What Radio Stations Are You Listening To?

bob adams

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I thought it was time to start a database thread about the AM and FM stations AKers listen to. If you can, give the station call letters and frequency, the station location, type of music played, station afilliation or who owns the station, your on-line name, and your location.

You can find all of the stations in your area that you might be able to listen to by going to MIT's Radio-Locator site. Just put in your area code and it will give you a list of all the stations in your area. It even gives the distance from your area code to the station. Neat site at:

http://www.radio-locator.com/

You can find out particulars about any station you listen by going to the FCC query site. Just put the call letters in the appropriate box at the site. Everything about the station is a matter of public record.

For FM http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html

For AM http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html


Here goes:

WNCW 88.7 FM, Spindale, NC, eclectic, college owned by Isothermal Community College, PBS afiliation, bob adams, mauldin, sc.

WEPR 90.1 FM, Greenville, SC, mostly classical w/ the standard PBS fare including PHC, Echoes, etc, owned by SCETV, PBS afiliation, bob adams, mauldin, sc.

WPCI 1490 AM, Greenville, SC, eclectic with everything from the blues to zydeco, privately owned by a guy who always wanted to own a radio station, was broadcast in AM Stereo until recently, station is set to go digital in the future, NO COMMERICALS none, nada! Very interesting station. bob adams, mauldin, sc.
 
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Holst

Hmmmmm? :scratch2: I'm not sure if grumpy will let us advertise the stations we are working for! :p:
 
JAZZFM91 from Toronto all Jazz 24/7 (the ONLY station I listen to at home - via cable)
CHEZ 106 fm Ottawa classic rock (in the car)
 
KUVO 89.3 FM NPR (Denver) - Jazz, Blues, World music. Great sound quality, too! www.kuvo.org

KDJM 92.5 FM Infinity (Denver) - "classic" soul. Sometimes they play true, classic soul. Typical, overmodulated sound quality. www.jammin925.com

KBCO 97.3 FM Clear Channel (Denver) - "World Class Rock." For a Clear Channel station, it's pretty good, especially their Studio C programming. Typical, overmodulated sound quality. www.kbco.com

KQMT 99.5 FM Entercom (Denver) - Wider variety on their playlist. Typical, overmodulated sound quality. www.995themountain.com

KRFX 103.5 FM Clear Channel (Denver) - Typical Clear Channel rock, but they play the Alice Cooper show. www.krfx.com

KXKL 105.1 FM Infinity (Denver) - Oldies. www.kool105.com

KKZN 760 AM Clear Channel (Boulder/Denver) - Air America affiliate. Too many ads (typical) but they do have our own Jay Marvin. www.am760.net

KCUV 1510 AM NRC (Denver) - probably the best station in Denver right now for variety and selection. They just started broadcasting simutaneously at 102.3 FM, too! Woohoo! Great playlist and better sound. I believe they're independent. www.kcuvradio.com
 
As a side note, here are a few stations I grew up with in the '60s and '70s that are gone, but not forgotten:

Fun to see and remember: www.detroitradioflashbacks.net

WABX 99.5 Detroit. "Ninety-nine and a half, FM" Ahh, the old Air Aces, as their DJs were called before it went downhill.

WWWW 106.7 Detroit. "W4" I used to love their TV ads with "Them Changes." I hear the W4 moniker is still around on a different frequency, and as a country station. Damn sure wasn't that back then!

CJOM 88.7 Windsor. Free-form progressive rock. True underground stuff.

WKNR 1310 AM Detroit "Keener 13" www.keener13.com

CKLW 800 AM Windsor "C-K-L-WWWWW, the Motor Cityyyyy..." www.thebig8.net

WJZZ 105.9 FM Detroit Jazz. I didn't start listening to them until later in the 70s, if I remember correctly...
 
KC-Lawrence

Quite pleased with FM in Eastern Kansas:

KCUR NPR from University of Missouri - Kansas City
88.3 in Kansas City, MO www.kcur.org
Decent piped-in classical in the evenings, good new-age on Sunday night.

KKFI community radio station
90.1 in Kansas City, MO www.kkfi.org
(can be hard to get in Lawrence - 40 miles or so)
Saturday night - good big band stuff, late Sat "The Retro Redeye Express" with Sunshine, Great world music on Sunday afternoon.

