

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.

By: Chris_

Chris_ — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:36:53 +0000

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).

By: jderusha

jderusha — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:28:38 +0000

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.

By: patrick daniels

patrick daniels — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:40:10 +0000

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.

By: Big G

Big G — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:54:33 +0000

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....