Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]online here: https://wfmu.org/ in Jersey City 91.1 and the Hudson Valley 90.1 On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > > wrote: > > > >> Nice. I have fond memory of public radio from our time in America, and > > incredibly, we still have mugs from WHYY in Philadelphia from the early > > 90s. They have survived several international moves. > > > > That's cool! WHYY in Philadelphia is one of the better public radio > > stations, producing some good shows (like Terry Gross's Fresh Air) which > > get shared around the network. > > > > WFMU, though - WFMU isn't a public radio station in any of the accustomed > > senses of the word. WFMU isn't part of those conventional public-radio > > networks (NPR, PRI, APM), and proudly, belligerently sometimes, has > nothing > > like the style of public radio. WFMU is a singularity (with a broad > > international listenership, by the way). It's completely freeform (which > > is to say that each individual DJ plays or does what that DJ wants to > play > > or do - within the limits of US broadcast obscenity rules, of course). > > There's so much variety that some new listeners are initially kind of > > befuddled - because depending on whose slot they tune in for, they could > > hear: 78 RPM records and Edison cylinders played on period equipment, > > facemelting Nordic death metal, sincere folk singers, Japanese pop, > > roadhouse honky-tonk, obscure 1970s pop/rock, straight-ahead rock and > roll, > > free jazz, twelve-tone modern "classical" music, hard bop, garage rock, > > 1980s-sounding jangle rock... or any of a few talk shows. > > > > http://www.wfmu.org/table > > > > One of the secrets to happy listenership is that once you identify your > > favorite DJs - people whose taste frequently aligns with your own - you > can > > listen to their shows at your convenience, because shows at WFMU are > > archives and playable on demand (via the website or via the Android or > iOS > > apps). > > > > http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/ > > http://www.wfmu.org/mobile.shtml > > > > If any people here want to tell me (off list - I've done almost enough > > plugging here) what kinds of music they like, I'll be glad to recommend a > > few shows they might enjoy listening to. > > > classical, classic jazz, foreign esp French please Nathan, > > > where is this station located? ie out of ? > > thanks, > > Steve > > > > > > And back partly on topic - I'll continue to drop pictures taken with the > SL > > in the previously-referred-to Flickr pile. Some more added this > evening: > > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157665752167155 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA