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107.7 Lamont booted off air

I loved the Howard Stern show on KITS 105.3 but that was 20 years ago.
Best radio show ever by miles, at least in my opinion.

Since then it’s NPR. Even though they are left leaning they have good stories and interviews, and are “brainier” than the rest.
And no commercials!!

Never listened to Lamont on 107.7 unless it was by accident or happenstance.
 
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Did you know? Wtf. No wonder I never use the radio.
Talk about "programming"!!

Station Count Leaders (Percentage of Outlets)Industry trackers like Inside Radio and PrecisionTrak monitor the sheer number of analog and digital AM/FM signals dedicated to each genre:

Religion (Teaching/Talk/Variety): ~19% of U.S. stations (leading with over 2,150 stations)

Country: ~19% of U.S. stations (hovering near 2,130 stations)

News/Talk: ~17% of U.S. stations (nearly 2,000 stations)

Contemporary Christian: ~12% of U.S. stations (approx. 1,400 stations)

Spanish / Latin Formats: ~11% of U.S. stations

Classic Hits / Classic Rock: ~10% combined

Other (Top 40, Variety, Sports, Urban, etc.): ~12% combinedAudience Listening
 
AM Radio Baby!!! Wolfman Jack - Del Rio, Texas, with 250,000 watts broadcast out of XERF, AM-1570 kHz in Mexico.
Rockin' the good stuff late at night the U.S. radios wouldn't play!
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augustiron said:
Ever drive across the country and spin the FM dial recently? Not surprising at all.

Christian radio, country radio, some latin in the southern states.
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I long haul a lot. Agree, the more remote the greater the Christian/Religious content of radio. Definitely Country spikes, maybe on NPR Oprea and multiple Grand Ole Opry stations. And Latin/Spanish speaking always made sense given cost effectiveness.
 
augustiron said:
I used to like some npr, but now aside from some great seasoned show hosts, when I hear most discussion and coverage on there it often sounds like liberal arts community college students talking.
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The flat delivery on NPR drives me bananas even though I might be agreeing with the general gist of their points.

Almost as bad a shock jocks.

Thank goodness I still have some old iPods we use in the cars with lossless audio downloaded from the 1000+ CDs we own.

Turn on the car and you have music; no need to mess with a phone.
 
Been a Sirius subscriber for almost 20 years. Dr Radio, Alt Nation, 1st Wave, Al Jazeera… Can easily find something on there to list to. No Howard Stern shite though.
 
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Sirius radio user here. Great for traveling in remote places. Trees suck, open desert great reception! Primary desire is to follow sports but used for wide range of eclectic listening.

And cheap if you tell them, at renewal, NO, I WILL NOT PAY MORE THAN LAST BILLING,

Unlike Comcast/Xfinity. No retention plea, they just said...Buh-bye.
 
i have a lifetime Sirius subscription from decades ago. never use it in the car because all the portable receivers i had, have, kinda suck and my cars are too old to have native sirius :laughing

occasionally i use the streaming versionwhich is blocked on mobile phones so i can't blue toof it to my car (updated head units yay)

no, i don't want to port the subscription to a new aftermarket head unit because i have car ADD and it costs money to switch receivers and the "lifetime" subscription gotchya is you only get to move i think 3 times

anyway, as far as lamont and tonelli goes it does suck that a local dj is no longer in the game and it wasn't their choice. lack of tolerable local voices on the raido is most of the reason i don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore. NPR is occasionally interesting but the daily shows while i'm likely in the car are on loop and i usually get the same news elsewhere before they cover it.
Abacinator said:
I thought they were funny when I was 11
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i think i made it till ~15. once it became obvious that all the stuff that was portrayed as spontaneous and funny (prank calls etc) was scripted it lost the allure. reality TV, without the pictures
 
I listen to Sirius more on my phone using the app than I do while driving.
Since I don’t have a subscription in my work truck I simply connect my phone using Apple CarPlay and listen using the app there also.
Listening right now actually at work sitting at my desk. Without the app I’d probably have cancelled.
 
dmfdmf said:
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.
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Thanks for providing some sanity to the whole "profits over people" in a dying industry nonsense. Good post.

greenmonster said:
I loved the Howard Stern show on KITS 105.3 but that was 20 years ago.
Best radio show ever by miles, at least in my opinion.
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Different flavors. I absolutely couldn't stand Stern...there was nothing I could find "funny" in his show. Had friends who loved it; I was 180 degrees diametric.
 
Does anyone remember AM stereo? The Kenwood player I bought for my ‘82 Toyota 4x4 had it. Along with both Dolby B and Dolby C noise teduction. But it still wasn’t as good as FM stereo. It never caught on.
 
Holeshot said:
Different flavors. I absolutely couldn't stand Stern...there was nothing I could find "funny" in his show. Had friends who loved it; I was 180 degrees diametric.
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I loved the Wack Pack with Beetlejuice, High Pitch Eric, Stuttering John, Crackhead Bob, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, etc. It was so wrong how he used them as props for his gags but you know what, the average listener stayed tuned in to his show longer than any other radio personality, and his sponsors loved it.

He had an interview style that would break down any celebrity and make them reveal embarrassing details about themselves.
He had a group of Playboy playmates on one time and was quizzing them "what does CIA stand for" and "what's another word for frozen water"? None of them could answer correctly and finally one of them blurted out "we don't need to know that stuff because we spend our time being beautiful".
Hilarious.

I listened to him every morning on the way to work and plenty of times I was nearly late because of parking and not going into the building right away.
 
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