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107.7 Lamont booted off air

ST Guy said:
People still listen to the crap that is excreted from radios??
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Who shit in your prunes??
More *my way or the hiway* stuff from you.
There are *opinions* and then there's *unfiltered leakage*.
Its hard to know where that line is sometimes.
 
I see no point in listening to chattering voice boxes who say nothing and abuse people and their lives through “pranks”.

At one point, many, many years ago I may have chuckled at one or two of their childish pranks. Now I know better.
 
The Mad Genius of the Airwaves Dr. Demento was a ligit DJ ……
Just helped if you were drinking ……to listen to his show…..
 
Guess I’m a person that enjoys listening to the radio. I have an excrutiating amount of stress in my life, listening to the “crap” helps a mind decompress and keeps neuron current music. Some good some bad.

Nothing beats driving down the highway with the radio blasting and the windows open.
 
I listen to FM radio whenever possible.
I like “Fresh Air” and “Wait Wait don’t tell Me” and Snap Judgement.
PBS shit 88.5
 
I am KNBR / KCBS / BBC.

Rocking out otherwise.
 
Riding across Pennsylvania in a developing storm. Had FM radio through my Sena. Reports of tornadoes blared in my ears. Admittedly, had to stop when the Tornado Warning in BFE County was totally foreign to me. Consult map, breathe a sigh of relief and roll on.

I want a local DJ, one who is likely to inform me of what's happening around me. YMMV.
 
KFRC …..
I am old….
Geez
 
Cumulus is going through bankrupcy so the bean counters are trying to avoid a liquidation of assets or a 10c-on-the-dollar fire sale. In any case, radio is not being "enshittified" but its market is gone/fading with the boomers. The Greg Papa and Lamont contracts are just not affordable now so out they go. Ads are now more local like plumbers, hvac, lawyers, etc. since Trump ended USAID and their NGO funding. There is also RFK/HHS talk of ending big Pharma drug ads on TV/Radio too which would further gut radio's ad base.

BTW, the EV crowd (e.g. Musk) wants to end AM radio in cars because it is expensive and shielding is heavy for large DC motors that don't interfere with AM radio band.
 
Advantages of AM radio...

I start listening to a ball game, can drive and finish, same station.
An unpowered crystal can pick up AM radio.
AM radio is cheaper to broadcast.
Most of emergency systems and local warning/alerts are currently AM.
If size matters, AM is bigger. ;)
Thus, penetration is better. Through buildings! Get your heads out of the gutter!
 
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