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« Reply #270 on: February 02, 2007, 07:43:17 AM »
from house to school this AM:

Sly's "Stand"
Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me"  (particularly poignant driving through Golden Gate Park.  Took me back to high school)
Dead's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" segued into "Morning Dew," both from first album.
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« Reply #271 on: February 02, 2007, 07:46:22 AM »
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from house to school this AM:

Sly's "Stand"
Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me"  (particularly poignant driving through Golden Gate Park.  Took me back to high school)
Dead's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" segued into "Morning Dew," both from first album.


 I caught a little bit of it last nite, but I'll be listening a lot this weekend.
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« Reply #272 on: February 02, 2007, 09:52:54 AM »
I tuned in last night and this morning. Stuff I don't remember a lot of. I miss the FM sound.
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« Reply #273 on: February 02, 2007, 12:32:34 PM »
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I tuned in last night and this morning. Stuff I don't remember a lot of. I miss the FM sound.

yeah, AM is for niche stuff I guess.
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« Reply #274 on: February 02, 2007, 12:48:07 PM »
In the course of about 20 minutes at noontime it was a GD fest. the music never stops, 1 more Sat nite, hell in a bucket, ripple. Probably more but I was in and out of car a few times.
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« Reply #275 on: February 03, 2007, 10:01:33 AM »
"go to her
she lays
waiting for you"

Obscure JA on KRTB, and they played "Ride the Tiger" earlier.  Amazing stuff, enjoy it while it lasts.

But they are definitely missing a channel oln some of the stereo-separation. Very noticeable on the Sly songs I've heard.
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« Reply #276 on: February 04, 2007, 11:54:35 AM »
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they are definitely missing a channel on some of the stereo-separation. Very noticeable on the Sly songs I've heard.


And very noticeable again, as not-so-sweet Martha Lorraine passes out a whole new basket of rings -- the organ part is completely missing!
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« Reply #277 on: February 19, 2007, 08:38:21 PM »
Jeez, ya step away from the internet for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose: XM and Sirius announce a merger!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f145018S09.DTL

Of course, the FCC has to approve, and apparently they're not exactly predisposed to do so. But still, this is pretty big news.  Glad I cancelled my XM sub!
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« Reply #278 on: February 19, 2007, 08:42:23 PM »
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Jeez, ya step away from the internet for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose: XM and Sirius announce a merger!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f145018S09.DTL

Of course, the FCC has to approve, and apparently they're not exactly predisposed to do so. But still, this is pretty big news.  Glad I cancelled my XM sub!


Yeah, I was afraid this was going to happen.  Perhaps it was short-term necessary for financial survival, but for the future of radio alternatives, it's a long-term step back.  Worth noting that once this goes through, *all of satellite radio* pays Howard Stern's $200+ million contract, and that's worrisome to me (and I have much respect for Howard's intellect).  I'm hoping that we're in the rapidly fading years of media consolidation and that peer-to-peer networking tools will produce a decentralization of same. Until then, people just do what they gotta.  "We tryin to stay alive" -- Wyclef Jean
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« Reply #279 on: February 27, 2007, 01:19:09 PM »
For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
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« Reply #280 on: February 27, 2007, 09:59:15 PM »
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm


``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''

Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.
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« Reply #281 on: February 28, 2007, 07:29:34 AM »
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm


``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''

Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.


LOL!

and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today.  They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...
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« Reply #282 on: February 28, 2007, 08:40:40 AM »
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm


``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''

Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.


LOL!



and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today.  They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...


Glad to hear about Channel 104.9, not so much about Max.  But Max played "Ballroom Blitz" around 8:00 when I was dropping off the kids at school, so it didn't happen yet.
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« Reply #283 on: February 28, 2007, 12:34:46 PM »
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm


``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''

Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.


LOL!



and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today.  They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...


Glad to hear about Channel 104.9, not so much about Max.  But Max played "Ballroom Blitz" around 8:00 when I was dropping off the kids at school, so it didn't happen yet.


And lo, at apx 12:27, it happened:

Following Bananarama's "Venus", a promo and a commercial, they just switched to a computer-voiced "countdown" -- "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes and counting..."  MAX-FM is dead.

Looks like their "last hour of music" really *was* their last:

BANANARAMA - "VENUS"
WAR - "THE CISCO KID"
ZZ TOP - "GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN'"
EAGLES - "THE LONG RUN"
ASIA - "HEAT OF THE MOMENT"
ROLLING STONES - "IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL"
SUPERTRAMP - "GOODBYE STRANGER"
THE OUTFIELD - "YOUR LOVE"
REO SPEEDWAGON - "RIDIN' THE STORM OUT"
BERLIN - "THE METRO"

wouldn't "Goodbye Stranger" have been a better last song than "Venus"?
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« Reply #284 on: March 01, 2007, 07:55:01 AM »
The "new" 95.7 signed on at 7:50am: "The Wolf", a country station.

First song: "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy"
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