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Maybe if I tune in right now I can catch"Even Flow" by Pearl Jam or maybe "Jeremy" for the 3rd time this AM.
So why in an area with nearly 4 million people do we have such shitty radio stations? Maybe it really is just representative of the general population of lame Bud lite chugging Red Skin fans supported by Gov't Salaries?
Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> How many times will they play "I take a walk take
> a walk take a walk, oh oh oh"?
That is Passion Pit, fairly new straight up top 40 pop stuff. DC101 plays that song?? Haven't listened to that station in years since I've switched to Sirius XM.
I seem to remember DC101 being stuck in the early to mid 90's Nirvana era vortex.
And that Elliot in the morning..Jeez, Who in the F@ck did he blow to still be on the air?
It's as if that dude made a blood pact with the devil himself to not have been fired and deported back to Canada many moons ago.
That show is the opposite of funny. It's as if there is a contest to find out how many times a short fat Canadian Schander can interupt a dopey sounding mid 40's soccer mom over a most boring news cast. NEXT....
Enrico Palazzo Wrote:
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> Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> -----
> > How many times will they play "I take a walk
> take
> > a walk take a walk, oh oh oh"?
>
> That is Passion Pit, fairly new straight up top 40
> pop stuff. DC101 plays that song?? Haven't
> listened to that station in years since I've
> switched to Sirius XM.
>
> I seem to remember DC101 being stuck in the early
> to mid 90's Nirvana era vortex.
The 90s at noon are the only thing left worth listening to. All the new music is so weak and watered down with American Idol pop and arty farty influences. Banning tag and dodgeball along with the no winner policy in teeball has resulted in a generation with absolutely the worst taste in music.
101 has been crappy for so many years that I don't even have it on my presets. For those of us who have been around for many moons, the great days of 101 are long gone. The days of personalities are over. Hell, so many stations share one DJ who does a show for a multitude of different cities that "local" radio is dying. Long live the early 80's lineup of the Grease, YDB (Young Dave Brown who is currently on WTOP) and Adam Smasher!
Someone mentioned the 90's...which def. did have some good tunes but not the one' they play on 101..Take for example the multitude of Nirvana songs, but instead..let's just play teen spirit OVER AND OVER again.Pearl Jam? Nevermind that they have humpteen million songs, let's just play Evenflow another 1000 times.
I pop in every now and again, but never in the morning. EITM sucks the big one. But really, DC radio has never been good (except when the old HFS was on air) and I don't believe it will ever be good. But I do remember the intro to Atom Smasher:
Every day at the studio a man arrives
standing six foot one, weighing 225
Slamming down the jams, running his route
Everyone knows he don't take no kraut.
The smash (the smash) big bad smash.
Or something like that, it was ages ago and I was usually stoned.
For as long as I can remember, DC has always sucked and I was a teen through the 90's. In fact i don't even think there is straight up "Rock" music anymore. Everything is some sort of sub type.
I'm surprised they don't still play the Mighty Mighty Mighty Bostones 20 times a day.
The few times i do tune in. I am shocked they still play Pearl Jam, Nirvana or something grunge in heavy rotation. If they don't watch out, they are going to be a "Classic" rock station.
When I was a teen in the 90's and heard something from the 70's on the radio I would immediately find something else to listen to. Maybe high schoolers today don't listen to terrestrial radio.
Ya I think I thought it so Wrote:
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> Do they still feature the doo-doo-time spectacular
> in the early evening time of day?
That's the fuckin worst. Dumb ass guy screaming into the mic. I cringe when that comes on, Just turn the station off.
Thank god for SiriusXm... 101 does suck, and every other station is just garbage, you would think a city this size would have more variety. Roche has to be the most retarded DJ ever. Elliot use to be meh, but I haven't listened in so long... his fanboyism of every DC athlete's jock was disgusting also.
Thirsty Thursday's, musical themed weekends. Great intros by bands. "DC, it's you and me friends, this is David Lee Roth from Van Halen, and I am permanently plugged into DC 101, son".
XM has lots of good stuff, but it's so compressed it's hard to enjoy unless you are one of those people happy listening to 128k music on your iPod with earbuds.
Radio has always been crap here, not sure why. There isn't even a decent college station anywhere that I know of. I listen to WPFW sometimes for a change of pace, very low budget and all over the place, but entertaining sometimes.
98 Rock is probably the best rock station around, although it's not here obviously. They play a lot of stuff I don't like, but I respect the format and variety. Not sure if WRNR is still around, I can only get them when I'm in Maryland, but it was a decent station.
Maaaan. I'm a younger guy and in just the last 10 years I've been listening it's gone way down hill. Flounder made EITM. Now it's just those three chumps in a room. Kinda depressing.
