Radio MFK (what a name! and ... what a name!!) in Skelund, Denmark is new to me ... but I love them already.

Art imitates life? The new Barry Walters book I just found out about finds its way into this hour, and the end-of-hour banter reflects what really happened today while I was researching. Lines of reality blur even more! 😇 audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... Radio M's history: 977radiom.com/history

Thirteen at Midnight is another of my mostly forgotten mid-80s bands that did surprisingly good stuff. And TIL that they indeed made a video for the closest thing they had to a hit. Alas, this copy (the only one I found) is missing the end, but it's still New To Me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIVp...

Another color videotape episode of original Art Fleming Jeopardy! has been unearthed. What a wonderful thing to wake up to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt82...

Oooo, this is a must-get for me. Many of the artists I "discovered" in the early-mid 90s were thanks to Barry's writing in the San Francisco Examiner.

Did you miss Kyle's great Lost 80s Lunchbox from June 12? Relive the whole hour here! And rather than give you spoilery album covers, here's the visual version of Kyle's first Lunchbox clue. Can you name the album from just that? audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... All the M: 977radiom.com/seasons

Released on 22nd June 1985, Steve McQueen by #PrefabSprout Paddy’s masterpiece, an album so special, so beautiful and so timeless. There’s not another album in my collection that makes evokes the feeling I get when I hear it. The 3 song run of Bonny, Appetite and When Love Breaks Down is peerless.

From 40 years ago today, my (real, actual) Sunday 9pm-midnight #playlist on WISU Terre Haute for June 22, 1986.

Fresh in the archive, the first two hours of midday music warrior Kyle's midday show from June 12, 2026. And listen to find out how to cast your votes for the Radio M 250! 10am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... 11am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... Everything M: 977radiom.com/seasons

ALC would've had a fit! Me bicycling on the UT 7 freeway this morning for 4 miles ... in the traffic lane.

Actual real recordings of actual real 90.5 WMHD in actual real Terre Haute in actual real 1984! This week's WMHD Sunday is a wild ride through a show that slowly devolves (or evolves?) into a college-radio version of a Morning Zoo. audio.977radiom.com/WMHD.Sunday.... More: 977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday

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It's 9am last Friday in Terre Haute, and Morning Josh has put together an awesome 9-Spot, "nine great songs with no commercials." This one is an especially damn fine cup of coffee; the "impossible" station has become ... M-possible. 😉 audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... More: 977radiom.com/seasons

When everything clicks at once and it all becomes real: riding home under beautifully colorful but mildly threatening skies, with Radio M S08E04 on the phone speakers. A transcendental moment. 😍 (I never ride with music, but I made a brief exception today.)

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S08 is now official. Blurring the lines of reality since 1985. 😇 6am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... 7am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S08E... Seasons 1-7: 977radiom.com/seasons

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If you couldn't make it down to Vincennes Pride last weekend and didn't get one of our limited-edition 2026 pride stickers, now you can print your own! If we spot one on your vehicle, no prizes (sorry!) ... but it still identifies you as a really awesome person.

All Against 1 Norway -- #allemot1 -- is returning! NRK say they're releasing a trailer for Season 8 in 11 days. Quite possibly my favorite game show franchise that's never aired an English-language edition. tv.nrk.no/program/KMNO...

From 40 years ago today, my Sunday 9pm-midnight #playlist on WISU Terre Haute for June 15, 1986.

TIL that delightfully obscure Leicester band The Sinatras -- who were indeed named after Frank, and really released an album called Let's Be Frank (!) -- made a reasonably ambitious video for their 1986 song "Money Is the New Messiah." Oozes '80s from every pore! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo1w...

Actual real recordings of 90.5 FM WMHD! This week's WMHD Sunday presents a rare episode of "Terre Haute After Dark," a pre-recorded weekly show that aired Mondays at midnight in late 1984 and early 1985. audio.977radiom.com/WMHD.Sunday.... More WMHD: 977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday

I donated some signed Black Mirror / San Junipero stuff to this charity auction, which ends tomorrow - if you don’t bid on it, you’re a monster: uk.givergy.com/beautybanksh...

It's not a World Cup without a World Cup theme, and it's not a World Cup theme unless it's The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8d...

