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Try listening to a music radio station sometime. I turned one on for the first time a 10 years a couple weeks ago and in a 45 minute drive heard approximately 2
by bane 6y ago
Try listening to a music radio station sometime. I turned one on for the first time a 10 years a couple weeks ago and in a 45 minute drive heard approximately 2 songs. The entire rest was station identifiers and commercials.
- Ed314159 6y agoThe non-commercial band in the United States is 88-92FM. All the best (many college) stations will be in this band: KFJC, WFMU, KEXP... Radio is alive and well in the U.S., its just not commercial radio.
- adamweld 6y agoKEXP is amazing. Highly recommend people check them out (online at kexp.org if you're not in seattle).
- m0xte 6y agoThey have some good stuff on YouTube as well.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoAgreed and thanks for the reminder. I used to listen to KEXP online even when I lived in Seattle. Phones are more common than radios these days.
- Gaelan 6y agoHuh. KUOW, (one of) Seattle’s NPR stations, is on 94.9. Wonder what the story there is
- cowsandmilk 6y agoThe band was donated to them by KING
- dacohenii 6y ago88.1-91.9 MHz is reserved for noncommercial educational (NCE) stations, so only they can use those frequencies. However, there's nothing that disallows NCE stations from operating on unrestricted frequencies (so long as they are licensed, of course). It's not very common, though, because radio spectrum is expensive. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commercial_educational_station#Reserved_channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commercial_educational_sta...
- mfkp 6y agoThat's why I pay ~$5/mo for satellite radio. I don't even drive that much but it's worth it to not listen to ads the whole time.
- CamperBob2 6y agoEven on SiriusXM, the DJs never seem to shut up. One of my fondest "one of these days" project ideas: duct-tape a correlator to an RF front end, along with enough storage to "Tivoize" the local FM band. Record everything, recognize and redact any content that reoccurs within 30-second windows, and rebroadcast it for household/car consumption.
- vasco 6y agoThey went about it differently but already made it, it's called Spotify.
- relyks 6y agoAn even better idea, if you're preferential to radio DJs: have a recording setup and Shazam-like recognition system where a Spotify playlist or queue is made from what's being played. I was considering doing that as a project. The song choice by the radio DJs is the real value, and I sometimes prefer their playlists over my recommended daily mix playlists or whatever Spotify selects on the generated radio stations. The highest streaming quality option on Spotify is superior in audio quality to regular radio and the digital streaming options from radio websites. StationHead has been trying to do something similar, but they still include the social live host aspect.
- kaetemi 6y agoAren't the song titles usually broadcast along as metadata, and broadcast on web players?
- dreamcompiler 6y ago
- Hendrikto 6y agoMost of the time, I prefer silence to the radio. It is really bad…
- Xunxi 6y agoAM radio stations work for me, none of the twaddle and blather that you experience on FM stations. There's also a lot more productive content on AM radio.