Thursday, January 26, 2006
Now Yer Talkin' (WOR Podcasts)
Radio mostly sucks and I have little use for it. I do have one my ex-girlfriend recently gave me that's crank-recharge-able that accesses shortwave frequencies in addition to AM/FM and has a flashlight. I think it's pretty cool. The shortwave stuff anyway, and the flashlight has come in handy in a coupl'a situations.
But current music stations are crap and most of the talk shows even more so.
There are exceptions. Radio Paradise is a nice mix of contemporary-ish music styles that I access through WinAmp.com.
For talk there's no other show than Lionel. None. Not on the right. Not on the left. Apparently, common sense isn't too much to ask for. He gets played locally through WOR from 11pm to 1am. The show is actually three hours. For some reason the station joins him in the second. The full three hours is then broadcast the next day from 6pm-9pm as a re-run. I often listen to the show via my computer, streaming off their site.
I recently found that WOR is now podcasting, that is, taking their shows and providing them as mp3 downloads. Great news for me. Even better, the full three hour show is being made available. Bad news? The shows are about a week old (older if they're re-runs), so they're not up to date. Good news? Commercial free.
Now I have to learn how to subscribe to one of these things. I downloaded the January 16th (a re-run of an earlier) show in three segments and uploaded them to my PSP. I heard the last hour last week (me and a friend at work call this the "monkey brain" episode), but the first hour definitely helps put the whole show in perspective.
I didn't catch most of last weeks shows, so I better get to downloading...
January 17th, 2008 - Lionel's no longer on WOR, last time I heard. I stopped listening a while back. Don't remember how long ago, but it might've been sometime after I heard him (seem to) entertain some of that "truther" non-sense. He might be on Air America now. I dunno if the show is still downloadable. I don't remember what the monkey brain thing refers to exactly (a callers comments).
Haven't listened to Radio Paradise in a while either but they are still there..
But current music stations are crap and most of the talk shows even more so.
There are exceptions. Radio Paradise is a nice mix of contemporary-ish music styles that I access through WinAmp.com.
For talk there's no other show than Lionel. None. Not on the right. Not on the left. Apparently, common sense isn't too much to ask for. He gets played locally through WOR from 11pm to 1am. The show is actually three hours. For some reason the station joins him in the second. The full three hours is then broadcast the next day from 6pm-9pm as a re-run. I often listen to the show via my computer, streaming off their site.
I recently found that WOR is now podcasting, that is, taking their shows and providing them as mp3 downloads. Great news for me. Even better, the full three hour show is being made available. Bad news? The shows are about a week old (older if they're re-runs), so they're not up to date. Good news? Commercial free.
Now I have to learn how to subscribe to one of these things. I downloaded the January 16th (a re-run of an earlier) show in three segments and uploaded them to my PSP. I heard the last hour last week (me and a friend at work call this the "monkey brain" episode), but the first hour definitely helps put the whole show in perspective.
I didn't catch most of last weeks shows, so I better get to downloading...
January 17th, 2008 - Lionel's no longer on WOR, last time I heard. I stopped listening a while back. Don't remember how long ago, but it might've been sometime after I heard him (seem to) entertain some of that "truther" non-sense. He might be on Air America now. I dunno if the show is still downloadable. I don't remember what the monkey brain thing refers to exactly (a callers comments).
Haven't listened to Radio Paradise in a while either but they are still there..
Labels: downloads, podcasts, PSP, radio
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