The Area is Safe from Kenny G
Oct. 4th, 2006 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiWell, the Oaisis went off the air on Monday, replaced with yet another station playing urban dance music.
Though I wasn't a regular listener to the station, I used it as stress relief. A little mellow jazz with far too much saxophone was sometimes good for when you were caught in a traffic jam. Now, it's gone, only available on HD radio.
And I don't think we needed yet another urban dance station. There are so may formats out there that will never be heard in this area. And other areas like Austin (KLBJ) or the Bay Area(KFOG and KFRC) seem to have stations that can pass a fiscal year without a format change. I don't know why it can't happen here. Yeah, it was extremely mellow, inoffensive wallpaper for the most part, but sometimes that was just what was needed. Now, it's gone, and I will have to rely on WRR classical or some other station if I can find one to fill that wallpaper bill.
Bummer. It makes me seriously miss the days of Jazzy 99.1, a station that had no qualms about playing a big band tune followed by a fusion tune followed by a dixieland tune followed by some bop followed by some manhattan transfer or Ella Fitzgerald. They truly understood the breadth and length of Jazz, and as such they died a fast horrible death.
Though I wasn't a regular listener to the station, I used it as stress relief. A little mellow jazz with far too much saxophone was sometimes good for when you were caught in a traffic jam. Now, it's gone, only available on HD radio.
And I don't think we needed yet another urban dance station. There are so may formats out there that will never be heard in this area. And other areas like Austin (KLBJ) or the Bay Area(KFOG and KFRC) seem to have stations that can pass a fiscal year without a format change. I don't know why it can't happen here. Yeah, it was extremely mellow, inoffensive wallpaper for the most part, but sometimes that was just what was needed. Now, it's gone, and I will have to rely on WRR classical or some other station if I can find one to fill that wallpaper bill.
Bummer. It makes me seriously miss the days of Jazzy 99.1, a station that had no qualms about playing a big band tune followed by a fusion tune followed by a dixieland tune followed by some bop followed by some manhattan transfer or Ella Fitzgerald. They truly understood the breadth and length of Jazz, and as such they died a fast horrible death.
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Date: 2006-10-05 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-07 12:07 am (UTC)Well...
Date: 2006-10-07 12:25 am (UTC)Besides, if I started a radio station, it'd be very eclectic. I had a concept for it, but my call latters are taken by a radio station in Crested Butte Colorado -- KBUT. I'd get the lowest frequency on the FM or AM dial, and then start KBUTT -- The Rear End of Radio. It'd be broken into program bands, like rock and pop during drive times, but a mix of everything from the advent of the genres to current hits, local music shows constantly in the evenings, a blues show on sunday evenings, Jazz at nights, and other veried things to the format. The station would be the anti-Jack, in that it'd be request driven, but the DJ's would be all comic voices, like Blind Lemon Pie for the blues show, and Dylan T, the illigitimate love child of Bob Dylan and Mr. T, as a drivetime DJ. (Instead of hiring DJ's, I'd hire voice talent and program the show like Jack does, using the program director loading songs into a computer playlist.)
It'd be the only place you'd hear Frank Zappa, Eric Johnson, and the latest releses from older artists like XTC and the Moody Blues on local radio. And definitely the local music would be front and center.
That's the station I'd run, and it'd be cool.
Re: Well...
Date: 2006-10-07 12:34 am (UTC)Completely request driven, that station was. I wish I could recall it's call letters.