I use to be a donor to KVNO. Not anymore as they give away gifts to listeners for Mother's Day,…read moreFathers Day and the 12 Days of Christmas. You should not be asking for donations only to turnaround and give the donations away as gifts. I cannot stand Otis 12, Ben Rasmussen or Gabriel Escalera weekday mornings. But other than that, it is a great station to listen to but no donate to.

KVNO is Nebraska's classical radio station, with a little bit of news and arts-oriented programming…read moresprinkled in for good measure. Also of note: KVNO operates as an independent station and broadcasts out of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It's always a fresh alternative to Top 40, classic rock, country, sports, news talk radio, etc.

The station plays American Top 40 - The 80s on Sunday mornings at 8 AM. This past Sunday…read more(10/16/2022) they started playing the countdown at number 32 from October 18, 1980, played four songs (through number 29) and then switched to the countdown to October 18, 1986 starting at number 29. The station has consistently NOT PLAYED 40 SONGS from the archived countdown since they started playing American Top 40 - The 80s The station is poorly run and the reason for the inconsistency.

An ever-evolving oldies station cruising the airwaves of greater Omaha. Currently, you'll hear…read moremostly '80s soft rock and pop plus a smidgen of '70s and early '90s Top 40. Basically, if you're a big Fleetwood Mac fan, this is the station for you. Ten years ago, you'd hear '60s and '70s hits. Ten years from now, if their format stays the same, you'll hear mostly '90s pop. So basically, you know you're old when the hits of your teenage years are being played on 99.9. I'm only a few years away myself. The horror. KGOR is also Omaha's home of Josh Tesh's Intelligence For Your Life.

Another flip of the switch and I found myself tuned to the rock and roll of The Keg, which reaches…read morefrom Omaha all the way to Lincoln and a good bit of the way I drove south towards Kansas. A bit more upbeat and more rock, Ozzy, Eagles, Blue Oyster Cult, Judas Priest even a bit of Talking Heads that had me bopping along in traffic. Commercials abound and they're just as bad as the others. It's Omaha, so the folks here haven't quite worked out professional radio voices or professional radio speak. It's amusing. I did not hear the DJ much at all. [Review 11384 overall, 1161 of 2019.]

A couple of days before Christmas 2024, I sent the station a short feedback about a potential…read moreprogramming error on the Sunday live show. Someone from the station quickly replied and addressed the issue politely so it looked like that was that. However... I couldn't believe what happened that next Sunday. Crash Davis chose to open the show with this bizarre paranoid rant about the email I'd sent a week before, but it wasn't based on anything I actually wrote. Rather a bunch of stuff he just made up. When I said how I'd been listening to the program for a long time and really appreciate it, he supposedly interpreted that as me "getting really mad" and proceeded to accuse me of plotting to get him in trouble with his boss. The whole thing ended with him literally calling for my eternal damnation live on air. At that point, I decided to just stop listening to this station altogether. Whether or not YOU choose to listen, just be aware that this is the kind of reaction you may get if you ever dare contact the station about anything even slightly critical.

Listening to this station for decades. Balanced, informative, and humorous. Balanced is rare in…read moremedia today, that is why many forms of media are slowing fading away and losing customers. I am confident that KFAB will be around for a long time. Well done folks!

"Special Little Snowflake" Warning!: Conservative radio ahead…read more Posted from Atlantic, Iowa. NOT SF, as yelp is showing.

From talk show chatter on AM stations like 1290 KOIL and 1620 the Zone to pumping today's hits via…read moreFM stations like 106.9 and 98.5, NRG puts out a little bit of everything over the airwaves. Plus they have a convenient location right off of Dodge street in Dundee. I've been on a few shows in the past as both co-host (yeah, we'll call it that) and as a guest. All the producers I've worked with are super friendly and professional, yet know how to keep things casual and cool, especially when the crazies start calling in. My only request would be a commercial free oldies station. I really miss Magic 1490!

NRG could care less about what the people listening to their stations want. This is clearly…read moreevidenced by their decision to RIP Pat and JT (98.5) off the air after 16 years, without so much as a goodbye show. What station does that?! "Great" local radio? Not anymore. I can't even begin to care about these new, ditzy morning DJs. I'm hopeful that business stop running ads on 98.5 when they realize the listening base has gone way down. Maybe then NRG will listen.

The idea of writing a review for a radio station isn't really something I agree with, since radio…read moreisn't really a place but more of a spectral entity that you may or may not choose to listen to... Still, 89.7 is that and more, remaining one of the most popular stations in the Omaha metro and competing with all of the commercial stations all while broadcasting from Iowa Western Community College. It's really a phenomenon more than anything else, and therefore deserving of a review. So for those rare times I switch the dial from 91.5 (public radio shout out!), The River is where I turn it to. It's like the radio version of a local farm-to-table restaurant competing on par with chain restaurants. Gotta love that - and the fact that their play-list keeps music from all decades, so even if you go on a River hiatus, when you come back it's like you never left.

Do you like alternative rock? Are you sick of stations run by media moguls such as Clear Channel?…read more Tired of hearing that same song everywhere you go? If so, this is the station for you. Hands down, this is the best radio station on town. 89.7 The River is a radio station run by Iowa Western Community College. While it's true that the announcers aren't the best in the world, the music selection makes up for it. This station will play anything from old school Beastie Boys, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, Nirvana, and Soundgarden. They also play new alternative rock songs way before the corporate radio stations do. In fact, some artists I would have never listened to had it not been for The River. The station also puts on shows such as Rock Fest and River Riot on a yearly basis. Some of the headliners they have brought to town include Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, Godsmack, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Blink-182, Korn, and many others. This station is purely supported by its sponsors and they hold a fund raising drive every year in April. It's certainly worth donating to!