KNOW 91.1-2 (HD subchannel) - Minneapolis/St. Paul
Radio Heartland / 01.19.11

8 - 9 AM

8:59 Brandi Carlile - Touching The Ground
8:54 Buddy And Julie Miller With Emmylou Harris - The Selfishness Of Man
8:51 Charlie Parker - Begin The Beguine
8:48 Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home
8:44 Tom Russell - The Sound of One Heart Breaking
8:39 The Ericksons - Catching You (On The Sidelines)
8:35 Guy Clark - Funny Bone
8:32 Catherine MacLellan - Take A Break
8:28 Zap Mama - Adioso Omonie
8:25 Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
8:22 The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
8:18 Johnsmith - Ring That Bell
8:14 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
8:10 Loudon Wainwright III - Be Careful There's A Baby In The House
8:07 Todd Snider - America's Favorite Pastime
8:04 Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Melt Your Heart
8:01 Krista Detor - Middle Of A Breakdown

7 - 8 AM

7:57 Buddy And Julie Miller With Patty Griffin - Chalk
7:52 Madeleine Peyroux - River Of Tears
7:46 Carole King - You've Got A Friend
7:43 Mike Farris And The Cumberland Saints - Dear Lazarus
7:40 Tim Eriksen - Careless Love
7:37 Buddy And Julie Miller - One Part, Two Part
7:32 Pearl Django - Bluesette
7:29 Robert Plant - Angel Dance
7:26 Lee Dorsey - Working In A Coalmine
7:22 Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind
7:20 Harmonious Wail - 5 Guys Named Moe
7:16 Carrie Rodriguez And Ben Kyle - My Baby's Gone
7:10 Neil Diamond - Don't Go There
7:07 Oliver Schroer - Runaway Flower
7:03 Medeski Martin and Wood - Let's Go Everywhere
7:00 David Wilcox - Stones Of Jerusalem

6 - 7 AM

6:57 Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, and Fats Kaplin - Them Wheels Don't Roll
6:54 The Sweetback Sisters - You Done Me Wrong
6:52 The Weepies - Please Speak Well Of Me
6:49 Mark Erelli - Hollow Man
6:46 Dizzy Gillespie - Caravan
6:41 Sarah Lee Guthrie And Johnny Irion - Hurry Up And Wait
6:36 Nanci Griffith - Love At The Five and Dime
6:34 Haley Bonar - Big Star
6:29 Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' on Sunset
6:21 Peter Ostroushko - Seattle (The Fantasy Reel)
6:15 Willie Murphy - Sometimes Dreams Come True
6:11 Mary Gauthier - Another Day Borrowed
6:08 Amos Lee - Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight
6:04 Norah Jones - In The Morning

