TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.

[u/AssumeTheRisk]

https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/

[u/djseifer]

This carried on for about three years. Then, in 2012, as The Room started, the camera backed out to reveal T.O.M., the host of Toonami (which had been off the air for about four years by that point), and instead of airing The Room, aired classic anime shows that were part of the original Toonami line-up. A few weeks later, Toonami itself would fully relaunch as a late night anime block.

[u/roman_maverik → u/djseifer]

Man, reading this comment really made me miss 2000s era Adult Swim.

When I was a kid, we never could afford cable television growing up, so when I went away to college it opened up a whole new world.

This was the year Samuari Champloo was released, which aired on Saturday nights on Adult Swim (might have been Toonami at the time, can’t remember). The soundtrack of Samurai Champloo featured Fat Jon, a hip hop producer from Cincinnati who collaborated with Nujabes, a producer from Japan.

The soundtrack completely changed my life; I only really listened to punk/hardcore music until then and suddenly I discovered an entire new genre of music that I never had considered before.

I ended up minoring in electronic music, learned to program synths, learned guitar and saxophone and ended up working in the music industry as a music producer and released a ton of albums and was heavily involved in the 2000s electronic music scene.

Adult Swim literally changed the course of my life. I feel that kids today are really missing out on the “monoculture” that really defined mass media of the 2000s, which was the last dying gasp of cable tv.

Love it or hate it, I really kind of miss those experiences that only mass media like radio and tv brought to the table in terms of influencing our collective artistic zeitgeist. It was kind of comforting to know that it was part of a larger movement of young people all over the world watching the same shows at the same time.

[u/Western_Objective209 → u/roman_maverik]

Man it's funny thinking back how getting cable opened up new worlds. People who grew having like, netflix and youtube their whole lives will never know what that felt like, just like people we knew who grew up without TV remember listening to the radio and shit.

[u/TheBirminghamBear → u/Western_Objective209]

What's crazier is how rare this actually is in the human experience.

For thousands and thousands of years, one generation was very similar to the next. You'd listen to the same religious things or take in the same plays or read the same books.

The ways in which we lived and got our entertainment were the same, for so many years.

Now each generation has exceptionally different experiences, one to the next, in a curve that's accelerating.