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I just got back from a three day business trip to Pittsburgh. They have a rich selection of radio stations there. They have NPR, an all classical music station and an all jazz station. If I lived there I could cancel my SXM.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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I much prefer the American non-commercial model.
Stations owned by universities, municipalities, co-ops, or foundations that can be NPR affiliates and pick-and-choose which shows to air. NPR's morning news show and classical the rest of the day? You can do that. Campus stations that moved away from block-programming to pursue consistent programming of genres that are just below commercial viability. It's great.
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I really liked the all,jazz staion, WZUM. Their frequency is 1550 AM but they are also on 101.1 FM. That's the one I had on whenever I was in my room.
It is more to my liking than CJRT. I suppose I don't have a true appreciation for the hard core style of jazz I hear so much of on CJRT. A lot of it doesn't even sound like music. Just blaring trumpets and squawking saxophones.
The music on WZUM is more melodic, with the likes Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Antonio Carlos Jobim and organist Joey Defrancisco. They also play a lot of jazz arrangements of the standards.
Here in London, if I want to listen to jazz it has to be SXM.
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I remember passing through Pittsburgh on a family trip a long time ago. I recall being especially impressed by the quality of the stations I got to hear as we passed through the area. KQV, to me, was the CHUM of the Steel City. (Loved the T-shirt,,below, too!) But KDKA, WDVE and others were also great.
I was surprised by the quality of all of them.
And by the way, KQV was the place where a jock named Jeff Christie became well known. He would later shift to talk radio and become famous under his real moniker- Rush Limbaugh. 
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RadioActive wrote:
I remember passing through Pittsburgh on a family trip a long time ago. I recall being especially impressed by the quality of the stations I got to hear as we passed through the area. KQV, to me, was the CHUM of the Steel City. (Loved the T-shirt,,below, too!) But KDKA, WDVE and others were also great.
I was surprised by the quality of all of them.
And by the way, KQV was the place where a jock named Jeff Christie became well known. He would later shift to talk radio and become famous under his real moniker- Rush Limbaugh.
The t-shirt looks to still be in pretty good shape. Does it still fit?
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Happy to say it does, although it's a bit worn and not quite as sharp as it once was.
That's actually not from the station, though. There's a fantastic website called "Radio Logland" that sold newly made T-shirts adorned by the old logos of radio stations past. I bought a ton of them years ago and still wear many of them to this day.
I don't think the place exists anymore - although their splash page is still around - but it doesn't appear they're still in business. But it was a great site when it was.
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I have to agree with TT about CJRT. Over the years on my long morning and evening commutes, I tried to get into
CJRT, if only as a casual jazz listener. I found the hosts to be far too esoteric for my tastes (“I think you’ll agree that Charlie Floogle’s horn solo there was decidedly different from the 1948 recording of that same piece by Zez Hoover”) and their news coverage was so off- kilter that I had to change the station every 30 minutes just to get basic updates on the main stories of the day. Nowadays, when the urge to listen to jazz music hits, I’ll use my playlist or SXM to get my fix.
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Happy to say it does, although it's a bit worn and not quite as sharp as it once was.
That's actually not from the station, though. There's a fantastic website called "Radio Logland" that sold newly made T-shirts adorned by the old logos of radio stations past. I bought a ton of them years ago and still wear many of them to this day.
I don't think the place exists anymore - although their splash page is still around - but it doesn't appear they're still in business. But it was a great site when it was.
The site is still up and has some cool logos. CHUM- 1958, 70. CKEY- 1959, 62, 64 and one of the monster carved rock BIG8 CKLW logos. The Big 8 one I would definitely purchase. Unfortunately, when you click on the logo, not found appears. The twin tower 1958 WKBW logo looks impressive too.
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