>:-O

[Coasterkidmwm]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=8252095

2011 has been a really shitty year for my childhood since my favorite band broke up this year and now the radio station I relied on to avoid N'sync is pretty much dead too.

>:-O

People still listen to terrestrial radio?

[GavG]

My car hasn't got a digital radio, so terrestrial radio is the only way to go,

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Freddie

People still listen to terrestrial radio?

If I said the same about record players you'd flip a biscuit. People are different, deal with it.

Such a diva.

Record players are personal. You are listening to the records that you have chosen that you like. Radio is at the mercy of whatever the record labels have sent down and corporate has forced them to play. I go to Subway on break every day and they usually have the radio on, and I hear the same poop songs no matter what time I go there.

I'm not bashing radio because it's old technology, I'm bashing it because they play the same 5 godawful songs over and over. I said terrestrial just because Sirius/XM has two great comedy talk shows I enjoy very much, but I would never listen to music there either.

With MP3 players being able to hold thousands of songs that you have hand chosen, I can't see why anyone would want to listen to someone else (a record company executive) picking their music for them.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Because their car doesn't have satellite radio...

You don't seem to understand this whole "people can't afford it" thing

And for the record this isn't killing some random station, it is the #2 rock station in the entire United States behind whatever the one is in LA.

It's profitable, and I enjoy the guy who purposely sounds like a child molester reading the traffic reports and such.

I wasn't using satellite radio as an advocating point, I was using it to say I don't dismiss all radio because of those two shows I like. If it wasn't for those, let it die.

MP3 players can be had extremely cheap (and most cell phones will work as an mp3 player as well) and again, can hold hundreds/thousands of songs. If you can afford a car you can afford a $20 mp3 player and a cassette adapter, or even some blank CDs. love letting someone else pick my music for me.

Q101 was pretty much the only station i would listen too. I always had it on at work. and wasn't the child molester voice them making fun of buffalo bill from Silence of the lambs or something? I don't remember but it was quite funny. Don't forget about loveline too, that was some funny stuff. But now i just listen to 93.1 xrt when I work. It's unfortunate to see them go.

I also heard they were turning it into a talk-show radio channel now.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Yeah I don't understand why they would do that unless it's one of the bigger forms of the "kill your competition by buying it" method.

Yeah, I originally saw that it was being turned to an FM news station, having been bought by WBBM. I listened through the night and most of yesterday listening to all their stories.