Tune
in to Z100 for great music! This is one
of the most popular radio stations in New York City, and northern New Jersey.
Z100 is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications. They broadcast their
show from the Empire State Building, in Manhattan, New York. This popular
station plays pop/contemporary music and has about 5 million listeners daily.
They also have one of the most frequently visited websites amongst all radio
station websites throughout the United States.
Since they mostly play a mixture of
pop, R&B, dance, and alternative, the Z100 mostly attracts an audience
between the ages of 18-34. Z100 has different “ZJ” personalities for every part
of the day. JJ takes up the afternoons, Mo’Bouce takes up the evenings, Trey
takes up the nights, and Shelley Wade is usually in charge of overnights. The
morning show on Z100 is extremely popular. It’s called Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show, also known as the morning
“zoo”. The current morning show includes Elvis Duran, Ryan Seacrest, Danielle
Monaro, Bethany Watson, Greg T., Froggy and Skeery Jones. It features many
different reports including “Danielle’s ‘Sleaze Report’”, “Phone Taps”,
contests, weather updates, and news reports. The Sleaze Report is broadcasted
by Danielle and is usually about the latest “sleaze” in entertainment,
politics, sports, or whatever it may be that is trending. The Phone Taps are
prerecorded and aired at 7:30 A.M. and at 9:30 A.M. Listeners are able to apply
to phone tap someone they know and Z1oo usually chooses the best one. A
different ZJ is in charge of conduction the Phone Tap each time. All of their
phone taps are listen on their website and can be listened to at any time. The
radio station 92.3 NOW and 103.5 KTU are very similar to Z100, but nowhere near
as good!
The
Best Internet Radio Stations of 2013
By Paul Gil, About.com Guide
Ads:
March, 2013
This
list is randomly ordered. Many items on this list are 'hubs' of radio stations
with multiple channels. This changing list is compiled from reader suggestions.
The evaluation criteria is a subjective blend of music selection size, ease of
use, friendly navigation, availability, system requirements, and convenience of
service. Nominate your own favorite radio stations here. Be
warned: Internet radio does consume significant bandwidth over the hours.
Streaming music is best listened to at home where you have a large or unlimited
bandwidth allotment on DSL or cable.
1. Maestro.fm
Like
Last.FM, Maestro is about social networking with other music fans. You can
trade playlists, follow user discussions on music genres, and discover new
artists through conversations. You can even store some of your music at their
remote storage site. If you like Facebook and Last.FM, do give Maestro a
try.
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Pirate
Radio Network offers two different means of listening to their broadcasts: via
web tuner or via a downloadable special player. Hundrds of music genres abound
here, and you're bound to discover new music that you will like at Pirate
Radio Network. For those of you who use a PC: you can even make your
own radio station and start broadcasting yourself as an amateur DJ. You will
have to install a software package to try this, but it's definitely worth
trying if you've ever wanted to DJ.
3. Last.fm
Social
networking is strong at Last.FM: you can connect with other users and trade
suggestions and friendly banter. You can vote that you 'love' or 'hate' a
particular artist or song. The recommendation will even try to help you choose
songs by taking your favorites and extrapolating from there. The service does
cost 3 dollars per month, and sometimes it feels like Facebook, but Last.FM is
a crowd pleaser. Try it and decide for yourself if you agree with the thousands
of users who frequent this site.
4. Spotify
(Spotify.com)
Spotify
is arguably the best free music service available today. While Spotify is
limited to the USA, Spain, the UK,and parts of Europe at this time (sorry,
Canadians and the rest of you), it's already a massive hit with listeners. As
they surmount music licensing challenges, Spotify hopes to expand into other
countries soon.
As for the service itself: Spotify is a fast and reliable radio
system that outstrips the competition. Spotify
differentiates itself from iTunes and Pandora by behaving as a massive external
hard drive (i.e. it plays full songs and albums as if you owned the CD).