WNRN in Charlottesville, VA

Today
9:49pm A Day to Remember All I Want
9:46pm Atomic Tom Take Me Out
9:42pm Deftones Change (In the House of Flies)
9:38pm Foals Total Life Forever
9:34pm Soundgarden Pretty Noose
9:31pm Sick Puppies Maybe
9:27pm Escape the Fate Issues
9:22pm Godsmack Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
9:15pm Weezer The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
9:12pm Brand New Sic transit gloria... Glory Fades
9:06pm Shinedown Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)
9:02pm Pearl Jam Brother
8:59pm The Black Keys Tighten Up
8:55pm CAKE Sick Of You
8:51pm Apocalyptica End of Me (feat. Gavin Rossdale)
8:43pm Tool Schism
8:39pm Cage the Elephant Shake Me Down
8:33pm The Duke Spirit Everybody's Under Your Spell
8:29pm Paper Tongues Ride to California
8:26pm My Darkest Days Porn Star Dancing (w/ Zakk Wylde)
8:22pm Three Days Grace World So Cold
8:17pm Beck Gamma Ray
8:15pm Tokyo Police Club Bambi
8:10pm Trapt Headstrong
8:07pm Hollywood Undead Hear Me Now
8:03pm Atreyu Storm to Pass
7:53pm Muse Undisclosed Desires
7:49pm 30 Seconds to Mars Closer to the Edge
7:45pm Young The Giant My Body
7:43pm System of a Down Innervision
7:38pm The xx Islands
7:34pm Korn Falling Away From Me
7:30pm Middle Class Rut New Low
7:26pm OK Go White Knuckles
7:23pm Breaking Benjamin Lights Out
7:14pm Pinback AFK
7:10pm Disturbed The Animal
7:07pm Carolina Liar I'm Not Over
7:04pm Linkin Park Waiting for the End
6:58pm My Chemical Romance SING
6:52pm Against Me! I Was a Teenage Anarchist
6:48pm Avenged Sevenfold Welcome to the Family
6:45pm Metric Help I'm Alive
6:41pm Kings of Leon Radioactive
6:31pm Dead Confederate Giving It All Away
6:28pm Papa Roach Kick in the Teeth
6:24pm The Dirty Heads Stand Tall
6:21pm The Temper Trap Fader
6:15pm Queens of the Stone Age Sick, Sick, Sick
6:13pm Daft Punk Tron Legacy (End Titles)
6:07pm A Silent Film You Will Leave a Mark
6:03pm Paramore Brick by Boring Brick
5:58pm Broken Bells The Ghost Inside
5:53pm Bush Greedy Fly
5:48pm Chevelle Shameful Metaphors
5:45pm Portugal. The Man People Say
5:43pm The Vines Get Free
5:36pm Louis XIV Finding Out True Love Is Blind
5:33pm Neon Trees 1983
5:28pm Crystal Castles Not in Love
5:25pm American Bang Wild And Young
5:16pm Julian Casablancas Out of the Blue
5:12pm Rise Against Ready to Fall
5:10pm Cold War Kids Louder THan Ever
5:05pm U2 City of Blinding Lights
5:01pm Florence and The Machine Dog Days Are Over
4:56pm Anberlin Impossible
4:51pm Phoenix Lasso
4:48pm Live I Alone
4:45pm Sick Puppies Maybe
4:39pm Foo Fighters Darling Nikki
4:36pm The Ting Tings Hands
4:33pm Finger Eleven Living in a Dream
4:27pm Shinedown Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-LayBoom)
4:23pm Jimmy Eat World Coffee and Cigarettes
4:17pm Wolfmother Woman
4:13pm Puddle of Mudd Away From Me
4:10pm Shiny Toy Guns Le Disko
4:06pm Stone Sour Hesitate
4:02pm Pearl Jam Amongst the Waves
3:55pm Arcade Fire We Used to Wait
3:50pm Mumford & Sons The Cave
3:48pm Social Distortion Machine Gun Blues
3:41pm Ween Your Party
3:34pm Tapes 'n Tapes Freak Out
3:29pm Tired Pony Dead American Writers
3:24pm Paper Tongues Get Higher
3:21pm Stone Temple Pilots Between the Lines
3:15pm The Whigs Kill Me Carolyne
3:11pm Eve 6 Think Twice
3:05pm Death Cab for Cutie Meet Me on the Equinox
3:01pm The Black Keys Howlin' for You
2:51pm Widespread Panic Dirty Side Down
2:48pm Donavon Frankenreiter Glow
2:46pm The Avett Brothers Kick Drum Heart
2:42pm Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream
2:36pm Ra Ra Riot Boy
2:32pm The New Pornographers Letter From anOccupant
2:29pm CAKE Sick Of You
2:25pm Fistful of Mercy Father's Son

 sirdroseph wrote: 

Young listeners tune out radio in search for new music

By Joseph P. Kahn and James Reed, Globe Staff  |  July 20, 2009

Browsing through new releases at a downtown record store, Chet Mohr of Somerville admitted that commercial radio is far down his source list for finding new music. Where precisely does radio rank? Somewhere between irrelevant and are-you-kidding-me, Mohr indicated.

"I'm into local bands and record labels, and they don't get played on the radio much,'' said Mohr, a 23-year-old guitar enthusiast and bank employee who hopes to form his own rock band. To broaden his musical palate, Mohr relies on bloggers, Internet message boards, web publications, friends, and social networking sites.

Sam Davies, 16, a student at Needham High School, searches for new iPod tunes on sites like Pandora Radio, an Internet service that streams customized play lists. Turn on the car radio? "Almost never,'' Davies said. "I plug in my iPod. It's got 6,000 songs on it.''

For music-oriented terrestrial radio stations, comments like these have a distinctly funereal ring. Other than Radio Disney, KISS-108, and other stations appealing to grade-school and preteen tastes, or college radio stations with weak broadcast signals and niche audiences, the medium's message can be summed up this way: change happens. And among its biggest consequences is the changing way younger people find new music they love - and love to share.

