evilsanta
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 12:48 PM UTC
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Originally posted by RonniStar:
From Hfstival.com
Fox News reported that there is a protest being planned for Saturday at the Asylum studio in DC at 819 7th Street @ 11am - I have no further information on this.
They also created a petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?991hfs
Is there a petition to keep it a Salsa station? I'll sign that one.
Any mention of class action lawsuit, thats how Americans deal with most disappointment these days.
Joymonster
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 01:22 PM UTC
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Is there a petition to keep it a Salsa station? I'll sign that one.
I'd co-sign that one…
dlcjr1775
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 01:23 PM UTC
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What were the djs doing while all this went down? Twiddling their thumbs? If I knew that in twenty minutes they were taking me off the air, firing me and replacing me with DJ Jose, I would have locked the booth, not played music, and begged listeners to call in and go absolutely nuts on the owners, the producers, whoever…
dlcjr1775
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 01:29 PM UTC
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Keep your eye on the dumpsters…
Rhett Miller
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 01:58 PM UTC
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Dashboard Confessional sells millions of records. How does that make them "alternative"? Alternative to what? Other million selling acts? Ditto for killers, rancid, jimmy eats the world, and interpol.
Originally posted by saintangelsin:
Originally posted by andyrichter:
HFS was going down the shitter anyways. You put on bad music and you get low ratings. Cause, effect!
so i guess you are saying stuff like the killers, rancid, jimmy eat world, interpol and muse are shitty music? i don't get it everyone keeps on saying they were playing crappy music and i don't think that was it. i honestly don't think that. sure in the past like around 2000, it was rather crappy, but in the past two years, they've cleaned up nicely and also, alternative music is coming back. sure you might not like dasbhboard confessional, but it is real alternative. most radio stations except for college and alternative stations (like what hfs use to be) will not play their music. as far as i'm concern, hfs played music that you don't normally find on stations like z104 or mix107. and if it did get played by popular stations, well that just shows how ground breaking hfs really was. i mean there was a joke at one time that they played the hits of tomorrow. and if people doubt the power of hfs, then talk to good charlotte. if it weren't for whfs, they wouldn't have a career right now.
anyways, my point is, i don't think ratings mean anything and they didn't play crappy music in the recent past. money unforunately does rule things but i think infinity radio has under estimated people's love for that station and that format. and finally, you don't hear dc101 play franz ferdinan or muse or atleast i haven't yet.
Rhett Miller
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 02:02 PM UTC
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Thank you, our enlightened Captain Redsock, for setting us, the dullard masses, straight.
Now do tell us why the heck you were camping at a record store?
Where is the true voice of reason, Flawd, when we need him?
Originally posted by redsock:
Regardless of whther you like corporate radio, or like HFS, this move is a very very bad one. If you look at hte bigger picture, which obviously very few of you are capapble of doing, you'll see the continuing of a trend that will further puch good music to hte background. Sure HFS played a lot of shit, and has done that for quite some time. But their decline parallels the general fall of the music industry. It is not something to be celebrated, not something to cheer. Throughout all the miserableness of their programming, every once in awhile they would play a Fugazi song, or an old Echo and the Bunnymen song. And somebody heard that artist for the very first time and bought an album, or looked them up on the internet. That is a good thing that simply won't happen anymore.
I spent the past weekend in LA, listening to indie 103 and camping out in Amoeba. I said while i was there that DC could never support an Amoeba, cause too many people just don't care about music. This is a perfect example that DC can't even support a 'modern rock' station. Just think about this for a second… I know many of you don't give a fuck about DC as a whole, and are only interested in your own personal likes and dislikes. That's fine, but for those of us who actually care about what the DC music scene is becoming, this is a very bad omen. I hope someone takes up some slack on the airwaves. I have XM and listen to WOXY or KEXP and have more CDs than I can listen to being mailed to me, but it's not me I'm worried about.
Bad_Brain
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 02:26 PM UTC
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why don't you just listen to cd's instead? i didnt even know people still listened to the radio
h8paperdoll
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 02:27 PM UTC
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It's funny, I was going to lament the fact that some bands will bypass DC when planning dates on their tours, but I realized that most of the bands at the shows I've been to this year, WERE NEVER PLAYED ON THE RADIO ANYWAY! (Bettie Serveert, Bobby Bare Jr, Features, Old 97s, Placebo, Drive By Truckers, Earlimart etc.) If they were, I guess I never heard it, because I was listening to NPR and CDs, but how many bands have you heard for the first time while they opened for another band. Internet radio is by far the best thing that's ever happened to anyone who wants to hear new, different music in any genre. I haven't missed 'HFS since 1991.
Adam_Bomb
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 02:49 PM UTC
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What is WRNR? What station is it?
edbert
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 03:22 PM UTC
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first of all, it isn't salsa, it's alternative salsa
sonickteam2
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 03:23 PM UTC
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salsa
that IS an alternative.
MindCage
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 03:39 PM UTC
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Originally posted by edbert:
first of all, it isn't salsa, it's alternative salsa
The
TRUE alternative salsa…
MindCage
Mindless Faith Deep6 Productions
MindCage
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Re: WHFS is now......a salsa channel?
January 13, 2005 at 03:42 PM UTC
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Originally posted by RonniStar:
From Hfstival.com
Fox News reported that there is a protest being planned for Saturday at the Asylum studio in DC at 819 7th Street @ 11am - I have no further information on this.
They also created a petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?991hfs
lol I was going to make a comment about that satellite studio they've had setup for almost a year at Asylum Wake and Skate shop. I'll go over during my lunch break and just start taking stuff…that is unless they've got a mareachee band playing live!
That petition that was drafted up is soooooo horrible. I think a 15 year old wrote it, which would make sense this those are the only ones who really care that the station is gone…Probably the same kid who has like 1000GB of stolen MP3s from P2P.
MindCage
Mindless Faith Deep6 Productions
