All Things 'Talk Radio' (Discussion About Talk Radio)

Myself ^ | 7/2/07 | Myself

[msnpatriot]

It's been awhile since a comphrehensive discussion on Talk Radio, it's been in the news lately also. I realize we often stream Talk Radio, but there are some of us who just enjoy old fashion talk radio too.

Some possible subjects could be:

1. What kind of AM radio do you use, or is your favorite?

2. Do you listen to talk radio on an antique radio? Or Tube Radio?

3. Do you listen to talk radio on a radio you built yourself?

4. Whats your favorite TR show, or host?

5. Is there a local TR show you listen to that you can recommend we stream? Or try to listen to on 'skip'?

6. Is there anyone who hates TR, and can't bear listening to it?

7. How many of you are so addicted to talk radio that it's on almost day and night? :^) Or do you have multiple radio's on at the same time?

.8 Any AM Shortwave listeners out there?

.9 What affect will the 'Fairness Doctrine' have.

[msnpatriot]

I am a radio 'Junkie' here, always have to buy one if there's a different scheme or variation out there. I don't count anymore, I may have over 30!

Around 2000 I got a CC Radio from CCrane, it has turned out to be the best performing AM radio without any antenna assist.

I hear that CCrane will have a mini CC radio out in late august for $49 including SW.

I have gravited to smaller portable radios when I'm running around. The small Radio Shack Transistor Size radios have excellent performance, and battery's last a long time.

Of the radio's I have, the little Grundig FR200 windup radio goes the longest on battery's. Using 3AA 'alk' cells it went every day for a couple months on talk radio on one set. Also good performance and audio.

Once in awhile I like to listen to a 1933 Tube Montgomery Ward Airline Tombstone radio thats restored. It has the wide shoulder type tubes, and requires a long wire antenna, no internal one. Yet performs excellent. It pulls in TR from all over the western US at night, from it's Southern Cal QTH.

They have done amazing things with minature parts now, and can make palmsized radios that out perform more expensive radios from the past. Just picked up an $8 radio at 'Big Lots', it runs on two D batteries, and I'm on the 4th month with the same batteries!

Favorite host? I have too many. But I think George Noory is the best all round and entertaining host out there, and provides the most imformation on a weekly basis....

Any who, how about you?

[P-40]

.9 What affect will the 'Fairness Doctrine' have.

Nothing, but its failure will revitalize talk radio.

[petertare]

I have listened to am radio close to 50 years. Homebuilt and antique sets. A crystal radio that required no electrical source and was good for 100 miles if a 50kw station.

I have worked ham radio with a key, and swl dx several dozen years. I had, as a kid, proposed to a local station that I would provide them copies of BBC and Radio Moscow if they would play it. (Went no where and was probably a legal matter or two there).

Domestic radio is better now than it ever was. I miss mystery theatre and even remember an episode or two of cowbay action and the eery organ music of many opening shows. Still, it has entertained and informed the nation since the 1920s with the KDKA early Presidential election returns, the 40s with the first overseas capitol to capitol sw broadcasts and so greatly enriched our lives. My dad told me that while on Midway isl he could receive a Des Moines broadcast on many nights. How that must have lifted the heart of a homesick PT boater.

I am so pleased with what we have—it has been grossly overregulated at times—almost a monopoly that has shut doors to mom and pop—but all in all—what a great delight.

[P-40]

I miss mystery theatre and even remember an episode or two of cowbay action and the eery organ music of many opening shows.

Many of these shows are for sale at your local bookstore now. They have been fun to listen to.

[Kitanis]

I too like to listen to Talk Radio..

Right now i am using a Sony mini-bookcase radio to listen to the local stations

But when I want long distance, I have a GE Super Radio III and a Radio Shack DX radio for shortwave or long distance DXing.

I have no antique radio and never built one.

4. Whats your favorite TR show, or host?

I would have to say Michael Medved

5. Is there a local TR show you listen to that you can recommend we stream?

Yeah.. and to get angry about.. Listen to Ed Schultz every once in awhile. His twists on the news and how he blaims conservatives all the time are funny to listen too.. kind of a opposite to Rush Limbaugh. plus.. he claims he beats Sean Hanity in many markets.. but after doing some research.. its only a month occasionally thing.. not a long range trend.