As for the music, my car has Sirius XM and I'll never spend another minute listening to DC101 again. If I don't renew the subscription and instead dabble in FM again, DC101 will not be a preset.
What do you expect from ClearChannel. DC101 is nothing more than a pop station now with very little rock. 98Rock and 100.3 are the only rock stations anymore and even 98Rock is starting to play the rap/rock stuff now....
FusilliJerry Wrote:
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> What do you expect from ClearChannel. DC101 is
> nothing more than a pop station now with very
> little rock...
It's still Chat Radio, I hear - tuned it in this morning (in passing) and heard Mr. Chat Radio Hisself stomping on a song with "Let's select Line #2" or something similar - detuned it right then.
It's still somewhat surprising that, obviously, people LIKE this type of programming - that guy's been on DC101 for a long time now, doing EXACTLY the same crap for years and years; even if he has a long term contract I'm sure DC101 would get rid of him if he wasnt effective selling Popsie Poopsies.
More power to them! Simply makes CDs and personal music players cheaper as millions of folks buy them...
Anybody remember when Elliot trashed Tony K on air to the point where the station manager kept cutting to commercials? If I remember correctly, this was in 2006 and Elliot came on and said if he mentioned this guy again he was getting taken off the air for the entire day.
BrandonG.M.U. Wrote:
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> Anybody remember when Elliot trashed Tony K on air
> to the point where the station manager kept
> cutting to commercials? If I remember correctly,
> this was in 2006 and Elliot came on and said if he
> mentioned this guy again he was getting taken off
> the air for the entire day.
That boring Hyena laughing fuck should have been replaced long ago.. Hell, I would rather listen to the grease man, and that ain't saying much.
That loser grease and his shitty late 80's early 90's humor is better and the Hyena laugh bullshit dull ass elliot in the morning.
radio in this area sucks.
I have never been able to stomach Elliot's laugh. I won't keep it tuned to DC101 just in case I turn on the car in the morning and he happens to be laughing. I'm serious.
I used to listen to the Junkies in the morning, but I got tired of their boring dumbassery. Lately, I have been listening to old Don and Mike shows from the '90s. I find their brand of dumbassery much more entertaining. It makes my commute tolerable.
Yes! Elliott laughs at things that are not funny. I tune into the show only to hear Diane's Dirt at 10. It is so annoying for Elliott to interrupt her with his mouth full of food with his stupid comments. I do enjoy the 90's at noon, though.
I was just telling my wife how cool this station was.My younger brother and I would listen for hours on friday nights to hear obscure bands that we hadn't heard of before. It was amazing! What the hell happened to radio? Pretty much all radio sucks now.Corporate crap!
Eliott in the AM is the only thing that keeps me awake on my way to work every morning. I think a bunch of people on here are just bandwagon haters of EITM and probably listen to the Kane show on the regular.
2007 Mazdaspeed6 Wrote:
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> Eliott in the AM is the only thing that keeps me
> awake on my way to work every morning. I think a
> bunch of people on here are just bandwagon haters
> of EITM and probably listen to the Kane show on
> the regular.
2007 Mazdaspeed6 Wrote:
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> Eliott in the AM is the only thing that keeps me
> awake on my way to work every morning. I think a
> bunch of people on here are just bandwagon haters
> of EITM and probably listen to the Kane show on
> the regular.
Who the hell listens to elliot in the morning? That show is just rick and Hur-ting.
I remember back in the day when they had the Zep block at 10pm every night.Epic nights.Alcohol,weed and girls.Greaseman wake and bake.I really miss that shit.
How DC 101 or 106.7 pay the bills is beyond me. Worst radio ever. They use to have some pull, decent radio, Now it's a fucking joke. Anything would be better than what those stations are doing now.
The ratings have to be in the toilet.
Who is the gay guy who always has to chime in with his two cents? I don't listen to that show very often, mostly for 2 reasons: Elliott's terrible laugh and that effeminate gay guy.
Terence Wrote:
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> I seriously want to know who is listening and
> enjoying it. Everyone I know says they hate it and
> don't listen, yet nothing is changing.
The rating must suck, contracts must be coming up. I think regular radio is dead, I always listen to sirius/xm.
hell the college radio station WNRN in Charlottesville down by VT is better than DC 101.
I used to live in Fairfax County, but moved to Roanoke a little over 4 years ago. About a week or two ago, they started to synchronize our local alt rock station to EITM. I couldn't believe it. I figured that guy was on his way out, but it appears his empire is actually growing.
