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  Bad Radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bad Radio was a four piece, progressive funk rock band from San Diego, California.
Between 1988 and 1990, future Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder was the vocalist.
In 1989, the band won the annual battle of the bands contest held by San Diego radio station, 91X, with their second demo titled "What The Funk".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bad_Radio   (176 words)

  
 Bad Subjects: Radio Shock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As important as radio has become to the new conservative hegemony, the new administrative apparatus has a deep and complex history which deserves to be explored in order to understand the complexities of the new power of talk radio.
I now turn to talk radio's tremendous success in the 1990s to show how technology has been utilized by partisan politics to construct the appearances of a conservative 'revolution,' and how the Republican 'revolution' is now threatened by the talk radio technology that took it to the national Congress in 1994.
Moreover, radio listening as well as TV viewing is associated with leisure and leisurely activities, but considered functionally, these are both but new varieties of consumptive work generated by globally integrating economies which can increasingly produce more value with less and less labor.
bad.eserver.org /issues/1995/23/burkart.html   (3394 words)

  
 The Wireless: More bad news for radio
Bad for radio as a means of broadcasting over the air using wireless waves?
There are traditional radio stations who earn a good deal of revenue from non-radio web services (one radio group in New Zealand runs a highly successful employment website, for instance).
I may be an extreme case of a radio consumer (an active 'high-use' radio consumer that arguably listens to almost nothing on the radio), but I think it's safe to say that things are different.
thewireless.blogspot.com /2005/12/more-bad-news-for-radio.html   (654 words)

  
 Bad Brains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bad Brains was founded in 1979 by guitarist Gary Miller, better known as Dr.
Bad Brains released their first cassette-only album in 1982 on NYC's ROIR Records.
Bad Brains then polished their sound without losing any of the intensity on '83's Rock for Light, entering the studio with Ric Ocasek producing.
www.epitonic.com /artists/badbrains.html   (577 words)

  
 Radio Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Radio execs are confident their plan for HD radio will save the day.
I'm most fearful that the radio industry is making a huge mistake by putting all their eggs in the HD basket when they should be spending more - much more - on development of talent, programs, and how to use the internet.
HD Radio is going to die on the vine unless the chatter about it starts to revolve around the programs HD Radio carries.
www.audiographics.com /agd/s2111005.htm   (648 words)

  
 Bookshelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Radio hobbyist books are something of a niche market in the book publishing world, so you aren't likely to find huge displays of them down at the chain megastores.
Not a lot of radio theory is presented in the book; this may be an advantage or disadvantage, depending upon your point of view.
An exploration of the transformation of American radio's incredible potential as an educator, enlightener, and uniter of the country to a hawker of wares.
www.radioenthusiast.com /bookshelf.htm   (2954 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Pay for play
Radio is an entity unique to the music industry.
Sure, once in a while the indies showed their appreciation by sending some cocaine or hookers to station employees, but the colorful crew of fix-it men were basically providing a service: forging relationships with the gatekeepers in the complex world of radio, and turning that service into a deceptively simple and lucrative business.
There are 10,000 commercial radio stations in the United States; record companies rely on approximately 1,000 of the largest to create hits and sell records.
archive.salon.com /ent/feature/2001/03/14/payola   (812 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Radio's bad boy kisses FCC rules goodbye in $500M deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a statement, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said good riddance to Stern: "Satellite radio is one of the many technologies that the commission is strongly promoting to expand the diversity of choices for the American public.
Analysts say that satellite radio — with the necessary gear increasingly offered as standard or optional equipment by car manufacturers — could be a new frontier.
Just as radio and newspapers steadily lost clout in recent decades to television, and as cable and the Internet increasingly siphon viewers from broadcast TV, so too could satellite radio cut into AM and FM audiences, becoming home to hosts like Stern who bridle at federal rules on salacious material.
www.usatoday.com /money/media/2004-10-06-stern-cover_x.htm   (1505 words)

  
 radio - Homestar Runner Wiki
STRONG BAD: {as Public Radio host} Today on Capitol Hill, the fish was delish, and according to U.N. secretary council members, it made quite a dish.
Judging by the call letters of the college radio station, Free Country, USA must be east of the Mississippi River.
The short theme heard while Marzipan listens to public radio is reminiscent of the theme to the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered".
www.hrwiki.org /index.php/radio   (2256 words)

  
 Potomac News Online | Bad radio, bad music
The illusion that hit songs playing on the radio are the result of listener preference and album sales took a major hit this week when a New York prosecutor got one of America's biggest record companies to admit it was paying radio stations to play songs from its artists.
With the demise of the independent radio station, playlists on stations from coast to coast have become increasingly homogenized.
Massive consolidation of the radio and recording industry over the past two decades seems to have made this dirty deed much easier.
www.potomacnews.com /scripts/isapi_srun.dll/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784118951&path=!news!opinion   (471 words)

