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Talk radio experiment ends in New York as Free FM reverts to K-Rock
Canada.com ^ | 25 May, 2007 | Larry Mcshane

Posted on 05/25/2007 4:57:10 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult

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Not an Air America Radio story but along a similar vein. Once again, people try to copy Rush's success and fail miserably by only caring about what they want, ignoring the listener.
1 posted on 05/25/2007 4:57:12 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Here’s another take on this ala the “It couldn’t possibly be because the product sucks so it must be censorship”.
2 posted on 05/25/2007 5:01:00 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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Sorry all, here’s he link;

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/05/free-fm-new-york-shut-down-wfny-fm.html


3 posted on 05/25/2007 5:02:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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Great, now we can hear “blinded by the light”, “working for a livin’” and that awful steely dan song that goes “are you reelin in the years”, (or something like that) every day again. I was going crazy not hearing those three songs every afternoon.


4 posted on 05/25/2007 5:03:27 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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Well guess what they lost a customer! The same safe boring radio every one else on the dial is spewing. The day radio died a miserable death!


5 posted on 05/25/2007 5:04:17 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Rodney King

I tell people who listen to these stations - why not make a CD of the 20 songs they play and just listen to it over and over again in your car? No commercials that way.

I am amazed in the age of the MP3 player that classic rock stations survive. I have even witnessed people trying to call with a request for songs they would have played anyway!

“Play some Skynyrd, dude!”


6 posted on 05/25/2007 5:05:58 PM PDT by relictele
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Yeah, the request lines don’t actually allow you to choose a song. They just have a bunch of people leave a mesage with requests, and it is guaranteed that most of them are just requesting either the latest hit or “free bird” that was already qued up to be played.


7 posted on 05/25/2007 5:09:09 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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I understand that they were really hit hard when Howard Stern left.

They are still keeping Opie and Anthony, however. Whether this consistutes giving the people what they want, I cannot say, but they are on tape delay so they won’t be truly satisfying.


8 posted on 05/25/2007 5:13:13 PM PDT by proxy_user
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The Free FM station in San Francisco just reverted back to KFRC, the oldies station, on 106.9 after being dropped from 99.7 after many, many years. KFRC was replaced about 6 months ago with an urban hip-hop station, Movin' 97.

The call sign was just transferred to 106.9 last week.

-PJ

9 posted on 05/25/2007 5:19:20 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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Great, now we can hear “blinded by the light”

Why is it they never play Springsteen's version of the song - he wrote the damn thing!

God, how I hate Manfred Mann! :0(

10 posted on 05/25/2007 5:21:54 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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Great, now we can hear “blinded by the light”

Why is it they never play Springsteen's version of the song - he wrote the damn thing!

God, how I hate Manfred Mann! :0(

11 posted on 05/25/2007 5:21:55 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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When Springsteen sings it, does he say “wrapped up like a douche” like Manfred Mann does? And besides, except for a few songs on ‘Nebraska” Springsteen sucks too.


12 posted on 05/25/2007 5:25:00 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Who pays for FREE?


13 posted on 05/25/2007 5:27:50 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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Down here in FL we don’t have any music of your life type station. I would love to have a station playing the old standards, 40’s and big band and such.

They are all rock, 60s 70s 80s stuff. One light jazz, and some Spanish. Some country, some hiphop. That’s it.


14 posted on 05/25/2007 5:30:00 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Rodney King

Nah, Springsteen sings “cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.”


15 posted on 05/25/2007 5:34:29 PM PDT by Oschisms
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To: Rodney King

When “The Horse with No Name” comes on, my ears bleed.


16 posted on 05/25/2007 5:34:44 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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And besides, except for a few songs on ‘Nebraska” Springsteen sucks too.

I liked his early stuff. Didn't like it when he opposed Reagan. Bruce "jumped the shark" with Philadelphia.

17 posted on 05/25/2007 5:37:36 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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When “The Horse with No Name” comes on, my ears bleed.

Don't forget Led Zeppelin's #1 hit D'yer Maker or Jimi Hendrix's coup de grace Crosstown Traffic.

</sarcasm>

18 posted on 05/25/2007 5:42:12 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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I have to wonder why talk is mostly, almost all, on AM stations. I'm sure there is a reason but I don't know it.

AM reception suxor where I work. It would be nice to have Rush et. al. on FM.

19 posted on 05/25/2007 5:47:34 PM PDT by LibKill ("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
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At least it is not “Seasons in the Sun” “Cat’s in the Cradle” and “Puff the Magic Dragon” over and over again. I’d be hiding the sharp objects.


20 posted on 05/25/2007 5:55:09 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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