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The joys of non-mega-corp radio
Jan. 25th, 2005 03:27 pmRecently, Minnesota Public Radio bought the radio station that had been a classical station run by St. Olaf College for years. This was not exactly popular.
However, they have done a good thing with it. Starting yesterday morning at 9am, it because an "anti-format" format radio station. They brought in Thorn & Mary Lucia from the late, great Rev 105, and a few people from Radio K to play the music. Instead of the average 500 song playlist that most stations have, they have 50,000 albums.
Fifty thousand albums.
The playlist the past two days has been unbelievable. The "standard" REM, U2, Cake, Morrisey, Tom Waits, Clash - type "alternative" music, mixed with loads of local bands of all kinds, Johnny Cash, Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis, the Ventures, Beach Boys, Memphis Minnie, big band tunes, people I couldn't even name - think Rev 105... on steroids.
There is no predicting what the next song will be!
At work, we've been listening on their streaming feed- which is amazingly good. And because it's public radio, there are basically no commercials. There are occasional "this hour sponsored by" messages, and a couple news breaks each hour.
89.3, the current
update, 4:38pm:
They just went from an old big band/swing tune to a piano-heavy, jazz instrumental version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Mary is very busy screwing with people's heads! *laugh*
However, they have done a good thing with it. Starting yesterday morning at 9am, it because an "anti-format" format radio station. They brought in Thorn & Mary Lucia from the late, great Rev 105, and a few people from Radio K to play the music. Instead of the average 500 song playlist that most stations have, they have 50,000 albums.
Fifty thousand albums.
The playlist the past two days has been unbelievable. The "standard" REM, U2, Cake, Morrisey, Tom Waits, Clash - type "alternative" music, mixed with loads of local bands of all kinds, Johnny Cash, Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis, the Ventures, Beach Boys, Memphis Minnie, big band tunes, people I couldn't even name - think Rev 105... on steroids.
There is no predicting what the next song will be!
At work, we've been listening on their streaming feed- which is amazingly good. And because it's public radio, there are basically no commercials. There are occasional "this hour sponsored by" messages, and a couple news breaks each hour.
89.3, the current
update, 4:38pm:
They just went from an old big band/swing tune to a piano-heavy, jazz instrumental version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Mary is very busy screwing with people's heads! *laugh*
