My new radio show premiers tonight!

[thewarroom]

Hey all,

Tonight i take my first steps into the "wonderful" world of life as a college deejay. My new show "Radio Free Toledo" debuts tonight at Midnight eastern time until 2am. It's an excuse, basically, to play whatever I want, so you're bound to here a lot of Moz, Smiths, R.E.M, Joy Division, Elvis, that sorta thing. The kind of thing that you just don't here on commercial radio in the American Midwest so often.

If anybody wants to listen, you can find it at wxut.com (http://www.wxut.com).

Wish me luck! :)

[Skinner]

That's excellent!!! Have a great time! I assure you it will be lots of fun and you will learn a lot. I miss my college DJ days. DJ Skinner will always live on in my heart :tears:

[Uncleskinny]

Excellent. Can you answer me this - why do local US radio stations have four or five-letter abbreviationed names always starting with W or K? Or is that a gross generalisation?

Peter

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Excellent. Can you answer me this - why do local US radio stations have four or five-letter abbreviationed names always starting with W or K? Or is that a gross generalisation?

Peter

Something to do with the FCC allocation of radio bandwidth. It's got to be on wikipedia. All I know is that they are W east of the Mississippi river, and K west of it. They use them for TV stations, too. They are formally composed of four letters, but are often abbreviated in common usage (WXRT in Chicago is known as XRT because it just sounds cooler.)

Three-letter designations (WGN, WLS, etc.) were reserved for "Super-stations" which were permitted to broadcast a much stronger signal that carried further. When I lived in Kansas as a child, we received WGN, which is a Chicago-based station. We also got TBS out of Atlanta. Which is neither W nor K. Hmm... :confused:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Excellent. Can you answer me this - why do local US radio stations have four or five-letter abbreviationed names always starting with W or K? Or is that a gross generalisation?

Peter
west of the mississipi is k, the other side is w i guess :confused:
but nobody listens to the radio anymore :cool:

[Skinner]

Something to do with the FCC allocation of radio bandwidth. It's got to be on wikipedia. All I know is that they are W east of the Mississippi river, and K west of it. They use them for TV stations, too.

Three-letter designations (WGN, WLS, etc.) were reserved for "Super-stations" which were permitted to broadcast a much stronger signal that carried further. When I lived in Kansas as a child, we received WGN, which is a Chicago-based station. We also got TBS out of Atlanta. Which is neither W nor K. Hmm... :confused:

All of our big stations in Philly have 4 letter designations, like WMMR and WYSP etc. :confused:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Something to do with the FCC allocation of radio bandwidth. It's got to be on wikipedia. All I know is that they are W east of the Mississippi river, and K west of it. They use them for TV stations, too.

Three-letter designations (WGN, WLS, etc.) were reserved for "Super-stations" which were permitted to broadcast a much stronger signal that carried further. When I lived in Kansas as a child, we received WGN, which is a Chicago-based station. We also got TBS out of Atlanta. Which is neither W nor K. Hmm... :confused:

tbs radio is under the tbs cable umbrella, hence their non radio call sign
shit man, i really worked in the record biz too long to still remember that :(

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Oh, and Warrie- congratulations! I'd stay up to listen but I'm old and just can't manage it.

But I look forward to hearing you report on how it went, tomorrow, if you can keep your eyes open. :D

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Oh, and Warrie- congratulations! I'd stay up to listen but I'm old and just can't manage it.

But I look forward to hearing you report on how it went, tomorrow, if you can keep your eyes open. :D

yeah, what she said http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/yes.gif

[Low Lights & Long Nights]

Hey all,

Tonight i take my first steps into the "wonderful" world of life as a college deejay. My new show "Radio Free Toledo" debuts tonight at Midnight eastern time until 2am. It's an excuse, basically, to play whatever I want, so you're bound to here a lot of Moz, Smiths, R.E.M, Joy Division, Elvis, that sorta thing. The kind of thing that you just don't here on commercial radio in the American Midwest so often.

If anybody wants to listen, you can find it at wxut.com (http://www.wxut.com).

Wish me luck! :)

"Death is pretty final,
I'm collecting vinyl..."

[oye terence]

congrats! it is always enjoyable when you can force your musical tastes on others.:)

[nugz]

I was a DJ in college, but I could only play horrible Christian rock. :tears:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I was a DJ in college, but I could only play horrible Christian rock. :tears:

so you adore amy grant then too? :rolleyes:

[Skinner]

I was a DJ in college, but I could only play horrible Christian rock. :tears:

Oh noes!!!!!! Good thing we weren't forced to do the same.

