Has anyone else listened since they changed their format? I love it!! Finally a Cleveland radio station that actually plays music. No annoying disc jockeys & very few commercials. It's as good and as any XM channel I've listen too and it's free. You can down stream it from their website too which I love. I listen at work and hear maybe 2-3 minutes of commercials in an hour.
if it is, we have one down here, it's all automated, so they have low-cost and don't need a ton of commercials for revenue, and play everything from the 70's to current, pop, rock, metal, it's all over the place.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
I remember the day it changed over. I was driving to class and turned on the radio because I usually listened to Rachel Steele's 90s Nooner on my way there (not a bad program if you don't mind hearing the same Alice In Chains, Tool, and Rage Against The Machine songs every day), and instead I heard a Bob Marley song and something else that was equally out of place...Counting Crows or something. I kind of had a WTF moment, and then I checked their website when I got home and saw that it had changed. I'll flip to it every once in a while and they must've modified their playlist some because it usually isn't too bad anymore. I'll still miss the KRock of the 90s weekends or the special holiday stuff, like a couple years ago when they played their entire playlist in alphabetical order by song title over the 4th of July weekend. Overall, its not as bad as I thought it would be. Can't stand that voiceover guy's corny tone of voice though.
Quote: Nice to actually hear rock music in the mornings AND afternoons. Can't say the same for 'MMS.
I really don't care for music radio anymore...if I want music I'll just put in my ipod or burn a CD. If I'm listening to the radio it's gonna be sports talk radio.
I know they're cutting costs by doing automated music like that...but I think they're cutting off their nose to spite their face because I believe radio's going to become even more personality driven to stay alive. There's just too many other, easy ways to get the music you want when you want it.
A few years ago when 92.3 went under the moniker Extreme radio I wasn't a fan at all. And at the time I thought:
Wouldn't it be sweet if you introduced a radio station that had either no format, or a very loose format. A station that would allow the craziest playlists ever. A station that would span acrossed classic rap and rock, reggae, 90's alternative, modern rock, and indie rock, all the while mixing in rarities, live tracks, and strange old tunes that would capture the audience attention (like the Louvin Brothers' "Satan is Real.")
At any rate, these days, 92.3 plays a great mix of indie, alternative, reggae, hard rock, and modern rock as well. They still don't play the Louvin Brothers, but they do have a rather eclectic playlist and I really enjoy it when I need a break from 850.
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