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.
