I went to aol radio today to listen to the all prince station and its gone.... I am so bummed, I loved that station. Do you guys know of any other all prince stations? Thanks

PurpleAlegria said:

Saw that too. Makes me wonder why that station was pulled. It was a great steady stream of Prince 24/7. VH1.com has a Prince station and there's a few others.


Without a doubt Half time at the Superbowl is going to Rock

Went to VH1.com radio and could not find the station. I was thinking of writing aol radio and asking why they pulled it. It might be a regular thing because I used to listen to the all Billie Holiday station (miss that one too...), and they pulled that too. Maybe they just change out stations periodically? I don't know.

they were playing some bootleggage on the AOL prince channel, weren't they? i saw some post recently listing some crazy obscuro prince stuff they were playing, and i was like "uh oh".

i'm not surprised it got yanked. i'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

our station isn't 100% Prince, but you get plenty of Prince and related during the day !!!
www.emancipationradio.com
[Edited 1/19/07 6:22am]

(wrong link edit)

That's weird because I just discovered this station YESTERDAY while filling in at another property. I clicked on it, it wouldn't load, and then it was gone!!

I was bummed!!

Anx said:

The bootleg stuff was awhile ago. I hadn't heard them play any unreleased stuff for quite sometime. That sucks the station disappeared...I listened to it fairly frequently. Maybe they felt like there wasn't enough interest...

jone70 said:

No, they were playing boots again. I asked a question this week about a song that Langebleu told me was a boot. It was identified as "Alphabet Street Blues" and they had a live version of "Shh" that I never heard before. It showed both song as part of the respective albums that they orginated from. However, we all know that they weren't on the original albums.
I for one am very sad that it's gone.

Kissmequick said:

that's exactly what i remember reading about recent bootleggage on that station. an AOL radio station isn't exactly a low profile forum, that kinda stuff is gonna get nabbed sooner or later.

Kissmequick said:

Oooh...I have been listening to my own cds this week so I didn't hear any of that.

The Paisley Police strike again...

jone70 said:

...yep!

You can e-mail them at Radiocomments@aol.com to express your disappointment, I did.

Blissful77 said:

I just did It seems weird they'd take if off right before the Super Bowl appearance!

npggirl said:

Could you please post the link for this?

TIA

Thanks for the links! I just emailed aol, lets see what happends.

www.NewPowerRadio.ca

Here was the response I received from AOL Radio :

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to the AOL Radio Team.



Unfortunately, we are only allowed to carry 70 XM stations at a time. And because XM has hundreds of exciting stations, we like to rotate some of them in and out, to see which ones AOL members enjoy the most. So, while All Prince is no longer on AOL Radio at this time, we're very glad to hear that you'd like to have it back! We'll keep that in mind when requesting stations from XM next month. And in the meantime, we hope you'll check out “Funk” which is found under the R&B/Soul Heading on your AOL Radio player. We think you'll like it just as much!



Thanks for listening, and please keep in touch.

Sincerely,

the AOL Radio Team

NuPwr319 said:

Got the same generic response. Perhaps if they get enough of them, they may bring it back. However, I think the Paisley police shut it down!

Kissmequick said:

Seems some people have received a response saying that the rights had expired and Prince's management chose not to renew them.
[Edited 1/22/07 14:05pm]

Serena said:

Yes, I received an additional e-mail that said:

Hello,

Thanks for writing to the AOL Radio Team about our All Prince station. We are very sorry that we had to take it down. Special rights needed to air the station expired, and Prince's management company chose against renewing those rights. So, of course, we had to honor the Purple One's wishes!

In the absence of All Prince, we do hope you'll check out our Top R&B, 90s R&B, XM 80s and Top Jams channels, where you'll hear all of Prince's greatest hits.

We appreciate and value your comments. Thank you again for taking the time to send your email. We hope you’ll keep listening and keep in touch!

Sincerely,

The AOL Radio Team



Not that the other radio stations mentioned here aren't good, but it was just convenient to listen to Prince while reading my e-mail in AOL. Oh, well.

Interesting.

I just e-mailed them.

I really enjoyed that station.

I've made the switch to Live 365 and I think I like it better than the aol one. They play a lot more variety. The only thing I don't like is they have these really annoying breaks where they play Beavis & Butthead and Sam Kinneson clips. I always have to hurry and turn the speakers down when those come on...

So Mariah freakin' Carey has a station dedictaed to her shit and the Genius doesn't? WTF? AOL is all fucked up now.

PurpleAlegria said:

Get sign up with Pandora Internet Radio service. It's free!!!

After that, just type "Prince" as the radio name and you're all set.

TonyVanDam said:

It's not the same.
AOL's station was ALL Prince.
Pandora starts veering off into other artists that it thinks you might like.
I'll take Yahoo Music (also free) before Pandora.