With no notice to listeners, Infinity Broadcasting replaced 99.1 WHFS with a Spanish station. FUCK! There is already a shortage of plain good-old rock stations in the DC area, then they have to go and kill off one of the oldest and most popular one with no notice, and replace it salsa and merengue?!?
Anyone from the DC area, northern Virginia and Maryland knows WHFS very well. Their HFStival was a huge concert every year. I just don’t understand why they are getting rid of it. But what I am pissed about even more is that they didn’t give listeners any advance notice. We just get in our cars today and instead of our favorite rock music, we hear salsa music. What the fuck!?!?
This sucks. WHFS was one of the few radio stations I still listened to on occasion, and I’ve been to several HFStivals. I understand that they want to tap into the Spanish market, but couldn’t they have just started a new one and cross-promoted?
This is sad, but I’m not surprised. The rock market has been shrinking, and the Latino demographic has been growing, especially here. It’s just business.
Same thing happened in Houston a month ago where the 30+ year old Rock 101 KLOL was shut down, and replaced with the 7th Tejano station on FM in Houston.
This is my reason number one for downloading MP3’s.
Holy shit… and Elliot of DC101 had been absolutely convinced that ClearChannel was going to “go Spanish” in a matter of weeks. He didn’t talk about this on his show today, so I wonder what they’ll have to say about it tomorrow?
XM or Sirius is starting to look better all the time…
The reality is that HFS had been a downright shitty radio station for several years, and it was only getting worse. I will miss the HFSestival, and I really, really hope some other station picks up Loveline.
But good riddance to the Sports Junkies. That was the only morning radio program I’ve ever heard that made me long for the Morning Zoo type of crap that is played on 90% of other alternative radio stations. Those idiots barely had a command of the English language – I think my soul died a little every time I heard the term “hurtkin” or “strange” – and I’m more than happy to never have to listen to another one of EB’s right wing rants. I had no idea that the Freepers had an “in” with alternative music stations.
I’ll remember the good days of HFS, but all in all, I probably wish that station had been put out of its misery earlier.
http://www.dcrtv.org/ (<-----This one has an MP3 of the switchover. We hear the end of a rock song, then are blasted by a Spanish language promo, then it goes into some strange different music… very weird)
Bummer. I remember when they moved to Annapolis and to 99.1. They were the shiznet back then (except that word hadn’t been invented yet). They’d play the newer stuff, the tail end of punk and new wave, that 98 Rock and DC 101 wouldn’t. XTC, INXS, Alison Moyet. Great stuff.
In retrospect, of course, it was like having a damn John Hughes movie in your car, but a year in advance.
It wasn’t my favorite station either, but it’s one of the last rock stations in this area! Now all we have is DC101, 94.7 (classic rock) and 98 Rock out of Baltimore. NOw I have ONLY 3 stations to listen to! Time for sattelite radio!
We only had two decent stations, one playing Classic and 101 handling that and everything newer. I stopped by that afternoon and had a conversation with Jim Pruett about it (ex Stevens & Pruett, now Pruett Guns & Ammo) and we agreed that Houston radio and especially ClearChannel suck with unmatched fervor.
I agree with Ravenman. I really loved HFS back in 1993, but it seemed that in the last few years, the playlist had barely changed since the mid 90s. Whenever I turned to it in the car, it seemed like they were playing early Pearl Jam, Nirvana or Stone Temple Pilots. Not that these groups are bad, but it would have been nice to hear some more modern groups. That being said, it seems kind of odd that they are gone, and that DC-101 could be next. I guess I won’t listen to commercial radio anymore.
That can’t be right. I went to the HFStival in 1993, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the first one. They had one the year prior to that.
Like I said in the other thread, the only thing the station with call letters WHFS lately had in common with that station as it existed 15, 25, 35 years ago was its call letters. The real WHFS lives on as WRNR in Annapolis.
I thought about pitting this when it happened but never got around to it. Fuck commercial radio up the ass and around the corner with a rusty cheese grater soaked in HIV infected blood. Goddamn motherfucking shiteating donkey molesters. My current cheap car (Escort) doesn’t even have a working tape deck nor is the broken one integrated into the dash easily removable, so I’m basically stuck with what I can pick up on the dial. Fucking spanglish garbage. Fucking goddamn Clearchannel.
Fuckers. :mad:
Btw, I recommend to everyone that they check out their local non-commercial college radio stations (if applicable.) They can be hit or miss, but often they play good stuff, and it won’t be Freebird for the 500th time.