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Continuing to show that it don't know Jack, Infinity Broadcasting announced that 92.3 KRock is moving to an all-talk forma, confirming the rumors that were around last week. Moreover, David Lee Roth will be hosting the morning drive show! Yes, that Van Halen lead signer and certified EMT David Lee Roth! Gothamist can't wait for stories about getting busted for buying a dimebag in Washington Square Park and how crazy Eddie Van Halen is. The L.A. market gets Adam Carolla. According to the Infinity press release, Penn Jillette will also be hosting a one-hour program in NYC as well as other markets, which confuses Gothamist as he won't be able to tell the Aristocrats nor will he be able to do magic on air effectively. Maybe he'll just reveal magician's tricks.
What do you think of the formatting change? Are you heading to Sirius to listen to Howard? Or are you sticking with podcasts of other stuff?
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MTV doesn't show music videos, just nonstop reality nonsense. K-Rock is now K-Talk. And the music industry continues to scapegoat filesharing services as the source of their declining fortunes. Sounds about right.
Radio is pretty much irrelevant culturally at this point, which is remarkably sad. Penn's show will probably end up being a sub Air America political chat show.
I remember when WNEW went from rock to all talk. As I recall that didn't work out too well for them. They must be on their 4th or 5th format since. New York hates rock music. With the demise of WNEW, WLIR/DRE, WCBS, and now KROCK, Q104 is the last rock station standing. And it's ostensibly a classic rock station. It's remarkable that in the largest media market on the planet, there is not a single station playing contemporary rock.
The Fordham station streams online and the djs pick their own music.
http://wfuv.org/
Just curious, but where will the kids go now for that brand of major-label cock rock? I guess they'll just get it from Playstation soundtracks and shit.
Ramone!! Change the channel for me.
OnA party rock!
My buddy, who works at K-Rock told me they notified the employees of the format change by text message this morning.
Classy!
Similar to when they took WHFS (modern rock) off the air in DC not so long ago. They moved directly from one format to the other (Latino) between songs with no pre-announcement to listeners.
Forget corporate schlock rock, listen to WFMU 91.1fm, the greatest radio station in the galaxy. It is independent (listener supoprted) and freeform (djs play whatever they damn well please), plus no stinkin' commercials. Stick it to the man people. Stick it to the man.
http://www.wfmu.org
Once Stern leaves krawwwk, so do I. Looking forward to satellite radio.