"Microsoft's MSN Direct — an unusual low-bandwidth data service using FM radio subcarriers across the country to transmit weather, traffic, news headlines, stocks, and the like — was shut down on schedule yesterday" death of a weird service

from worlwide tom

“We have replaced the music of the early morning program with the sound of the rooster, replaced the news music with the sound of the firing bullet and the music of the night program with the sound of running horses,” said Osman Abdullahi Gure, the director of Radio Shabelle radio and television, one of the most influential stations in Mogadishu.

NUTS via jivko

"Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D.C"..."At its best, the style features an urban sophistication and subdued soulfulness"

be sure to check out the epic THREAD going on the site about this DOUBLE HAPPINESS INTERVIEW

from alisa

epic mega jam with most of the radio station ID's from the 80's

Using this system (which allowed different affiliate stations to broadcast programs airing in other towns), he connected the phone-in banks of five stations, encouraged listeners to call in and whistle, and then looped these ... through a phase-shifter.

offshore British pirate radio stations from the 60s on

NPR piece on Jonas' website

great interview with MM and a Mekas