WHFS is gone!

Cafe Society
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WHFS is gone! The long-time D.C. Metro Area College Radio-turned-Modern Rock radio station has disappeared without any warning. I tuned in this morning and was shocked to discover that it has morphed into a spanish-language, latin salsa dance station. :confused:

No more Sports Junkies in the morning (I can’t even give a link, because everything has been shut down). No more WHFeastival’s (large feastival-type concerts, with major acts, sponsered by WHFS). No more Linkin Park. :wink: No more Weasel (Right, he left WHFS a long time ago, but still).

I feel like I’m teleported back to the early 80’s when the Colts left Baltimore in the middle of the night. I grew up with WHFS. I’ve grown as WHFS as grown. I’ve been there every step of the way as WHFS went from a small, Annapolis College Radio radio station in the early 80’s, to a D.C. Metro Area, Modern Rock juggernaut in the early 90’s. And now it’s gone. No word of warning. Nothing. Just, poof! Salsa dance music. And everything associated with WHFS is shutdown.

WTF!!

Has anything like this ever happened to you? You wake up one day to find that your favorite radio station, one that you have grown up with, is just gone!?!

Damn, I feel like I have lost my brother or something!

Well, I still have DC101, a more mainstream version of WHFS. And my good friend 94.5 The Arrow (Classic Rock) is still sending out radio waves.

Guh, I think it’s about time I chime in to Satellite radio, cuz this some BS.

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Check the pit.

What precisely did HFS have going for it that would make it less mainstream than any station on earth?

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They had The Sports Junkies in the moring, dammit! They made my moring commute! They also had the nostalgia factor going for it, which I know was shadow of it’s former self, but still!

And sorry, I didn’t check The Pit before I posted this. My apologies.

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They became precisely the kind of big dumb rock station they used to make fun of. You’ll always have memories of the glory days.

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It used to bug me when I lived there and they had that, I think Australian Dj who would always pronounce it, “W-H-eff-ass.” Not sure why. It just bugged me.

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WHFS was a terrific radio station when it first went commercial. You never, ever knew exactly what was going to get played next. That’s what made it so special - it had absolutely no format.