[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I enjoy listening to the Sox on WSCR during the summer, though my
tolerance for sketchy reception irritates my wife.  I also agree that
satellite radio has made it much easier to be a Chicago ex-pat.

Also fun to hear that WXRT is still going strong.  I was fortunate
enough to be around when they got started as a late night broadcaster on
a day-time ethnic station.  Those shows inspired me to try my hand at it
on WNUR.  I suspect most of the management that grew it is probably long
gone, but it was fun to see that Terri Hammert is still on the air.  I
think I've still got a jersey somewhere from playing on their flag
football team.  We were really bad but I think one year we beat WFMT.

Jeff 


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:30 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

I would guess you might be able to pick up WBBM at night from
Indianapolis.
I know late at night (particularly on a clear night with a straight shot
to the ionosphere) I can pick up WBBM, WGN, WSCR, and WLS on the car
radio in varying degrees of clarity, depending on where I am around the
Twin Cities, ~400 miles away.  I do get nostalgic listening to things
like the traffic reported in minutes from the Post Office.  :)
Similarly, when I was in college, I could pick up WCCO (830-AM)
and--less frequently or clearly--KSTP
(1500-AM) late at night too.  I remember listening to a few Gopher games
on 'CCO from a boombox in my room at Sig Ep.  Gotta love those
clear-channel (not "Clear Channel Communications") stations.

I like to claim credit for the satellite radio idea, but don't think
that I will get any.  My freshman year at NU ('92-'93), I started
missing the morning show from a Twin Cities station (KQRS-92.5 FM, a/k/a
KQ92), since there was nothing quite like it in Chicago--and, I have
since found, nothing quite like it anywhere.  I started thinking about
ways that favorite local radio shows could be broadcast to people
wherever they were and came up with satellite signals and mobile
receivers as the solution (mind you, this was a couple of years before
graphical web browsing--e.g., using NCSA Mosaic--and well before any
kind of streaming online media).  As an electrical engineering major at
the time, I really should have pursued the idea but didn't.  I think the
patent rights for Sirius and XM go back to 1995 or so, as I believe I
recall from having checked a couple of years ago . . . .
C'est la vie, I guess.

-Joe

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Michael Vance
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:31 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

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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