The post your radio presets thread

[rass]

XM1:
1 - 60s on 6
2 - Classic Vinyl
3 - 70s on 7
4 - The Bridge
5 - Yacht Rock (honestly, I forget what I had here before YR came back earlier this summer)
6 - Soul Town

XM2:
1 - Classic Rewind
2 - 80s on 8
3 - First Wave
4 - 90s on 9
5 - Lithium
6 - Backspin

XM3:
1 - The Spectrum
2 - SiriusXMU
3 - Alt Nation
4 - E Street Radio (just changed this week, change this one up relatively often)
5 - Raw Dog Comedy
6 - The Groove

FM1:
1 - 101.9 WFAN (NYC, local sports talk)
2 - 104.3 WAXQ (NYC, classic rock)
3 - 105.5 WDHA (NJ, classic rock, current rock, stripper rock)
4 - 98.7 WEPN (NYC, ESPN radio)
5 - 90.7 WFUV (NYC, non-commerical, indie/adult alternative)
6 - 101.1 WCBS (NYC, 70s/80s pop/rock hits)

FM2:
(Uh, shit. Since I activated the satellite radio I don't visit here but to skip through, so...)
1 - 88.3 WBGO (NJ, jazz, a pretty good classic soul program on the weekends)
2 - 101.5 WKXW (NJ, local news and talk, traffic)
3 - ???
4 - ???
5 - ???
6 - 106.7 WLTW (NYC, "Lite FM", here mostly because they go Christmas in November and yeah I like Christmas music)

AM:
1 - 660 WFAN (NYC, local sports talk, simulcast of 101.9 above)
2 - 1010 WINS (NYC, news)
3 - 880 WCBS (NYC, news)
4 - ???
5 - ???
6 - ???

FM3:
(I was gracious enough to allow my wife to put her presets here for when she borrows my car, so all of the local Top 40 types stations are here)

[Gunpowder]

FM: The local ESPN station

And some others

Pretty much either the ESPN station or Pandora on Bluetooth

[mister d]

Am I the only one who sets the same station multiple times rather than have dead presets? I think I have 660 on four of my six AM buttons.

[BSF21]

1) 90.1 WFYI -- IPR/NPR station
2) 91.3 ???? -- Carmel High School Radio (they play great stuff)
3) 92.3 WTTS -- Only major Independent station in the state. Alt/Folk/Indie/Lots of stuff. My fav station.
4) 93.9 -- Throwback hiphop/r&b
5) 94.7 WFBQ -- Classic Rock and the original home of Bob and Tom (who suck)
6) 99.5 -- Shitty pop/rap
7) 100.9 -- Shitty pop/rap
8) 103.3 WRZX -- Used to be a great hard/alt rock station. Now owned by iheartradio and plays the same 6 songs all day. No edge
9) 104.5 WJJK -- Broad sweeping classic rock. Great station.
10) 107.9 -- 70s/80s/90s/00s Can be OK in spurts

1070 WFNI AM The Fan -- ESPN Radio
1260 WIBC AM -- Fox Sports/WW1 Radio
1430 WXNT AM/97.5FM -- CBS Radio and home to my local hockey team.

[Giff]

I'm either Sirius or Spotify:

XM1: The Spectrum
XM2: SiriusXMU
XM3: JamOn
XM4: Lithium
XM5: The Loft
XM6: The Pulse
XM7: Grateful Dead Station
XM8: First Wave
XM9: The Groove (been meaning to change it since they stopped being all-Prince)
XM10: Outlaw Country

[duff]

1) 90.1 WFYI -- IPR/NPR station
2) 91.3 ???? -- Carmel High School Radio (they play great stuff)
3) 92.3 WTTS -- Only major Independent station in the state. Alt/Folk/Indie/Lots of stuff. My fav station.
4) 93.9 -- Throwback hiphop/r&b
5) 94.7 WFBQ -- Classic Rock and the original home of Bob and Tom (who suck)
6) 99.5 -- Shitty pop/rap
7) 100.9 -- Shitty pop/rap
8) 103.3 WRZX -- Used to be a great hard/alt rock station. Now owned by iheartradio and plays the same 6 songs all day. No edge
9) 104.5 WJJK -- Broad sweeping classic rock. Great station.
10) 107.9 -- 70s/80s/90s/00s Can be OK in spurts

1070 WFNI AM The Fan -- ESPN Radio
1260 WIBC AM -- Fox Sports/WW1 Radio
1430 WXNT AM/97.5FM -- CBS Radio and home to my local hockey team.

