On Line Radio Stations

[MrSangster]

What radio stations do you listen to on-line?

I grew up in Chicago listening to WXRT and wish they would start streaming their broadcasts. The next best thing is WXRV, the River, in metropolitan Boston. A good independent station with a wide variety of music sources. No canned formats.

WWW.Wxrv.com

Other suggestions?

[dcsiouxfan]

www.wnti.org is a pretty good station. A friend of mine does a show on the weekends. It has a wide variety of music and I listen to it when i can.

[ndp21f]

NPR and the BBC both have a lot of content on their sites. I primarily listen to NPR at work, though the BBC is better for music, obviously.

[MeridianFC]

I listen to WETA and BBC scotland but the latter's streaming can be patchy at times. For music I mostly listen to spinner.com which is quite excellent for my at work needs, though it is "canned".

[Footix]

Originally posted by dcsiouxfan
www.wnti.org is a pretty good station. A friend of mine does a show on the weekends. It has a wide variety of music and I listen to it when i can.

Wow! I didn't even know they were online!

I grew up a few towns over from there (Hackettstown, NJ) and used to have a ball calling them up when I was in grade school...they only had one phone in the studio, a one-liner with an audible ring, so if the DJ was on the air in the middle of a rap, he'd literally have to stop everything and pick up the phone, usually with his mic hot, and if you hung up just as they answered, they'd get all flustered and/or pissed off. Very Bart Simpson.

[Speedball]

Originally posted by Footix
Wow! I didn't even know they were online!

I grew up a few towns over from there (Hackettstown, NJ) and used to have a ball calling them up when I was in grade school...they only had one phone in the studio, a one-liner with an audible ring, so if the DJ was on the air in the middle of a rap, he'd literally have to stop everything and pick up the phone, usually with his mic hot, and if you hung up just as they answered, they'd get all flustered and/or pissed off. Very Bart Simpson.

I grew up in Andover and used to listen to WNTI while playing cards with my family on Friday and Saturday nights. One night, when they were playing oldies, my sister and I called up the station and the know-it-all DJ requesting a song title and group that we made up. We asked for "Kiss of an Angel" by the Monotones. Little did we know, there was a group called the Monotones. The DJ spent the rest of the night digging through his mountain of vinyl to find the song. Finally, just before he went off the air, he figured out we were screwing with him.