WCBN is the University of Michigan's non-commercial freeform radio station that's run by students…read more What they focus on is bringing things on the radio that you normally wouldn't hear on other stations. My favorite night is late Saturday nights, they usually play some excellent hip hop if you catch it at the right time. By "nomally wouldn't hear", I'm not talking about an obscure noise/basement medley/karaoke cover/whatever-else-obscure 24/7 (though maybe sometimes) fest. For instance, just giving it a listen randomly, they were going over some local events (big kid kickball!) inbetween Kraftwerk and Jean Grae. Currently, my good friend Dustin does Freeform on Thursday nights. He knows a lot about music and is a local musician. I've learned a lot about local music and much more through him, and thanks to him I've opened my scope to being more than a hip hop head. Once, he created an entire playlist for me on my birthday -- one of the coolest birthday gifts, ever. I've also taken a walk through the station itself. It's a great place adorned with decades of history on the walls -- Post-Its, scribbin', photos -- along with a well-loved couch and tech stuff like turntables, cassette decks, reel to reels, amps. Those walls are totally made to house sound. If you're curious about a certain DJ, they playlists are posted online. You can also connect through their website -- no need to sit in the car with the top down and an Icee.

I miss The Impact…read more This college radio station is the coolest. It gets its hands on new music months before you've even heard of the band. It consistently wins College Station of the Year. I started listening to it in high school and am sure to tune in when I am in or around EL. I even won a contest to guest dj back in the day. I still have the tape of my on-air debut! The college djs are quite entertaining. They are unsure of themselves, meek, but usually pretty into music. When I moved to Chicago I would still listen to it online.....and I think I will start that back up.

Like all stations, sometimes they play good music, but usually not. The DJs can be quite bad at…read moretimes, with their odd voice modulation syndrome that comes from trying out being on air for the first time. Once, I heard the same song, a bad cover of an Alice in Chains song, literally every time I got in my car that day. Like 4 times, twice in the same hour once. At least there's not commercials every 5 minutes.

Just terrible. Inexcusably bad…read more The CD player broke in my car, forcing me to listen to the radio and I was shocked at what's happened to radio, so I landed on WDET and it's no better. They used to play music, actually had some decent content until they hired somebody who knew better and it went to all talk and canned NPR content (translation: what you heard in the morning was the same thing you'd hear in the evening). Now they've gone back to music but it's the worst music you could imagine. And here's something I've learned about the music on public and college radio: it's all from a playlist, often a more rigid playlist than commercial stations adhere to, and there's a reason none of it is considered "popular." So I did some surfing, turns out the guy who knew better and ruined the station embezzled money, not enough money to make it worth doing but that's where your contriburions went. Now I play the Canadian public station, I can't say I listen as I usually keep it low, it's not much better but if they do something worthy of attention I turn it up.

They have some good music like Wagid's Wednesday night electronic music from 8pm - 10pm!! And some…read morelimited good news programs. What irks me is they are crying foul now that the Trump Administration is threatening to cut off their funding, but they NEVER have a good word to say about the administration!! NPR's reporting is so blatantly biased and one-sided!! They don't know what it means to deliver a balanced, wholesome newscast!! If I was President Trump I would cut off their funding too since I have NEVER heard them say a good word about him!! Are there things I don't like about the current administration, of course. But they are doing some good things, as well, but you will NEVER hear about it on this station or it's affiliates!! Time to grow up WDET and stop crying about federal funding cuts that you brought upon yourself!! If you would get back to fair and unbiased news reporting you wouldn't be in this situation!!

I'm probably a little biased because I went to high school with one of the DJs, but I like this…read morestation. They play a mix of classic stuff from the 1970s and 1980s along with some more recent stuff. The last time I was listening to it in the car, they played Sting, Dave Matthews, and a new song by Donovan. Their website says they're currently playing Talking Heads and Alanis Morissette. The other reason I like them is that they're so active in the community, sponsoring special events. On a recent summer day, I was wandering around downtown Ann Arbor window shopping and deciding where to have lunch, and I heard live music coming from Liberty Square. 107one was sponsoring "Sonic Lunch" in downtown Ann Arbor. A live cover band was playing blues-rock, and people on their lunch break were sitting on benches eating sandwiches and drinking soda pop and listening. It's just one of those little things that makes Ann Arbor the thriving artsy-cultural mecca that it is. The website for the station is really cool, too, with news about upcoming musical events, photos and contact emails for the staff, and a photo gallery of past events (including Sonic Lunch) they've sponsored.

