BikerBabe 0 #1 May 12, 2004 to feel grief over a huge part of your childhood and teenage years going away? I'm sitting here listening to the final days of my incredibly awesome independent hometown radio station (over the web) and I literally have tears in my eyes thinking about not hearing it any more after tomorrow. Am I being stupid? This station is a soundtrack to my life. I studied and partied to this station, it was playing the first time I got drunk, the first time I had sex , during thousands of car trips home from concerts in Cinicinnati, and countless other times during my formative years. They don't have the $700,000 a year it will take to keep their web broadcast going. I'm devastated. Is it stupid for me to be crying over this? They're www.woxy.com if you're interested in hearing what you missed over the past 2 decades. I'll just sit here and listen and be sad.Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #2 May 12, 2004 So, WOXY will still be on the air, but they won't be web-broadcasting anymore? Buy a radio...So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #3 May 12, 2004 Nope, they won't be on the air, either. It's done, done done. Thursday is the last day. They had to sell the frequency to a corporate radio conglomorate because they weren't making enough money. They had planned to keep the web broadcast going, which would have been awesome (note my location), but their investors for that pulled out. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #4 May 12, 2004 Well, check this web-station then. __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #5 May 12, 2004 Thanks. Just not the same, dude. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #6 May 12, 2004 QuoteNope, they won't be on the air, either. It's done, done done. Thursday is the last day. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/12/biz_woxy12.html Well, management changes hands often. The new owners plan to continue modern/alternative programming. No, it won't be the same as what you grew up with, but... So, no, it's not stupid, but, I wouldn't feel torn apart by it either. The Balogh's did fine for 20 years, and now they get to retire.So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #7 May 12, 2004 What? WHAT?!?! That's horrible. I hadn't even heard about that. A guy I went to school with is the Music Director there now, and a DJ... hope he lives through it. It is one of the better radio stations of all time - I mean c'mon, it's slogan was even in Rainman I gave up on trying to get reception a few years ago - they just aren't that powerful.it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #8 May 12, 2004 QuoteI gave up on trying to get reception a few years ago - they just aren't that powerful. webcast, man. I listen from Albuquerque. Well, I will until Friday. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #9 May 12, 2004 QuoteQuoteI gave up on trying to get reception a few years ago - they just aren't that powerful. webcast, man. I listen from Albuquerque. Well, I will until Friday. They just said shoutcast donated a 128k line to them. not sure if that was just today or for a while.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #10 May 12, 2004 QuoteQuoteI gave up on trying to get reception a few years ago - they just aren't that powerful. webcast, man. I listen from Albuquerque. Well, I will until Friday. Hard to catch webcasts in my car If they went to XM, I'd buy it. They said it'd be like $650k/year to break even if they kept streaming it. Does that sound right? Sound way hi to me.it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #11 May 12, 2004 Yep, just for today and tomorrow. They don't have the money. It costs ~$700K to run an internet station, and their investors for that pulled out. No where else will I be able to fire up my internet and hear G Love and Special Sauce, Primal Scream, and Jet in the same hour on the same station. Crap, they just played "Rock me Amadeus" and I literally broke down. The people at work must think I'm insane! I did a science fair project involving that song, fish, and Pavlov in 6th grade, and I just couldn't handle hearing it. I'm a big sap. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #12 May 12, 2004 Wanna hear kinda their "sister station"? Cd101 in Columbus is still on the web Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #13 May 12, 2004 Quoteto feel grief over a huge part of your childhood and teenage years going away? I'm sitting here listening to the final days of my incredibly awesome independent hometown radio station (over the web) and I literally have tears in my eyes thinking about not hearing it any more after tomorrow. Am I being stupid? This station is a soundtrack to my life. I studied and partied to this station, it was playing the first time I got drunk, the first time I had sex , during thousands of car trips home from concerts in Cinicinnati, and countless other times during my formative years. They don't have the $700,000 a year it will take to keep their web broadcast going. I'm devastated. Is it stupid for me to be crying over this? They're www.woxy.com if you're interested in hearing what you missed over the past 2 decades. I'll just sit here and listen and be sad. No, it's not stupid, it's just sentimental, and lots of us get that way. I get sentimental about stuff from my home town, and I get sad when it changes. When I went home to Long Island recently, I heard how different the big rock station WBAB sounds. They got all stupid and "pop-py" with the sound of their DJs, and their mix is all corporate and shitty. It is nothing like that classic entity of the '70s and '80s that used to do all the big park parties and stuff and had slides of the staff shown in ads at the movie theaters before the feature. I go back to L.I. and see shopping centers and condos and these bullshit "gated communities" in places where my friends and I used to build BMX tracks and tree forts in the woods! It sucks. They call it "progress," but really all it is is overcrowding, traffic, deforestation, and corporate greed overcoming tradition, quaintness, and comfortable hominess. Bikerbabe, you have my sympathy. --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrogNog 1 #14 May 12, 2004 I know your pain. I think as you get older, it gets easier to handle if you try. And I think most skydivers can get behind this advice: you should get out and jump more. -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #15 May 12, 2004 Unfortunately, I do have to work for a living. Skydiving and good music go hand in hand. So I'm not allowed to mourn the loss of one of the few sources of truly alternative music anywhere in the world? Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites