[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

[Roy Lamberton]

And to those of you who MUST listen to a CBS station:

http://www.cbsradio.com/streaming/index.html

This has links to all CBS properties, including BBM, CBS, and the California
guys.
KRLD in Dallas is also here.

Enjoy yourselves....

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Ivars Embrekts
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:39 AM
To: neonrye at aol.com
Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

Just bookmark this if you like Chicago radio broadcasts. Will save you a 
lot of time! You can fine just about any USA community at the site.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=chicago&x=0&y=0
&sid=

Ivars E.


neonrye at aol.com wrote:
> WCBS in NYC is also in the same vein, and I have been a semi-regular
listener for years.? However, I must confess to a longstanding WBBM
"jones".? Although I came to Evanston as a provincial Long Islander with a
heavy NY bias, by 1974, when I left Evanston, I really loved all things
Chicago--except, of course, the weather.? As a consequence, whenever I have
been far enough into the "country" to pick up WBBM's 50,000 watts of power,
I usually have given it a try.? Thus, down in Sarasota (with a heavy
population of Chicago ex-pats) in the Winter, and now out in Lewisburg, PA,
where my son is a frosh at Bucknell, I can often pick up Chicago's news
station, and I do so, much to my wife's annoyance (as she doesn't like a lot
of radio noise in the car--a matrimonial dispute of many, many years:-)).?
By the same token, I also like to pick up WGN-TV when I am in hotels, etc.,
with cable networks that pick it up.? Cablevision, my provider, doesn't
provide it, so it is a "treat" when I
>   am away from home.
>
> I also miss WXRT--all these years later.
>
>
>
> Paul Levinson
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Zeller <scottzel at gmail.com>
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Sent: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:09 am
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread
>
>
>
> KCBS in San Francisco is exactly the same format as you described for WBBM
> and the Detroit station. I wonder how many of these CBS newsradio stations
> city-to-city are so identical?
>
> I'm with your wife on missing WXRT. It's been 24 years!! Is it still as
good
> as it was in 1985?
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Michael Vance
<michael.vance at att.net>wrote:
>
>   
>> One of the things that I grew up with in Detroit (WWJ-950) and still
spent
>> a lot of time with in Chicago (WBBM-780) is the CBS Newsradio stations.
You
>> could -- and still can for the most part -- get traffic and weather on
the
>> 8s, sports at 15 and 45, business news at 25 and 55, national network
news
>> at the top of the hour, and mix of local and national highlights at the
>> bottom.  It was almost like comfort food when driving back to Chicago
from
>> Michigan, and was especially frustrating when they have carried various
>> sports teams over the years and that disrupts the traffic report
schedule.
>>  But I think that even those have changed some just in the six years that
>> I've been in Indianapolis.  I don't get a chance to listen to WBBM enough
>> when I'm back up in Chicago (my wife missed WXRT too much) to really put
my
>> finger on it though.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>> Mike Nolan wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Conservative Talk Radio only survives as a viable format because it
draws
>>>       
>>>> listeners.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Isn't that true about ANY media?  If nobody is reading, listening or
>>> watching
>>> it dies.  I'm not sure if the Internet quite follows that rule yet.
>>>
>>> I pretty much stopped listening to AM radio a good 10 years ago, because
>>> there wasn't anything I wanted to hear, certainly no music.  Even the
local
>>> morning drive-time block isn't worth listening to any more, except maybe
>>> for traffic reports.  (Just TRY to get a weather report on an AM radio
>>> at 6:30 AM!)
>>>
>>> These days when I'm in my car (not as much as before 1999, since I now
>>> work from home) I listen to Sirius satellite radio, usually Broadway
show
>>> tunes.   Memory, all alone in the moonlight....
>>> --
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Mike Nolan
>>>
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