Personally, I think WHFS is the worst radio station I’ve ever heard in my life. They ooze green pus that smells like the cheese under the big record companies’ balls.
I moved to B-Mo in '96 and I’ve heard that it used to be cool, before selling out.
I couldn’t give a shit, but thought I’d share.
It’s no skin off my nose. The few times I’m subjected to drive a car that isn’t equipped with XM or a CD player, I listen to WBJC.
I know a dude who worked for HFS. I wonder what he’s doing now…
I was going to post to say that I will miss the Junkies, but I really won’t. They were much better on 980, when they could be guys talking about sports, than at HFS where they were morphing into lame shock jocks. I don’t know if I have listened to them since Kornheiser came back on at 9:00 when I am usually in my car.
When I was in high school HFS was really good. So many of the bands I still like from the late eighties and early nineties I first heard on HFS, so I mourn their passing even if I don’t listen anymore.
Huh. Maybe that’s why HFS had been hiring so many crappy DJs over the past six months. Those guys, Big O and Dukes (or whatever) were the worst. I stopped listening to the Junkies when it turned into a right-wing version of Great Debates in the weeks leading up to the election.
But I will be really pissed off if no other station picks up Loveline in the evenings. :mad:
My pit rant about it: [URL=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296570]Long-lived DC rock radio station killed with no notice. Fuck Infinity Broadcasting![/URL]
Well, at least you’re taking it well…
ooops sorry
My pit rant about it: Long-lived DC rock radio station killed with no notice. Fuck Infinity Broadcasting!
Nah, the ‘long-lived’ WHFS, as it was through most of its long life, lives on as WRNR in Annapolis. The Infinity-owned WHFS had little in common with the WHFS I grew up on, beyond the call letters.
If the WHFS of the past few years has been killed off, well, lowest-common-denominator radio formats come and go all the time, and it’s Somebody Else’s Problem.
So no more HFeStival?
That sucks.
I will miss that indeed. Glad I was able to get down to the Nutcracker this year. I have a close friend who works at the station. I was floored when he texted me the change.
Ditto, I didn’t listen to it either and I listen to WBJC most, but it’s pretty shocking how they did it.
Bah. Just… bah. I found out while I was driving to class, and almost caused a car accident.
I heard a rumor that DC101 is next, do any of you know if it’s accurate? I’d hate to have to start listening to pop. :eek:
It’s going to be the HFieSta.
(I heard that on Don & Mike yesterday).
I didn’t hear about DC 101.
I never listened to WHFS, but I do remember a number of years ago the same type of thing happened. I don’t even remember the station, but it was a pretty good rock station, around 96 or so. Then one day it changed to Froggy FM or something like that and it was a country station. At first I thought it was a joke. They’ve been making fun of the change on both DC101 and 98 Rock.
Hey, even more MADs that I didn’t even know about, comin’ out of the woodwork! Greetings!
Did we really need a third thread about this, though?
Ask the two people who started one after this one. . . 
Well, HFS is gone, but we still have 101, y ahora tenemos El Zol, la voz de la comunidad Latino. And really, with portable MP3 players and satellite radio, isn’t broadcast radio becoming an antique mode of entertainment anyway?
that’s a good question.
I’ve often pondered it myself, because I’m somewhat of a radio junky.
I’ve had XM for almost 2 years now, but I still listen to a lot of local radio. The best I can come up with is that satellite can’t really be local and therefore, regular broadcast radio should always be able to find advertising dollars.
I still turn to the stupid morning DJs for news at the top, and sports on the bottom.
XM does offer local traffic and weather.
Probably more slowly than you might think. mp3 players aren’t cheap, and you’re limited to what you have in your own collection. Satellite radio is very popular among people who can afford it (what is the up front cost these days?), but since broadcast radio is free and the player comes standard in everybody’s car, it still has the advantage.