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What are radio stations like in the states
In my shitty-ass ****ry (Australia)
there are no radio stations dedicated to electronica. There is only one that plays electronic for a solid amount of time but its always late on a Sunday night, and only for a few hours.
How many electronic stations do u guys have in the states?
haha yeah, and it's also a well known fact that listening to Nova lowers your IQ
I was referring to Triple J. I thought Nova was a pop station 
well, anyway it looks like they dont have any radio stations in America. They turn on their radios and get White Noise 
Our radio stations blow.
Our radio stations SUCK!! All they play is shitty country, hip-hop or emo (all of them I hate with a passion). I need to turn to Internet radio for my electronica needs.
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| Originally posted by meneedit I was referring to Triple J. I thought Nova was a pop station |
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| Originally posted by DJ Tsunami Our radio stations SUCK!! All they play is shitty country, hip-hop or emo (all of them I hate with a passion). I need to turn to Internet radio for my electronica needs. |
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| Originally posted by s3nate Same thing here. There is only two radio stations that play EDM and thats only at most twice a week for two hours. |
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| Originally posted by PersianMafia I only know 94.5 plays Essential and sat nights. What else? |
Most of the stuff on the radio is Hip-Hop and R&B, then emo screamo bullsht. There is no radio station in the states dedicated to electronica. but there is Satellite Radio which i love, i prefer Sirius because you get howard stern as well.
In North Carolina, you cannot escape Hip Hop. In a place so central to the Hip Hop Scene (take you shirt off and twist it in the air), escape should not be expected. The clubs play hip-hop. The mix stations play hip-hop. The pop stations play hip-hop. The rock stations play hip-hop. The indie college stations play hip-hop. And when they don't play hip-hop on these channels, they play R&B, Emo, or Nu Metal. The only stations that don't play hip-hop are the country stations, and, well, they play country.
Every so often, you can find a station with some good real metal, maybe some prog rock or post rock. The NCSU channel plays dark, progressive and psychedelic trance late, late at night. My friend and I were very pleased one night to hear Trancesetters - Roaches play on that station.
Suffice to say, you have to look hard for good music in the states. I think it's the same anywhere else. The most accessible stuff sells, plain and simple.
The only station you will find everywhere is Classic Rock, then there are a bunch of Top 40 hip hop stations, a few rap and a few country.
Near me there are no EDM stations, one used to play awful trance I don't even know what it was after 2 am on weekends, but it eventually stopped, and now theres nothing.
I worked in Detroit and found it had the best rock radio stations compared to any other place I've been.
There used to be a couple you could hear in/around some of the Mid-Atlantic East Coast beaches. (Ocean City, MD / etc.) They mostly played 'euro-pop' and trance/pop type stuff - but had some electronica and other assorted type things playing. It was actually pretty neat in the summers to be at the beach and have music like that playing. Im fairly sure none of them exist anymore nowadays.
im currently in college station TX....they play nothing other than country ........... 
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| Originally posted by thoughtlessjex In North Carolina, you cannot escape Hip Hop. In a place so central to the Hip Hop Scene (take you shirt off and twist it in the air), escape should not be expected. The clubs play hip-hop. The mix stations play hip-hop. The pop stations play hip-hop. The rock stations play hip-hop. The indie college stations play hip-hop. And when they don't play hip-hop on these channels, they play R&B, Emo, or Nu Metal. The only stations that don't play hip-hop are the country stations, and, well, they play country. Every so often, you can find a station with some good real metal, maybe some prog rock or post rock. The NCSU channel plays dark, progressive and psychedelic trance late, late at night. My friend and I were very pleased one night to hear Trancesetters - Roaches play on that station. Suffice to say, you have to look hard for good music in the states. I think it's the same anywhere else. The most accessible stuff sells, plain and simple. |
Re: What are radio stations like in the states
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| Originally posted by meneedit In my shitty-ass ****ry (Australia) there are no radio stations dedicated to electronica. There is only one that plays electronic for a solid amount of time but its always late on a Sunday night, and only for a few hours. How many electronic stations do u guys have in the states? |
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| Originally posted by Zombie0915 damn I didnt know you lived in NC! And you're within range of the NCSU station! Aside from the local NCSU statiom clearchannel owns pretty much everything, but on weekdays except for friday they do a few hours of EDM each night, and on sundays they play chillout. I think that station is pretty nice IMO, and I've heard much mroe EDM than progand psy on it, but their selection is quite random and unpredictable. |
Clear Channel is the largest radio company in the United states (and pretty much the world). They own, get this, between 1200-1400 radio stations in the United States. They even own a Hip Hop station in Australia...
eh, the one dance channel here plays cheese. oh well.
everything else is like alternative/top 20 (clear channel owns majority of the top20 stations)
do you guys nkow that artists pay radio stations to PLAY their songs?
stupid capitalism :\
I just rely on internet radio, there are a few stations in Ohio that play techno at really late hours and when I was in NYC I found a channel that plays old eurodance and poppy stuff like "I like to move it" but for the most part radio stations here blow. Although Jam 92 in Cleveland used to pump out the eurodance back in the early 90's when that stuff was popular.
energy 92.7 in sf...good weekend shows for housey stuff, and they just ended some good trance show, but during the week they play lots of vintage,commerical shit and shitty remixs of pop and r&b tunes..
I used to have some radio stations preset in my stereo in chicago. they were all the usual top-40 type stuff.
but then i moved to iowa for school and all of the stations that were preset for top40 were now country [:barf:].
so then i changed them to find the top40 stations in iowa.
and when i came back to chicago for breaks and stuff; all those stations were hispanic 
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fuck yeah i finally hit post 500.
one word...
SHIT!
yeah for the most part, everything here is dedicated to hip-hop music, which sucks balls. although i do get the essential mix from 8-10 on saturday. 
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