Hi
No problem with your point, I think it is good to expect more of everything no
matter what. Am just adding a non-American perspective because it is so so
different here for radio.
Evergreen is all the hits from yesteryear. Evergreens. Nice eh. I think the
term is most used in Germany for all their old schlager.
Vicki
> Don't get me wrong. I am happy with the variety here, even if most of my
> audio enjoyment comes from either cd's or streaming mp3 playlists. We have
> all sorts of stuff in the bay area - the 4 college stations listed by Bob,
> late night KPFA, a 70's soul station. There's even an
> all-techno-all-the-time station here that just started a few months ago.
> They only have a playlist of 10 or songs, but they are also lacking in
> commercials and annoying radio personalities.
>
> Once you leave the urban centers, the choices quickly peter out.
>
> What's Evergreen?
>
> >Hiii
> >
> >>Where I grew up, there was only the top 40 station, the classic rock
> >>station, and the lite 70's station. Out of all the "indie" stations, KPFA
> >>is the only one I can get in regularly, and they're mostly talk. I only
> >>get KALX about 25% of the time (the same was true for KUSF when I lived
> >>about a mile from it).
> >
> >In most non-US towns and cities this is still the case. I would love to be
> >near just one of the stations you receive even just in the Bay Area, let
> >alone anywhere else. In an attempt to further clarify what a great thing
> >you have going on with radio in America, and what there is to lose of
> >course you might want to know/recall that in Europe where there is no such
> >thing as college radio, let alone anything else that isn't either dinosaur
> >BBC programming or local Evergreen stations.
> >
> >In Britain there are less than 10 shows in the whole country with an
> >agenda/show playing anything remotely freeform/experimental/underground,
> >not even overground underground. Of all the radio I've done, 95% has been
> >in America, and of that, much of my good live stuff has been done through
> >such a platform.
> >
> >Vicki
>
>
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