How we checked Rockin' the Suburbs Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
This is both things at once, and the site is straightforward about which is which. The parent is a podcast: its own About page opens "Rockin' the Suburbs is a podcast dedicated to exploring all forms of the rock and pop music, from the perspective of two music-crazed suburbanites, Jim Lenahan and Patrick Foster", releasing a new episode every Monday to Friday, with over 1000 episodes by its own count. Rockin' the Suburbs Radio is the separate 24 hour streaming station that podcast runs, and it is a real station rather than a looped podcast feed: it has its own published schedule, its own roster of sixteen named hosts with their own named shows, its own station idents and jingles, and its own new music rotation.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Artists
taken from the station's own stream server history on the day I read it: The Go-Go's, The Stick Arounds, The Weirdos, Dynamite Shakers, The Baseball Project, M. Ward, The Sugarhill Gang, Gang of Four, Demolition Means Progress, Roy Orbison, African Vibration, Stef Chura and Billboard Style. Interleaved with those are the station's own idents and jingles, logged under titles such as "RTS Radio - Jim #1", "RTS Radio - German", "RTS Radio - Obama", "Listening to RTS Radio - dramatic", "New Music Jingle 1" and "New Music Jingle 2".
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Contact route
yes, three kinds, all on the station's own contact page: an email address, a listener voicemail line the site calls "the Suburban Party Line" which it invites listeners to call to get their voice on the show, and links to its Twitter and Facebook accounts. The radio pages additionally carry the station's own separate social handles for the radio arm as distinct from the podcast, and a Patreon under "Support Us". No postal address and no on-air request line; the stream is configured to refuse requests. No actual address or number is reproduced here.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.suburbspod.com/contact/
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Era
no single era. The output I saw spanned late 1950s rockabilly, 1970s punk and early hip hop, 1980s new wave and post punk, and current independent releases, with a standing "Monthly New Music" hour, so the station is deliberately not period bound.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Music
eclectic rock and pop, wider than the name suggests. The hosts' own show titles run from power pop and punk to indie, garage and vinyl collecting, and the station's actual output in the hour I read it mixed new wave, punk, indie, rockabilly, early hip hop and African music.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Language
English.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Kind
automated playout carrying pre-recorded presenter shows and their replays, not live presentation. This is not an inference: the station's own stream server reports its source as "type":"automated" with no collaborator connected and no relay, while simultaneously reporting the station online. The schedule itself corroborates it, since well over half the published week is explicitly labelled "Replay -", and the stream is set to reject listener requests.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
the filing under UM, the US Minor Outlying Islands, is not merely imprecise but impossible: that code covers uninhabited territories, and this station's own schedule runs on United States mainland Eastern time with a Minnesota listener phone line. The more interesting point is that the podcast and the station are genuinely separate products of the same two people: the podcast is a weekday two hander, while the station is a sixteen host community operation that runs around the clock.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Where
the United States. The operators do not print a studio address, but three independent markers on their own properties all point to the United States and nowhere else: the station's own schedule is published entirely in United States Eastern time at UTC-04:00, the contact page gives a listener voicemail line it calls "the Suburban Party Line" on a 612 area code, which is Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the site runs as a participant in the Amazon.com associates programme. The About page mentions that Jim's "formative days" were in Toledo, Ohio, which is biography rather than a current base. I am not naming a single city, because the Eastern time schedule and the Minneapolis phone line do not point at the same one. Online only; no frequency.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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On air
sixteen named on the station's own schedule: Bill Mulligan, Mike Kohli, Noah Crane, Kevin Clement, Patrick Foster, Kevin Bartlett, Harris King, Matt Carlson, Paul Hayden, Zack Kruse, Will Pfeifer, Brian Butts, Jim Lenahan, Bob Peterson, Tim Hoffman and Bud Verge. Jim Lenahan is additionally credited by name on the station's own idents, which are logged as "RTS Radio - Jim #1" and "RTS Radio - Jim 2", so his voice is on the station identification as well as in the schedule.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
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Programmes
the station publishes a rolling schedule with named shows, each titled as host plus programme, and repeats explicitly prefixed "Replay -". In the week I read: Monthly New Music Mon and Wed 13:00 to 14:00; Noah Crane - From The Woods Mon 16:00 to 17:00; Kevin Clement - Miscellaneous Debris Mon 17:00 to 19:00; Patrick Foster - Red, Hot & Brew Mon and Thu 19:00 to 23:00; Harris King - These Important Years Tue 15:00 to 17:00; Matt Carlson - WAIM with Matty C Tue 17:00 to 18:00; Paul Hayden - Pleasure Centers Tue 18:00 to 20:00; Zack Kruse - Mutant Graveyard Wed 16:00 to 17:00; Will Pfeifer - The Moondog Show Wed 17:00 to 18:00; Brian Butts - Championship Vinyl Wed 18:00 to 19:00; Bill Mulligan - Mulligan's Stew Wed 19:00 to 21:07; Bob Peterson - Midlife Crisis Thu 17:00 to 19:00; Bud Verge - On The Verge Radio Fri 18:00 to 20:00; Kevin Bartlett - Jammin with Kevin Sat 09:00 to 11:00; Mike Kohli - Walking At A Suburban Pace Sat 11:00 to 13:00; Tim Hoffman - Mixed Tape Sun 10:00 to 12:00. Jim Lenahan - Sunday Morning Coming Down appears in the schedule as a replay. All times are as the station publishes them, in United States Eastern time.
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Rockin' The Suburbs (own site; schedule, live status and play history read from the station's own stream server at public.radio.co/stations/sca22d43b1, the host its own radio page embeds) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
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| country code | UM → US | The stored code UM, the United States Minor Outlying Islands, covers uninhabited territories and cannot be where this station operates. Three markers on the operator's own properties place it in the mainland United States. First, the station's own schedule, published through the stream host its own radio page at https://www.suburbspod.com/radio/ embeds, timestamps every one of its 66 scheduled programmes in United States Eastern time at UTC-04:00. Second, its own contact page at https://www.suburbspod.com/contact/ gives a listener voicemail line it calls 'the Suburban Party Line' on a 612 area code, which is Minneapolis, Minnesota. Third, its About page at https://www.suburbspod.com/about/ states the site participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program linking to Amazon.com, and names its two founders as United States based music journalists. I am deliberately not narrowing this to a city, because the Eastern time schedule and the Minnesota phone line do not point to the same one, but the country is not in doubt. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| the stream's "Now Playing", "Recently Played" and "Current DJ" panels as read from the page itself | all three render empty in the page source because they are filled in later by the host's embedded scripts, so a straight read of the page would have recorded an absence that is not real. I went to the station's own stream server for the actual values instead.
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| a named "Current DJ" | the station's own server reported no collaborator connected at the time I read it, consistent with its automated source, so there was no live DJ to name and I did not take a scheduled host's name and present it as the person on air.
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| Toledo, Ohio as the station's location | the About page gives it as where Jim's interest in music began, which is biography and not a broadcast origin, and treating it as a studio location would have been an inference dressed as a fact.
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| the contents of the linked songs spreadsheet | it is hosted off the station's own domain and is a podcast artefact rather than the station's playlist, so it is not evidence of what the station plays.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Rockin' the Suburbs Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.suburbspod.com/radio/