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.

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!!

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.

This station plays the same old junk over and over again…read more Lauper, Debarge, Prince, MJ's PYT it seems like that's all they play. No variety and no selections. They either have the worst DJs ever or no library

AMP is one of the newest players on the Detroit radio circuit. I am generally a big fan. The…read morestation tends to play dance, club and hip-hop music a lot and that's the kind of music I want to listen to in the car. The music is generally Top 40 with a tendency to play the more dance oriented type music. My only problem is that the songs are fairly repetitious and if there is a certain song that is out that I don't like, it's easy to hear that repeatedly. Also, AMP has the same problem as many Detroit stations: too much Eminem. Otherwise, I flip to the AMP quite often to get me through my drive and through my day. I can't ask for much else from a radio station.

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

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Where is Ellen? She was the one and only reason I loved and listened to WHMI! Ellen played the…read morebest classic rock in the state and had a huge variety of all the great music of the past. What is wrong with WHMI? why do they always lose the finest DJs, look at at the Mike and John debacle. I am renewing my Sirius Radio effective immediately and am done with WHMI. Please bring back your best talents asap!

Just heard that WRIF is getting rid of Drew & Mike, a fixture in the morning for most of my…read moreradio-listening years! (http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130508/ENT10/305080394/WRIF-no-longer-air-Drew-Mike-morning-show?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE). As of May 17th, my #1 preset will be something else, and I'll take my 4 hours a day listening habit elsewhere -- probably SiriusXM, online or to my iPod. Big time epic fail, Greater Media Detroit. Drew blows, you suck!!

In a way, WRIF is more painful musically than even 955. This is because when you turn on 955 you…read moreknow you are turning on the equivalent to musical diarrhea. WRIF fails because it covers everything in a layer of faux-abrasive-tough-guy-posing-as metalhead stylings; but still plays the equivalent to musical diarrhea. Straight from the get-go, WRIF seems tailored for rednecks and NASCAR rallies. Not the cool, REAL kind of rednecks, mind you, who would strap you to a gun rack, dowse you in gasoline, read you the Bible and then flick the match. I love those guys. No, this is more of a rock station for people who enjoy bands like Creed and Puddle of Mudd. Fast food hillbillies who gorge on repetitive rock radio. Consummate middle American consumers, whose knowledge of metal music probably fails to extend past Fred Durst's rantings or Ozzy's "No More Tears". No matter how many "tough guy" nick-names they give their hosts like "Screamin' Scott" or "Moshin' Matt", they can't make up for the fact that they play watered-down garbage passing as metal. This wouldn't offend me nearly as much if they didn't claim they knew the first thing about heavy-effin' metal. Despite what the ignorant tell you, Slayer is not the only metal band, and playing crap like Shinedown, Buckcherry, and Nickelback nearly every hour defines exactly why this station sucks the big one.

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".

To keep my son occupied while in the car I often just pop in a DVD and he's good. The station that…read moreis assigned to the DVD player is 88.3 FM, WSHJ. One day I turned on the radio without the DVD and I heard what sounded like a real radio station. I absolutely love Southfield High School's station. THEY GET IT! No commercials because they station is funded through the state. No annoying DJ's blasting a bunch of empty rhetoric on topics they know absolutely nothing about. No IRRITATING shout outs to the best baby daddy's and baby mama's . It is oh so refreshing to hear a variety of music without having to cringe at the lyrics. Don't get me wrong, they play all sorts of music and including hip hop, "real" hip hop. You know anything before the bling era. I have two favorite stations and this is one!