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From: brb@philabs.UUCP (Brian Bertan)
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Subject: Re: Wave Stations
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 10:09:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 10:09:20 1984
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The best commercial New Wave radio station in the NY area is WLIR 92.7.
Their transmitter is on the Queens-Nassau border on the North Shore     
of Long Island.  They introduce music such as The Cure and Billy Idol   
long before they make "Top Forty" and are then played ad nausea by WPLJ.

WLIR's morning show is sometimes a bit silly, but the evening show with
Dennis McNamara is fairly good.  You will hear a number of European 
groups, and some of their songs have their lyrics in French or German  
(I particularly liked "Nir Wurz Zwei" which is a German song written to 
a modified tune of "Safety Dance", performed by Bang-Bang.  Incidentally
the English translation of the title is "Only the Two of Us".).

Some of the college stations have excellent programming, but since I have
not yet purchased a new FM Tuner (I could write a soap opera about my
experience looking for a tuner) I can only hear them occasionally.
I have heard interesting music from Fordham (WFUV) and Hofstra.

Another good station is WBAB.    

						Brian Bertan
						Philips Labs
						Briarcliff Manor, NY
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