By Blue Bronc, a Trail Mix Contributor
When did you decide to be straight? Did you know?
Sirius Radio and XM Radio were competitors in the early days of satellite radio. Due to cost and only so many people willing to pay to have radio in the middle of nowhere, or a lot of channels of talk and music, they were losing money and merged. One of the channels was OutQ, the first LGBTQ radio channel that had more reach than local.
OutQ provided listeners with gay broadcasters, gay news and a place for LGBTQ people to have a station which confirmed they existed no matter where in the Northern Hemisphere they lived. I bought Sirius just to listen, back in 2007.
I remember so many of the extremely few reports in the media of the channel as “Sirius XM is really going out on the ledge to allow them gays to have a radio channel” That is 2007+. At least now we have a lot more going for us.
Yeah, sure. SiriusXM killed OutQ in early 2016. So much for the gay channel. Should have heard the excuses when I stopped.
But, to make the world feel better SiriusXM has hired Steve Bannon to bring a bit of the great white supremacist life to radio. That is quite the trade off. Open life versus hate and whites only.
So……..
It is time to get rid of SiriusXM completely. I had already dumped off one radio due to the tossing of the gays overboard. Now it is time to dump the other radio for bringing in something that would be scrapped off the feedlot. I no longer need satellite radio to drive across the country. Cell phone coverage is getting much better now.
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This reminds me of years ago when a certain Al Franken started a Progressive radio channel … which eventually declared bankruptcy. For whatever reason, conservative talk sells, liberal/progressive media turns into tumbleweeds or turns up in podcasts & websites. (Apparently Breitbart is developing a show for Sebastian Gorka too, set to debut in 2018. You have been warned.)
I’m lucky that I have access to the BBC & a 24 hour all news station out of Toronto.
Well, I may not drive cross country but I drive enough to put 20000 Miles or close to it on my car each year, and so does Mrs. P. Sirius is what I listen to. MSNBC or Progressive for news& Talk, Classic Vinyl, Classic Rewind, Deep Tracks, Volume and Beatles for music- plus Bluesville, Petty, Billy Joel and a few other dedicated channels. I don’t need to drop it in protest of programming on channels I never listen to anyway. So long as Sirius puts Mark Thompson and other folks who’d have no national platform otherwise I’ll keep my subscription.
sjwny, you mean the al franken who introduced and co-sponsored progressive and pro-womens rights legislation? naaww, you can’t mean that guy who endorsed and campaigned for women and minority candidates and stood up for the rights of the lgbtq community but was forced [without due process and without an ethics investigation] to resign by those same liberal progressives for whom he worked so diligently.
must be some other al franken.
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mercury news: Anti-Trump conservatives fund ads against Moore
and
within hours of telling ‘bamans to vote for a well documented bigot, the twit is scheduled to visit a civil rights museum.
the gods must be crazy
or maybe it’s their little inside joke, jerk us around with a couple of real jerks
🙁
From Forbes
But don’t worry Renee, It will be a few years before it happens. You will have time to prepare.
Jack
BlueB… I understand why you won’t do Sirius radio any longer. I have it in my car and very much enjoy listening to the 60s, 70s, and Beatles channels. I’m not going to give it up any more than I’d throw out my television because Fox News or any other channel that spews that kind of crappola.
Oh no Jack…
I guess that means in a few millions years Rick won’t be going skiing any longer…
I know next to nothing about SiriusXM, even though I’ve been on a few of their programs over the years. Do you have to get a special radio to listen to it at home? Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to ask you Sturgeone, you’ve mentioned listening to Imus now and then — where do you find him?
The whole idea of someone believing there is a “choice” in sexuality as always struck me as very odd. Of course it helps that I know the exact instant I noticed that males were placed on earth for my personal delight and entertainment. It took all of five seconds maybe, so if there was a “choice” involved I didn’t notice at the time. I can’t imagine that anyone else thoughtfully contemplates and decides what will be their object of desire whether or not they act on the urge.
Ms Wino, just for you,
When this song came out 64 was so far away, What happened?
Must be something about December of 53, I know a lot of great people born in that month, not just counting thee and me. Family is gathering for a rare celebration here at the Jack household today, 1 more year to official geezerdom.
