WHFS is now......a salsa channel?

Originally posted by xcanuck:
The only reason that I can find to mourn WHFS's demise is that it was one of the few non-Clear Channel stations out there. I'm firmly convinced that CC is the bane of good music today and the reason we're being fed so much homogeneous crap.

My biggest fear is that we'll start to lose out on some decent concerts. Will bands like the Scissor Sisters play DC on their first national tour? Or will they bypass us and concentrate on bigger markets where they might actually get some airplay?

F**k Clear Channel… :mad:

Relax. So you think just because a station that was playing Linkin Park and Good Charlotte all day goes off the air, all of a sudden all these acts are going straight for Baltiomre and Richmond? Not likely. DC is still a huge market for any up and coming or big act to ignore.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Breaking news: they put cd players in cars now. You don't have to listen to the radio at all. People that listen to crap are going to listen to crap anyway, no matter who is doing the shoving.

hear hear!! i have had my car stereo/mp3 player for 3 years now, and i havent programmed ONE single FM channel in it yet. and i dont plan to.

(i have AM1090 and AM1300 though)

even XM radio sucks. get an mp3 player and you listen to what you want, when you want.

here's some karmaâ?¦

just went to see how many posts there were to this topic and it saidâ?¦

101

it wasn't a planned format change, Pancho Villa and his merry men stormed in on horses and sheep and slayed everyone in sight and took it over themselves.

i've never used satellite radio so i'm not going to knock it or pretend i know much about it, but one thing i like about fm is that it kinda gives you a bond to other people in the area - even if you're complaining that it sucks you still have something in common to bitch about at parties - and it gives you immediate information about upcoming shows, overdoses, whatever.

someone who speaks spanish should call up 99.1 and be like "what the…" or call infinity. as much as most ppl were like HFS SUCKS, IT SHOULD GO! it can be assumed that they meant "be replaced with something better" rather than "hasta el sol siempre!"

but i guess there's nothing we can really do rather than petition for a better station or existing stations to play better music, which probably includes getting off the internet and doing things in person.

and hey, what's the guy who does the HFS voice going to do for a living now???

movie trailers

move to Ireland and sell Fords.

Originally posted by Dahlia:
and hey, what's the guy who does the HFS voice going to do for a living now???

Originally posted by Dahlia:
even if you're complaining that it sucks you still have something in common to bitch about at parties - and it gives you immediate information about upcoming shows, overdoses, whatever.

wow. i can't think of the last time i listened to a radio station for upcoming show information…or for "overdose" updates for that matter.

who od'ed today? guess i better flip on the radio.

Originally posted by Dahlia:
i've never used satellite radio so i'm not going to knock it or pretend i know much about it, but one thing i like about fm is that it kinda gives you a bond to other people in the area - even if you're complaining that it sucks you still have something in common to bitch about at parties - and it gives you immediate information about upcoming shows, overdoses, whatever.

I do fine on upcoming show info on these 4 sites:
www.pollstar.com
www.ticketmaster.com
www.930.com
www.blackcatdc.com

you forgot www.pheer.com

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Unless a Z104 type station picks up an "rock" act and plops in the mainstream its business as usual. I'm thinking Modest Mouse, Scissor Sisters…

it might just be me, but i've found that z104 plays modest mouse a ton.

Washington Post article

WHFS Abruptly Changes Format
Pioneering Alternative Rock Station Now Spanish-Language

By Teresa Wiltz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2005; 4:48 PM

The Washington-area FM radio station WHFS, long a pioneering purveyor of alternative rock, did a programming U-turn at noon today by ditching the genre for a Spanish-language, Latin music format featuring middle-of-the-road superstars such as Marc Anthony and Juan Luis Guerra.

WHFS-FM 99.1, the radio station behind the popular alt rock music festival called "HFStival," is now "El Zol," featuring Caribbean and Central American music, according to a prepared statement released by Infinity Broadcasting, the station's owner.

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc., the nation's largest Latino-controlled radio broadcasting company, served as a consultant on the reformatting of the station. Infinity and SBS have formed an alliance, with Infinity owning an equity interest in the Florida-based company.

The abrupt switch came as a shock. Since 1969, WHFS has served as the arbiter of cutting-edge rock in the Washington area, introducing listeners to acts such the Cure and the Violent Femmes.

The HFStival has grown from an offbeat spring festival to a nationally-recognized Bacchanalia that last year offered 36 musical acts spread out over three stages and a techno hideaway called the Buzz Tent.

"Certainly this will have major ramifications for new music in Washington, D.C., said Seth Hurwitz, the owner of the city's 9:30 Club and producer of last year's HFStival, which drew 65,000 fans to RFK Stadium in May.

"They were always the forerunner for presenting new music," he said of WHFS. "They were a vital fabric of Washington's culture."

Originally posted by atrophy:
you forgot www.pheer.com

my bad. this is the best site hands down for your local and national punk/metal/hardcore shows.

But do they play any Luis Miguel?

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
But do they play any Luis Miguel?

I don't know about that but if they don't play any menudo, there's gonna be hell to pay.

MENUDO.

lets call and request Menudo….with every free second you have!

Originally posted by Summerteeth:
Even WRNR isn't worth the time of day anymore for most people on this board nowadays.

Come on, any station that plays "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows needs to go away, I say.

Agreed, maybe they will take this as their cue to clear out some of the middle of the road crap they play and liven it up a bit. WTMD could also try and take advantage of this.

this from the chat ongoing on washingtonpost.com:

From DCRTV: Empire Scrambling To Replace HFS – 1/12 – A well-placed source tells DCRTV that Steve Kingston, head of Empire Broadcasting, is looking to snatch up Mega's Spanish 94.3 FM, WBPS, in Warrenton and pair it with the 94.3, currently country WINX, in the Annapolis area for a relaunched alternative rock WRNR, now that WHFS has bit the dust. WINX would move to WRNR's current 103.1 FM Annapolis area frequency.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Unless a Z104 type station picks up an "rock" act and plops in the mainstream its business as usual. I'm thinking Modest Mouse, Scissor Sisters…

it might just be me, but i've found that z104 plays modest mouse a ton.

well as always i'm clear as mud… the point was that the Z104s of the world is where a band like Modest Mouse or Scissor Sisters only chance for airplay anymore. "rock" radio certainly wouldn't pick up on them. but even then those playlists are tightly controlled and set via promotional money.

and speaking of promo money dc101 is going to be swimming in it…