7. How many of you are so addicted to talk radio that it’s on almost day and night? :^) Or do you have multiple radio’s on at the same time?

Wish I could claim that.. but I do listen to TR in my car most of the time.

8 Any AM Shortwave listeners out there?

Use to be.. but the stations are now few and far between to enjoy.. no regular programing to enjoy.\

.9 What affect will the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ have.

I am insulted that it was even brought up and discussed by our elected representatives.. but apparently if it is enacted.. there will be a outroar.. or at least I hope so.

[jmyrlefuller]

1. Usually the cheapest one I can find, if it has decent AM reception. However, I do like radios that have shortwave, weather radio or TV channel frequencies.
2. No
3. No
4. That’s a tough one, I listen to several, and each one has his/her own strengths. For instance, I like Dennis Miller’s wit, Mark Levin’s passion, etc.
5. Tom Bauerle (WBEN 930 in Buffalo)’s pretty good, but other than that I usually stick to national stuff.
6. No, but I do listen to a lot of music radio (I’m a 70s music junkie)
7. Addicted is strong, but when I have free time there’s usually a show on that I like to listen to.
8. I had a handheld shortwave radio I loved to use for a long time. The only thing about it was that all I could find on the shortwave band was the time service, religious broadcasts, stuff in foreign languages, and GCN— the infamous network that broadcasts Alex Jones. Still a hoot to hear what the moonbats think every now and then.
9. Disaster. No one wants to hear righties and lefties on the same station. Liberal talk only took any sort of foothold when it was segregated from the rest of talk radio and given its own stations. Now, the product is generally still pretty lousy, so its ratings are still very low, but the Fairness Doctrine would create a mushy mish-mash of conservative/liberal talk stations that people wouldn’t listen to because it’d drive them nuts even if libtalk was any good. AM radio as we know it would cease to exist with the exception of sports talk and farm reports.

[msnpatriot]

It’s hard to imagine talk radio any more vitalized than it is now here, the band is nearly full, except for the entended high end.

I would like to see more local talk radio too, but like the national stuff also.

Yeah, I think the failure of the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ would at least add more listeners.

I starting to think many more ppl who never listened to talk radio, are abandoning newspapers, Mainstream Broadcast type Nightly News, and the like and are trying talk radio after this Amnesty Bill reversal....

“.9 What affect will the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ have.

Nothing, but its failure will revitalize talk radio.”

[msnpatriot]

Your post on radio was fascinating.

I confess only listening for about 12 years. Didn’t know or realize it existed before that!

Once I discovered radio, I wondered what the Cold War days were like, hearing that the airwaves were full of propaganda. I listen to Radio Havana cuba occasionally, can’t believe whats on there...

[IslandJeff]

When I can’t podcast shows that are on the air, the C Crane VersaCorder works just fine, particularly paired with the sublime CCRadioPlus. Cassette tapes are as cheap as it can possibly get before they go extinct.

FWIW, the VersaCorder is the most accurate clock in my house.

A set of long-corded headphones also makes FM on the CC Radio a pretty nice-sounding stereo.

[msnpatriot]

Thanks for the info on the Versa-Corder, I occassionally think of getting one. People I’ve talked to either think it’s great, or think it’s something of the past...

[IslandJeff]

Depends on where you are. They’re going to come down in price, too, eventually.

The advantage of low-tech is that you don’t need an internet connection. Say, if you’re out at some cabin fishing or hunting, you won’t have to miss anything, as long as you can still pull in a signal. That same hypothetical cabin isn’t as likely to have a broadband internet connection.

I also use it to tape phone calls and the occasional dictation.

[GOPJ]

Bose. - Rush - once or twice a week - Hannity - once or twice a month. What affect will the 'Fairness Doctrine' have. The effect of the fight over the "fairness doctrine" will be re-energized talk radio - dug-in conservatives, and serious questions raised about National Public Radio and PBS. It won't pass - but the fight will help conservatives.

[Stegall Tx]

I use two Radio YourWays. One XL and one original. Betweeen the two, I used to record five hours of talk radio every day, download it to an MP3 player or my laptop and carry it to work every night. They were expensive up front, but when you compare the overall cost to the monthly charges to a few of the big name radio guys, it works out in the end.

[msnpatriot]

Never heard of em before, thanks info