Death of Radio

[perzephone]

I know I have lived in this town for far too long. Four of my favorite radio stations are no more. First was the AM radio station, The Krusher. Hard rock all day & night with no commercials. Next to go was The Edge, 80's New Wave & Punk, plus modern alternative. It died shortly before we went to Louisiana. Their last night on the air I had a long & lively argument with the dj about whether or not Men Without Hats had done a song called Pop Goes the World. The only one most people know is Safety Dance (you can dance, you can dance, everybody look at your hands...), but I distinctly remember seeing the Pop Goes the World video on MTV. KUNV, UNLV's radio station, is still on the air, but they changed their format from a free-form vision of really great music & talk radio to all jazz, all the time about 5 years ago.

Over the past couple of days, 96.3, KKLZ ("where the LZ stands for Led Zeppelin") has changed from classic rock to oldies. I'm talking like, 50's & early to mid-60's stuff like Hang On, Sloopy and early, early pre-Motown R&B. Where am I going to get my Zeppelin fix now? They were one of the only radio stations left that understood that if they played Heartbreaker, it had to be followed immediately by Livin' Lovin' Maid. Who will put the rock in Rocktober now? Who will put the Led Zeppelin in Zeptember?

Gods, I feel so old!

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Death of KKLZ

[(Anonymous)]

KKLZ had been dying a slow death for sometime and was doing little to recesitate itself.When Kahuna & Co. tried the Friday morning obscure rock format many people came up with dozens of bands with great music (Cactus,MC5,Savoy Brown,Wishbone Ash,It's A Beautiful Day,etc) that the station never played.I personally loaned them about 20 albums with artist like Baker Gurtvitz Army and early Atlanta Rythm Section.We begged them to expand their playlist instead of the same groups and songs over and over again.At one point KKLZ was playing Van Halen 10 times a day.Those of us with more sophisticated taste left for other alternatives like satellite and internet radio and the station finally collapsed in on itself.

Re: Death of KKLZ

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Call me old fashioned... I usually just listen to the radio in the car - we still only have a tape deck, no 5-CD changer or docking station for an i-anything. But I am in the car an amazing amount of time over the week & more often than not, the radio would be on KKLZ.

At least KOMP has been picking up the Led Zeppelin slack, and they do understand how vital it is for Livin' Lovin' Maid to follow Heartbreaker, lol. It's what keeps the universe intact & the sun in its daily routine.