Author Archives: Rick Allison

the allison transmission 09.15.25

Anaïs Nin said “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are” we’ll split the difference today. the Allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick Allison

the allison transmission 09.12.25

if you will, consider the transmission a non fungible token of my esteem . yes, it has no value when traded and its value is most likely only in the mind. mine and , maybe, yours. it won’t get you a cup o’ Joe or a buy you a ride on public transit. it’s just

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the allison transmission 09.11.25

the magic of radio past…no playlist…no consultant perpetrated focus grouped music ..just an old school freeform radio style, vanity project, noodling. with a pinch of history…garnished with whatever comes into my head. why should you listen? just a poke in the eye of radio reality , of course. the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick

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the allison transmission w/lamar and critelli 09.10.25

in lieu of a go to recipe for radio excellence…we resort to the time tested method of flinging spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks. and Wednesdays there are three cooks in the kitchen we’ll limit stains by going with a white sauce. the allison transmission cygnusradio.com Rick Allison

the allison transmission 09.09.25

it’s time to perform the alchemy of turning the led of 2 mundane hours of into something approximating the gold of an old school on-line radio style internet thingee… balancing the new, the weird and the wayback . Shazam !  the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick Allison

the allison transmission 09.08.25

wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it stuck to the hits? wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it played just one kind of music? wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it were a tad more predictable? maybe. but it wouldn’t be the transmission. listen if you like. ‘like’ if you listen. the

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the allison transmission 09.05.25

Hippocrates called the 4 human temperaments :Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic. we’ll try to ‘humor’ each ingredient in today’s little freeform vanity project . we’ll dust off the the book of the day via the waybackmachine™ . and open a can of ‘what the heck’ musically on you. that’s the plan…as humble as it is

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the allison transmission 09.04.25

in explaining cygnusradio to those who’ve not experienced it before, the phrase that most often comes to my mind is ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ can we stipulate that one of the problems with modern radio is computers? (and salesmen and lawyers and stockholders and consultants…) here on Cygnus though everything we do

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