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So WTF, lame ass joke or news broken by a retard?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:18 pm
by Cool Blue
http://www.k-rock973.com/
That's a local radio stations website. My girl just phoned me on her way home from work that one of the local radio stations is playing a small sound byte from Alice Coopers 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' on repeat.
Nothing more than the chorus line. Anyways... I'm curious too since it's a pretty big station here. So I goto their website and see this retardly cryptic message (click to link to read it yourself).
This is all we know. Fucked up. Major radio station goes essentially off the air, the website changes to that shit, and it's after hours so nobody there is answering the phone.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:20 pm
by shadd_
After 26 years, the end is near.
97-3 K-ROCK is survived by 50 employees and 30 other radio stations in the Alberta Newcap Family.
K-ROCK’S determination and perseverance in the market place will remain an inspiration for us all.
In lieu of flowers, friends who so wish may make
memorial donations directly to the Canadian Mental Health Association:
800 Harley Court,
10045 111St NW,
Edmonton, AB, T5K 2M5
Thank you for your support.
More details at Midnight tonight StatCounter - Free Web Tracker and Counter
for the life of me, i just cannot decipher that.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:21 pm
by rep
It's just changing format, and using this as a publicity stunt.
In a few days it'll relaunch as HITZ97 or NEWRAWK97.
Edit: Or midnight, tonight. I don't think that's possible, because midnight is tomorrow.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:30 pm
by Cool Blue
While possible, I find it doubtfull we the local listeners have had no notice of this. Also, this station just had a MAJOR resurgence a few years back with the introduction of a super hit morning show. They roared back into the top 3 stations of the city, so it's puzzling to think they would throw it all away so suddenly for a new format.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:39 pm
by DooMer
Maybe they were bought out. I had a radio station I liked, and all of a sudden it died while I was listening to it. Nobody even said anything. A few hours later it was a country station.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:40 pm
by Cool Blue
DooMer wrote:Maybe they were bought out. I had a radio station I liked, and all of a sudden it died while I was listening to it. Nobody even said anything. A few hours later it was a country station.
:lol:
Jeebus I hope not...
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:43 pm
by R00k
DooMer wrote:Maybe they were bought out. I had a radio station I liked, and all of a sudden it died while I was listening to it. Nobody even said anything. A few hours later it was a country station.
That sucks balls. Had the same thing happen here.
Fucking country stations.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:00 am
by GONNAFISTYA
DooMer wrote:Maybe they were bought out. I had a radio station I liked, and all of a sudden it died while I was listening to it. Nobody even said anything. A few hours later it was a country station.
Did it happen during one of your many beach landings?
I must say it'd be kinda fucked up runnin up the beach listening to cuntry. I can imagine that slicin heads with your bayonet and batting bullets out of mid-air with your manstick wouldn't be as much fun listenin to Billy Ray cronin on about the loss of his mullet.
But I'm sure it might have been cool killin three-toed, pig fuckin nazgooks and getting a nice tan while some sappy redneck sings about gettin shitfaced and drivin his pickup into a tree.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:07 am
by eepberries
Same shit happened here this year. We used to have this station called 99.1 WHFS. Most of the kids around here liked it because of served them their pre-meditated altevernitave rawk, but the only reason I listened to it was because they played Loveline every night. For those who don't know what Loveline is, it is the single best talk show known to man, as well as the only thing good on the radio. Well, one day at 12 noon the station went from 99.1 WHFS to 99.1 El Sol without any notice. Many alternative rawk fans were left moping that they lost their precious alternative station to some mexican salsa bullshit. The true loss however was Loveline.
I spent so many nights listening to that show
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:08 am
by eepberries
R00k wrote:DooMer wrote:Maybe they were bought out. I had a radio station I liked, and all of a sudden it died while I was listening to it. Nobody even said anything. A few hours later it was a country station.
That sucks balls. Had the same thing happen here.
Fucking country stations.
Mexican stations are even worse. They keep fucking spreading like a virus. Country stations just sort of come and go.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:01 am
by Transient
Pfft, you guys are lucky you have a choice of what to listen to. Here in the middle of nowhere I get 12 stations. 6 are country, 2 are the same (Vermont Public Radio), 1 is a Christian station, 1 is an oldies station, and the last 2 are kind of pop/top 40 hits stations. I need a goddamned CD player in my car.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:11 am
by Massive Quasars
Cool Blue is an Albertan, it all makes sense now.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:32 am
by Cool Blue
Says the racist womanizer.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:46 am
by ajerara
Yeah, without warning I turned my radio on one morning to find my favorite station was gone and a bible thumping station was there in it's place. I listened to that station every morning for years.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:15 am
by Massive Quasars
Cool Blue wrote:Says the racist womanizer.
Subtle.
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:32 am
by Dave
Has anyone clicked that link lately?
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:21 am
by Cool Blue
WTF?!
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:25 am
by Cool Blue