Portland doesn't exactly have a wealth of decent radio stations - particularly if what you want on your morning commute is upbeat music. Blather, aka "Talk"...plenty of that. Awful "my wife left and took the dog" country...certainly.
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So it ticks me off that this morning I had to reduce my "decent station" list from a paltry 3 down to a miserable 2.
Sometime in the last two years, station 107.5FM turned into "Movin 107.5" - a CBS radio production. It was pop, some older R&B, with a few nuggets of goodness surrounded by ok stuff. Not earth-shatteringly good, but fine for commuting and waking up. However, over the last week or so I noticed I was NOT enjoying the music offered on that station nearly as much...seemed like more hip-hop was playing than anything else.
This morning was the final straw for me. I turned on the radio, and found "Radio Playhouse" or some such nonsense instead of music. Brash, un-funny talk radio - moved up from a hip-hop station that I didn't like. Not ONCE in my 20 minute commute did they play music.
I'm done - I'll use my evening commute to find an alternative, and then 107.5 is off my saved channels for good. Unbelievably stupid business decision CBS!
5 comments:
Just popped over from etsy!
Sounds like you need a CD player in your car. Radio can really suck sometimes :o(
Sounds like the west coast stations are no better than the east coast.
We are Howard Stern'ed to death in the mornings.
Ugh Helen, I know what you mean. There's another station that is OK in the afternoons, but carries Adam Carolla in the morning...nope, not listening to that!
I have a CD player, but nothing to listen to. Need to burn a few discs, obviously!
I feel your pain. I can't stand driving the in mornings without some music. Thankfully I have this adapter thingy (I'm not a technical person) and I just plug in my ipod and away I go.
Time for a mixed tape/cd?
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