DC folk: did you hear this?

I wish the local modern rock station would do this.

DC white kids in shrinking-radio-market shockachamooga

Yes, it's sad; where will the youngsters get their Korn?

(Still, though the station jumped the shark some time ago, it's kinda an institution, and it seems odd that they just pulled the plug on it without notice.)

Interestingly enough, when I was in L.A. over Xmas, I saw a Spanish-speaking entertainment show featuring nothing but Mexican nu-metal.

TOMBOT, WHERE ARE YOU GONNA GET YER BIZKIT ON NOW?

part of me will miss it.

Fuck fuck fuck what a fucking annoyance. 'HFS has been a ghost of its classic self since 1994, but there were a few remnants of its past (the pre-nu metal HFStivals, some of the Sunday night new-music programming) that I'm going to miss.

Still, if the advertisers have spoken, there's fuck-all the demographically undesirable can do.

"HFS has been a ghost of its classic self since 1994"

OTM. When I was younger, I knew HFS was supposed to be cool, but by the time I was around 15 (in 1994) it just didn't seem to live up to its reputation. It was the very embodiment of that whole "alternative-to-what?" thing that everyone was talking about at the time.

Kind of interesting that every move they they made to tweak the programming dropped them lower and lower in the ratings. They've been sitting at or near the bottom of DC-area stations for years now, I'm surprised it took this long for a total format overhaul.

But yeah, I'm sure that the iPod and XM (combined with a stale format) took pretty big chunks out of their demographic, too.

wow, so no more HFStivals.

has anyone listened to indie 103.1 in california? is that any good? if so, i hope we get one of those here.