If you’re a fan of Classic Alternative music, like you used to hear on KJET 1590 (interesting that DJ Mike Fuller was also part of that) or the early days of KNDD, before it sucked, you may like to check out KGRG1. You can listen to them on the Internet at KGRG1 Classic Alternative Radio.
Shack The Shack Dead
DJ Mike Fuller retired ending the 30 year run of Shake the Shack, this April. I miss this show very much, it was a Friday Night regular for me. I will admit that it seemed lacking since Dr. Leon Berman left. Maybe the show just couldn’t survive without a Dr. of Proctology at it’s helm.
Two genre’s of music I particularly enjoyed were rockabilly and surf music, and I also enjoyed much of the novelty music that aired on this show. The older I get, the more I feel abandoned by the broadcast industry. Not excited by the more mainstream trash programming that KEXP has replaced it with.
There are some other good sources on the Internet such as That Rockabilly Show, but nothing I can listen to in my car as I’m out on my Friday grocery run.
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Art Bell Dead at 72 on Friday the 13th
While I was in high school (about 4 decades+ ago), I operated a pirate AM radio station on 1200 Khz. We’d always end our transmission with a sign-off then cut the transmitter. I had a Sony Earth Orbiter radio that I used to monitor our transmission and one night, after I cut the transmitter, I heard the last perhaps 1/2 second of our transmission on the radio as if it had been reflected back from some distant location. The thing is at 100 watts, our range was quite limited. With a high quality communications receiver you could hear us maybe 15 miles away, with the average radio maybe 3-4 miles. Not nearly far enough to account for the delay.
While there are many instances of echo on YouTube, it’s usually by not even 1/2 second but more on the order of 1/15th of a second, more of a reverb than an echo.
I have read of accounts of long delayed echos of as much as 30 seconds.
I have heard theories that it might involve a conversion from an electromagnetic wave into an acoustic wave in the plasma of the ionosphere and because the acoustic wave travels much slower, and then if by the same mechanism translated back into an electromagnetic signal, because the acoustic transmission was much slower in than the speed of light, especially in the tenuous plasma, that a relatively short path could account for the extreme delays.
I personally find this theory a bit convoluted and can’t help but wonder if perhaps something more direct is involved, something involving the nature of time perhaps not being strictly linear as we commonly think of it. Perhaps there are loops or vorticies in time.
Listening to Coast to Coast (since Midnight In The Desert doesn’t run on the weekends), I was noticing their ads for paranormaldating.com, etc.
I was wondering if you had like this psycho-killer guy on the dating site setting up dates that never returned, what kind of liabilities would Premier Networks and George Noory himself incur?
Tonight I am very saddened to hear that next Friday, July 15th, 2016, will be Dr. Leon Berman’s last Shake the Shack show on KEXP.
He will be leaving the program, Cuzzin Mike Fuller will continue the show, however, I can’t imagine it being the same or nearly as comprehensive musically as it has been under Dr. Berman’s leadership.
Dr. Leon Berman had this quote on his page, “I grew up thinking the voice of Pat O’Day was God”. Folks, Pat O’Day is radio done right in my book, and in his sober life a hell of a nice guy and so I can’t think of a better radio guy to emulate.
There is no explanation given in KEXP‘s website, in fact not even any notice that he is leaving, only found out listening to the show tonight.
Art Bell shared on his Facebook page a second reason he left the air. He is suffering from COPD. This is the same thing that killed my mother, also a long time smoker. I find it especially sad since he has a couple of young daughters to raise.
He did say he would try to do some “fill in” shows.
Used to be you could listen to coast-to-coast Live for free on the web. You had to be a member to listen to past shows but live shows were free.
The night before last I went to their site. The “Take Me To The Live Stream” link went to a hosting companies advertising page.
The Listen with Windows Player link didn’t work but I’m using Linux so didn’t expect it to.
The Listen with Coast Player link wanted me to sign in as a member.
So apparently they decided it wasn’t cost effective to provide free web access to the Live show anymore. I wrote to support, got this for an answer:
Hi Nanook,
Thanks for reaching out! Please note, a paid membership is required to access the content in our app and website.
If you do not and are interested in subscribing please go to:
For Coast Insider:
https://members.premiereinteractive.com/pcd/document?ikey=99989IGTZ.2
Thank you!
I informed them that it wasn’t worth $5/month to me to listen to George Noory.
It was announced tonight that Midnight In The Desert is going to be back on one of the major stations that carried it when Art Bell was the host. I’m glad to hear this. I think she is doing a good job.
With respect to audio quality, I’ve found that bringing the level down on the codec and then bringing up the master volume to compensate results in better quality.