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Sound Opinions is a radio talk show focusing on Rock Music. It airs Saturday morning at 11AM CST on Chicago Public Radio (91.5 FM WBEZ Chicago, WBEW 89.5 FM Chesterton, IN, and WBEQ 90.7 FM Morris, IL).

Sound Opinions Station List

Chicago Public Radio 91.5FM Fri. @ 8pm & Sat @ 11am CST Listen Live (Streaming Mp3)

Southern California Public Radio 89.3FM Pasadena/Los Angeles, CA Sun @ 8pm PST

The Current 89.3 & 88.7FM Minneapolis Sat. @ 9am CST

WFUV 90.7 FM and wfuv.org New York City Sun. @ 5pm EST

KIAL 1450 AM Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Alaska Wed @ 4pm (AKST)

Iowa Public Radio Saturdays at 10pm

KUNI Public Radio KUNI 90.9 FM Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City KUNI 101.7FM Des Moines KUNI 98.7 FM Dubuque KUNI 102.1FM Eldridge KUNI 94.5 FM Quad Cities (Davenport, Bettendorf Iowa and Moline and Rock Island, IL) KUNY 91.5FM & 1010AM Mason City http://www.kuniradio.org/kuni.ram

WOI Radio Group KWOI 90.1FM Ames/Des Moines KTPR 91.1FM Fort Dodge KOWI 90.7FM Carroll KOWI 97.9FM Lamoni http://www.iowapublicradio.org/woistream/woi-fm.ram

Lexington, KY WUKY-FM 91.3 Sundays @ 8pm Listen Live

Omaha, NE KIOS-FM, Omaha Public Radio 91.5FM. Sunday Evening @ 8pm Listen Live

North Carolina Public Radio - 91.5 FM Chapel Hill, 88.9 FM Manteo, 90.9FM Rocky Mount, NC. @ 3pm Saturdays.

Interlochen Public Radio - News Radio WICA 91.5FM Traverse City/Petosky, MI Sun.@ 9pm EST http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wiaa/ppr/wica.asx

The show is hosted by Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot.

Sound Opinions has also been a television show on WTTW channel 11 in Chicago. Sound Opinions also hosts a message board dealing primarily with music and pop culture.

Sound Opinions was once on WLUP then on WKQX then on WXRT, and, after 354 shows, is now on Chicago Public Radio. It is distributed nationally by American Public Media and is also available as a podcast.

The Sound Opinions Message Board, also known as "the SOMB," is frequented by music aficionados. Its users, known as "SOMBies," gather to discuss music, the Chicago scene, pop culture, politics, and occasionally their personal lives, mostly in the name of distracting themselves from work. The interface is notoriously difficult to read because so much of each post is taken up with icons, sig lines, and so forth, a common fault, perhaps, of insular chat fora. Annual "Best Of" lists are also regularly compiled.

• Sound Opinions Official Website
• Sound Opinions Message Board