Ah, the stations of my youth.

So I am guessing X103 doesn't have X-Fest anymore. I haven't listened to Bob and Tom forever, I had no clue that Bob retired. And the shows sucks so bad now days. Butler used to have a station, but I don't remember what it was. Way down on the dial. Played great music. Probably similar to the Carmel station now.

[sancarlos]

Sirius XM1 - Underground Garage
Sirius XM2 - Outlaw Country
Sirius XM3 - Ozzy's Boneyard Classic Hard Rock
Sirius XM4 - The Loft
Sirius XM5 - Classic Vinyl
Sirius XM6 - Classic Rewind
Sirius XM7 - 1st Wave
Sirius XM8 - Deep Tracks

Wife has the rest of the presets. Above is roughly the order in which I most frequently listen.

[howard]

Sirius XM
Ch 312 - Tom Petty's Buried Treasure. I play this at least 80% of the time I listen to radio.
Ch 21 - Little Steven's Underground Garage
Ch 70 - BB King's Bluesville
Ch 76 - Symphony Hall (One of the doctors I work with prefers classical music in the procedure room)

Internet Radio Streams
KNBR 680 AM San Francisco - "The Sports Leader" - 30 minutes before each Giants' game, Kruk and Kuip on Baseball, and the Post Game Wrap. And Warrior games.
WFMU 91.1 FM Newark NJ- Independent free-form radio. When their shit is too weird, their archives always have something cool, usually Bill Kelly's Teenage Wasteland. Bill's long standing Sunday show was the model for Steven Van Zant's Garage Radio format on Sirius, and Bill has a show there.

Bill Kelly and Tom Petty are the best radio DJs of the 21st Century, as far as my tastes. I cannot recommend their shows highly enough. Check them out.

WKCR 89.9 FM NYC - Columbia with a u University radio. Mostly Jazz, mostly Phil Schapp curated Jazz, another wonderful DJ/Music professor.

KCRW 89.9 FM Santa Monica, KEXP 90.3 U of W, KDVS 90.3 UCDavis and internet Radio Paradise, on occasion.

A few pandora channels, some spotify, but my radio listening has really narrowed as I ease into old age. The Swamp long ago replaced my interest in sports talk radio, Jim Rome and other wise.

[brian]

SXM1: Octane
SXM2: 1st Wave
SXM3: Lithium
SXM4: Alt Nation
SXM5: Bridge
SXM6: SiriusXMU

SXM7: Outlaw Country
SXM8: Yacht Rock (don't remember what was here before either)
SXM9: Spectrum
SXM10:80s on 8
SXM11: 90s on 9
SXM12: Pearl Jam

SXM13: ESPN Radio
SXM14: NFL Network Radio
SXM15: Raw Dog
SXM16: NPR Now
SXM17: MSNBC
SXM18: EW Radio

That said, the only ones I ever regularly listen to are Alt Nation, SiriusXMU, Yacht Rock and NPR

[Rush2112]

I listen to

1. CPR (CO Public Radio) for their news station
2. KBCO Adult Alternative with a Boulder/CO vibe
3. KUNC (U of No Colorado station) World Cafe
4. KUVO Jazz (the oasis in the city)
5. some bullshit iHeart radio crap my wife listens to

I tried listening to sports radio when I first moved to CO. It's horrible.

