Archive for the 'radio' Category

Good to be back

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Yes, October has come and gone, and my little blog here is finally up and running again.
What happened? Well, suffice it to say someone (or some script) had their/its fun, and I have sufficiently learned the lesson of keeping all my scripts up-to-date.
During the down-time, I kept the blogging up at my Wordpress.com site, and [...]

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Meet the new WCLZ

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Only days after 93.9 FM switched to an automated, announcer-free blues playlist, WCLZ appears to have been taken over by Saga Communications/Portland Radio Group. Not much has changed so far.
It’s basically the same playlist (I’ve heard Death Cab, Feist, and Van Morrison over the past half hour). Their logo looks more like a radio station’s, [...]

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Best…music…ever…

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The guy I rode in to work with today was listening to a radio station that claimed to play “the greatest music ever made.”
Directly after making this incredibly audacious claim, the proceeded to play the synth pad/talk box intro to Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer.”
Who knew?
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Spirit of Radio Ga-Ga

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

According to the Portland Press Herald, WCLZ, the only local commercial radio station I bother listening to, is being sold. Their parent company is buying out ABC Radio, and needs to divest some stations. A notice on CLZ’s website says “it is our hope” that whoever buys the station will keep it the way it [...]

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