Does your radio station do this?
 

Do any of you listen to the radio while at work? Well, in my part of the building I can only get one station. They play the same 5 songs about 20 times between 7:30 and 5. IT ANNOYS THE CRAP OUT OF ME! I've counted and emailed the counts to the station to show my frustration. Does this happen to anyone else???

There is one station here that does that. They play bare naked ladies OVER AND OVER AND OVER then they play everything else(a 30 song catalog) in between the BNLs crap... It irritates the fuck out of me! If that station is on at work, I either put in ear plugs or go into the other shop!! I puts me in a bad mood all day. Mostly cause I cant stand the crap music, but then playing it OVER AND OVER puts me on the verge of a mental breakdown!

Where do you live? I want an all bnl-all the time radio station!! :)

Im in Minneapolis. I cant stand even hearing one note from them!!

If I had a million dollars, I would have them run over by a Kcar, a nice reliable automoile!!

Don't have that problem
 

I sympathize with you and your radio issues.

This is one of many reasons why, with the exception of all-sports radio, I've pretty much stopped listening to popular music. There is no imagination in playlists.

I mainly listen to straightahead jazz now and to my knowledge, there is only one commercial straightahead jazz station in the United States. My work computer has a sound card, free Real Player and Windows Media Player. So I'm very pleased with my work listening situation.

that's a sad day for you..they are amazing.

My tower is located in between three others so I have no choice on this. I dont' have speakers for my computer otherwise I'd play a cd. If I hear the new version of "In Your Eyes" or that damn "I Do" song again I will scream. And its not just that I love the PEter Gabriel version either.

YES! YES! and YES!

Our Top 40 stations do that frequently and while I don't listen to the radio THAT often, it does get annoying. I used to love a few songs in particular but now I've heard them so much I dislike them...like Gwen and Eve's "Let me blow your mind." I HATE THAT SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh God, I have gone on about this forever! Some of my biggest annoyances are:

Jennifer Lopez and Ja-Rule
Nickleback
Gwen and Eve

I actually liked the Nickleback song, but they are playing the death out of it!

I actually listen to country radio because they play stuff that is older than 2 months, and the college radio station. You hear the most interesting things on college radio.........

There's a great 80s station down here. Yeah, they repeat stuff like once a day, but its still good stuff.

Over the summer, the Top 40 stations were playing Lady Marmalade all day. Drove me nuts!

OH MY GOODNESS YES!!! I swear I hear the same song about 4 times in like 2-3 hours!!! it's sooo annoying and whats more annoying is when a station plays a songI dont wanna hear so I change it right and two other stations are playing the same exact song!!! UGH that just itches my brain!! LOL

Nichole

Try Spinner.com ... lots of choices of "stations" --

only recommended if you have high speed connection and of course, a computer at work. lol. :D

How about this...

I can get off work, get in my car, and tell you exactly what's going to be playing BEFORE I turn on the radio. The station that I listen to plays the same songs at the same time every afternoon! Ugh! And it's not like they play new music, either... The songs they repeat daily during the 5 o'clock rush hour are from the 80's and 90's. If I hear "Wild, Wild West" by the Escape Club followed by "Walk Like An Egyptian" one more time... :mad:

radio.. and bnl
 

Our "Top 40" and "Pop" type stations play things over and over... which I don't listen to often anyways. One of the advantages of living in Columbus is the variety of radio. A few pop, a few rock, a few alt-rock, jazz, and of course NPR. And when I get sick of the same songs, there's always Public Radio.

About Barenaked Ladies. I used to hate the $1,000,000 song, too. Then I saw them at Horde Fest ('97 I think).. and OMG- what an amazing & fun show! I have seen them 4 times now, and am going again the end of December.

Re: Does your radio station do this?
 

You should come work with me for a day. Talk about going insane!!!:mad:

I'm working at this temp job and my boss was nice enough to lead me a radio. Trouble is this has to be the crappy radio on the face of the earth. It only gets 5 stations that come in clear..All Spanish,All Christmas music,All Christian music,Top 40,and Hip Hop

Well 3 days of Christmas music got pretty boring,so I've been listening to Top 40. If I hear these songs one more time, I'm going to go insane

Fallin'-by Alicia Keys (I like this song as much as the next person,but I swear the dj plays this friging song ALL DAY LONG!!)

