Dr. Demento on XM Radio
Arthur Bang
Got the satellite radio a couple of months back and they have a couple of great
comedy channels (which play Weird Al occasionally and other stand up comedy
routines) plus another channel called Special X which has a daily show of bad
cover songs, and plays people like Wesley Willis and Frank Sidebottom.
Anyway, there was a post on xmfan.com asking about bringing the Dr. Demento
show to one of the channels and I guess someone had got a reply back from them
saying they were working hard to bring the Dr. Demento Show to XM soon.. Anyone
know any more about it? .. I'd love to have it there, especially since we
haven't had the show in So Cal in years.
Arthur Bang
"Open your ears, and open your mind"
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JC
>Anyway, there was a post on xmfan.com asking about bringing the Dr. Demento
>show to one of the channels and I guess someone had got a reply back from them
>saying they were working hard to bring the Dr. Demento Show to XM soon.. Anyone
>know any more about it?
Hi Arthur,
This can never happen. Two reasons:
1) XM is largely controlled by Clear Channel. That's why you hear so
much Rick Dees, CC radio station promotion, etc. The Clear Channel
DJ's are there. Dr. Demento is not a Clear Channel product.
2) It would break the contracts Dr. D's syndicators have with local
AM/FM stations all over the country. Again, second rate Clear Channel
DJ's are allowed on XM because they have a percentage of ownership in
the product (CC doesn't even allow their own first rate shows like
Rush Limbaugh, etc), but other syndicated shows from other companies
like Nina Blackwood, Howard Stern, etc., just wont be on XM.
The best way to get setup to listen to Dr. D is online. There are also
people that trade CD's of the show. I know someone that has access to
the original CD's/cue sheets weekly and can make CD-R's if you are
interested.
Sorry to burst your hope. The person that answered that email from XM
lied. They say they are "trying" to get every show/channel requested
in answer to any type of request email like that. I don't know why
people pay $10/month to XM for reruns of TV/AM/FM broadcasts. Internet
radio offers a lot more choice and is free.
If satellite radio were like cable where a lot of different companies
were responsible for programming so the best content was aired there,
I'd be interested, but it's just another wannabe monopoly.
JC
Joel Rubin
>1) XM is largely controlled by Clear Channel. That's why you hear so
>much Rick Dees, CC radio station promotion, etc. The Clear Channel
>DJ's are there. Dr. Demento is not a Clear Channel product.
Several CC stations carry Dr. D including KPEZ in Austin, TX, WPYX in
Albany, NY and WRZZ which I believe is licensed to Elizabeth, West
Virginia. (Marietta, Ohio area)
(Unfortunately all of the Clear Channel stations which carry Dr. D.
have ceased streaming. There are quite a few CC stations which stream
through Hiwire.com but AFAIK none carry Dr. D.
WRZZ, classicrockz106.com, which ceased streaming some time ago, has
just put up a "we stopped streaming" page.)
Zack
get XM radio just for Dr.D and check out the rest once I had it.
You know, with coporate radio taking over radio stations and
homoginizing the formats to the greatest common denominator, it could
be that only a potentially huge listener audience like satellite radio
will allow niche programs like Dr.D and others to survive. IMHO it
would be the best use for such a system, at least until they start
showing a profit and are bought by a media giant and homoginized into
oblivion. Ah, the joys of surfing the ever-breaking wave of good
ideas...
On 02 Mar 2003 07:39:48 GMT, arthu...@aol.com (Arthur Bang) wrote:
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> On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:07:55 GMT, radi...@mediak2.com (JC) wrote:
>
> >1) XM is largely controlled by Clear Channel. That's why you hear so
> >much Rick Dees, CC radio station promotion, etc. The Clear Channel
> >DJ's are there. Dr. Demento is not a Clear Channel product.
XM = Traditional Radio
SIRIUS satellite radio = Freedom of Music