killed off their nighly two hour jazz show. It was the only reason I still used my tuner.. Thanks CBC....
Don't think it had anything to do with the gov't, more likely diminishing number of dedicated jazz fans. At any rate I'm looking at Bluesound Node 2 and Tidal/MQA. since my venerable SB3 has gone to meet it's maker..Face it Ken,if you want something to be f**ked beyond all value,get the Canadian government involved.
I am in my late 60's and like "real" classic rock (65-80) and real jazz (50's-70's). I am NOT into classical. Unfortunately, unless you can convince millenials to suddenly like Miles Davis or Dave Bribeck, jazz will die as us older people die as well. Even the "classic rock" stations in my area drift heavily into the mid to late 80's music because they are trying to attract people who are not part of the Woodstock generation.i think 8 years ago they killed it off and today that station is saturated with Adele, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara and who ever the names of the new people making all the new slow pop music that all the kids like. Not to be confused with Rap.
Maybe ill run a Pirate FM station...
So true and me too..You will find that classical and jazz FM stations are a dying breed. These radio stations have discovered that listeners prefer blathering talk radio to music. It's also much cheaper to program. I refuse to listen to local talk stations. It's a complete waste of time.
KMOX and Jon Grayson have split and nighttime AM radio for a good part of this region has lost a great alternative to the usual suspects. No reason left to keep 'MOX in the lineup with their further reduction in quality broadcasting.
KMOX and Jon Grayson have split and nighttime AM radio for a good part of this region has lost a great alternative to the usual suspects. No reason left to keep 'MOX in the lineup with their further reduction in quality broadcasting.
That one and the other disinformation cash cows are keeping a number of mainly daytimer stations lit, a waste of watts during the long distance skip hours, evening to sunrise.Ahh, for the nights when Jim White was on. I think they stay alive now on the Cardinal broadcasts and Rush Limbaugh during the afternoons. Sad
You didn't say what cities these stations broadcast from? I live in Canton on the fringes of Cleveland (50 miles, 25 miles from Akron) but live in a one mile or so diameter depression so reception is poor and I don't have a big roof-top antenna. WKSU, the NPR station in Kent, is now mostly current events talk with a few hours of classical in the late evening. I actually find myself doing most of my Jazz listening in front of my computer with YouTube and my 3" speakers. My MR78 hasn't been turned on in months. After awhile you just enjoy the music and forget the fidelity.i dont listen to radio at all anymore. the stations where i live dont play shit.
About 10 years ago i used to always lisiten to one station for a program they called "the hot mix at 9" which played all the new hip-hop type songs at the time at 9PM-10PM. i think 8 years ago they killed it off and today that station is saturated with Adele, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara and who ever the names of the new people making all the new slow pop music that all the kids like. Not to be confused with Rap.
Where i live there's only a handful of stations.
92.1 - Classic rock, altho they just overplay the big bands from the 80's.
96.7 - Now called "hot AC" Used to be the station with the hot mix i liked.
97.7 - Classical
104.9 - Country
107.something - collage sports.
there's 2 or 3 purely talk stations but i have no idea what station number.
Maybe ill run a Pirate FM station...