AUDIO FILE: "18 Days" by Saving Abel off their debut album above. Played on high school afternoon show on February 26.     There are two hit songs off this album. One is the one being played by BusRadio and the other is called "Addicted." BusRadio will get kids pumped up to buy...
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BusRadio is now playing Lady Gaga’s song "Just Dance." The title should be "Just Drink." It seems Lady GaGa likes to get drunk and she certainly likes to sing about getting drunk. Students who are introduced to Lady Gaga on BusRadio will want to check out her music video for the song that they...
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  AUDIO FILE: Middle school children hear Hinder on BusRadio.     Middle school students forced to listen to BusRadio this afternoon will hear "Without You" by Hinder. (BusRadio posts their AM and PM programs each morning at on their website.) This song is from their second album called "Take It To The Limit."...
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  AUDIO FILE: "Give It To Me" from Timbaland’s Shock Value CD – Played on BusRadio’s high school program on February 23, 2009   The remaining employees at BusRadio must love Timbaland. This is at least the second song off "Shock Value" that BusRadio has played for bus riders. Remember "The Way I Are."...
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Mr. T. drives a school bus in Oklahoma City. We hear him do a promotional spot for BusRadio on this audio clip. He has no business using his government job to do a commercial for BusRadio.   AUDIO FILE: Mr. T. makes a "fool" of himself for BusRadio and a chance to win $200....
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Nickelback’s Dark Horse CD is getting air time on BusRadio’s elementary school radio show. Nickelback is an unlikely band to be featured on any program aimed at such young children. The band’s most famous song is Rockstar "Everybody has a drug dealer on speed dial" and "the girls come easy and the drugs come...
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We reported in December that Montgomery County Public Schools (MD) had terminated their experiment with BusRadio. It now appears that BusRadio remains in use in that school district. Here is an audio clip from the elementary school version of BusRadio last week.   AUDIO FILE: Driver from Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD Feb....
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  Here’s a disturbing audio clip from today’s BusRadio’s middle school show. In an effort to win herself up to $200 worth of American Express gift cards, the driver of Bus 79 in the Deer Park Independent School District (Texas) called into BusRadio. By calling BusRadio and giving her contact information, she is officially...
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  From Jim Metrock: The Independent School District of Angleton, TX has a driver that loves BusRadio. Then again he just might be "angling" to get some of that BusRadio cash. Below is an audio clip from the beginning of today’s high school version of BusRadio’s show. John from Bus 256 sounds like he...
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AND   The American School Bus Council is a relatively new organization created in 2006. It lobbies on behalf of several trade organizations and school bus manufacturers. The Council’s main members are NAPT (National Association for Pupil Transportation), NASDPTS (National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services), NSTA (National School Transportation Association), Blue...
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We mistakenly wrote yesterday that the Littleton Public School District in Colorado had brought back BusRadio to its buses. That was based on this announcement on yesterday’s middle school BusRadio program. AUDIO FILE BusRadio announced that the transportation director from "Littleton School District in Colorado" wanted give a "Shout Out" to her bus drivers....
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Here is BusRadio’s content for their High School afternoon program on Friday, January 31, 2009: As students get on the bus for the ride home they will hear these songs and advertisements in this order. The last student off the bus may hear all the songs from Akon to the Black Eyed Peas. All...
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This is a video on BusRadio’s web site. We believe Bryant James is the nerdy guy that was known as DJ Chickenwing on BusRadio. He looks like DJ Chickenwing and it is odd that Chickenwing has disappeared but now "Bryant James" is an "exclusive" artist on BusRadio. We have email Mr. James asking him...
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What first grader couldn’t use an extra $500?   BusRadio is currently running a contest aimed at their entire captive audience of bus riders from 18 years of age and younger. Students down to first graders are being asked to enter the Bryant James SUPERLOVE Valentine’s Day Giveaway. We kid you not. Elementary school...
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  DJ Lucia has left BusRadio. The Mat and Lucia Show is no more. Lucia has left the building. We have confirmation of Lucia Nxxxxxx’s departure from BusRadio. We don’t know what happened, but we knew she had not been on BusRadio’s broadcasts for weeks. Children still hear her voice on some old taped...
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1. Count the side windows. 2. Read this: In 2006, Education Week published an article about the BusRadio controversy ("School Bus Radio Venture Raises Safety, Commercialism Concerns"). After quoting BusRadio’s president saying his radio show will "soothe the beast on the bus" the article when on: "But one transportation official said encouraging radios on...
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Listen to BusRadio’s DJ Matthew Blades takes a request to play a song from an artist Blades knows he shouldn’t be playing. AUDIO FILE CLICK HERE (January 15, 2009) The music video. Today BusRadio played the "clean" version of this song. The song many teens will download after hearing Rudolf on BusRadio will be...
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