88.9 FM, WERS, public radio from Emerson College, the only radio station what I have ever given money to and also the only one where I call in. Student DJs, mostly, occasionally entertainingly stoned; alternative rock from about 1970 onward plus new releases in alt hip-hop, R&B, and folk. Often whiter and more dude-focused music than I'd like, but they do switch to soul every night from 10 pm to 1 am, and play a deep-cut reggae song every afternoon at 4:20 for, as they put it, no particular reason. Every Saturday they do college a cappella groups which, depending on my mood, either makes me very happy or causes me to wince and leave fast. Caused me to buy the most recent New Pornographers album.
Also I do a thing, have done my entire life, which for some reason the people around me mostly don't do, and I don't understand why-- which is that I hit scan on the radio when WERS is not playing something I like, and I leave the radio on scan until something else occurs that I enjoy. Which can mean scan for a couple of hours, if it's a bad day for broadcasting. There have been a couple of really bad days where every single station has been sexism + racism bingo within the five seconds that scan takes and I have just turned the radio off in disgust, but most of the time it's like, half an hour of scan, run into a song I like on the mostly corporate alt-rock station, half an hour of scan, run into a song I like on the mostly-appalling "nostalgia" station, see if WERS has gotten over whatever means I wasn't there in the first place... I would enjoy this very slightly more if there were some way of skipping the sports-talk stations entirely, as around here they are unthinkably bro-y even in five-second increments, but other than that it works great.
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Also I do a thing, have done my entire life, which for some reason the people around me mostly don't do, and I don't understand why-- which is that I hit scan on the radio when WERS is not playing something I like, and I leave the radio on scan until something else occurs that I enjoy. Which can mean scan for a couple of hours, if it's a bad day for broadcasting. There have been a couple of really bad days where every single station has been sexism + racism bingo within the five seconds that scan takes and I have just turned the radio off in disgust, but most of the time it's like, half an hour of scan, run into a song I like on the mostly corporate alt-rock station, half an hour of scan, run into a song I like on the mostly-appalling "nostalgia" station, see if WERS has gotten over whatever means I wasn't there in the first place... I would enjoy this very slightly more if there were some way of skipping the sports-talk stations entirely, as around here they are unthinkably bro-y even in five-second increments, but other than that it works great.