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

syber,

no, i don't work for XM. I have a small investment in it but that's about it. Whether anyone here gets it or not isn't going to affect my life.

I stopped listening to regular radio many years ago because it just totally sucks. Then, about 2 years ago, I discovered XM, and it absolutely kicks ass.

So now, everyone is ripping their hair out because some sucky radio station that has sucked for a very long time is off the air, and everyone's all, "where can I get really cool radio anymore? waaaaa…." XM is just the obvious answer to me, it's not any kind of agenda. XM channels 43, 44, and 47 are ten bazillion times better than HFS ever was, and that's just a tiny fraction of it.

(you can get a new XM radio for about fifty bucks if you know where to look ;) As for clear channel, they used to own a whopping 3% of the company, but have been out of it for some time now. I don't think they understood what they were getting into in the beginning. They're not happy about it these days, because they can see the handwriting on the wall.)

how the hell are we going to find a radio station that plays alternitive rock music???

why did they change HFS into salsa music???

Originally posted by azaghal1981:

Originally posted by Dahlia:
I just heard on the 11:00 news that the takeover was announced this morning at whfs and a lot of people were "let go." infinity's also not returning calls. that's a cruel way to end it for long-term employees.

Yeah that is pretty underhanded. I've heard that radio was a cruel business but shit. Their own employees had no idea that this was going down until a few hours before the switch? Wow.

yeah, and broadcasting jobs don't exactly grow on trees :mad:

I miss HFS, I am still in a state of shock… no more junkies, Jen, Virgin, or even Big O and Dukes. It is truely depressing. I might not love everything they played: but all and all they were a good station. Metallica, Pantera, and AC/DC are all great bands but i do not wish to hear one of them every five minutes (98 Rock & DC 101). Their time has pasted. U2 and The Cure have grown with the times and produce music worth listening too. I will no longer be listening to the radio unless i find out where my DJs went. They had personality. The fact that they did nothing to deserve this bothers me. Showing up to work one day to find out you have been replaced by illegal immigrant entertainment is a spit in the face. Not to mention that Infinity ran off with the money from the The Tsunami Auction that they told the junkies hold. I hope the person who was in charge of pulling the plug on HFS dies alone slowly and painfully. It will only make it even for all the people that they have hurt and cheated

Is there any way we can get WRNR a better tower? If all the HFS listeners went to RNR instead of DC101 with our very important marketing dollars, we should be able to make a difference. I'd love to listen to RNR more (go WILCO!) but the signal is too weak.

What's w/ the racial comments? "Illegal immigrant entertainment" ? Sounds from that comment that you've been listening to Rush Limbaugh lately instead of whfs.

The fact of the matter is that WRNR will never be WHFS, DC101 will never be WHFS and 98 rock will never be WHFS. WHFS brought many great acts to the area. I have been to 7 festivals, yes half of the bands were horrible but for 40 bucks to see at least 6 of the 12 were good bands… HELL YEAH… What about the fact that now my teen brother can listen to old rock or he can become a little thug boy and listen to WPGC or 92Q. I have already decided to buy him and ipod and upload it with all the music i can. WHFS has a legacy behind it. Of course many people have grown tired of them and have not listened the last few years… but you tell me what station you would want your kids listening to now a days. The employees and the fans deserve more then what they were given.

Call it racial if you would like. But I pay taxes every year and i do not feel that the Balt/Wash taxpayers should be affected by the HUGE increase of spanish immigration. Everyone knows that 1/2 of them are not legal… shit the government will even tell you that. Everyone is entitled to live in America, Land of the free… but it sure isn't free for me to live here… why should it be free for others.

i don't mind that dc has a spanish-language station, a lot of major cities do. it's the way that it was handled that really pisses me off. and of course the fact that there are lots of shitty stations that it could have replaced that no one listens to but fat secretaries. THE BAY?

i'm going to miss the 90's nooner :(

I've been missing the flashback cafe since they nixed that. Come to think of it, that's around the time I stopped listening regularly.

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Could they possibly use the name HFStival and put on a latin artist fest? :-)

sadly, i think they are

I'm really going to miss the 90s Nooner too!

J'Mal, I know it seems funny that people are "pulling their hair out" over a radio station that sucked. You're right, in the late 90s and on, it did suck. But HFS has been around for a long time, and there are many of us out here who remember a time when it didn't suck, a time when it played music that wasn't mainstream, music that we couldn't hear anywhere else. I started listening to them when they were playing Frank Black, Adam Ant, The Ramones, The Cure, etc. It's been my favorite ever since. I think HFS was more than just a radio station to many kids of that time, it was like a cool friend who had great taste in music, and now they're gone…

I don't know what happened at HFS, but I've heard that the DJs don't usually know about the switch until after it happens, so they don't do anything crazy in their last shift on the air. Imagine thinking it's just another broadcast, and then finding out you've got the ax. Pretty shitty.

Originally posted by Lauren522:
Call it racial if you would like.

Racial.

:roll: "I mean, who really wants to eat chimichangas next year? Not me!" - Summer Wheatley, Napoleon Dynamite

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

What I will miss most is the festival. It hasn't been as great as it used to be, I think, since they started charging 40+ dollars for it but it was always great, even with heat stroke :D Radio can be underhanded but I would think more notice than like 2 hours would be better. What a crappy thing to do.

Originally posted by Lauren522:
Call it racial if you would like. But I pay taxes every year and i do not feel that the Balt/Wash taxpayers should be affected by the HUGE increase of spanish immigration. Everyone knows that 1/2 of them are not legal… shit the government will even tell you that. Everyone is entitled to live in America, Land of the free… but it sure isn't free for me to live here… why should it be free for others.

Glad to see you're not going totally overboard and mixing up 2 totally different subjects. HFS was going down the shitter anyways. You put on bad music and you get low ratings. Cause, effect! And this is a business. If you can't deal with that fact, then tough. These guys don't give a shit how much nostaliga you, or I have for the old days and how much exposure you're giving your brother to rock music. There's a bigger market for the, uh, illegal people, than there is for hfs listeners. Plain and simple.

if you like alternitive music, you might as well get vh1classic and they have a show called the alternitive that plays the kind of music you like. it shows on wednesdays, thursdays and sundays starting at 11:00 am.

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.

I haven't listened to 'HFS in years but it was the "shit" back in my formative years.I can still remember being 14 or 15 and they had a hardcore punk show on late at night that played the Dead Kennedys,Germs,Circle Jerks etc.Plus they were some of my first exposure to reggae,rockabilly and "classic" rock that the other stations wouldn't play(Zappa,Dave Edmunds,Big Star),and of course this was all in addition to them often providing the soundtrack of many of our youths(REM,Replacements,Chili Peppers,Nirvana,the list could obviously go on and on)All of which was a welcome alternative to the crap being played on almost every other station.
The truth is,WHFS died to me many years back when they sold the station to a big evil company and stopped letting the DJ's play their own tunes and became carefully programmed.I remember a few years back reading an article that said that they had the smallest playlist of any station in the area(even the "all hits" station) which clearly any sensible person would know to be the opposite of "alternative" or "modern".
Luckily we still live in an age where we can randomly go online and pick out a college radio station at random and give it a whirl.Amidst all the dead air and the uncomfortable patter of inexperienced 20 year old music nerds we just might get to hear the next song that intrigues us,makes us laugh or changes our lives.
Here is a brief history of 'HFS and interviews with some of it's principle players.
http://www.dcrtv.org/hfs.html