80s Music Source.

Club977.com really does rock for 80s music. As I remember it.

They do a great job with their mix of music.

http://club977.com

I'm also a subscriber to Yahoo music, which is pretty cool because you can skip songs. You also rate the songs and the ones you rate highest can be played more often if you want. Plus I can just call up any song in their library and listen to it. This is like a dream come true (literally) for those of us who used to spin vinyl back in the day.

Of course XM Radio rocks. I listen to that in the car mainly, though it is available over the net.

The other day, for the heck of it, I tried listening to WLTE, KQQL, and KZJK...found spots running on all of them...for about 5 minutes...no music. Oh well, off I went to 107.5 - XM radio.
:) Doggone big-money radio. Austin may never understand the concept of walking into a radio station and meeting the owner. Assuming that there still are stations as we now know them.

I suppose the radio people generations before me complained when the live bands went away and they had to go with that DARN recorded music. (One thing we didn't mind was going to CD's from vinyl) Vinyl does sound good about 2 times worth of play ..then degrades quickly.
Tape! Yes...that did sound pretty good back at WHMH in the early 80s. One format we had on the automation was just AWESOME. Very well recorded. Even the Tanner stuff was a whole lot better than vinyl. At least it was one thing we had over the live stations with their vinyl.
;). And yes, an automated station can sound OK if done right. At least it's consistent and doesn't vary with weaker air talent.

Al and Pat...I think we caught the very tail end of at least the silver age of radio. The bronze age is well underway and tin can be too far away.

Oh...I'm just complaining from an entertainment perspective...the news, community service and information aspects...well....do they even exist?