oh piffle

[helen99]

One of my favorite journals got deleted. It's always my favorite things that go away first. I believe it's the world's fault. Hear that world? Yer not good enough for them.

Oh, and WHFS decided that a Spanish-speaking, salsa-blaring format would make more money than a prog format would. At first I thought it was maybe an hour-long program that HFS had included in its format - nope, the whole thing has gone Spanish.

A student-run station in Baltimore has taken over playing prog where HFS left off (and doing a far better job of it - HFS had deteriorated), but my car radio won't pick it up. This morning they were playing some wonderful music that I hadn't heard in a while. I changed the button setting to that station anyway. I can hear it for about a half a block during the drive to work, if I catch it at just the right time...

I can see it now - I get a satellite dish on my car just to pick up a prog station. Apparently the Spanish station conglomerate (Infiniti?) is Clearchannel's only competition. I wonder if it's really a branch of Clearchannel, pretending to be in competition with itself. I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Dag Frakking Durnit.

So lost a favorite journal and a station all in the same day. Lyra with a satellite dish would be kind of funny...

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Point of interest - in other cities, the "spanish" conglomerate (which I think is really clearchannel) seems to also be targeting the prog stations. I wonder what's going on...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

WHFS is gone? I hadn't listened to it in a while due to radio problems, but... wow. My world is all askew.

At noon yesterday, the station behind the HFStival, a popular annual concert, broadcast the late Jeff Buckley's 1995 hit, "Last Goodbye." And then came something that WHFS listeners hadn't heard before in the station's 36-year history as the arbiter of cutting-edge rock:

"WHFS transmitiendo desde la ciudad capital de America:

"Esta! Es! Tu! Nueva! Radio!"

"Transmitting from America's Capital City: This! Is! Your! New! Radio!"

[heliwood.livejournal.com]

Augh, my dad told me about what happened with HFS. I seriously cannot wrap my brain around this, honestly. It used to be one of my favorite stations.

Its always the good things that never stay around.

Infinity Broadcast Corporation

[gleef.livejournal.com]

Infinity Broadcast Corporation hasn't added WHBF to its list of radio stations its insatiable corporate appetitite has eaten, but they probably just haven't gotten around to updating their webpage yet.

Infinity Broadcasting is owned by Viacom, and in turn it also owns the Westwood One Radio Network and CBS Radio.

As far as the incorporated tapeworms that are taking over the media of the world, I find Viacom marginally less objectionable. They are greedy corporate pigdogs, but they don't seem to care what faith I am, what my politics are or how I live my life.