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Growing up in mid 90s Seattle the debate was always between KUBE 93.3 for hip-hop or 107.7 "The End" for alternative (KNDD). This debate destroyed friendships.
by dudeinjapan 5y ago
Growing up in mid 90s Seattle the debate was always between KUBE 93.3 for hip-hop or 107.7 "The End" for alternative (KNDD). This debate destroyed friendships. Getting stuck on KUOW would be a kafka-esque purgatory.
- notreallyserio 5y agoI was one of the weirdos that listened to 89.5, a station ran by a high school.
- darknavi 5y agoDude, C89.5 was the shit. No shame in that. What a cool program if you think about it. I wish more highschool was tangible skills like that.
- dudeinjapan 5y agoRun by Nathan Hale I remember it well. My buddies and I at Lakeside were inspired by this to try to get our school to run its own station, when that got denied we looked at options for building a pirate radio station but ultimately decided against it. We ended up building a recording studio at Lakeside instead.
- RyJones 5y agoI still listen to it! Also KBRD 680, when I can. A radio station playing public domain music picked by a parrot? sign me up
- clemailacct1 5y agoRemember the T-Man show in the morning on KUBE93?
- dudeinjapan 5y agoOh man of course I do!!
- tomcam 5y agoI was bi. I listened to both. And KUOW
- jeramey 5y agoBut us pop kids still stuck to 101.5, annoying everyone with our bad taste.
- kristopolous 5y agoI dunno. NPR has good variety and a little something for everybody. Just make sure to adjust your schedule so you're on the road at the appropriate half hour time slots for your tastes and I'd say "bug closed"!
- kortilla 5y ago> NPR has good variety and a little something for everybody. NPR listener demographics disagree. http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wnmu/files/MasterMediaKitWebWNMUFM_0.pdf http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wnmu/files/MasterMedi...
- grayfaced 5y agoCan you explain your objection? It looks like a sample area that the population has very little diversity and the station has more diversity then the population.
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- bagacrap 5y agoI don't get how you're reading that there's little diversity. What I get from the bar graph is that not listeners skew male, educated, old, affluent, etc relative to the population. But I'm not sure how this even relates to the original question of whether there's something for everyone... even if there were no skew, what matters is what percent of the population listens. If it's less than 100%, there must not be something for everyone. Or if you look at it from another perspective, no demo is completely missing from the listener base therefore there's something for every demographic.
- darknavi 5y agoMid 2000s here. It was a fight between The End and C89.5 for us.
- micro_cam 5y agoCan't forget KCMU 90.3 (which latter became KEXP)
- dudeinjapan 5y agoKEXP Kevin Suggs is a demi-god of sound engineering.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoWhat about KEXP? I love listening to that station though I’m sadly not in Seattle.