Other wise I listen to Internet Archive (Dead shows) or some of my collection (SwampRadio)

[DaveInSeattle]

I listen to:

FM
1-90.3 KEXP. The mighty! The one and only!
2-88.5 KPLU. NPR, and jazz/blues

AM
1-710 ESPN Radio. Seahawks games. M's games.
2-KJR-AM. Local sportsbabble. Don't listen to this much anymore.
3-1090 The Fan. Syndicated National sports babble. Don't listen to this much anymore either. They canned the one local show they had a few months back.
4-1000 KOMO. News ("Traffic on the 8's!"). UW football games.

And that's it. I do now get subjected by the horrific pop stations by my kids in the car now, but I reserve veto power over any song that I can't stomach (Bieber. They know my car is a Bieber-Free zone).

[degenerasian]

this thread shows how little I drive. It's all transit for me. And rare instance that I do drive, I hook up my phone.

[The Sybian]

AM
WFAN, which has been on FM for 4 years, so never used
CBS, for Westwood One NFL broadcasts
1010 Wins for Traffic on the ones, which I only think to listen to while trapped in a 3 hour pileup.
1600 for Air America, but that went off the air...Jesus, 6 years ago??? I think it's a Spanish station or something
1130 Bloomberg, for when I want to fall asleep while driving
Maybe 770 or 710 left over from when I listened to RW talk radio

FM1
WFAN
ESPN
NPR
3 other stations to avoid dead air if I hit the wrong button

FM2
An unused frequency to play my ipod with one of them FM transmitters. Yep, my car is one year too old to have an iPod hookup, and one year to recent for a tape deck for the old cassette on a chord hookup
5 other channels to avoid accidental dead air

Radio sucks.

[TheHumanComa]

FM
88.5 - CBC radio 1. All talk, all Canadian
93.5 - CBC radio 2. Before 9 am and after 230 pm, its all cool music. In between 9-230 its all classical
97.7 - CHOM FM - The crappy standard rock station for my area. It is horrible...
106.7 - The Jewel. Convenient name, as this local radio station plays anything but the jewels of decades past. Plus I painted the DJ's house this summer.
107.9 - NPR- I listen to most of the shows on a podcast streamer but yeah, NPR is better than CBC.

AM
690 - TSN sports radio. This is my main channel, as I like to listen to different people talk about the same sports story over and over again, all day long.

[Brontoburglar]

so I'm weird for simply just going in order on the FM dial? Yeah, I have every station on preset, but there's no need to figure out which station is where

[rass]

WFMU 91.1 FM Newark NJ- Independent free-form radio. When their shit is too weird, their archives always have something cool, usually Bill Kelly's Teenage Wasteland. Bill's long standing Sunday show was the model for Steven Van Zant's Garage Radio format on Sirius, and Bill has a show there.

https://twitter.com/wfmu/status/907988137997213696

[Johnnie]

I hate the radio. I only listen to podcasts. And I'm not paying for XM. This is not my thread.

[mister d]

Am I the only one who sets the same station multiple times rather than have dead presets? I think I have 660 on five of my six AM buttons.

[TT2.0]

FM: The local ESPN station

And some others

Pretty much either the ESPN station or Pandora on Bluetooth

this exactly for me

[howard]

yep, looking forward to that tomorrow. The WFMU twitter feed points to a wide range of weirdness and interesting links.

https://twitter.com/wfmu/status/907988137997213696

[Giff]

Am I the only one who sets the same station multiple times rather than have dead presets? I think I have 660 on five of my six AM buttons.

Back when I used my car radio, I wouldn't do that, but I had to set actual stations.

[rass]

I got a new to me car and it’s a 2011 and lacks native SiriusXM support, and though it does have an Aux input I’m taking a shot at rediscovering the joys of terrestrial radio for the first time since 2015 or so.

There is a “throwback” hip hop station (that I think is actually broadcasting out of Newark, not NYC) and I flipped through just as Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe was starting and I’m pretty sure they edited out both instances of “ho” (or “hoes”). Song seemed otherwise identical to the version I was used to. Big butts!

That song was followed by Hey Ya, What’s Your Fantasy and Push It and those all sounded as expected.

[mister d]

Post those digits.

