Category: Broadcaster's Lounge
Are you a fan of NPR, national public radio? List your fave station, program, or are you a member?
I listen to:
KPLU, KUOW, WDUQ
Some of my fae offerings on these stations are:
bird note, rhythm sweet & hot, the swing years, puzzle master, piano jazz
A couple of those may be local offerings only, not sure.
When I'm flipping around the didal, I love when I fall onto the local npr station, and occasionally there is a story being read or poetry. I like listening to the news features. Everything is described, we are all in the same boat, only listening not seeing what is going on. It's brilliant!
I used to listen to "wait wait don't tell me."It was a very funny take on the news and it forced you to stay abreast of the current events. I listened to knpr 90.5 some years ago.
*sigh* NPr is a bit too liberal for me. I rather listen to the conservative news
About August of last year while exploring Shoutcast, I discovered KUOW Seattle. At 9am Saturday morning my attention was drawn to the catchy bluegrass signature tune for Car Talk and I've been a fan ever since; those guys are just soooooo crazy!
I also listen to Wait Wait, Says You, The Swing Years and other misc programming; and yes, I did make a donation. I like the fact that they have a 128Kb stream.
I don't like NPR. It is supposed to be a public service, but it only seems to serve snobs. What is there on the station for ordinary folk?
Are you ordinary folk? What is it you desire?
I find such a veriety on npr. Especially, when you take into account the internet. Stations in each state offer different content.
I appreciate when I contribute, I can split my financial gift up. Look how much I pay for cable tv, I rather contribute to radio!
I remember I came across a program a few times called Thistle and Shamrock, or something to that effect. It was all celtic music. Very cool!
I like WSB750 out of atlanta. My favorite guys would be Neal Boortz, Herman Cain, and Clark Howard.
I listen to 89.3 KPCC. My favorites are Car talk, Wait Wait, and This American Life. I also listen to A Prairie Home Companion from time to time.
I listen to NPR every now and then, usually WNYC FM, which has Jonathan Schwartz's American Standards from 12 until 4 PM eastern every Saturday and Sunday, though only Saturday's, (the more eclectic show), is broadcast online.
I'll also dip in for A Prairie Home Companion, This American Life, and Selected Shorts.
There's no pop music, no sports commentaries, no proper current affairs phone-ins, etc, so NPR isn't serving members of the public who want to hear those things on the wireless.
Okay npr is really just a copycat station of wbai which is based in New York.
personally I think NPR is over-rated and boring. Car talk is fun, but that's about it. I find the talk radio extraordinarily boring, and the monotonous tone of the voices makes me think of a hospital waiting room, or really bad elevator music. Plus, if its one of those times they're trying to get you to pay for them, which happens about six times a week or so it seems, then its impossible to listen to. They spend the entire time going, send us money and we'll give you this senseless trash that you could buy for fifty cents at the local drugstore, and yet we'll charge you 1500 dollars for it. Its stupid. If you want good radio, get satellite, they have all the channels you could possibly want, on all the subjects you could possibly think of, and its cheap. Its 13 dollars a month, that's less than I spend on coffeee.
To be fare, not all the premiums are trash. Often they have great products.
I listen to WBUR, and really like some of the shows. I agree that sometimes some of the talk shows might be tedious at times, but I don't think it's all that bad. I listen to this american life, wait wait, all things considered (if it's interesting), and only a game. My friend works for NPR, and has done several stories for them. He is also doing a story for This american life, which I think is pretty cool.
Silver Lightning, if you want sports and such, there are other stations that specifically focus on sports and such. NPR just has a mish mash of random interesting news.
I enjoy Wait Wait and This American Life. Also listen to aphc from time to time. For talk stuff, I'm more in to things like Opie and Anthony. I also like that a lot of NPR stations carry the BBC World Service at night.