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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Top 5 Radio Stations Of My Formative Years |
| Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:19:04 -0600 |
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>Funny, ESPN sports airs on 1110 AM here in Los Angeles. I tuned to that
>station on Saturday and noticed that it was playing music instead, a lot of
>current "Disney" oriented stuff. In the millieu of lo-fi AM Radio
>transmission, those songs sounded really good! I've oftened wondered if a
>lot of what I dislike about today's Top 40 is its high fidelity, relative to
>the radio stations of my youth? My experience on Saturday may have been a
>good litmus test.
I get a similar nostalgic feeling when I listen to Radio Disney in Dallas,
its about the only thing left on AM that sounds like the classic Top 40 of
the past. Even gooey teenpop sounds great in super-compressed mono. I
believe 1110 swapped frequencies with 710 in LA a month or two ago.
Billy
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