"Arklier" wrote in message
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shifted to other eras of music. At the end, it was virtually the only
station in Seattle to have any 80s music at all, and the only one that
was 100% 80s music. Now it is an alternative/hard rock station called
K-ROCK. I personally don't think it's an improvement, as I dislike
alternative music intensely. I'm OK with hard rock, but it's not worth
dodging Nirvana and their copycats.

Perhaps the format wasn't enabling them to make money, or if there were
profits, they may have been marginal.


The station has never been very friendly in the customer relations
department as far as letting listeners know what is going on. About a
year and a half ago, they fired virtually their entire on-air staff
one day in the middle of the week with absolutely no warning to the
listeners or to the people who were getting the axe, I'm sure.

It's traditional in the radio biz to NOT tip off anyone to major changes.
As a layman, I can only surmise some reasons for doing this -- one, they
don't want the staff to know, lest they bail out before their firing day,
or end up with a competitor before the format change, or worst of all,
organize campaigns to keep their jobs. There is also the concern that they
might do something on air before their termination; then again, if someone
did, it would lead to publicity for the station, which they might welcome.
It's a strange game, that radio biz.....

When
people tuned in for the morning show the next day, there were two guys
who didn't know what the heck was going on fielding calls from
confused and irate listeners

There was an instance where a local AM station fired the afternoon DJ / talk
show host in the MIDDLE OF HER SHIFT!!!!! She did a drive time DJ stint
from 3-6, then there was a break for news, and she normally did a talk
show from 6:15-7:30. She was promo'ing her talk segment, including
blurbs about an author who was going to be interviewed. When the news
ended, there was a satellator show on from Baltimore. How to handle the
calls? The station took the phone off the hook! (Very courageous move).


, and their web site was suddenly down for
several months 'for construction'. Their new web page at
www.965thepoint.com continues this trend by being decidedly
un-informative. I'm not asking why this station in particular changed
format, but rather what factors may have prompted the change (for the
worse, IMHO). The station is owned by Infinity Radio, which owns
several other stations in the area, though they don't have a monopoly.
Strangely enough, Infinity Radio owns another station in the same area
that has classic rock (KZOK), so it would seem that the audience would
overlap significantly.

It's rather saddening that the Seattle area will have no more free 80s
music. It doesn't effect me as much, as my car stereo (where I do 95%
of my radio listening) is Sirius satellite radio ready, and since they
have an all 80s channel, I've decided to activate with them. Still, I
will miss The Point's web site where they always had announcements
about which 80s bands were coming to the area, and the contests they
used to have to win tickets for the concerts.

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