  
 Krakow: New radio formats sacrifice sound - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
The headline on the March issue of Wired proclaims “The End of Radio (As We Know It).” Inside are stories on the satellite radio wars, the coming digital radio boom plus radio recording devices and even podcasting.
Radio isn't ending -- all that's happening is we're getting more of it.
Satellite radio partially solves this by giving you a huge choice of stations: Songs from every decade, genre, style and persuasion are available on both XM and Sirius services.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7150262   (536 words)

  
 free radio directory - California-Recall.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
the method we've chosen, as is used on this free radio topic area, is to present lists of links at the top of the page in handy "title only" form, while providing additional commentary for those who desire it, as footnotes.
BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station specialising in popular music aimed at a young..
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
www.california-recall.com /radio/free-radio.php   (977 words)

  
 Public radio's bad dream | Salon.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank coaxes along a confessional flow of sexual encounters or childhood humiliations that serve as unlikely springboards for the most profound questions of human existence: the need for love, the longing for family or the nature of suffering.
It is instead a dense collage of scripted monologue and staged improvs that are edited down from hours of raw material to 60 minutes of seemingly spontaneous storytelling.
These are transcribed, edited and then rerecorded by Frank, who races from his home in Santa Monica, Calif., to the studios of KCRW, his home station, early in the morning, without softening his deep seductive voice with extraneous conversation.
dir.salon.com /ent/feature/2000/03/07/joe_frank   (866 words)

  
 Crossroads: The Unofficial Bad Radio Website
Bad Radio was a semi-progressive/funk/rock band of the late 1980s from San Diego, California.
At the peak of their success in 1989, they received radio airplay on local San Diego rock stations and even won that year's "Battle of California Originals," a battle of the bands put on by San Diego radio station 91X.
Most interest in Bad Radio today originates from fans of Pearl Jam, whose vocalist, Eddie Vedder, once sang for, informally managed, and promoted Bad Radio.
badradio.fanspace.com   (251 words)

  
 The True RV'ers Forum: MotorHome radio reeption   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If both radios are indeed using the same antenna, the one inside may not be really hooked to the antenna but your reception is coming only from the down lead.
The “Y” splitter could be bad or the internal radio is not hooked to the “Y” splitter.
If reception was good and now has gone bad, the antenna lead that connects to the back of the radio may have loosened up a little or there may be corrosion at the mount location on the roof of the RV.
www.rverscorner.com /discus/messages/893/1212.html?1069072524   (1087 words)

  
 BAD DAWG RADIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bad Dawg Radio is a Podcast that airs the Best in Indie Rock and Blues.
Maria Daines received the "International Online Music Artist of the Year Award." They are also getting attention from the media as she was interviewed by Sue Marchant on BBC Radio Cambridge.
They are now working on their new CD "Boneyard" which will be released later this year.
www.baddawgradio.com   (1793 words)

  
 Woodalls Open Roads Forum: Tech Issues: AM radio noise BAD!
When the engine is running you can't hear the AM radio at all, ok when engine is off.
Unplug the antenna from the radio and check that the antenna itself is connected to earth.
That type of problem is most often caused by a lack of earth at the antenna end or a faulty connection in the antenna shield.
www.woodalls.com /forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/894924.cfm   (161 words)

  
 Strong Bad does radio, and it's hilarious! Oh, and radio still sucks.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I'm not sure if it will be as funny to you without that radio experience, but for someone that loved the medium and loathes what it has become, it's freakin' comedy gold.
You can trace the death of good radio back to the days when Congress was into deregulation for the sake of deregulation.
When the FCC lifted ownership restrictions on radio, therefore handing the scarce resource of FM bandwidth over to huge media companies, they killed every last chance that radio had to be personal and local.
weblogs.asp.net /jeff/archive/2004/12/15/316498.aspx   (243 words)

  
 Late To The Download Dance
Broadcast radio stations are turning their Web sites into music stores via paid download services that mimic Apple Computer's (AAPL) enormously popular iTunes.
RADIO'S NOD TO COMMERCE is in part an attempt to salvage its screwed-up relationship with listeners.
Satellite radio, which requires purchasing new gear and paying more than $100 in yearly fees, is projected to have nearly 10 million subscribers by yearend.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_33/b3947041.htm   (943 words)

  
 a crank’s progress » deterministic detection of bad radio
I have developed a deterministic method for measuring this badness, and it has to do with Pink Floyd’s execrable The Wall.
Radio stations that never play it are almost always quite good; ones that play it a lot are the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.
Radio Paradise Internet Radio is one the best things to come out of all this dotcom-packetswitched madness.
www.paulbeard.org /wordpress/index.php?p=2599   (518 words)

