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"Arklier" wrote in message ... 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. -- If you can't figure out my address, you need help. Girl gamer since 1984, Atari/NES/Genesis/SNES/DC/GBA/GC/PS1-2/Xbox/PC gamer |
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