Has commercial music radio become so moribund it no longer serves as pop tastemaker whatsoever? Or does it just seem that way in light of last week's announcement that WBCN-FM, once the agenda setter for an entire region of hip rock fans and record buyers, is switching to a sports-talk format? Is satellite radio, ad-free and genre-specific, the last, best hope for drawing trend-setting younger listeners to the radio dial?

In short, is music on the radio a lost cause?

While its viability hasn't yet reached endangered species status, music radio does face many of the same challenges other mass media - including newspapers, magazines, and network television - are up against. New technologies and delivery options, more choices tailored to individual consumers, fragmented audiences that can find music they enjoy while bypassing glib-talking DJs and annoying commercials - all are factors driving programmers and station owners to retool themselves for the digital media age.

The trend toward more talk and less music on commercial radio isn't exactly new, but it is accelerating, said Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Research, which follows the radio industry.

"I have sat in many board rooms where the general sales manager says, ‘Let's just put sports talk on the FM. I know I can sell that,' and sometimes that's what happened,'' said Ross. He notes, however, that radio's reach is still much broader than most people realize. "Radio still has the largest piece of music discovery, at least for all listeners. It's like network television: It's diminished, but it's still bigger than anything else.''

Scott Fybush, who edits the industry trade journal NorthEast Radio Watch, acknowledges the challenges but says commercial radio's future is less grim than often reported.

"Obviously people don't need radio to provide them with music anymore. They've got other sources that can meet their individual needs much better,'' Fybush says. "Odds are good that there will be even more of those sources in the future.''

But radio still has advantages, Fybush maintains. "For anything that depends on reaching a mass audience - whether it's a Red Sox play-by-play or good old-fashioned Top 40 radio - there's still a very legitimate place for radio . . .

"There's a middle ground between what the doomsayers are saying and the reality . If you give people in their teens and 20s a reason to listen, I think they will still tune in. It's not like they don't know what radio is.''

Perhaps not. Nevertheless, the past five years have been busy when it comes to station format swaps, many entailing a switch from music to talk as the old commercial-radio model continues to lose power.

During one month in 2005 alone, for instance, four major-market Top 40 stations (in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, San Diego, and Indianapolis) disappeared. More such transformations have followed. A Southern California station dropped its adults-standard music programming for talk aimed at women. Chicago's flagship public radio station replaced most of its music programming with talk. One St. Louis station converted from dance music to sports talk, while a South Florida classical station dumped Beethoven concertos for public-affairs chatter following a survey showing that two-thirds of its audience preferred the latter. A Portland, Ore., station recently converted from hip-hop to sports talk.

Bradley Searles, founder of the Boston-based audioblog www.bradleysalmanac.com, says something has been lost during this period of change. "It always surprises me that radio stations had this direct feedback on who's listening, whether through callers to their shows or events they stage or even ratings,'' Searles says. Yet the sense of community once fostered by stations like ‘BCN has been diluted, he says, one result being a lack of breakout bands like U2. "I can't remember the last massive culturally pervasive album,'' he says.

For Kristopher Arcand, 24, who works for a Watertown marketing firm, finding Internet radio - his favorite site is www.last.fm - makes up for anything lost by tuning out commercial radio and its preset play lists. Arcand plugged into Net radio as a Boston University student and uses it to discover new artists whose work he then purchases on Amazon.com or iTunes.

"I'm not sure how relevant commercial radio will be to people of my generation in years to come,'' says Arcand, calling this new media environment "the world we now live in.''

Outside Faneuil Hall, Jay Day, 39, a dancer with the New York-based troupe Breeze Team, offered his own recipe for discovering new artists. Day buys mix-CDs on neighborhood street corners, sold directly from artist to listener. "Real music is underground, man,'' Day said. " on the radio anymore.''

 sirdroseph wrote: 
It used to be fun to tune in to radio stations around the country while on a road trip, and there were some really cool stations... but that was a long time ago, and it's all top 40 crap now or tired old "classic hits" stations, which even have a top 40 list of their own.

So yeah, the title of this thread really is pointless these days.