As a recommendation and discovery tool, Spotify also stands out: it reads
your own music collection and playlists from your hard drives, and then
suggests new releases, top-10 lists, and your friends' music lists. The
interface is clean, and the search box is very convenient.
The
service is free and unlimited for six months. After that, users can
continue to receive free music with some limitations on number of hours, or
else they can subscribe for five dollars a month.
Definitely
try Spotify.com.
The
Inferno specializes in 'eclectic' listening: blending many different genres
into a single playlist. David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Lady Gaga, Kid Rock, Led
Zeppelin, Cyndi Lauper... playlists that are compiled by both DJ's and user
music requests. If you have broad tastes in music, The
Inferno might be a good radio station for you.
SHOUTcast
is a massive selection of individual radio stations (over 700 pages worth). In
fact, there are so many stations here, it is intimidating to even find one in
the first place. But if you like niche music that is hard to find, definitely
try SHOUTcast. Gothic metal from the 90's, big band swing remixes, German synth
music... if there is a place to find niche music, it would be here at SHOUTcast.
7. Pandora
Pandora
uses a form of low-level artificial intelligence: it tries to learn what your
music habits are, and then suggests new music that you might like. The
'recommendation engine' behind Pandora is still very new, and uses arguably
shallow criteria for deciding the DNA of a song. But thousands of users love Pandora,
and if you live in the USA, definitely try this service. Sorry,
American computers only... machines outside the USA will be blocked.
Copyright agreements are annoying, yes.
Grooveshark
is a real crowd pleaser! It is not a conventional Internet radio station where
a DJ or database designs the playlists. Instead, you choose your own songs with
the playlist creator. But much more than your own computer, there are hundreds
of thousands of songs to choose from at Grooveshark. If you're willing to put
in ten minutes of effort to design your own playlist, Grooveshark will
not disappoint. Advertising is a sidebar of visual ads on the right, which can
be removed for 3 dollars per month.
Streaming music sites are a dime-a-dozen, but internet radio
services—the kind where you press play, sit back, and enjoy music that you know
you'll love and only interact if you hear something you don't—are a rarer
breed. Sometimes you're in the mood to just listen to music, not be a DJ. This
week we're going to take a look at five of the best internet radio services,
based on your nominations.
For those times when you don't feel like searching for something
to hear or curating a playlist, internet radio services deliver on the promise
to press play on a genre or song-based radio station and know you're going to
hear something you like. Sometimes you can interact with the station, other
times you can't. We asked you which internet radio services you thought were the best,
you weighed in with dozens of nominations, and now we're back to look at the
top five.
The poll is closed and the votes are counted! To see which of
the top five picks you voted in as the winner, head over to our weekly hive five followup post and
discuss the results!
We've mentioned TuneIn Radio before, but the
mobile component is only one part of what makes TuneIn such a great service.
TuneIn lets you listen to live radio stations on the air anywhere in the world,
wherever you happen to be. From electronic stations in Europe to talk shows in
Africa, you have the option to search the globe by location, genre, station
type, or even name or call sign, and start listening. You can take TuneIn on
the go on your Android, iPhone or iPad, Blackberry, WebOS, or Windows Phone by
downloading their free mobile app. If you're willing to drop $1, you can get
the Pro version for iOS, Android, and Blackberry, which allows you to record
live radio for playback later, pause live radio, rewind, and play back, and
more. If you want the real radio experience without the AM/FM tuner, TuneIn
gives it to you.
Soma.fm has been broadcasting alternative, electronic, trip-hop,
and more since around 2000, long before most streaming music came into its
prime, and long before people thought there was money in online radio—I have
pleasant memories of listening to Soma.fm for track ideas when I was a DJ. The
service is completely user and listener-supported, which means no ads or
commercials during your broadcasts, and the channels and programs aired at
Soma.fm are rarely heard anywhere else. This means you need to familiarize
yourself with the show schedules so you catch the ones you want to hear, and
you should make a point to donate to the service to keep it alive. Soma.fm has
mobile apps for iOS and Android, and mobile-friendly sites for just about any
mobile device with a browser.