Good station for contemporary music that's not too racous but yet lively and modern. I gave them…read moreonly 3 stars because of the ads. I have to change channels some of them are so bad, then I forget to tune back in. Their MacDonald's commercial does right in the mic what we where always told NOT to do, slurp. What a turn off. Oh and don't get me started on "Nancy Knows".

Modern rock and roll played on a radio station. USA station should take notes. I listen in Ohio.read more

Classical days and jazzy nights. Not my favorite radio station but it's good enough to be in those…read moretop 6 presets and it's important that the area gets exposure to these two cultured genres. *pushes glasses up nose I can't stand opera and WRCJ does play a fair amount of that but I do like me some classical, an appreciation encouraged by my late, great friend Chris Warren and you're not gonna find much on the radio in the Detroit vicinity beyond a solid 14 hours a day on 90.9 FM. (Just a late morning/early afternoon block on the great CBC and maybe a bit here and there on the Metro area's other public radio station, WDET which has gotten entirely too talky.) Classical isn't my favorite but it does seem to help activate the old brain waves, especially in the morning. And how can you not like a radio show with a name like Dr. Dave's Drive-time Elixir?? The ten hours of jazzy night often stick to more staid, middle of the road sounds than I would prefer but sometimes they do stop my channel flipping dead in its tracks. And again, nobody in the transmission range is playing this genre consistently beyond smooth jazz V98.7 which is HD and not available on my Jeep's radio. And I'm not listening to that Kenny G shit anyway. As with classical, WRCJ's only contemporaries are WDET with some regularly scheduled jazz shows that come nowhere near to ten hours every night and CBE FM, CBC's Windsor station who might play a bit of jazz here and there but are too busy playing all kinds of adventurous music to bother much with it. So WRCJ it is if you're stuck with a regular old school radio driving around like me. Too much mellow, loungy stuff heavy on the vocals for my tastes but it counts as jazz all right . And I can listen over my phone, too, even as I type this Yelp review. Whatever they're playing now is pretty good. Hey, if ya got money to spare maybe donate public radio like this some and get a tote bag or a coffee mug for yourself. Me, the best I can do right now is to give 'em a fairly positive Yelp review.

I have to admit one thing that might make me unpopular. I have Mozart on my Ipod…read more My mother is to blame, if you're gonna place blame somewhere. She was a world class concert pianist, and she played Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, and the rest of the gang so much that I got to be on a first name basis with them. The 3 little words that everyone knows was not, I love you, but Get Your Culture. I had no idea what that meant until a few years ago. When CKLW died, I was lost for a good radio station to listen to, and since I was wholly unpopular with the females of my demographic, I began listening to WQRS, which at the time was the lone out post of classical in Detroit. Then a few years ago while searching for something good to listen to, I came across WRCJ, a new station that happily is a Public Radio station. Public Radio used to be a choice between WGTE in Toledo, WUOM in Ann Arbor and WDET in Detroit. GTE is the only one that still plays classical, but its a tad hard to drag in when you live in Motown. The one thing I love about WRCJ is that they do not play the same things over and over again. They mix it up and make it cool to listen to, and when the sun goes down, the format changes from Classical to Jazz, and it's decent as well. Many is the night when I would listen to WRCJ in the cab, and the passengers would comment and give me good tips for playing decent music. The morning guy, Dave Wagner is both funny and talented. They don't play the news over and over, but they do keep you informed. It's OK to listen during the morning drive and still keep an eye on the inbound Southfield or 696 when it's backed up like a drain with too much hair in it. As for missing WQRS, I do, but not so much. I like this station and as long as they stay on the air, I'm gonna listen. Oh BTW, if you have a few loose bucks send them a few. Public radio needs every dollar they can get.

Since FM seems to have turned its back on true Oldies music in favor of some watered-down, "classic…read morehits" format that focus groups told advertisers they wanted, AM seems to have started picking up the slack. WKYO is all that is on in my garage and my car. The only beef I have is their less-than-smooth disc jockeying that often results in several seconds of songs playing over one another; and the abrupt smash cuts to news that occurs at the top of every hour (often in the middle of a song!). Still, until they have some competition, I will be listening and trying to patronize their advertisers.