| Vol. I,
No. 1 |
Oct.
20th, 2000 |
Links to Radio, Film & TV On-Line
The amount of info on the web is enormous, as
anyone who's ever tried to run a search can attest to. And, to put it all
in context, best estimates say that only a fraction, maybe 20 - 40 % of what's
out there is actually making its way to the search engines.
Well ...
Here at DownStreet, we'd like to try to help. So
each issue, we post a few links in Film, Radio & TV to sites that might
interest you. Sometimes the links will be related to one another
... sometimes we'll just offer up a somewhat random sampling. In
either case, we think we might be able to help you find the kind of site you've
been looking for.
Of course, while we can't vouch for the fact that every link
we provide will be of interest to everyone, we do our best to filter out the
noise and the bustle. ...
We hope you enjoy the following sites as much as we do.
A Slew of On-Line Radio Stations ...
and, of course, out of obligation to our readers,
links to Survivor & Big Brother
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radio.SonicNet [formerly Imagine Radio]
Ok. If your taste is Country, Classical, Rock {classic or
otherwise}, Easy ing, Talk Radio, or even Rap & Hip Hop, there's plenty
of stuff riding the airwaves right in our own neighborhood. But if
you're after something different, more than the once in a while it may air
locally, or even if you want to hear what's making the play lists elsewhere,
you may want to check out this site.
Among categories called Blues/Folk, Christian, Classical, Country,
Dance/Electronic, Hip Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock,
Specialty, and World/International, you'll find over 70 different stations
that broadcast over the web. Most of the categories are
self-explanatory, but a sampling of the "Specilaty" stations
includes such gems as: Spooky Music at a station called The Black Hole;
Musicals at Broadwa]; Female Artists at Femme Fatales; Influential Artists
at Icons; Soundtracks at Popcorn; VMA 2000 Nominees at radioVMA {artists
nominated for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards}; and both Woodstock '99 Music
at Woodstock '99 Radio & Woodstock '69 Music at Woodstock '69
Radio. But our two personal favorites had to be Breakup Songs at
Breakup Songs {songs by and for the dumped} & Lounge at Martini {tunes
by Burt Bacharach, Juan Garcia Esquivel & Frank Sinatra}.
There's other on-line radio out there, and some better. But this one's
definitely worth a visit. Rating: **** [4 stars]
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Real.com's Radio Tuner
RealPlayer is one of the most popular free downloads for listening to
streaming audio or watching streaming video on-line. So it's no
surprise that Real Networks hosts this site to help listeners tune in on
Real-based broadcasts.
The Featured Genres are similar to radio.SonicNet. But the variety is
much, much greater, with a list of over 2500 stations. The genres
currently include Adult Contemp [206 offerings], Alternative [202],
Blues/Jazz [157], Classical [105], Country [187], Dance/Techno [121], Latin
[54], Pop [376], R&B [55], Rap/Hip-Hop [76], Rock [114], Spiritual
[145], Sports [95], Talk [154], and World Music [227]. Obviously, with
a list like that, we can't even begin to pick out the real winners.
But we do have a couple of favorites for locally hard-to-find stuff.
One is WBGO
- 88.3 FM out of Newark, NJ, a great commercial-free jazz station.
Another is WDAS
- 1480 AM out of Philly, an all-Gospel station. The last is an
unlikely station out of Baden, Austria -- KRKT
- Rock-it Radio -- which plays nothing but 50's rock, including
chestnuts you'd never hear on most American radio, including Teenage Moon
by the Big Bopper. ...
Within all this, you can listen to live radio from hundreds of countries
around the world, though you might be surprised at how many of them are
playing American music. Still in all, if for nothing more than
curiosity, this site is definitely worth a visit. Rating ***** [5
stars]
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CBS's
Survivor
Only because we promised.
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Big Brother
Also because of promises made. Though the curious thing about this
one is that the link to it at CBS took us off site to a URL at AOL ...
http://webcenter.bigbrother2000.aol.com/entertainment/NON/ ...
We're not sure what that last bit -- "NON" -- means exactly?!?
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If you know of any links that you think are
worthwhile, why not send them along to ...
links@downstreetmagazine.com
...
If we agree, we'll be happy to include them
in an upcoming issue to pass the word along. ...
Thanks.
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