Back in early the '60s Detroit had three great AM stations: WXYZ, WKNR and CKLW. I took my transistor radio to bed to catch "Lee Alan" On the Horn on Wixie. CK, of course, had a monstrous signal that could sometimes be heard as far south as the carolinas, and their program director, Rosalie Trombley, broke many a hit (Seger even wrote a song about her). But it was little WKNR that blew the town wide open and had the Manhattan stations eavesdropping to get a sense of what was hot.

In '67, WABX-FM started experimenting with freeform radio. I have a piece here about it. Among other things, the Air Aces broke the Beatles' White Album, DJ Dave Dixon getting a copy from his one-time songwriting partner, Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul & Mary). Capitol Records quickly squelched that, but not before the station had played the whole thing, emptying the Grande Ballroom in the process so that everyone could listen to it on their car radios.

Soon thereafter, WKNR-FM and WXYZ-FM joined the fray, the latter becoming WRIF and initially broadcasting some BS-canned program featuring "Brother John." It didn't stand a chance compared to the level of interest created by ABX and KNR, much like what Bill does herein. WKNR was fortunate to have signed the Grande's proprietor, "Uncle" Russ Gibb, as a weekend DJ, and it was he who broke open the "Paul Is Dead" story (he didn't make it up, but merely gave it air time). KNR would also air bizarre interviews with the likes of Iggy, being his apparently "normal" self.

Being exposed to all of this great music, artistically blended, caused me to want to be a DJ. So off I went to Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, MI, where they were still teaching the Top 40 "clock" approach to programming. After graduation I sold airtime, wrote ad copy, and was a sometime board operator at WGRY, WWRM, WLJN, WTCM and WNMC—all Northern Lower Michigan stations. Of those, NMC has programming most like RP and WABX. It's a college station and, yes, they stream their signal.

I'd aslo like to plug KXJZ in Sacramento, an NPR affiliate that broadcasts and streams Excellence In Jazz each weeknight starting at 7:00 PM Pacific time.

> Chris

This is almost an obsolete thread considering that other than a few quality college radio stations here and there (WUSC yay!), internet radio has almost exclusively left commerical FM band radio stations to high school kids and those that are musically ignorant! How many people here actually listen to the crap that is on your FM dial anymore??

Rocking no more

Its eye on sports, CBS pulls plug on legendary WBCN

By James Reed and Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff  |  July 15, 2009

It was more than 40 years ago, on a March night in 1968, when WBCN-FM (104.1) decided to break from its classical music format. Instead of Bach, listeners that evening heard "I Feel Free,'' by the Eric Clapton-led rock band Cream, and right then Boston's local music scene was transformed.

Yesterday, it was upended yet again, by the same station.

CBS Radio Boston, which owns WBCN, announced it would pull the plug on the station, which helped make household names of some of the biggest musical acts to come out of Boston, so it could accommodate other changes in local radio.

Next month, a sports talk radio station, The Sports Hub, will replace the music station WBMX, or Mix 98.5 FM, adding a third sports radio show in a town that seems to have an insatiable appetite for all things sports. Mix 98.5 will then take its "modern rock, conservative format'' to WBCN's slot.

And WBCN, whose slogan, "The Rock of Boston,'' had become as seminal as some of the performers the station championed early on - including Aerosmith, The Cars, J. Geils Band, U2, and Elvis Costello - will morph into an online-only station available at wbcn.com.

New sports talk station will take on WEEI.

It was stunning news for generations of Boston music fans, who grew up with the station at a crucial time in rock music's evolution, and for local bands, who had come to rely on WBCN as the one place that might land them their big break. WBCN came of age with some of rock's pivotal figures, from Janis Joplin to Jimi Hendrix, and its disappearance from the dial is as much a signal of the changing musical scene as it is of drastically changed listening habits. (One word: iPod.)

"Once their ratings started going down the tubes, I thought to myself, ‘Somebody's not getting it in corporate,' '' Charles Laquidara, one of WBCN's quintessential personalities from 1969 to 1996, said from his home in Hawaii. On his Facebook page, he addressed WBCN's fans: "It was a great station. It was also a great time in radio history. I know we can never go back to that, but there will be something someday.''

Mark Hannon, senior vice president and market manager of CBS Radio Boston, said in an interview yesterday it is a "sad moment to see a station with 40-plus years of heritage coming out of format.'' But, he said, "the rock genre in this marketplace is extremely crowded, and 'BCN has struggled in the past few years to stay competitive.''

