[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

Sat Jan 17 13:22:30 CST 2009

I was in Atlanta last year for a convetion the day the tragic shooting 
happened at Northern Illinois. Tuned my Hertz car rental radio into 720 
and WGN came in clear as a local station!

Also became hooked on this one that I listen to now quite often online. 
Thank goodness of AM distant signals, never would have known about this 
gem...

http://www.wsmonline.com/

Roy Lamberton wrote:
> I may be the furthest NU fan who listens to WGN off the air on Wednesday
> nights to hear the Cats Play.
>
> My wife and I sing in a choir in Germantown, MD, and we practice from 7:30 -
> 9PM Wednesday nights. Cat games usually start about 8:30 EST so I usually
> can hear from halftime on. I also can hear Kaplan and Fitz when he makes an
> appearance too.
>
> WGN starts banging into the DC area just about sunset, and the signal holds
> up until I cross the Bay Bridge when some foreign language oldies station
> knocks it down. The two signals fight it out until I reach home which means
> I'm usually PO'd because I couldn't hear all of BC's post game remarks.
>
> I can also pick up WGN on US13 heading down from Wilmington at night, no
> power lines near the road helps.
>
> And yes, I can get WLS and WMAQ AND WBBM loud and clear while driving on the
> beltway also. What is funny is that while I can listen to Charolotte,
> Chicago, Rochester, Pittsburgh and Philly on the beltway, I can't get many
> Baltimore AM's and only 2 DC stations, WMAL and WTNT. 
>
> Still, it's fun listening to the weather from Chicago, and the times on the
> roads. It seems the times from here to there don't change much, but then
> neither does anything else in Chicago.
>
> TTFN
>
> rsl 
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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