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"Drought years"; hell yeah, Mark. Am I right in thinking that, when you were about 14 or 15 (and I was about minus 5), Radio 1 was cut back to have no output of its own after about 5.15 pm on weekdays and shared the entire evening / night period with Radio 2? A lot of arcane stuff about funding and financial crises and "needletime", it seems (1975 seems so austere to someone my age that it might as well be 1947).

I like current Radio 1 for much the same reasons Mark does, though arguably there's nothing quite as great in mid-late-evening as the old Mark Radcliffe show.

Anyone interested in the non-corporate side of UK radio should read Simon Reynolds's chapter on London pirate radio in _Energy Flash_ / _Generation Ecstacy_, obviously.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My college radio station isn't perfect but it's the best station in its listening area. It's the only one with signs of life.

― Josh, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm more interested in this plump Londoner who goes round chatting up music fans on trains, frankly. Is she moving back to England soon?

― Tom, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

She's a posh gell named Sarah. That ought to narrow it down. If this board were about romance, my next question would be - "what IS it about being on a train?"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nice to hear WPRB nostalgia. You can check it out on the web via a high quality RealAudio stream if you're curious - http://www.wprb.com. I reccommend Saturday nights from 8PM Eastern Standard onwards - great punk show done by crazy highschoolers followed by assorted extreme weirdness, or Friday nights from 10PM on with Dr. Cosmo, also weird-good. Yes, I work for them too.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

damnit, that didn't look like such a blatant plug when I typed it out.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

rural American radio is vanishing

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/06/radio-silence-how-the-disappearance-of-rural-stations-takes-americas-soul-with-them

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 June 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/13/am-radio-electric-cars/

Ford and other car makers want to remove AM radio from car radios. Boo.

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 May 2023 03:40 (eleven months ago) link

three months pass...

This is fun – pick a country and a decade and it serves music from that time and place:

https://radiooooo.com/

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 31 August 2023 08:13 (eight months ago) link

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