I did however have a mean ass caller who would call me whenever I would play Morrissey and yell at me for playing "gay ass shit" :rolleyes: I still don't know who that jerk was.

[nugz]

so you adore amy grant then too? :rolleyes:

no, but I got down with the d.c. Talk!!

Oh noes!!!!!! Good thing we weren't forced to do the same.

I did however have a mean ass caller who would call me whenever I would play Morrissey and yell at me for playing "gay ass shit" :rolleyes: I still don't know who that jerk was.

we used to have a guy call every 4 minutes, and give me a long list of prayer requests. :rolleyes:

[Corrissey]

Hey all,

Tonight i take my first steps into the "wonderful" world of life as a college deejay. My new show "Radio Free Toledo" debuts tonight at Midnight eastern time until 2am. It's an excuse, basically, to play whatever I want, so you're bound to here a lot of Moz, Smiths, R.E.M, Joy Division, Elvis, that sorta thing. The kind of thing that you just don't here on commercial radio in the American Midwest so often.

If anybody wants to listen, you can find it at wxut.com (http://www.wxut.com).

Wish me luck! :)

Good luck, warroom!! The airwaves just got a lot cooler!!
Is the station called anything like the "zut"? It'd be cool if it was the "wut" :p


I was a DJ in college, but I could only play horrible Christian rock. :tears:


Oh noes!!!!!! Good thing we weren't forced to do the same.

I did however have a mean ass caller who would call me whenever I would play Morrissey and yell at me for playing "gay ass shit" :rolleyes: I still don't know who that jerk was.

:rolleyes: I hope you played another Moz song after that!


DJ nuggles & skinz :cool:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/subspace2100/saging%20smiley%20collection/dj.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/subspace2100/saging%20smiley%20collection/dj.gif

[Hellie]

Good luck!

My youngest brother is a dj for Brighton and Sussex uni.He's very un pc.

[Skinner]

Good luck, warroom!! The airwaves just got a lot cooler!!
Is the station called anything like the "zut"? It'd be cool if it was the "wut" :p





:rolleyes: I hope you played another Moz song after that!


DJ nuggles & skinz :cool:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/subspace2100/saging%20smiley%20collection/dj.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/subspace2100/saging%20smiley%20collection/dj.gif

holy crap I love those little dj bananas!!! :)

[bysshe]

Hey all,

Tonight i take my first steps into the "wonderful" world of life as a college deejay. My new show "Radio Free Toledo" debuts tonight at Midnight eastern time until 2am. It's an excuse, basically, to play whatever I want, so you're bound to here a lot of Moz, Smiths, R.E.M, Joy Division, Elvis, that sorta thing. The kind of thing that you just don't here on commercial radio in the American Midwest so often.

If anybody wants to listen, you can find it at wxut.com (http://www.wxut.com).

Wish me luck! :)

Congratulations and good luck! Will you be on every night or just Tuesday nights?


Excellent. Can you answer me this - why do local US radio stations have four or five-letter abbreviationed names always starting with W or K? Or is that a gross generalisation?

Peter

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2303/why-do-u-s-radio-call-letters-start-with-w-in-the-east-and-k-in-the-west-revisited

http://itotd.com/articles/579/radio-call-letters/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2303/why-do-u-s-radio-call-letters-start-with-w-in-the-east-and-k-in-the-west-revisited

http://itotd.com/articles/579/radio-call-letters/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign
basically i was right :cool:
am i right? its been a decade since i was in the soul sucking record biz...

[bysshe]

basically i was right :cool:
am i right? its been a decade since i was in the soul sucking record biz...

New broadcasting stations are assigned call signs beginning with K, if they are west of the Mississippi River, and beginning with W if they are east of the river. Again, some early stations have been grandfathered, so there are four broadcasters with a K prefix east of the Mississippi, and a few dozen with a W on the west side. (There are more grandfathered W stations because the dividing line used to be two states farther west.) Some examples would be KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, KYW in Philadelphia, and WACO in Waco, Texas, which also has the distinction of being one of only two radio stations whose call sign is the same as its community of license. Stations located near the Mississippi River may have either letter, depending on the precise location of their community of license and on historical contingencies. Minnesota and Louisiana are allowed to use both call letter prefixes since the Mississippi river flows through both states in addition to forming parts of their borders. Metro areas that straddle different states on both sides of the river, such as St. Louis, Memphis and the Quad Cities area of Iowa/Illinois, have stations with both call letter prefixes, due to the stations' towers themselves being placed on either side of the river.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_call_sign

[troubleluvsme]

That's awesome! Congrats! I'm going to try to listen tonight.

[thewarroom]

A shameless bump. On the air now.