[rass]

Post those digits.

The kid is due to start driving the other car any day so don’t be a creep.

[EnochRoot]

Underground Garage, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Phish, Deep Tracks, Real Jazz - I think the second level has First Wave, Bridge, 70s, 60s...

I usually have my iPhone connected with CarPlay though.

[mister d]

Just tell me what the goddamn radio station is, Rass.

[rass]

That was a no lose for you.

94.7

[The Sybian]

I got a new to me car and it’s a 2011 and lacks native SiriusXM support, and though it does have an Aux input I’m taking a shot at rediscovering the joys of terrestrial radio for the first time since 2015 or so.

There is a “throwback” hip hop station (that I think is actually broadcasting out of Newark, not NYC) and I flipped through just as Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe was starting and I’m pretty sure they edited out both instances of “ho” (or “hoes”). Song seemed otherwise identical to the version I was used to. Big butts!

That song was followed by Hey Ya, What’s Your Fantasy and Push It and those all sounded as expected.

Whatever was programmed when I bought the car in 2018, which is mostly static and a couple of stations. I had Sirius until I cancelled during the pandemic. I’ve searched for the Jets game once or twice since, other than that, never turned on the terrestrial radio.

[HaulCitgo]

I only listen to radio in the car. Had to axe Android auto and too much trouble with Bluetooth. Sub about 93 has the best stations round here. Mostly colleges. 3-4 different versions of old school hip hop r&b on these waves. I've grown tired and never listen but mostly cause the wife plays it more or less exclusively. Keep telling her it's not all classics.

[A_B]

Channel 55 is now Women of Country and I may not change the station for a month. Or whenever it changes, which is likely end of this month actually. Mad i missed so much of it.

[rass]

Judge me, fine, but I really like the mix on John Mayer’s vanity SXM channel.

[Giff]

Judge me, fine, but I really like the mix on John Mayer’s vanity SXM channel.

I like telling my Swiftie daughter how much I love it.

[rass]

Judge me, fine, but I really like the mix on John Mayer’s vanity SXM channel.

I like telling my Swiftie daughter how much I love it.

She was the first person my wife mentioned when I made the same proclamation I made above to her last night. Kind of quaint to dislike a rock star just for sleeping around.


Had an hour in the car and just heard:

You don’t know how it feels->Voices Carry->What a fool believes->Long December—>Tempted->the mountains win again->maneater

[duff]

Judge me, fine, but I really like the mix on John Mayer’s vanity SXM channel.

I like telling my Swiftie daughter how much I love it.

She was the first person my wife mentioned when I made the same proclamation I made above to her last night. Kind of quaint to dislike a rock star just for sleeping around.


Had an hour in the car and just heard:

You don’t know how it feels->Voices Carry->What a fool believes->Long December—>Tempted->the mountains win again->maneater

Why does your wife mention Giff's daughter? Damn, she best keep her name out her mouth.

[Giff]

Nah rass’ wife seems cool. She can talk about her.

[Johnnie]

I hate the radio. I only listen to podcasts. And I'm not paying for XM. This is not my thread.

Still this. 7 years later. My radio is just left on the local hip hop station and I hear a few seconds of it while I connect my phone to listen to podcasts or maybe an Amazon music station.

[bfj]

Mostly podcasts, books or a live music app, but the SXM presets are:

Phish Radio
Dead Radio
70’s
80’s
90’s
Prime Country
No Shoes Radio
Classic Vinyl
classic Rewind
The Bridge

I audible to comedy channels when needed.

[DaveInSeattle]

For those in the Bay Area...put 92.7 FM on your presets. KEXP bought the station and is now broadcasting live.

[Nonlinear FC]

Wasn't there a station in Ohio that was similar to KEXP? That and WHFS back in the day were truly awesome.

I feel like KEXP is really the only good radio (music) stations left.

[GoodKarma]

Wasn't there a station in Ohio that was similar to KEXP? That and WHFS back in the day were truly awesome.

WOXY was a cult favorite for a while...but you might be referring to WMMS?