Hero-by Enrique Iglesis

That new song by Pink

That song by Mary J Blige

Turn out the lights by Nelly Furtad(sp)

That song by Leann Rhimes that was on the Coyote Ugly soundtrack

Hey Baby-No Doubt

Gone-by N'Sync(this song is really good. It hasn't started to annoy me yet)

There are a few others,but this are the ones that come to mind. Especially Fallin' (grrrrr)

This happened to me about two years ago. I stopped listening to the radio altogether. For current events I read the paper/watch the news/go on the 'net. Radio has held very little interest for me in recent years. Sometimes it's hard to check out the new music, but I've been doing just fine...

Oh yeah, Hero, Fallin, Hey Baby. I can't stand it. Thank God I have tomorrow off so I can listen to something else. The most annoying thing is that I did the counts and emailed the station. Talk about being nice to listeners. Too bad I'm not in consumer pr, I could use that...

Is Anyone in Radio Production?
 

Is there anyone out there in GC-land who can explain something I've been baffled by?

How come literally years will go by without me hearing a song and then for a couple of weeks I will hear it on the radio (different channels) a few times a day? For example: "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks. Came out in 1983 or so, was dormant for almost two decades, but now I hear it all the time.

Hi Rose,

I haven't been in radio for years, but here's the deal I think.

Much of the music (all radio formats) these days is delivered to file servers (big computers) via satellite. I don't know how often they download, but for that amount of time, you hear that playlist. Then the opposite happens -- you hear something you really would like to hear again -- and its gone for heaven knows how long. This is especially true of oldies and classic rock stations.

In fact, you'll notice as you travel from town to town you hear those same songs because the stations subscribe to the same service.

Of course, there some "big programmer in the sky" who decides what you should be hearing.

When I was a disc jockey in the 60's, I personally owned about 500 45 RPM "oldies" singles so I used to bring them to the station and play them. I wish the heck I still had them.

DeltAlum,
Thanks! That makes sense to me. :)

At least you guys can get music. Where I live I can get NPR or NPR. :( And I don't have a CD player in my car :( I've copied a few of my favorite CDs onto cassettes to listen to in the car.

At work I used to listen to a webcast of a radio station out in California. I'm on the east coast - it was kind of wild listening to the all-request lunch hour at 3pm :) but they played good music. I bookmarked it on my work computer, but forgot to copy it down when I quit. Now, I take CDs to work and play them on my computer, with headphones.

Unfortunately, there's a guy who sits a couple of cubicles away, who has yet to discover the magic of headphones or volume control. He listens to crap, and as if that weren't bad enough, he sings along, OFF KEY. :mad: So I have to crank the volume up to drown him out...

DeltAlum, not only were you a DJ (and it sounds like a rockin' good one if you brought in your own music!), but at a time when music was so good. What kind(s) of music did you play? Or should I say, what format was the station?

I took radio production in college, and interned at a local Christian rock station, Radio U. That gave me a lot of opportunity to learn different things about radio & radio production. Most of the guys that worked there were old school... they kept telling me that they dropped out of college to get into music/radio :eek: but they knew so much.. it still amazes me.

Anyway, I'm not doing radio now, but do like it. I've always thought the best DJs were the ones who obviously listen to a lot of their own stuff and then share it with the listeners. (You can tell when a DJ's music knowledge doesn't span much further than the stations' playlist).

Silver Turtle,

Actually, I started my paid broadcasting career right there in Columbus when I was in High School answering the telephone at WCOL, which was a rocker at that time. Then I was an on air "personality" for a Junior Achievement radio company at WBNS.

In college I worked at the university radio station doing the morning drive time show as a first semester freshman -- which really ticked a lot of upperclassmen off.

The situation I was talking about above was down Route 33 at WATH in Athens while I was a O.U. (That's the original OU -- the one chartered in 1787 and founded in 1804, not the one in Oklahoma or Oregon) At the time it played a little bit of everything, but I was basically a "top 40/oldies" every other song kind of show. I was also announcer for the marching band in both high school and college. Then I became a television announcer (back when TV stations had live announcers) at Channel 4 in Columbus.

During the "Summer of Love," 1967, I lived in Athens and worked at the station. There was a GREAT local "trumpet band" ala Chicago and BS&T living right down the street from me, and a bunch of Delts had rented a summer house in town. Damn, what a party that summer was.

I dropped out of school to become a television director, and finished my last 14.5 hours twenty-five years later -- much like my fellow Bobcat, Today Show host Matt Lauer who graced the halls of "Harvard on the Hocking" some years after my time there.

And, yeah, I think I was a pretty good jock for a while...