Comments on: Radio Station Round Up Time

By: JiggaDigga

JiggaDigga — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:52:43 +0000

Great reading, keep up the great posts.
Peace, JiggaDigga

By: Susan Stott

Susan Stott — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:51:53 +0000

As a native Atlantan I have always been partial to “home town” radio. I had my favorite stations that I listened to but if the programming was bad I didn’t hesitate to go button pushing. Where do you go when it’s all a bunch of muck? Too bad all the stations have sold out or been taken over by the big boy’s.

Satellite is the ONLY way to go.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:07:23 +0000

Why are we trashing WABE? You’re all complaining about a lack of diversity on your radio offering, and simultaniously advocating the killing off of one of the rarest radio formats–classical. Here in DC they have killed the last non-commercial classical station–WETA–and turned it into another droning dispenser of chatter. I can stream the BBC world service any time–I’m doing it right now–what I can’t do is listen to the first 1200 years of musical evolution–talk about your “roots music”. As for the “droning voice of Carl Haas”, that man is one of the greatest musicologists of the 20th century, his career spaning almost the entire history of the medium of radio. But please, lets get him off the radio so I can hear another interview with John McCain, or another quirky, witty, Alex Chadwick personal interest piece!?!
By the way, Lois Ritesis is a MILF–and every day at 5 o’clock I miss Kaedy Kiely, though that’s probably not relevent to this conversation…

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:28:03 +0000

I agree that Atlanta’s radio station options are abysmal.

I would love an all NPR station. Right now I get my fix with the online shows and podcasts at NPR.org. But I groan every night when I’m driving home and Carl Haas’s dreary monotone voice begins.

WRAS 88.5 is a great station that plays music that most fits my taste.

By: Smoove D

Smoove D — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:19:36 +0000

FM radio? What’s that? Between satellite radio and the iPod, I see no reason to bother with legacy technologies like that.

By: teddy

teddy — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:33:57 +0000

Actually, the local NPR station generates quite a lot for the Atlanta Public Schools, not the other way around. But I’ll agree that the format is terrible. If the classic music went away and was replaced by national NPR content, the station would be a gold mine for APS.

By: JB

JB — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:45:29 +0000

who cares about commercial radio. It died along time ago.

By: G-Money

G-Money — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:05:50 +0000

Does anyone know how much of our Atlanta Public School tax dollars go to NPR? They carry so few programs and fill the rest of the airtime with Lois Ritesis’s boring classical music. I won’t contribute until they change their format and stop getting funded from Atlanta tax dollars.

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:58:07 +0000

When I first moved here a little over a year ago, I was quite impressed with the radio, especially 99x, which seemed to play more out of the mainstream indie rock. Over the course of the year, however, it has become pretty much standard uninspired radio fare and I’ve stopped listening.

I would also say that Atlanta lacks one other type of station: a 24 hour NPR station.