KJHK student station from KU
90.7 in Lawrence, KS www.kjhk.org
Good all-around jazz, quasi-punk, alternative, KU FB & BB

KANU NR station from KU
91.5 in Lawrence, KS www.kpr.ku.edu
Great classical, esp weekday evenings. Jazz after 9:00 PM Film and Broadway music on Saturday night
 
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CNFY, 102.1, The Edge, Toronto
JAZZ, FM 91 (Listening right now)
MIX, 99 FM (They're mix is getting better) Less Pop, Toronto
 
CKKL or BOB FM 93.9 Ottawa Ont. 70s, 80s whatever
Chez 106 Ottawa, 106.1 classic rock
CFLG or Variety 104.5 Cornwall Ont. Easy listening
 
WDVX bluegrass, blues, americana (online)
KNON Dallas americana, rockabilly, blues
KGSR Austin, TX americana, mix
KHYI 95.3 Dallas americana, country
 
most of my listening is done here:

wpfw, 89.3, wash., dc

http://wpfw.org/

great jazz, latin, african caribbean music. and, pacifica radio news.

i also have been known to listen to weta, 90.9, which is primarily npr news, but has a great folk music show on saturday nite.

http://weta.org/fm/

doug s.
 
JAZZ.FM (CJRT 91.1, Toronto) ... mostly over the air, but also available on the internet at www.jazz.fm

It is worth noting that this station seems to use much less compression in their broadcast signal than most of the other local stations available to me.... generally a very good listening experience!
 
hpsenicka said:
JAZZ.FM (CJRT 91.1, Toronto) ... mostly over the air, but also available on the internet at www.jazz.fm

It is worth noting that this station seems to use much less compression in their broadcast signal than most of the other local stations available to me.... generally a very good listening experience!
yes, little compression is *wery* important - wpfw is excellent in this regard - fantastic audio quality.

doug s.
 
As I've written elsewhere, from my home off Southern San Francisco Bay, I've gotten 42 FM stations with my fixed Winegard 6065 antenna and Marantz 4300 - haven't gotten to evaluate them all yet - 19 are religous or Spanish so of little interest although some of the Spanish stations have some good sounding music at times.

KDFC 102.1 Sausalito - Classical, a Bonneville station - those Mormons give honest radio; even heard the Tabernacle Choir live early one Sunday morning with great sound

KFOG 104.5 San Francisco (KFFG repeater in Los Altos Hills at 97.7) classic rock and acoustic with a lot of self-produced stuff; almost like the Golden Age of San Francisco FM; too bad they ditched the foghorn signature device

KCSM 91.1 San Mateo College, Jazz with amateur DJs - the best kind; great variety, my favorite

KKOMMIE (KPFA) 94.1 Pacifica Foundation in Berkeley - "The Voice of the Moonbats" - as long as they play their mix of world and oddity music, it's great - when they start the propaganda, this Republican wants to throw things!

KKSF 103.7 San Francisco, "mellow" jazz, good background music

What I can't get (without a rotator) is KPIG at 107.7. It's supposed to be a worthy successor to KFAT, the home of weird and weirder music.

So far, I'm just assessing the transmission quality of these. Unfortunately, KDFC sounds overly compressed - classical depends on wide dynamic range but that doesn't work in a car. KCSM sounds darn good - even the source material shortcomings (say, dirty vinyl) comes through. KFOG seems to do a pretty good job, quality-wise, as does KPFA.

I've done a few commentaries on KQED in San Francisco, an NPR station, but rarely listen anymore since the Iraqi war started - they've become almost as slanted as KPFA but "Morning Edition" remains sonorous if not cogent.
 
Radio Rick @ 107.9 -- 24 hours a day, no commercials, station breaks or DJs. 350 CD's ripped to mp3 reside on a hard drive which is connected to a Ramsey FM30 Stereo Transmitter. 100mw of the finest music in the world. Mostly because it is all my music. Where else can you hear Willie Nelson and Charlotte Church back to back?
 
Whitehall said:
...KKOMMIE (KPFA) 94.1 Pacifica Foundation in Berkeley - "The Voice of the Moonbats" - as long as they play their mix of world and oddity music, it's great - when they start the propaganda, this Republican wants to throw things...
funny, the pacifica radio station around these parts is about the only place to get facts instead of propaganda masquerading as news... :D

doug s.
 
WRR 101.1: Classical... oldest radio station west of the Mississippi
KERA 90.1: NPR
KNTU 88.1: Jazz, REAL jazz
KHYI 95.3: REAL country and neo-real country
KNON 89.3: Community and GREAT gospel
 
WRNR 103.1 FM Annapolis, MD
Used to be better but still about the only commercial staion around that plays a pretty decent variety of music form blues to contemporary..
 
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