[thewarroom]

Top of the hour, a sorta-"exclusive" premier of "I'm Throwign My Arms Around Paris," followed by a Moz grab bag of sorts.

[Dave]

Hey all,

Tonight i take my first steps into the "wonderful" world of life as a college deejay. My new show "Radio Free Toledo" debuts tonight at Midnight eastern time until 2am. It's an excuse, basically, to play whatever I want, so you're bound to here a lot of Moz, Smiths, R.E.M, Joy Division, Elvis, that sorta thing. The kind of thing that you just don't here on commercial radio in the American Midwest so often.

If anybody wants to listen, you can find it at wxut.com (http://www.wxut.com).

Wish me luck! :)

listening now. Morrissey on the radio! It's like it was 1991 all over.

[thewarroom]

Any requests? i've got another 37 minutes. :cool:

[iamnicola]

Any requests? i've got another 37 minutes. :cool:
"Miserablism" - Pet Shop Boys

[Dave]

pretenders? talking heads? if not that's cool, too. good luck.
how about The Church Under The Milky Way?

the chat room wants to hear The Pixies or Pet Shop Boys.

any or none of those are cool

Blondie? Hangin on the telephone?

hey you beat us to it on the pixies!

[iamnicola]

"Punk Rock Girl" - Dead Milkmen

[Dave]

if you are walking in the snow and hail, maybe you should play Electronic - Getting Away With It.

[Dave]

some Bowie! The Supermen or Seven Years in Tibet.

the clash - straight to hell or lost in the supermarket.

[thewarroom]

pretenders? talking heads? if not that's cool, too. good luck.
how about The Church Under The Milky Way?

the chat room wants to hear The Pixies or Pet Shop Boys.

any or none of those are cool

Blondie? Hangin on the telephone?

hey you beat us to it on the pixies!

Ha! Got one right eh? Played Monkey Gone to heaven earlier.

How's Take Me to the River sound?

I'll get the other stuff next week. And i plan to play the entirety of TQID, on vinyl, if that's cool.

[iamnicola]

Yay! Thanks!

[Dave]

thanks! we appreciate the shout-out to the chatroom. :D

@ Warroom: sure, that's cool! you are playing a cool mix. it fits together and isn't too predictable.

[thewarroom]

Ya'll are more than welcome, and thanks for the support. :D

Next: Housemartins or Elvis Costello? Or both or neither?

[iamnicola]

Housemartins

Caravan of Love?

[thewarroom]

Housemartins

Caravan of Love?

There you go dear. :) My fav Housemartins song, and a sweet video as well.

[iamnicola]

There you go dear. :) My fav Housemartins song, and a sweet video as well.
Thanks! I agree.

[thewarroom]

next: Damien Dempsey, "Negative Vibes"

[Dave]

so this is a new tradition

[iamnicola]

so this is a new tradition
Totally!

Every Tuesday night!!!

[oye terence]

i listened for a lil bit, good job young man!

[cornelius blaze]

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp203/Natalie_84_2008/junkiexl2.gif

WHHOOOOOoOOOOOooo DJ warroom...in da HOUSE:p

well done x

[thewarroom]

Hello all,

My second ever radio program will be tonight, Midnite to Two AM eastern time. There is a link to the live stream in my signature. I think.

Thanks to all that helped me get thru my first show last week. It was awesome to have you guys listening and offering support!!! :) If there's anything you'd like to hear, if you could upload it and send a megaupload link or something (air-appropriate only please) and i'll be more than happy to throw it on the air.

Thanks
Mason

[thewarroom]

Shameless bump.

[thewarroom]

Bump. When Last I Spoke to Carol is on now.

[iamnicola]

Yay! I am listening.

[Chico]

Yay! I am listening.

Me too

[Chico]

Play There is a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends and Nobody Loves Us for the Morrissey-solo chatroom

[thewarroom]

Sorry i didn't see this this morning! :( remind me, and i'll get them next week. :)

[Dave]

sorry, I was asleep. I will catch the next one.

[Piccadilly Jim]

Congratulations on your radio show! Radio is making a vicious COMEBACK (thanks to Ghoul, I'm sure). Um. What about my radio show, "Jamie's Jukebox"? I play anything I want too! Please listen, although, I may or may not take to kindly to requests. What I play, is really really good stuff. In fact, yesterday I dedicated "Munich" by Editors to Robby, Chico and broccoli_spears, ask her, she listened. I also dedicated a song, "Daisy" by Hal 9000 (from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey) to Dave Tseng. I wonder if he listened. This is strange. My show is on Tuesday's too. In fact, it's on at 2pm (mountain time) AND yesterday was MY very first show. How interesting and strange and true.