DC/101 has been adrift for 20 years, yet it keeps plugging along, in recent years with radio behemoth Clear Channel. It billed itself as something of an alternative rock format station in recent yeasrs but was really a classic rock station whose idea of classic was 90s acts like the Cunting fucking Crows instead of, say, Heart of Rush from the 70s and 80s. It once had a long and proud reputation as a straight-up rock station. It thinks it is catering to the college set by playing self-pitying "whiner" rock; you know... that "Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage" hissy fit bullshit.
Clear channel is a shit company. All their stations are the same boring garbage across the country. Been that way for a couple decades now. Its amazing how many mindless idiots enjoy hearing the same shit all day every day.
Elliot Sucks Wrote:
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> Clear channel is a shit company. All their
> stations are the same boring garbage across the
> country. Been that way for a couple decades now.
> Its amazing how many mindless idiots enjoy hearing
> the same shit all day every day.
What's amazing is that it's still on air. Nobody listens to that same old boring shit. same shit, nothing changes. You have to think the ratings suck ass and someone would get fired or change the format. It can't get any worse.
old format Wrote:
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> Elliot Sucks Wrote:
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> > Clear channel is a shit company. All their
> > stations are the same boring garbage across the
> > country. Been that way for a couple decades
> now.
> > Its amazing how many mindless idiots enjoy
> hearing
> > the same shit all day every day.
>
>
> What's amazing is that it's still on air. Nobody
> listens to that same old boring shit. same shit,
> nothing changes. You have to think the ratings
> suck ass and someone would get fired or change the
> format. It can't get any worse.
They don't care. The listener is not the customer. Their cheap ass lackluster programming is all paid for by their advertising sales. Until companies quit paying them to advertise, they will continue to exist. Cable tv has turned into the same shit.
the ratings must be on a mean average, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell advertisement.
I would fire a sales staff for advertising on Clear Channel. They must have the market cornered?
But who listens to this shit radio?
It blows my mind the shitty music they play over and over again. The EITM show has been on for how many years? Time to get rid of that fuck face. The sun has been shining on his ass for way too long, same with the fucking music.
101 has been trying to play catch up to all the other stations since the mid 90's. They fired the king of all media, howard stern, hired a racist, unfunny and downright stupid grease man, and tried to imitate whfs's progresive rock format years after people woke up and realized they suck. Elliot in the morning is a braying ass with a laugh that makes me wince and change the channel. Hope the station burns down and they all leave town.
hate it all Wrote:
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> 101 has been trying to play catch up to all the
> other stations since the mid 90's. They fired the
> king of all media, howard stern, hired a racist,
> unfunny and downright stupid grease man, and tried
> to imitate whfs's progresive rock format years
> after people woke up and realized they suck.
> Elliot in the morning is a braying ass with a
> laugh that makes me wince and change the channel.
> Hope the station burns down and they all leave
> town.
morning drive Wrote:
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> the grease man was better than elliot in the
> morning. And the grease man sucked ass, That's how
> bad elliot sucks...
Lick my balls, dummy. The Grease was awesome. But I agree that Elliot is horrible.
Eliot makes me cringe my teeth when I turn it on to 101 and hear his annoying little mans voice. Unfortunately their is no way a radio station can figure out how many listeners they have. If they could he would be long gone by now.
jmuG7 Wrote:
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> Eliot makes me cringe my teeth when I turn it on
> to 101 and hear his annoying little mans voice.
> Unfortunately their is no way a radio station can
> figure out how many listeners they have. If they
> could he would be long gone by now.
Yes they can. And the ratings suck, same for the sports junkies. I think they both have a 3.5 share, That's really fucking bad. This is the nations capitol, I would think a program director would get fired or change the format. It can't get worse. well, 99.1 HFS went all spic now all news, that is worse, not by much.
Yeah what more do they have to lose? Just go all out and go nuts and play some real music...but real music and DC just don't go together. The majority of unoriginal dbags in their late 20's - mid 30's are still listening to Dave Matthews, or maybe if they are feeling brave some Kanye West.
Now, I agree as much as the next 'murican that DC101's playlist sucks now. But goddamn, what AREN'T you Virginians pissed at? But.. then again if I lived in the state with the shittiest drivers, I'd have my panties in a bunch too. Anyways, leave it to you fucks to have a place to bitch about things that don't matter incessantly. Stay perpetually mad, dickheads.
bobb Wrote:
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> Now, I agree as much as the next 'murican that
> DC101's playlist sucks now. But goddamn, what
> AREN'T you Virginians pissed at? But.. then again
> if I lived in the state with the shittiest
> drivers, I'd have my panties in a bunch too.
> Anyways, leave it to you fucks to have a place to
> bitch about things that don't matter incessantly.
