All Radio Stations Sound The Same: A Matching Game
Not many people in New York City listen to the radio. This has a lot to do with the fact that we don’t sit in cars all day driving around from place to place. But if there was really an incentive to listen to radio, wouldn’t we find a way to tune in?
Well, this little game below is not exactly an incentive to listen. Based on their playlists from the early morning of February 23rd, match the artists to the stations that played them. Keep in mind that an artist could have been played on more than one station.
Answers are after the jump.
Answers: 1. e; 2. b, h; 3. a, f; 4. a, b, i; 5. a, d, i; 6. c, d, h, j; 7. a, f, i, k; 8. b, d, g, k; 9. b, d, g, k; 10. b, d, g, h, j; 11. a, b, d, f, i, k
Troubling facts about the answers: six different stations played at least one U2 song over the course of just three hours (yet none played their new single, “Get On Your Boots”), two stations played an obscure one-hit wonder from 1989, a classic rock station played Nirvana, Beyonce was played multiple times in a six-hour period on virtually every station who played her, a song from 1988 is considered “oldies,” and several thousand New York radio listeners were Rickrolled this morning.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
mari says:Interesting. I’ve been lamenting that I don’t get to listen to the radio (although I guess I could online, I just don’t). How did you figure this out?
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Kyle says:5 bucks says Ne-Yo was on the Oldies station.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
betsy says:I think I died a little when I first heard Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc on the classic rock stations. There’s *no way* they should be classified as classic rock. Then I remembered that some of this came out while I was in middle school, which was a long time ago. I guess I should be happy that I’m not hearing any of this in an elevator?
February 24th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
esquared says:Holy s^*t! 103.5 is playing OMD now. I guess I really haven’t been listening to the radio for a while.
OK, I used to liten to radio a lot, before this internet/ipod thing came along, here in nYC.
I remember when:
102.7 used to be WNEW playing rock/alt rock music with DJ Scott Muni.
101.9 used to be CD 101.9 playing contemporary jazz
(e.g. Kenny G )
95.5 (same call letters)and 100.3 (same call letters) used to play GREAT music
97.1 and 103.5 played country music at one point. And 103.5 used to be WAPP playing rock music
Also there was great radio station based in Long Island, which you can hear in NYC (depending on the location f the room, the apt, the building and/or the neighborhood), called WLIR/WDRE playing alt rock/new wave/cutting edge/college scene/indie music. best radio station ever!
good times. good times
People are talking about the death of print media. What about the death of the radio music media?
March 4th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Stiletto Sports Jen says:the sad thing is that is still more variety than I have down here in southwest Florida on the radio! Makes me actually miss NY radio!