Of the >150 hours (so far!) of Radio M, this has been by far the most fun to write and produce. It's not exactly a "typical" Radio M hour, but it's also a fun (and sometimes touching!) introduction to the 41 years of alternate media reality. audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S06E... 977radiom.com/vintage

TIL that the Detroit band Art in America -- a very early MTV favorite that had the rare double-whammy of a 1983 self-titled song on a self-titled album, not to mention a pedal harp! -- released a full album (Rise) of new material just last year. Surprisingly good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0GS...

Season 10 of #Stormester (aka #Taskmaster Denmark) begins today! This is one of my favorite international versions, and Lasse is one of the most "intellectual" and "erudite" taskmasters in the whole TM Cinematic Universe. Available with English subtitles from The Usual Sources.

Fat clock Friday.

From last weekend, here is the full hour of the Game Show Marathon that we proudly sponsored. And what an hour it is ... an artfully-crafted (and sometimes nsfw, you've been warned 😉) love letter to game shows! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNMr...

Season 7 of the greatest station Terre Haute almost had: Radio M when it was only 9 months old and still struggling, but already punching way above its weight. Fun to make; fun to listen! 😜 8am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... 9am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... More: 977radiom.com/seasons

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New today in the archive: the first two bonus episodes of Season 7, with program director Chris doing Saturday morning holiday season fill-in duties from December 28, 1985. 6am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... 7am: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... 1985 year-end special: 977radiom.com/1985dec

Spotted this typo in some agate from a 1985 issue of Billboard. Y'know, "Motley Cure" would have been a *very* interesting band!

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Here's one of the best hours from this weekend's Game Show Marathon: A full production of Chopped that "people are saying" is actually better than the real thing! And yes, you can still donate to support Child's Play: gameshowmarathon.com/gsm-2026/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_K0...

From 40 years ago today, the Sunday 9pm-midnight #playlist on WISU Terre Haute for June 8, 1986.

A deep dive into this groundbreaking 4AD single and the two bands that (sort-of) united to create it: Colourbox and A.R. Kane.

Happy birthday, Paddy McAloon.

If you missed @977radiom.bsky.social sponsoring Game Changer on the Game Show Marathon, here ya go. The marathon continues till noon EDT today, and there's still time to donate to support the Child's Play charity: gameshowmarathon.com

This week's WMHD Sunday is two hours from November 5, 1984: another real actual cassette recording of real actual WMHD in real actual Terre Haute! Hear the founders of Radio M before they started Radio M. audio.977radiom.com/WMHD.Sunday.... More WMHD Sundays: 977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday

@gameshowmarathon.com is LIVE, raising $10K for Child's Play! youtube.com/live/AsFjEq1...

Start your Saturday the Radio M way with these four hours of classic 2001 9-Spots, each a great 9 songs with no ads. 1: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E... 2: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E... 3: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E... 4: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E... More: 977radiom.com/seasons

This aired almost exactly word-for-word on WISU in Dec. 1985. Despite some weird choices and classifications, I think it holds up remarkably well! Hour 1: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... Hour 2: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... Hour 3: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... 977radiom.com/1985dec

Here's a great five-minute segment from this morning about this weekend's Game Show Marathon, featuring Buzzerblog's very own (and recent Wheel of Fortune contestant) @bobhagh.bsky.social. Watch, play, and donate! gameshowmarathon.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=4905...

#EscapePerfecto is still one of my top game show formats of all time (except for the inferior US version, aka Raid the Cage!), and it's coming back for the first time in a few years, now in a new Uruguay version. www.elpais.com.uy/tvshow/tv-y-...

Fresh in the archive, it's two more hours of Radio M from December 31, 1985. It's so grounded in reality, we'll understand if you can't tell where the alternate media reality begins. 😇 7pm: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... 8pm: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... More 1985: 977radiom.com/1985dec

We're proud to sponsor the 7pm EDT hour of this year's Game Show Marathon! Watch online for free for 24 hours starting Saturday at noon EDT as cool folks play game shows old and new, from around the world, to raise money for the Child's Play charity. We've been here all along! gameshowmarathon.com

My earliest ride-out of the season so far, because: 1) Today's predicted high is 103F. 2) My mood is soooo much better when I don't have to deal with southern Utah's Maga Nazi chuds on the roads and pathways!

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Production note: This is adapted from an *actual, real* hour that I really aired on WISU Terre Haute on December 29, 1985. The announcing is almost exactly the same, too, except that it's recast into the Radio M universe. Listen: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S07E... S01-S07: 977radiom.com/seasons