Love you madly, (show host) Suzanne Corley!

Special kudos, too, for the wonderfully informed Brazilian Tudo Bem and World Journey music shows that enrich Saturday afternoons on New Orleans’ WWOZ. My British fave (couldn’t you guess) BBC Radio 6 Music is alive on Saturdays with the eclectic global meanderings of Gilles Peterson, then a classic Funk ‘n’ Soul soiree, a lively top-tracks countdown hosted by rocker/DJ Tom Robinson, and then a head spinning trip to the “Freak Zone.” Saturday afternoon performances by the Metropolitan Opera and Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon concerts with the esteemed local symphony orchestra juice up New York’s WQXR and Philadelphia’s WRTI. Happily, the streaming versions of broadcast stations do shift gears some nights and on weekends, providing special appointment events to mark on a calendar and attend. Losing track of time in the lockdown? Streaming-only radio stations won’t help, as the programming is pretty consistent 24×7, with nary a time check, news update, or weather report. east coast time, so the midnight “Freak Zone Playlist” spins wild at 7 p.m. Their timetable is five hours ahead of U.S. Exploring exotic, unfamiliar music genres will make a new person of you.īBC 6 Radio serves specialty shows on Saturdays. The latter service would be much more valuable if it cut out all the commercials.ĭigging deep into the bandwidth bastions of a favored musical category is a good place to start, and it will really blow your mind. The premium iHeart All Access, $9.99 per month, adds true download/offline listening and unlimited playlists. IHeart Radio offers two paid upgrade options: The $4.99-per-month Plus service available for iOS and Android devices adds unlimited song skips, songs and albums on demand, and the ability to save/replay radio content, so long as you remain online. The $10 TuneInPro app upgrade for iOS and Android devices eliminates annoying “pre-roll” commercials and lets you record content for later play. TuneIn’s $10-per-month Premium package adds sports team coverage for the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA. While the directory and connectivity are “free,” the most visible (in the U.S.) internet radio portals, TuneIn Radio and iHeartRadio, tempt visitors to sign up for their premium services with 30-day, no-charge trials.

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