The decision, which will take effect Aug. 13, will ripple well beyond the airwaves, too, given the station's longtime support for local bands.

In addition to "Boston Emissions,'' 'BCN's two-hour, weekly program showcasing local talent, the WBCN Rock 'n' Roll Rumble has been a popular battle of the local bands since 1979. Occasionally, its winners went on to find national success. After winning the Rumble in 1983, 'Til Tuesday, Aimee Mann's new-wave band, was signed to Epic Records; the cabaret-punk duo the Dresden Dolls emerged victors in 2003.

Anngelle Wood, who organized this year's Rumble, said yesterday she was not sure of the event's future. "Boston Emissions,'' which she also hosts, will move to sister station WZLX in August.

The longtime 'BCN personality who became known simply as Oedipus said the loss of the station will cut deeper than some might realize.

"WBCN was a fabric of the community,'' he said. "It was part of Boston, like the Red Sox. It was more than just music. It completely enveloped the lifestyle of people in Boston and the Northeast. And it no longer does that. It had to make this change. It's reflected in the ratings.''

Word of 'BCN's demise was greeted with mixed emotions at competing stations, where program directors, many of whom grew up listening to 'BCN, said they'd been expecting the downfall. A Cornerstone Research Inc. report looking at men ages 18 to 49 in metro Boston shows 'BCN ranking in the number 11, 12, and 13 spots from January to May, with roughly 4 percent of the area's listening market.

"The general public must be very surprised, but industry insiders have known they had their problems - let's just leave it at that - for a number of years. So, we're not really stunned,'' said Ron Valeri, program director at WAAF and Mike FM. Still, he said it's "a bittersweet victory.''

At 101.7 WFNX, program director Keith Dakin recalled the heyday of WBCN, when personalities like Laquidara and Mark Parenteau graced the station's airwaves.

"It's great for us. We've lost an alternative rock competitor,'' said Dakin. "Don't get me wrong. It's sad to lose a legendary rock station in this market, but as far as the competitive landscape, it's great for a station like 'FNX.''

Parenteau, a DJ at WBCN for 20 years, beginning in 1978, said that before corporate ownership, the station encouraged its on-air talent to be outrageous and play what they wanted.

"We didn't make a lot of money, but we had a lot of freedom. We could play jazz, comedy, whatever,'' Parenteau said. "But as we made more money, we had less freedom. It was like a deal with the devil.''

Still, the station was enormously influential.

"If 'BCN added a band, 30 or 40 stations would add that band because we seemingly knew what we were doing,'' he said. "The sort of station 'BCN used to be is definitely dead. Radio today is all driven by boards of directors looking at the stock market. They want the sure thing, and they want to play it over and over.''

Before he was lead singer in the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf was one of the founding DJs at WBCN. He started there in 1968, interviewing the likes of Van Morrison, Jeff Beck, Sun Ra, and Roland Kirk. Wolf said he is neither surprised nor upset the station is going away. "For me, 'BCN ended a long time ago,'' he said. "When it became corporatized, it lost the unique qualities that made it vital to the community.''

Despite its founding in 1955 as a classical station, 'BCN became "the underground rock station in Boston,'' said Scott Fybush, editor of NorthEast Radio Watch, an industry trade journal. "They were playing stuff that had no other home on the radio and people who had never had a reason to own an FM radio before were going out and buying an FM radio to hear this.''

The station struggled for at least the last decade, propped up by its coverage of the Patriots and, at least for a time, Howard Stern's syndicated show.

Fybush called CBS Radio's emphasis on building a sports station with Patriots coverage, a "smart move,'' because it gives listeners something they can't necessarily load onto their iPods - live coverage of games.

Of course, more sports and more talk means less rock for Boston listeners.

But Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Media Research, said for many around Boston, that change had already begun.

"The 'BCN that most people are going to be sad about losing this afternoon,'' Ross said, "went away a while ago.''

In the Twin Cities ... KBEM, KCMP, KFAI, KUOM, KLBB, et al. ... as well as a few HD subchannels, Radio Heartland, Wonderground Radio, et al.

 bokey wrote: 

No, I am sorry to say I didn't.

 Mugro wrote: 
Did you ever have the pleasure of listening to the great Felix Grant's early wee hours of the morning jazz shows? My father and I would drive 3 hours to the Eastern Shore every winter weekend and listen to his shows.

