- Sound Opinions
"Sound Opinions" is a radio
talk show focusing onrock music . It airs Friday night at 8PM CST and Saturday morning at 11AM CST on Chicago Public Radio (91.5 FMWBEZ Chicago , 90.7 FMWBEQ Morris, Illinois , and 89.1 FMWGLT Normal, Illinois ). The show is hosted byJim DeRogatis andGreg Kot .Sound Opinions has also been a television show on
WTTW channel 11 in Chicago.History
"Sound Opinions" began life as a regular feature on
Ed Schwartz 's overnight program on WLUP-AM in 1993 featuring Derogatis and Bill Wyman who was the rock critic for the "Chicago Reader " at that time. It was then given its own time-slot on Sunday afternoons following the "Sunday Funnies", a comedy program hosted by Brian McCann. In1994 it moved toQ101 . The show ended in1995 when DeRogatis joined "Rolling Stone ". It was reincarnated onWXRT with Kot replacing Wyman in1998 . In2005 after 354 shows it moved toWBEZ andChicago Public Radio . It is distributed nationally byAmerican Public Media and is also available as apodcast . [cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11137FD0B20DD7C0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=National deal turns up volume on rock talk show|last=Freder|first=Robert|date=April 25, 2006 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |pages=57|accessdate=2008-07-26]Message Board
The Sound Opinions Message Board, also known as "the SOMB", attracts music aficionados. Its users, or "SOMBies", discuss music, the Chicago scene, pop culture, politics, and occasionally their personal lives. Annual "Best Of" lists are also regularly compiled.
References
External links
* [http://www.soundopinions.com/ Sound Opinions official website]
* [http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/ Sound Opinions Message Board]
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