Before Caroline Kennedy went on a date with a friend of mine, and before she was the namesake of a Neil Diamond Pop song, she was the namesake of a Pop radio station off the coast of England.
In the Links section you will find WMBR’s 88 Rewound. Each week songs are played by following a radio station hit chart from the mid-50’s to the mid-80’s. BBC Radio 2 has its own oldies countdown show, Pick of the Pops. This week in 1968 was only six months after the launch of BBC Radio 1.
Late breaking DJ news! Tom Hanks features girl groups in an all-new Songs from the Back of the Station Wagon. Today at 1 PM ET on TuneIn.
(Don’t tell Tom that I know how to access the station without going through TuneIn! Shhhhhh! https://rfcm.streamguys1.com/bossradio66-mp3)
MySqueezebox, the app intermediary for Logitech Media Server, is no more, taking access to TuneIn with it. Being determined to keep live radio streaming on my LMS network, I built a local collection of essential favorites to access the streams directly. It took a while to find all of the right URL’s, but they’re now working within LMS.
Today at 1 on TuneIn station Boss Radio 66, Tom Hanks celebrates our unconditional surrender to the British Invasion.
When I was doing AM radio DJ duty, I could monitor either what was going to the transmitter from the studio, or what the transmitter was putting out over the air.
If I was working alone on a weekend, I always monitored the over-the-air signal. What I heard wasn’t quite what listeners with regular AM radios heard, because the station’s AM receiver had wideband reception.
My GE Superadio III, now almost 30 years old, has wideband AM reception. It’s only useful during the day, on stations that are well separated on the dial from other stations. Here’s an example of the difference in sound quality, for all that it matters anymore. 🙁
The second part of the Freakonomics Radio podcast series on physicist Richard Feynman.
