Tuning In: Radio Stations

Let me just I really didn't enjoy this assignment. Every time I drove I listened to the radio and pushed the seek button every few minutes. The display acts up sometimes in my car though, so sometimes I had to wait and listen and wait for the announcer person to say which station I was listening to!

KBULL 93.3: I'll get the bad stuff out of the way first. KBULL is the country station, so it's main genre of music is country (surprise!). I'm not going to lie, I used to be a huge country fan, but not so much anymore. I mean, I like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, but if you've heard one country song, you've heard them all. I did notice that the station played a decent variety of old and new artists, like Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, etc. There was the average amount of "talking," whether it be from DJs or advertisements or whatever, but local happenings seem to be their main point, which is probably a good thing, because not many other stations do that.

JACK 103.1: JACK's slogan is, "We play whatever we want," and they're basically right. This is the station you hear at the doctor's; there's a little bit of everything to keep everyone happy. I loved hearing The Beatles and U2 back-to-back, it's just an overall all around good station! There's minimal talking, and very diverse. You hear about restaurants and store openings and closings. This station is good for everyone because you never hear the same song twice, and you never know what's coming next!

MY 99.5: This station is geared more towards adults. It's kind of like JACK, but with more recent music. There's tons of talking, mostly advertisements about clubs and restaurants and cars. My parents would probably like this station a lot. Something neat I found is that the song name and artist is announced after each song is played.

KBYU 89.1: Of course I had to pick this one! This classical station is broadcasted with limited interruption (at least when I listened to it anyway). I could fall asleep listening to this stuff, but for all the music majors on campus, I'm sure they listen to it all the time. I wonder if this is the station that they play in the special music room in the Testing Center...

-Jenn