Atlanta = Worst radio stations on the planet.... (Avondale Estates, Richland: 2014, estates)

[sweetbrooklyn]

im so with you on this one! horrible! all of them.

[nb1968]

There is a cool station in Valdosta that really ROCKS. (Rock 108)
In such a large city, Why cant you get a local station in Atlanta that is as good as Rock 108 out of Valdosta????
Project 96.1 is one of the few stations that I can tolerate in Atlanta.

[egrant28]

I listen to and enjoy all types of music. I'm actually quite pleased with Atlanta radio, as I am exposed to a lot of different genres (especially on the "left" side of the dial). Aside from country or gospel, if you play it, I dig it. I will agree with many of you, especially regarding today's commercial urban stations, in that they do play the same songs until you want to pull your ears off. Fortunately for me, I listen to so much other stuff, that I don't hear the repeats as often. I have ALL of these stations preset in my stereos:

88.5 - GA State (Absolute Favorite)
89.3 - Community Radio
90.1 - Opera/Classical
91.1 - GA Tech
91.9 - Clark Atlanta University
92.9 - Dave FM (Favorite)
94.1 - Star 94
95.5 - The Beat
96.1 - Project 96 (Favorite)
97.5 - Old school
98.5 - Top 40
99.7 - Old Q100
100.5 - New Q100
103.3 - Urban
104.1 - Urban
105.3 - Viva latino
107.5 - Easy listening
107.9 - Urban
97.9 - Old 99x (Welcome back!!!)
AM 640 - Talk
AM 680 - Sports
AM 750 - Talk

Besides the seemingly limited rotation on commercial urban, my only other complaint here is that I'd like more Salsa/Latin Jazz/Afro-Cuban and Deep House/Acid Jazz/Nu-soul on the radio. Since 91.9 killed their Saturday line-up maybe 3 yrs ago there's a big void of these two types of sound now. Whenever I'm in the mode to hear this, I'll just find an Internet station and plug the laptop into the my house system. So it's all good.

[K-SawDude]

Egrant, thanks for that list.

I'm new to the area, but I totally agree with you about 88.5. Best station that I've found so far . . .

[Rockmama]

Originally Posted by J2rescue

Could it also be that most the stuff out these days is crap?

Mainstream music has been so disappointing and trite for years. You get the occasional one hit from an artist that is catchy and you kinda enjoy it, but try to listen to almost ANY artist's whole album and you just end up feeling embarrassed for them. The music industry thrives on those one hits. Call me crazy, but if I'm going to call you a musician, you need to be able to put together a whole set for me!

I said this in another thread, but I love AOL radio. You get every genre and subgenre with minimal interruption. Even if you like the mainstream stuff!

[kayrob]

Originally Posted by egrant28

I listen to and enjoy all types of music. I'm actually quite pleased with Atlanta radio, as I am exposed to a lot of different genres (especially on the "left" side of the dial). Aside from country or gospel, if you play it, I dig it. I will agree with many of you, especially regarding today's commercial urban stations, in that they do play the same songs until you want to pull your ears off. Fortunately for me, I listen to so much other stuff, that I don't hear the repeats as often. I have ALL of these stations preset in my stereos:

88.5 - GA State (Absolute Favorite)
89.3 - Community Radio
90.1 - Opera/Classical
91.1 - GA Tech
91.9 - Clark Atlanta University
92.9 - Dave FM (Favorite)
94.1 - Star 94
95.5 - The Beat
96.1 - Project 96 (Favorite)
97.5 - Old school
98.5 - Top 40
99.7 - Old Q100
100.5 - New Q100
103.3 - Urban
104.1 - Urban
105.3 - Viva latino
107.5 - Easy listening
107.9 - Urban
97.9 - Old 99x (Welcome back!!!)
AM 640 - Talk
AM 680 - Sports
AM 750 - Talk

Besides the seemingly limited rotation on commercial urban, my only other complaint here is that I'd like more Salsa/Latin Jazz/Afro-Cuban and Deep House/Acid Jazz/Nu-soul on the radio. Since 91.9 killed their Saturday line-up maybe 3 yrs ago there's a big void of these two types of sound now. Whenever I'm in the mode to hear this, I'll just find an Internet station and plug the laptop into the my house system. So it's all good.

I have to make just one correction to your list. 107.5 and 97.5 are the same station on two different locations on the dial. Both ole school R&B with some of today's R&B mixed in. My station of choice.

[David Alleyne]

I like sports talk but I think that Brandon Adams and Chuck Oliver are bad personalities. Brandon Adams from 790 always goes into some long drawn out tirade and Chuck from 680 just sucks but they both have an obnoxious arrogance about themselves. They just have a bad on-air broadcasting style because they take themselves too serious. I just wish that Jeff Woolverton can one day say, "Brandon! Shut the uckf up! You don't know what you're talking about."

[Britishintown]

You missed the one playing real music, WKHX-101.5, all those others are elevator music.

[radioguy1]

I've worked in Atlanta radio for many years and am very saddened to what has happened to radio in Atlanta, the 9th largest radio market in the country out of 275 ranked markets and probably 1000+ overall markets (many unranked). I believe there are something like 27 radio stations in Atlanta and we're down to 4 that I have any inkling of desire to listent to and only about 2-3 that I have any real desire to listen to. Also, some of the radio stations listed in previous posts have switched formats or are going to.......Here are the format changes that have been made over the last year or so.......

True Oldies 106.7 switched to an all news station.
92.9 Dave FM is switching to all sports 92.9 The Game some time this month or next
Journey 97.9 is now "the new Q120"
Project 96 is now "Power 96" and plays "Top 40" (though not my top 40)
WGST switched from an all news station to a Spanish sports radio station
98.9 The Bone is a new station, and I'm not even sure what it is replacing, but I believe it's 99X.

I believe those 6 stations were the "only" (ha, ha, ha) ones out of the 27 or so in Atlanta to switch formats in the last year or so, but I'm not even sure. At this point, the only stations that I have any desire to listen to in the ATL are 97.1 The River, Rock 100, and B98.5. It's sad as two of the stations listed in the casualty list above were among my favorites.

[MathmanMathman]

Yeah, WGST changing to Spanish language to me seems so...surreal. It has a long history in Atlanta starting out I believe as a Georgia Tech radio station

W
Georgia
School of
Technology

If someone had told me this would happen even a few years ago, I'd have thought he was crazy or the apocalypse was near.

I used to listen to WGST a lot and for a long time I thought it better than WSB. Even Neal Boortz used to be at WGST. But Boortz left and for some reason the station just went down and down. I recall WGST's infamous gasp at shaking itself up with "Planet Radio" as it dumped a lot of its best people. It never recovered from that.

WCNN 680 used to be all news (CNN) but it failed and turned to all sports. All sports is ok but it gets mind numbing on a subject that is not that deserving of every waking and sleeping second.

I miss 1970s FM radio where stations had personalities with distinct character. It's hard to describe now but WSB of the early 1970s was a very very eclectic station mixing music, news, sports, trivia, talk, contests,...you name it, in its programming. That's a bygone era now as stations have narrow audience niches.