> Stay perpetually mad, dickheads.
>
> PS. Radio's dead, you elderly bitches.
It's all they're good at in Virginia, especially NOVA. Constantly complaining and doing NOTHING to fix it.
I moved here from NY and the radio here sucks dick, between clear Channel and IHeart stations I have to go purchase satellite radio or a car that has Pandora. How many times do I have to hear some jerkoff Irish Folk sounding band crooning and its called a rock station?
Ever hear his laugh? I feel like reaching through the speaker and squeezing his neck. He laughs at everything. You could take him to a concentration camp and he'd be laughing.
Doug Wrote:
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> Ever hear his laugh? I feel like reaching through
> the speaker and squeezing his neck. He laughs at
> everything. You could take him to a concentration
> camp and he'd be laughing.
Oh the laughing Hyena. Yes, he has the worst voice and laugh in all of radio. The big question is, how can people listen to him? Obviously some people do.
I used to listen until he laughed, and this was usually less than 10 seconds.
actually the internet is DEEP in free music on YOUTUBE
it's government funded and who gets paid is "far from fair"
and controlled by google - who's funneling USA's money and technology out of the country to terrorist nations - and forces it's consumers to use chinese made computers (android)
You KNOW it was that fucking hindu, and some germans, that ran the Linux wars and killed off linux and made it a bitch of china that doesn't support Intel or X11 ? while injecting viruses, backdoors, continually flawed security ?? breaking old apps replacing them with poison technology?
it was for the poor people and kids, who couldn't touch a higher end deal for anything close to a reasonable price
PEOPLE SAID COMPUTERS WERE STUPID AND WOULD NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING, PROGRAMMERS WERE JUST ARTISTS AND KINDA STUPID
funding for improvement was near zero, atari went out of business, IBM lost the market to asian imports, government's official stance was that it was a worthless technology - and Bill Clinton helped the chinese attack american brands
DC101 nowhere near as good as HFS used to be, but EITM makes me laugh every morning. I love Elliot's chainsmoking childishness, and the laugh doesn't piss me off either.
But, MIKE JONES???! What a fucking RETARD. Says shit like "def-er-nately" when he means "definitely"....drives me up the fucking WALL. Seriously, he sounds like he's literally the dumbest person in that office, can't talk worth a shit, and then gets all MERICA and S'PORT OUR TROOOOOOOPS! Guh, go run out a window, moron.
But yeah, the music selection has been WHACK for years and I can literally predict which (of the same 10-15 songs they'll play over a 6month period) is about to come on next based on what commercial is playing. I have but a tiny crap radio in my office and it only gets dc101 clearly, so its on all day e'ry day. Its that or listen to the lady in the cubicle down the way eat. She eats for 8hrs straight and only sucks on her food. Don't think she learned to chew as child.
I haven't listened to local radio in years apart from NPR or WTOP. The rest is shit. Last time I heard EITM has to be at least 10 years ago. Didn't he move the show to NY or something when it was getting syndicated?
HFS was best in the 80's/early 90's before the dufuses on the WJFK, or whatever the call letters are these days, moved over there and that station became commercial rather than like a college radio station.
Ricky Ricardo Wrote:
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> Why is it that DC 101 is still on the air?
>
> Who in the F chooses their play list?
>
> Maybe if I tune in right now I can catch"Even
> Flow" by Pearl Jam or maybe "Jeremy" for the 3rd
> time this AM.
>
> So why in an area with nearly 4 million people do
> we have such shitty radio stations? Maybe it
> really is just representative of the general
> population of lame Bud lite chugging Red Skin fans
> supported by Gov't Salaries?
You are right...the radio stations here all SUCK..its the only city ive been in that seems to have this problem...hell, even rural areas have better stations
DC 101 is the worst. They play the same f'ing songs from 20 years ago repeatedly! Why can't they play something more recent more often? And they don't just play old shit, they play the worst old shit. I don't know how they are surviving. And Elliot is annoying - his laugh is so fake!
Here it is, 10 years later and the repulsive Idiot in the Morning is still a thing at DC101. We have a whore as VP and a diaper-soiling dementia patient in the White House. WTF??!
Huh Dingle Wrote:
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> Here it is, 10 years later and the repulsive Idiot
> in the Morning is still a thing at DC101. We have
> a whore as VP and a diaper-soiling dementia
> patient in the White House. WTF??!
Because the public is largely retarded. Elliott is a huge tard. Tyler sits there to keep him from getting kicked off the air and correct him every 5 minutes and Diane backs up Tyler. As for the pants shitter, just yesterday he grabbed Eva Longoria's tits and yelled God Save The Queen before wandering off stage in some odd direction.