 That, along with WHFS and to a lesser extent WGTB was part of the Golden Age of DC radio.

     Not to mention Jerry Gray's now defunct (gottdam bean counters)drivetime bluegrass show on WAMU and "Stained Glass Bluegrass" on Sundays.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

Honk at rewil, too.

When I joined this Incredible Station, I was informed by Rebecca via email that Bill was a DJ in Cambridge, MA (Where we listen from) in the 70's.
It was one of two AM stations that played the latest and greatest. The other station was WNTN (Newton) They both went silent at dusk.
Evidently they are still being kept alive here. http://www.740wcas.com/

Bill, Discuss.

 phineas wrote: 
Often the first few weeks of a new station are nearly commercial-free. Until they get some advertisers. When Austin' beloved KGSR (pronounced 'Kay-GEEZER' by the haters) first went on the air, they were commercial-free for a couple weeks. Sadly, the revenue stream started, and the annoyances began.

KGSR is the only commercial radio station I've ever heard that even comes close to RP. James Brown, Hank Williams, Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol, all get a bit of airtime. However, as with all commercial radio, their playlist leans on the up-and-coming faves. There's a handful of new tunes that get played to death: it is the curse of commercial radio.

At least KGSR emphasizes local talent, which is dang easy when you have Willie Nelson, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, Toni Price, Marcia Ball, Iron and Wine, Ian McLagan (sp?), The Arc Angels, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Dixie Chicks, Doug Sahm, The Texas Tornadoes, Roky Erickson, Daniel Johnston, Fastball (lived in the same dorm with the frontman. He was an a$$ back then, too), and on and on and on to draw from. Even old-school stuff like Leadbelly has Texas roots: 'Midnight Special' was written while Huddie was in jail in Sugarland Texas. ZZ Top's 'LaGrange' is about a two-hour drive from Austin, and the boys all still live in Houston (Lord only knows why.) Heck, VU's Sterling Morrison was a tugboat captain in Houston! How weird is that?

I am constantly amazed at the level of talent in Austin. Whenever I take visitors to see live music, always someone they've never heard of, they are stunned at the level of talent. I honestly don't know how 'garage bands' get jobs in this town: you have to be really good just to get a listen, much less a gig.

But overall, commercial radio has become pretty painful for me. I understand it is a business, and it has a certain formula it THINKS it needs to follow to turn a profit. With the advent of so many other sources of music, commercial radio is going to have to change its business model to survive. Not unlike newspapers, although newspapers have reporters and editorial staff which add value to the product: commercial radio has a somewhat different row to hoe. It'll be interesting to see how the whole thing shakes out...

c.

 Pixiedust wrote: 
I know it's probably considered too "commercial" but 101.9 WRXP is a great exception to the crappy radio rule in NYC.  But you're right...FUV is the best one in the area.  My radio's either on that or I'm listening to my iPod.

I'm also hooked on WDST up around Poughkeepsie whenever I'm driving upstate to see my family.  Can't remember the call letters but it's Radio Woodstock if you want to do a Google search.  I can usually get a great signal from around Poughkeepsie to a little south of Albany.  

 Pixiedust wrote: 
I think pretty much most of the world has gone that way, sadly. Every Auckland station is crap, too.

The only few good NY city stations are 90.7 WFUV from Fordham University, 91.5 Radio New York, which also broadcasts Indie rock station KEXP from Seattle, and 101.7 The Peak from Westchester County. The rest of NY radio is a commercialized joke filled with crummy hip-hop and pop that all the teenyboppers listen to.

 HoneyBearKelly wrote: 
There used to be several good stations in and around NY years ago.  I had a friend who DJ'ed at WLIR back in the 80's. That "playlist" format killed all those stations I guess.  There were 2 good jazz stations out of NJ too, but they were college stations: WBGO & WFDU.  Well I haven't lived in NY for some time now anyhow.

Vancouver recently got a new station which calls itself The Peak, "World Class Rock"... OK, we'll see. So far, an interesting playlist, and not a lot of commercials. I have to believe the latter is just them loss-leading into the market, but at least it seems like the music might be OK.

 http://wusc.sc.edu/  Columbia SC. Best radio station en todo del mundo!

Definitely NOT L.A.!!!