[thewarroom]

Site link is in the sig.

And, also, the first ep of my brand-new, late nite chat show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCIVZq1Frw

It's for the campus channel at school. I'm proud that we actually made it work. :D

[iamnicola]

Hey! Loving the show!

Play this for everyone in the chat, please. Thanks.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YM4SJ717

[Dave]

yay Joy Division.

[thewarroom]

Hey! Loving the show!

Play this for everyone in the chat, please. Thanks.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YM4SJ717

Coming up next. :)

[Dave]

You are awesome.

[iamnicola]

Coming up next. :)
Thanks so much!

Can you play "Your Funny Uncle" by PSB?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FLNBLCJJ

[Chico]

You guys sound great!

How about some....Mute Witness?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YCC53GDO

[thewarroom]

Link is in the signature. Everybody come and be merry.

[virtually dead]

Computer says no.
Is it US only?
Clicked on 'Listen Now' and I got about 5 red crosses flashing up....

[thewarroom]

Computer says no.
Is it US only?
Clicked on 'Listen Now' and I got about 5 red crosses flashing up....

Hmm...odd...it shouldn't be...that's a drag.

I'll look into it (i nothing about how our horribly outdated site works). :(

[iamnicola]

Yay!!

[thewarroom]

Hey all

My program is back after a one-week hiatus. Everybody listen! Info and link in the signature.

Thanks
Mason

[Chico]

Hey all

My program is back after a one-week hiatus. Everybody listen! Info and link in the signature.

Thanks
Mason

Sweet

[iamnicola]

Hey all

My program is back after a one-week hiatus. Everybody listen! Info and link in the signature.

Thanks
Mason
Yay!!!

[thewarroom]

Link in the sig.

[thewarroom]

My program returns this week; link in the signature. If anybody would like me to play stuff, shoot me a link/file.

Thanks for listening,
Mason

[thewarroom]

Link in the signature. Be sure to expect my review of last week's Moz show in Ann Arbor.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i will tune in for sure, after work :thumb:
now, do you get $ or something based on how many people listen online?

[thewarroom]

i will tune in for sure, after work :thumb:
now, do you get $ or something based on how many people listen online?

Nah, i just don't know (m)any other people who might appreciate the music.

[echobay]

I will tune in. It was great to meet you in Ann Arbor.

[shawnxvx]

i want to tune in, but i have trouble staying up till midnight...:(

[thewarroom]

On air now all.

[echobay]

listening to you now.
Hope you're hiccups go away. :)

[thewarroom]

listening to you now.
Hope you're hiccups go away. :)

:D All better now. Thank goodness for drinking fountains!

[DavidMich]

listening now. did you already review the Ann Arbor show? I love college radio. I know people who dj'd the University of Michigan college radio station. I wish i did.

[JoyDiv007]

I'm listening as well. I called in and chatted. He played one of my fav REM songs ever Driver 8. Quite a diverse playlist. You rock!!! :guitar::guitar:

[DavidMich]

what is this? The Morrissey show? :D

Wait...isn't that four in the row for Morrissey? you just couldn't resist.

[thewarroom]

listening now. did you already review the Ann Arbor show? I love college radio. I know people who dj'd the University of Michigan college radio station. I wish i did.

Not sure if you heard it, but i just did. thanks for listening. :)

[thewarroom]

what is this? The Morrissey show? :D

It's becoming that way, isn't it? :)

[JoyDiv007]

The Morrissey show works for me.

[echobay]

It's becoming that way, isn't it? :)

That's not a bad thing.:D

[thewarroom]

what is this? The Morrissey show? :D

Wait...isn't that four in the row for Morrissey? you just couldn't resist.

about to be 5 :D

[DavidMich]

you're in preview!!!

ok you good now. press that button!!

[thewarroom]

you're in preview!!!

ok you good now. press that button!!

Oops! See i play all this stuff from a (broken) laptop. One of the speaker channels doesn't work anymore very well, so i've got a computer mouse holding the input jack up so it plays out of both channels...:o

Technology is fun, innit? ;)

[thewarroom]

Incidentally, (shameless plug coming), all 7 episodes of my late night chat show, "UT Nite Time with Mason Lowry" are up on YouTube.

Here's an ep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXjrEH26eM

It's funny stuff. Sometimes.

[JoyDiv007]

I'll have to check that out.

[thewarroom]

"Jeane," just for ya'll.

[JoyDiv007]

"Jeane," just for ya'll.


Thank you so much.

[thewarroom]

Thank you all for listening. See you next week! :D

-Mason

[JoyDiv007]

The station is playing Morrissey. I have Forgiven Jesus.