Imus in the Morning
http://streema.com/radios/77_WABC
My highlight of the week was during a “Blonde on Blonde” segment with Deetra and Tony Powell when Tony told her, “Now you just screamin’ from the top of Mount Crazy”.
thanks Sturg, that led me to his archive: http://www.wabcradio.com/imus/
Franken fans won’t like his Thursday show. Was curious how he sounds, had heard his health really bad, but he sounded fine
some real soul searching talk last night on pbs newshour: David Brooks: Yes, but what I hear is a lot of Republicans looking at the Roy Moore case and it seems to have just flipped a switch, a lot of Republicans disgusted by Trump, not liking Trump, conservatives, and then, suddenly, Roy Moore, you enter a whole new realm of depravity, to be honest. How are people not nauseated with a guy hitting on 14-year-old girls, and then, suddenly, that guy becomes a U.S. senator, and people are not minding this? And so how many Republicans have I talked to… Read more »
BW
Have a great birthday & celebration.
He has his spells, is down to 4 days a week, working on his last lung, but he knows how to work the mic, and his cohorts are good at jumping in to fill the gaps.
The last DJ.
yep, i’m sure he’s giving that cough button more of a workout than ever. It was interesting to observe his co-horts in action when in studio. They kept a close watch and as soon as he’d reach for that button one of them would seamlessly jump in. Impromptu choreography, you might call it. I got fairly good at it myself when on set.
He was Johnny Fever in WKRP, based on his little exile in Cleveland. Fun fact.
Poobah, yes it takes special radio. Just about can’t buy a car without one. The more I think about it the more it pisses me off about Franke n. This is gonna be the shortest Moral high road advantage in history. Repugs’ took less than a day to respond. Of course the repugs have done exactly nothing about trump and god forbid moore if he’s elected, they’ve thrown their full support behind him. As I noted in my poker analogy yesterday I think dems can play the trump card (sorry about the bad pun) this time, but by the… Read more »
I pay enough stuff…….don’t need to pay for radio too…….mine in the truck plays cassettes …….that should be enough hogwash for anybody…..thru the magic of cassette tapes I can plug in a time I played piano with Townes……Townes was drunk, but then so was everybody else…….at Springwater, down by the Parthenon…..
That weekend Townes and Jimmie Sam Gray recorded “Send me Dead Flowers” which was later picked up somehow and used by the Coen Brothers in “The Big Lebowski”. On my tape, later the first night of two, it has the whole band doing it, not just Jimmie and Townes, who did this version earlier on the second night…….
Also on guitar is Danny “Ruester” Rowland, Jimmie Sam with the bass and harmony vocal, and assorted nitwits in the crowd making their presence felt. But hell, nobody expected it to be in a movie someday…..it was just your average weekend with Townes……but for some reason, there was a lot of recording going on…..everyone had a cassette going and some semi-pros were over in the corner with a reel-to-reel…..
pogo, on your comment above, I too am still angry at the rash rush to judgement. I repeat a suggestion from yesterday:
if (god forbid) roy moore is elected on the 12th, al should say he’s rethought things and announce a partial postponement with the promise “I, sen. franken will gladly resign on the day sen. moore resigns”
at least his sacrifice will then make more sense and in fact help purify and cleanse the senate of the men with nasty pasts.
Al must have a plan…..”within the coming weeks”
pogo & sturge, you all might like to read some of the good stuff Minnesotans are saying about al and how mad they are. also some who aren’t and agree with resignation. excerpt from nytimes “I was gutted,” Lisa Mathieson, a glass artist from St. Paul, said. Ms. Mathieson, 53 and a Democrat, teared up when asked about Mr. Franken’s speech on the Senate floor on Thursday. “It’s not easy to stand up in front of a group of your peers that are pretty much going to slaughter you and what you’ve spent years working for,” she said. “I think… Read more »
Patd – I like that idea. ‘I’m here fighting for women until that guy quits. The day he walks out, I walk out.’ Taking a short break from watching snow and Netflix. The cost of Siriusxm has swelled to be a significant cost. When I was frequently out of radio signal range it was worth the cost. Now I have many more possible methods to provide entertainment no matter where I am. There is more to my decision than just the gay channel being dumped and the catering to the far right white supremacists. The playlists for the music has… Read more »
Well. It turns out that I picked one excellent movie that hits on sexual predators. Legally Blonde. Elle is hit on by Callahan, her professor. The last several weeks have been important for allowing us to out those who assault us.
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