h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Those new radio channels got started today.

Finally, some *LIBERAL* media! Now, *THAT'S* what this country lacks.

Seriously, though, anything that gets people to listen to radio is a good thing. I'd love to hear more good old fashioned radio serials, and while I can't see this as being a large step towards that it certainly can't hurt.

Similarly, Frank Conniff is going to be a voice on one of these shows. Frank Conniff, who played TV's Frank in MST3K (and, because of this, is truly TV's Frank in real life as well), hasn't had much luck with long-lasting gigs for a while. He was a writer for the hilarious (but doomed) TV show "Invader Zim", for instance. He was also a writer and performer for a show called "O2Be" on either Lifetime or Oxygen (I don't know if it was funny or not, but Frank no longer works there). So far, this is just the second MST3K staff member that I know of who will blatantly state his political views to the world (it's assumed that most of the MST3K staff were liberal, though Mike Nelson's conservative). So this is a big day for MSTies like me. Gonna hear that voice again.

Seems that the Reverend Cisco Coto is just 58 days away from his marriage (he's the third part of the "Jay & Eileen" show on WLS Chicago, one of the few talk radio shows that I would actually consider labelling as "well balenced." Jay pretty much dislikes every political candidate, and is refusing to vote for a President unless he can find someone that he thinks can do the job. Not that I agree, butcha gotta admire the passion). It seems that his wedding registry was found and given direct airing, much to his embarrasment. I don't think that I'll purchase anything for him, but I'd be willing to bet that someone's going to find the website that they've posted it at and buy those "tongs" that Jay and Eileen teased 'im about.

Wish I could get Dr. Demento in my area. Well, lemme rephrase that....I wish that I could find Dr. Demento's show on some station in my area. For all I know, he's hiding on some obscure music station that I've never heard of that broadcasts from just a few miles away. But man, I've not heard any new novelty music in ages. Maybe I'll become a DJ next year and just play novelty music.

I think that radio stations should at least have to tell you who writes the music that they play. There's a great radio show that just plays three hours of straight techno every night. Sometimes they'll play a song that's just fantastic. But because it's techno, it's hard to say that it's recognizable. So you can't really go into a music store and say, "do you have that music that was playing last night on that one station?" But then the radio station refuses to tell you who wrote the music or what the music's title is. I'm sure that this is a legal issue, but it vexes me so.

I was following you for the first two sentences, but then you kinda lost me. Are we talking about the O'Franken Factor, here?

The first two sentences/paragraphs are on the new liberal radio networks that opened their airwaves today (of which the O'Franken Factor is just one of multiple shows (I believe)).

Then I talked for a bit about the lack of decent radio shows anymore.

Then I talked about the fact that TV's Frank/Frank Conniff is going to be one of the people on one of these new liberal radio networks.

Then I spoke about some of my local radio personalities.

Then I whined about not getting Dr. Demento in my area, followed by another whine about some music radio stations not telling me who the names of the artists behind their music are.

As the name implies, these are random thoughts, not serious discussions about any one particular radio topic.

Affy - you can listen to radio stations playing any type of music you want through the internet.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/music/radio/category.jsp?rc=soundtracks

That link is to the category of music that probably has novelty stuff on it. There are a couple of stations there that might fit: Laugh Trax, Comedy Corner, 1 Hit Wonders and maybe even Final Fantasy.

I particularly like some of the jazz stations, but I don't play them anymore because music distracts me from my work.

There are links at the top of the page to other categories as well. Also there are other stations listed to the left.

That'd work for computer use, but I mean real radio. With radio waves. My car's radio can't hook up to the Internet just yet, I'm afraid.