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Post by Nivro™ on May 16, 2015 13:52:39 GMT -5
Wait Midwest Communications runs OUR radio stations up here, wtf Yep they're based out of Wisconsin...which pisses me off even more cause you know good and well hey dont know whats going on here in Tennessee. The station was the #3 station in the market behind WIVK (Country) and WIMZ (Classic Rock) any station that's responsible for 10 Years being around is good for me. Petition signed. Yea they're local guys...just saw them a couple months ago. Thanks man
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 13:56:31 GMT -5
I feel your pain. My favorite Classic Rock station was replaced by Hip Hop.
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on May 16, 2015 14:38:35 GMT -5
Wait Midwest Communications runs OUR radio stations up here, wtf Yep they're based out of Wisconsin...which pisses me off even more cause you know good and well hey dont know whats going on here in Tennessee. The station was the #3 station in the market behind WIVK (Country) and WIMZ (Classic Rock) This just makes us closer
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Post by Halloween King on May 16, 2015 16:23:36 GMT -5
Sadly this happens more than you would think. Radio is dying to begin with but normally new owners will try to keep their fan base and draw in new listeners but sometimes, depending on the area, they'll try to play more to the demographic of the area than the loyal listeners. Like Pittsburgh for instance. We have about 1,000 country stations because that's the most popular genre here. And people will listen to certain stations because maybe they hate the DJs from one, or prefer the 150 repeated Kenny Chesney songs on one station compared to the 150 repeated Taylor Swift songs on the other. Our rock station survives because of Mark Madden (yes, that one) and Pittsburgh Penguins games. Our pop station survives because it's KISS and Ryan Seacrest owns the world. The rest is country or NPR type news/oldies. If one of those channels was bought and the station owner wanted to make money, they would play country music. So it sucks really bad. And it does come out of no where entirely normally, which sucks too though. It's so funny when I travel and I turn on the local radio while I'm driving. Sooo many country stations where I've been. Most of our channels in SD are pop and hispanic music. I've driven mostly in the Midwest part of the United States. Once you leave Chicago you also leave all radio variety. It seemed to me like all stations are either country, or religion. Every now and then you run into some urban hip hop/rap or some rock but mostly all country music. What you really never hear is spanish stations, unless you're in a city somewhere. The best radio station I heard was in Mexico. I was in Saltillo Mexico and there was a station that had this bell/wind chime to identify the station. Think of the little NBC piano/wind chime. Every min this station in Saltillo would play the little station ID wind chime and the time. The only time they wouldnt is when they would play a song but right before the song and immediately after they would play the wind chime. It was hilarious to me because I thought who needs to know what time it is every min? If you told me it was 3:10 and then 3:11.... who would need to hear it is now 3:12?
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 16:46:58 GMT -5
It's so funny when I travel and I turn on the local radio while I'm driving. Sooo many country stations where I've been. Most of our channels in SD are pop and hispanic music. I've driven mostly in the Midwest part of the United States. Once you leave Chicago you also leave all radio variety. It seemed to me like all stations are either country, or religion. Every now and then you run into some urban hip hop/rap or some rock but mostly all country music. What you really never hear is spanish stations, unless you're in a city somewhere. The best radio station I heard was in Mexico. I was in Saltillo Mexico and there was a station that had this bell/wind chime to identify the station. Think of the little NBC piano/wind chime. Every min this station in Saltillo would play the little station ID wind chime and the time. The only time they wouldnt is when they would play a song but right before the song and immediately after they would play the wind chime. It was hilarious to me because I thought who needs to know what time it is every min? If you told me it was 3:10 and then 3:11.... who would need to hear it is now 3:12? My favorite station is 99.5 Kiss. I only get it when I go on my trip to Concan every year because its a San Antonio station.
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Post by Chip on May 16, 2015 19:24:06 GMT -5
any station that's responsible for 10 Years being around is good for me. Petition signed. Yea they're local guys...just saw them a couple months ago. Thanks man My top 5 favorite bands of all time. I absolutely love those guys.
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Post by HVMMONS on May 16, 2015 19:39:26 GMT -5
I'm all for diversity, but in your case, when there are 6 of the same flavor, the flavor will get old fast.
Signed.
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Post by Nivro™ on May 16, 2015 19:49:03 GMT -5
Yea they're local guys...just saw them a couple months ago. Thanks man My top 5 favorite bands of all time. I absolutely love those guys. They're really under the radar to me. At least in the big scheme it seem. Whenever I hear people talk about modern rock groups, 10 years never gets mentioned and they really are a great band.
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Post by Chip on May 16, 2015 20:08:41 GMT -5
My top 5 favorite bands of all time. I absolutely love those guys. They're really under the radar to me. At least in the big scheme it seem. Whenever I hear people talk about modern rock groups, 10 years never gets mentioned and they really are a great band. under the radar doesnt begin to describe it man...its a shame they had a couple "hit" songs years ago from that Autumn Effect album...and like aside from airplay on SiriusXM Octane they've got nothing since. and their music only got better from there. Feeding the Wolves is one of my favorite CD's ever. Their new one was a step back for me, but I still like it. I need to see them live the next time they are in my area.
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Post by theMOESIAH on May 16, 2015 20:52:26 GMT -5
I realize that this is kinda the norm for radio stations. Like I said with WIVK around we've had probably 20 country stations come and go in as many years. The problem is this was our only modern rock station. We realize that we're probably not gonna get the company to switch back over but at least hopefully we can get the attention of another company who can bring us a modern rock station back. As for streaming/satellite radio, while that would technically work for a personal ride, most of my listening as well as many others is while at work and Im at the mercy of the company on that. Do you have a smartphone? I highly recommend T-Mobile. Nearly all music streaming services don't count against your data cap.
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Post by Nivro™ on May 16, 2015 21:01:23 GMT -5
I realize that this is kinda the norm for radio stations. Like I said with WIVK around we've had probably 20 country stations come and go in as many years. The problem is this was our only modern rock station. We realize that we're probably not gonna get the company to switch back over but at least hopefully we can get the attention of another company who can bring us a modern rock station back. As for streaming/satellite radio, while that would technically work for a personal ride, most of my listening as well as many others is while at work and Im at the mercy of the company on that. Do you have a smartphone? I highly recommend T-Mobile. Nearly all music streaming services don't count against your data cap. yea when at home I stream Iheartradio a lot and listen to different stations that way. I just cant stream it from my phone and use an aux cord in a company vehicle at work which is where I do most of my radio listening.
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Post by theMOESIAH on May 16, 2015 22:08:00 GMT -5
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