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Re: Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM

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Post by jacquesm »

ynac wrote: post #17

This is a timely intersection for a search I've been doing for archives of the Quiet Storm shows of the 90s from Power 99 FM in Philly. At the start of my search I didn't realize how ephemeral radio was treated. Growing up I listened to tapes of Abbott and Costello, The Shadow, and dozens of other shows. I just assumed there were recordings of everything. I found hundreds of KCMU and WFMU shows I recorded from live s…

A friend in LA sent me KTWV tapes in the 80's and I'm still playing some of the music I could that way. Thank you for giving me inspiration to go find more new music.

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Post by ynac »

AirMax98 wrote: post #19
ynac wrote: post #17

This is a timely intersection for a search I've been doing for archives of the Quiet Storm shows of the 90s from Power 99 FM in Philly. At the start of my search I didn't realize how ephemeral radio was treated. Growing up I listened to tapes of Abbott and Costello, The Shadow, and dozens of other shows. I just assumed there were recordings of everything. I found hundreds of KCMU and WFMU shows I recorded from live s…

I thought Quiet Storm was on 105.3. Man I miss Philly rnb... SF radio doesn't even come close.

No kidding. Seattle has almost nothing left, except an AM station and a few shows on mixed format stations. Chicago's top shelf if you're hunting for online. They have lots of choices, just depending on your particular need / mood.

Power 99 was 98.9 WUSL (I looked it up to be sure). All I could recall for sure was "Power 99...FM". Heh.

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Post by ynac »

jacquesm wrote: post #21
ynac wrote: post #17

This is a timely intersection for a search I've been doing for archives of the Quiet Storm shows of the 90s from Power 99 FM in Philly. At the start of my search I didn't realize how ephemeral radio was treated. Growing up I listened to tapes of Abbott and Costello, The Shadow, and dozens of other shows. I just assumed there were recordings of everything. I found hundreds of KCMU and WFMU shows I recorded from live s…

A friend in LA sent me KTWV tapes in the 80's and I'm still playing some of the music I could that way. Thank you for giving me inspiration to go find more new music.

And you reminded me of a short-lived station out of either Philly or maybe smaller market like Pottstown that played new wave. I was loading my tape deck every night. I just dug out my old disks, cassettes, I wonder if they are in there.

There was also The Sunday Night Six-Pack on either WMMR or WYSP that played 6 albums straight through uncut. I used my VCR to record the whole show every week. Still have a few of them left - Joe Walsh night!

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Post by jacquesm »

ynac wrote: post #23
jacquesm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend in LA sent me KTWV tapes in the 80's and I'm still playing some of the music I could that way. Thank you for giving me inspiration to go find more new music.

And you reminded me of a short-lived station out of either Philly or maybe smaller market like Pottstown that played new wave. I was loading my tape deck every night. I just dug out my old disks, cassettes, I wonder if they are in there. There was also The Sunday Night Six-Pack on either WMMR or WYSP that played 6 albums straight through uncut. I used my VCR to record the whole show every week. Still have a few of th…

I still hear those jingles in my head (as well as local news about LA that had absolutely no bearing on my life at the time, but it stuck with me anyway).

Already I've found some recordings of them online thanks your message and I'm listening to it now, already found a couple of nice artists.

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Post by ynac »

CalRobert wrote: post #20
ynac wrote: post #17

This is a timely intersection for a search I've been doing for archives of the Quiet Storm shows of the 90s from Power 99 FM in Philly. At the start of my search I didn't realize how ephemeral radio was treated. Growing up I listened to tapes of Abbott and Costello, The Shadow, and dozens of other shows. I just assumed there were recordings of everything. I found hundreds of KCMU and WFMU shows I recorded from live s…

I still miss college radio from my teen years. KDVS had a great Commodore 64 music show…

This?

https://www.transbyte.org/SID/KDVS.html

Re: Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM

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Post by theragra »

I did something similar with Russian music broadcasts Muzprosvet and FM Dostoevsky.

Here: https://radar.lv

These were cult broadcasts for the new music, each with its own flavor.

Later, more broadcasts were uploaded to the website.

Now, 95% downloads are bots.

Still, chezch broadcasts Seance with ambient music is still uploaded.

If you like to discover music, welcome. Its in Russian, but easily translated by Google etc.

Re: Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM

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Post by BoxOfRain »

reticulates wrote: post #12
mc32 wrote: post #10

Off topic but how were pirate radios able to operate while people with sets would have vans going around and fining people for not having a TV license? In the US sometimes you’d have pirate radio off the coast so as to avoid “jurisdiction” though I’m not sure how effective that was.

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not but TV license detection vans are a joke, a scare tactic, a meme, they don’t exist. TV license “inspectors” just showed up at houses and asked if they were watching broadcast TV. Pirate radio would broadcast from the top of buildings and did often get caught. https://youtu.be/7hvF7mbNs50 a BBC documentary from 2004

To be fair TV detector vans actually did exist in the early days of TV, there were just barely any of them because they were expensive and they were just as effective as psychological tactic. The idea was that old televisions would radiate the local oscillator frequency used in the superheterodyne circuit strongly enough it was detectable from the street, where it could be direction-found from the van outside. Ringway Manchester has a decent video on the subject.

This wouldn't work nowadays for obvious reasons, but they still pretend the vans are a thing as far as I know.

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