# WHFS is gone! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487 "2005-01-13T03:25:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Crunchy_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/1 "2005-01-13T03:25:58Z")
[WHFS](http://www.dcrtv.org/hfs.html) 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. 😕 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. 😉 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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/2 "2005-01-13T03:38:32Z")
[Check the pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296570). > [@Captain Crunchy Crunch](#): > > Well, I still have DC101, a more mainstream version of WHFS. What precisely did HFS have going for it that would make it less mainstream than any station on earth? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Crunchy_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/3 "2005-01-13T04:00:35Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > [Check the pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296570). > > What precisely did HFS have going for it that would make it less mainstream than any station on earth? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/4 "2005-01-13T08:46:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/5 "2005-01-13T09:01:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whfs-is-gone/284487/6 "2005-01-13T13:41:32Z")
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.