  
 Free Experimental Internet Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is a hobby enjoyed by about 3 million people[1] throughout the world.
Music radio is a radio format where music is the primary source of broadcast content on both commercial and non-commercial stations.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
internetradio.faimusic.com /index.php?k=free-experimental-internet-radio   (984 words)

  
 Badcasters: Radio Sucks: HOME
Any fan of Bad Radio owes an incredible debt to this old guy who set the standard for the industry that nobody has yet to rival.
The infamous parody of consultancies and bad radio stations, concocted and mixed by co-editor Michael Bischoff, and starring Clarke Ingram, Program Director of Pittsburgh's Jammin' Oldies 104.7.
En route to a radio club's convention, one of the members heard this morning guy who played shock segues (perhaps designed to wake people up?) and talked like that cartoon pig.
www.badcasters.com /listen.asp   (951 words)

  
 Apollo Radio Conversations - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
One of the arguments I've seen that the Apollo landings were fake was a radio signal would take about 2.5 seconds to make a round trip from the earth to the moon.
I've listened to a couple snippets of radio logs, and it does seem that the astronauts reply immedietly after Mission Control talks.
I have also seen transcripts of parts of the controller loop, but this is the first time I've heard the whole thing, synced to the radio communications.
www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?p=8536#post8536   (2290 words)

  
 Bad Dog Blues Radio
Bad Dog Blues is broadcast live from WITR 89.7 based out of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Bad Dog Blues has been blasting the blues for the past fourteen years playing the best blues from the 20's to the present.
We span the history of the blues bringing you everything from barrelhouse piano to searing electric blues.
www.baddogblues.com   (218 words)

  
 Bad radio - F150online Forums
Well I almost got 1000 miles on my new F150 Lariat, only problem is I have a big whole in my dash where the radio is suppose to be.
It seems to me that there should be some kind of replacement rotation from either Ford or the dealership where they would just replace it and then send the bad one out to be repaired.
I work at a Ford dealership, to be honest theres not much we can do as far as ordering you a new radio.
www.f150online.com /forums/showthread.php?t=159745   (656 words)

  
 bad radio?
I have a 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan and have been having a problem with the radio lately.
During summer time when the air conditioner or even the blower fan is on you can occassionally hear it through the radios speakers.
I have heard that certain 1996 oem radios have gone or go bad over time and would like to know if thats what I need to replace or not.
www.dodgeforum.com /m_7128/tm.htm   (284 words)

  
 The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney: Staffers Worried About AAR's Future
It's bad enough the company is generating fresh bad publicity almost daily, over the diverted $875,000 in taxpayer funds intended for a Bronx-based community service organization.
Too bad AAR panders to those who either can't afford a radio, or those who aren't allowed to bring radios into the mosques they hide in.
Or that her own BOSS has given interviews about how, once she started dating someone in the embassy (he was almost always an aide, not a real ambassador) she knew she would have to give up her covert status, and how she used to tell EVERYONE she worked for the CIA.
radioequalizer.blogspot.com /2005/08/staffers-worried-about-aars-future.html   (8151 words)

  
 diyAudio Forums - Bad ground = radio, but why?
Your bad ground acted like the diode in an old crystal radio.
Look up 'crystal radio' on the web and you'll see what was going on.
When it not was normal radio from russia I tuned in the russian woodpecker = shortwave radar with huge output power.
www.diyaudio.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=409704   (420 words)

  
 SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket -
Hosted by Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell, BaD Radio (short for Bob and Dan) is sports silliness at its finest, an oasis of yuks in the sea of serious afternoon sports and news talk shows.
March with the General, Thursdays at 2:10 with BaD Radio.
Whether it's boxer Mike Tyson singing about Wisconsin and Jeffrey Dahmer, the New Jersey Nets Dikembe Mutumbo's cookie monster voice, or DJ Casey Kasem cursing through a promo spot, BaD Radio is smart-ass and sophomoric.
www.theticket.com /badradio.html   (229 words)

  
 eBay - bad radio music, CDs, Records items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bad Religion - Radio Broadcast Live USA 1993
Pearl Jam / Bad Radio demo tape original
Bad Heir Ways - Under-Radio (prog rock supe...
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=bad+radio+music&...&krd=1   (419 words)

  
 Now, that wasn't so bad - TV & Radio - Entertainment - theage.com.au
News coverage was, for a while at least, limited, radio with a few pictures.
From Jack Davey and radio days, we moved swiftly to soon feeling at home with a new batch of young, hyperactive entertainers with irreverent faces and those polished Australian newsreaders with Oxford accents.
In America, TV was based largely on a commercial understanding of cinema; in Britain, John Reith's paternalistic dictates were given a more theatrical interpretation.
www.theage.com.au /news/TV--Radio/Now-that-wasnt-so-bad/2005/06/16/1118869038788.html   (2481 words)

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