RADIO STUCK
And who says commercial radio sucks eggs? Well, I do, and will continue to. Last night was a nice change of pace for a small part of iheartradio-land, however. Something interesting happened over at Cities97:
A radio station here in Minneapolis is stuck - cities971.iheart.com
— Bill Corbett (@billcorbett.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Thank you MST3K's own Bill Corbett for alerting me to this while it was happening. Shout out to Bill. Shout the name "Bill" out loud right now.
Being who I am, I rushed to plug the website's feed of this hypnotic riff into my Portastudio 424 mkII. I had a blank tape in there all ready to go, an RTM C60 Studio Master tape. Always be prepared to tape something. I've got a blank in the VCR too, who knows.
I managed to record a good chunk of the loop (the tail end of its 2 hour-ish long drone), as well as the moment they switched back to the regular iheartradio feed ("feed" in the farm animal sense, in this case). I really cannot begin to tell you how much I feel sick about the hollowing out of radio in the US. The hollowing out of everything too but, y'know, you can only get mad at so many things per day.
Enjoy my cool tape embedded down below and/or download it via my Internet Archive page. I'll let you know if I tape anything else off the radio.
Nicky Flowers - Support independent, non-iheartradio radio! Support the Internet Archive! Support your lower back! - 12/03/25 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)