Sounds like my list of “radio stations I can tolerate for a song or two at a time” is going to drop to two in January. K-ROCK is becoming an all-talk station.
Press release here. Old news, but I only heard about it today. This used to be an alright station, and from time to time they still play some Soundgarden and other 90s stuff that I can tolerate when other stations don’t play anything but Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Who. So much for that. More mileage for my CD player.
Whaaa? I only tuned in once in a while but damn, I can’t imagine it going talk. I was listening to WPLJ after WLIR got bought out by Univision, but now I’m mostly tuned to 101.1 Jack FM. The selection dwindleth! Although I too spend more time listening to cd’s these days.
I just heard a DJ mention it this evening. I won’t miss the incessant '80s stuff and I won’t miss Howard Stern… apparently, the lesson for me is “don’t even think for a moment about trusting someone else with your music selection.” (Satellite radio not being an option.)
The Infinity stations are going into panic mode with Howard leaving. How they thought “more talk” is the solution is beyond me. Here in Philly(WYSP) we’ll have David LeeRoth, Barsky, then the Kid Criss show.
Terrestrial radio is truly dead. 
Just out of curiousity, why was a W- radio station known as ‘K-ROCK’? Did it have some affiliation with KROQ (prior to or after Infinity)?
Do any other stations use a ‘fake’ K or W prefix?
I think it’s because it’s WXRK. Per Wikipedia, they adopted those call letters and that nickname in 1985. Both WXRK and KROQ are owned by Infinity, but they don’t seem to be otherwise related.