Looks like the Web Guys are having fun with Eric:
Jack sucks. Here in St. Louis they renamed it the Arch and I thought it might have some, I don’t know, good music from the past–no. It was like growing up in Central Illinois with the musical diversity being Top 35 and and classic rock. The only thing that saved me was WXRT was on satellite and my cable company carried it.
Living in St. Louis the first thirty years of my life, I found two of the best commercial radio stations I have experienced both at 101 FM. In college, WMRY was there, truly playing anything, from Robert Johson to the Ramones. Not the current definition of “anything,” which seems to mean mainstream pop/rock from the past few decades.
Then there was The Fox. They introduced me to SoniaDada, for which I will forever be grateful. They’d also go in a lot of different directions on music that you won’t find broacasted anymore, though XRT comes close sometimes.
I’m in Springpatch, IL now. There’s very little you want to hear on the radio here. BTW, we got our own version of Arch/Nines – ABE FM.
A friend of mine in STL told me that he knew radio was dead there when he heard that abyssmal Sheryl Crow/Kid Rock song on a country station, and Johnny Cash was only to be found on The Point.
I got so tired of all radio media in the STL market that I switched to XM Radio about 2 yrs. ago — & never looked back. I have access to Air America & anything else not available in the area. It’s been one of the best “investments” I ever made.
It’s called “Abe” in Springfield, according to Illinois Times.
Wouldn’t you think that Chicago could have come up with something original?
Traditional broadcast commercial radio has been dead for years. XM is okay, but just watch Mel Karmazin (Sirius) ruin satelite radio the same way he ruined Infinity, CBS, MTV and VH-1.
The only place left for serious (pun intended) music fans is streaming internet feeds. Do yourself a favor, download Winamp and rediscover what real music is.
I like ABE here in springfield because they don’t have idiot disc jockeys and have substantially fewer commercials than the traditional format.