Pandora is the juggernaut of internet radio. Based on the Music Genome Project, Pandora's promise has
always been to deliver you great new music based on the music you already
enjoy. Give Pandora the name of one of your favorite artists, or a song that
you really enjoy, and then sit back, relax, and listen to similar songs by similar
musicians that you'll definitely love. You interact with Pandora only by
thumbs-up or thumbs-down, with a certain number of song skips allowed in a
given time period. Pandora mobile apps are available for Android, iOS,
Blackberry, and WebOS. Pandora is completely free, although ad-supported, and
if you want nearly unlimited skips (six per hour), higher music quality, and no
ads, you can drop $36/year for Pandora One.
Slacker Radio takes personalization to a whole new level. There
are hundreds of genre specific channels you can play at any time, with
playlists that are curated by actual human DJs who love music and love their
genres. Then, as you listen, you can personalize those stations even more by
giving Slacker feedback about what you love, and banishing artists that you
hate—something other interactive services won't do. Add to this Slacker's
massive music library, stuffed full of new music, and the actual human element
where stations are constantly rotating and changing playlists with new tunes
and removing stale ones no one likes, and you have a great internet radio
service with just the right amount of personalization. Mobile apps are
available for iOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS, Windows Phone, and more. Slacker
is free and ad-supported, but if you're willing to drop $4/month, you can get
Slacker Plus, which removes the ads, gives you unlimited song skips, song
lyrics, and station caching so you can listen for a while offline. $10/mo gets
you Slacker Premium, which gives you everything Plus offers as well as the
on-demand artist and album playback, single-artist stations, and the ability to
create playlists of the songs you've heard and enjoy.
We all remember when Spotify arrived in the US, after our own glowing review of it, and we were all
thrilled. Even though Spotify is a full-service music player, music search
tool, and jukebox, it also has some great hands-off radio features in the form
of shared, collaborative playlists that you can subscribe to, and a great radio
service that plays songs based on popular artists, or a musician you provide.
You can search popular stations organized by artist, or you can use the genre
tag cloud to play something based on your favorite type of music. Spotify is
more than just a radio service, but it's a pretty good radio service too.
Spotify is free and ad-supported. Mobile apps are available for Android, iOS,
and Symbian, but to use them you'll need a $10/mo Spotify Premium account,
which also nets you offline mode, better sound quality, and no ads. If the
desktop app is enough for you, the $5/mo Spotify Unlimited account just gets
you the music and radio without the ads.
Jerry Barmash on February 27, 2013 11:32 AM
WNOW/92.3 NOW FM is making changes to its
weekday lineup. Program director Rick Gillette is
switching everyone with the exception of morning hostTy Bentli.
After that you need a
scorecard to keep track. Micki Gamez is
back in the midday slot, which she temporarily relinquished for afternoons when
formerNick Cannon got
ill.
“She’s the perfect foil to go up against the
Seacrest syndicated debacle in middays across the street,” Gillette tells
FishbowlNY.
Zann moves into the afternoon drive spot. He
had been on evenings since last June.
“We moved Zann because she’s a breath of fresh
air, and New York needs some fresh air in afternoons,” Gillette says.
“She’s the obnoxious chick who’s going to bully her way on the already packed
number 2 train headed for Brooklyn every late afternoon.”
The station’s reworked
6 to 10 p.m. shift is led by Toro,
previously on from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Toro is a Nuyorican born in the
projects overlooking Coney Island.
“Renowned and well paid in the tri-state for
his amazing DJ/mixing skills, [Toro] has no future in radio outside of New York
because he is just SO New York,” Gillette says. “92.3 NOW is so all about New York [so] we had to let this
native son out of his cage a little earlier every day, allowing him to
entertain the masses in the early evening and then prowl the late night club
scene after his show every night.”
