Originally Posted by
FORD
Corporations are destroying radio. The classic rock station in Seattle (KZOK) got taken over by Willard Mittens Romney's Clear Channel right around the first of the year. So far there hasn't been an official format change, but definitely more cheesy ballads of the Journey/Foreigner type than actual classic rock, especially in the mornings. Thank God there hasn't been an onslaught of Van Hagar.... yet.
The other Clear Channel stations in the area all swapped formats, which sucks ass because the only one that would come in with any decent signal on my bedroom clock radio was an "80's alternative" station which has now flipped to "smooth jazz". How the fuck am I supposed to wake up to that shit??
Never been to Chicago, so I never actually listened to WLUP, but I do remember Steve Dahl, and some of his parody records from the late 70s, which got some airplay on the old pre-corporate radio KISW over here in Cascadia. And the whole Disco Demolition thing.. whether it was him or KISW's Steve Slaton who came up with it first, they both started the backlash to that shitty music. If they tried something like that now in corporatized radio, the suits would probably pull them off the air.