NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
That was the cry of many an alternative rock fan in D.C. in January 2005 when WHFS went from alt-rock to 99.1 El Zol, a Spanish language station playing mostly salsa music. [Although to be perfectly honest most music snobs agree that WHFS was past its prime in cutting edge programming, having become too corporate, etc.] Don't expect the same donning of sackloth and ashes to mourn the loss of persistent money-loser, Washington Post Radio.
Yes, the Washington broadsheet's radio edition, once described lovingly by a radio executive as "NPR on caffeine" will shut down in September, the Post's Paul Farhi reported in the August 28 paper.:
Washington Post Radio, which brought the newspaper's journalists to the local airwaves, will go off the air next month after failing to attract enough listeners and losing money during its 17-month existence.
Post Radio, which is broadcast regionwide on 107.7 FM and 1500 AM, , was not able to draw even 1 percent of listeners during its first year. Although ratings have improved somewhat in recent months -- partly because of Nationals baseball broadcasts and Tony Kornheiser's morning program -- the gains weren't enough to convince WTWP's owner, Bonneville International Corp., that the station could be profitable any time soon, executives said. Bonneville and The Post had a three-year agreement.
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Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
August 28, 2007 - 13:32 ET by superconHa Ha! Another left-wing talk show bites the dust.(snicker)
NPR on caffeine? How exciting.
I'm sure it was more like MSNBC on quaaludes.
Victory in Iraq.
Newt for President.
LMAO!
August 28, 2007 - 13:50 ET by Six String SpiffAwwww... Nobody wants to listen to WBDS? Gee, what a shock.
The American Revolution Continued
Tony and Mike
August 28, 2007 - 14:43 ET by RiharI didn't even know that the Washinton Post had a radio station so it didn't even show up on the radar. Does anyone know if Tony Kornheiser's show was a sports show? Or was it some sort of NPR type "Tony's things Considered"?
On his show Pardon the Interruption with Mike Wilbon on ESPN he always seemed to me to be a sort of Joe Lieberman type of Democrat. Y'know, liberal but occasionally showing a sign of brilliance, in spite of himself. I felt the same way about Wilbon.
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.
No surprise here. I
August 28, 2007 - 14:46 ET by S PNo surprise here. I listened to WaPo radio for a time after they switched from WTOP news radio. Without fail, on almost every single issue when they were asking for callers, they aired liberal after liberal after liberal after liberal replies. I gave it a few shots, but after that I switched stations and have never listened again. If they had made even the slighest effort to provide some balance and air some conservative replies with the liberal ones, I would have been happy to keep listening, but they didn't. Not only that, a lot of the callers they aired were the flaming retard liberal type to which one can only roll their eyes. Oh well.... :)
WHFS
August 28, 2007 - 17:40 ET by BurroCrane 3098Jeezzee, In 1974, fall I believe, Weasel shifted to the 1 am slot and I built a stereo into the headboard of my bed so Weasel did the sound track to my dreams. Jake was my hero for a while. What a station!