WHFS back on the radio on a different frequency and still just as blah

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Apparently WHFS will be heard on weekends on Towson, Md talk radio station 105.7 offering their same ol' mix of grunge, alt-hits( Radiohead doing "Creep,") and new alt-mtv faves the Killers, while congratulating themselves on being hip repeatedly--"The Legendary HFS" . It's on now, and it's better than DC 101 as far as mainstream DC/Baltimore commercial rock stations but that's not really saying anything.

Their moneymaking HFSestival concert is on May 14th at the Ravens football stadium(M & T Bank Stadium)and does include the current version of the New York Dolls plus Echo & the Bunnymen, Social Distortion, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Billy Idol, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Louis XIV, The Bravery and of course locals Jimmie's Chicken Shack

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Saturday, 2 April 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.live1057.com/email_club_hfs.shtml

― Steve-k (Steve K), Saturday, 2 April 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

"will be heard"? HFS has been on 105.7 nights and weekends for a few weeks now, less than a month after they got taken off 99.1.

anyway, I've been listening to it at work since it came back a lot more than I had the last few years, I'm not sure if it's any better than it used to be but it's a little better than I remember it being when I did tune in the last couple years. they've seemed to hone in on what people want more of and less of a bit, but there's still inexplicable stuff that refuses to leave their playlist for years and years -- do people really still want to hear that Sponge song and the "Boyz In The Hood" cover every day? WTF?

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Didn't realize it had been back for that long.

― Steve-k (Steve K), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

I never saw anything in print in Washington newspapers about this.

― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

there was press. I mostly heard it through word of mouth, though.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Excerpt from Billboard Radio Monitor

March 18, 2005

Rock And Lull: The Format Flips (Out)

BYLINE: Bram Teitelman

Wondering what rock PDs have been up to lately? Several of the programmers contacted for this article joked that they've been brushing up on their Spanish. Recently, consultant Jeff Pollack wrote a commentary claiming that contemporary rock radio was in a crisis.

A few signs:

* Philadelphia's only modern rock outlet, WPLY (Y100), flipped to R&B.

* Active rockers WZTA (Zeta) Miami and KSJO San Jose, Calif., and modern WHFS Washington, D.C., flipped to a Latin format.

* Infinity CEO Joel Hollander remarked that modern WXRK (K-Rock) New York might change formats after Howard Stern's departure at the end of this year.

* Modern KDLD/KDLE (Indie 103.1) Los Angeles is in danger of switching formats in April when its LMA with Clear Channel expires.

"I don't think that modern rock radio is going to its grave, but I do think it could use another revolution," Morrison's partner Preston Elliot says. "If there were another Nirvana or someone to step up and give a breath of fresh air to it, it could explode all over again."

As Goldstein says, "Everything is cyclical."

"At the moment," he continues, "the format's in trouble. I'm doubtful that it's a permanent thing and that rock is going to disappear from the landscape. I do think that until we have the next-generation artists or some releases that relaunch interest in current rock music, we're definitely in a lull. It makes me crazy that radio has been criticized widely over the past year or so for not exposing new music. Active rock has been one of the better formats in new-music exposure, and the audience is rejecting it."

― Steve-k (Steve K), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

What is an 'active rock station'?

― Steve-k (Steve K), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

local example of 'active rock': 98 Rock. some of the harder alt-rock, and a lot of Metallica and Ozzfest-type stuff, etc.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh boy. I think I'll stick with rap/rnb. Al, are they still playing Baltimore club music on 92Q?

― Steve-k (Steve K), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah. K-Swift spins at least a half-hour (sometimes a full hour) of club music Mon-Fri between 9-10, sometimes longer club sets on the weekends or holidays. but I pine for the days (2-3 years ago) when there were 2 urban stations in the area and the one that isn't around anymore would play club music for like hours at a time, any time of day.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah.

So according to my internet research tonight, trade magazine Radio & Records wrote about HFS moving to 105.7, and it made a Washingtonpost.com chat thing, and some blogs, but not the Post itself. Whatever.

If only the U of Md's WMUC 88.1 was allowed to have more wattage...

― Steve-k (Steve K), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

does 105.7's reception even reach down to the D.C. area? maybe they didn't think it was relevent to their readership because most Washingtonians can't really hear it. I don't know if the Sun or any other Baltimore papers reported on it much, though.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

ive said it before, and ill say it again.

http://www.wmucradio.com !!! tune in thursdays from 8-10pm.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

I can pick up 105.7, but not too well on my car radio in Arlington, and the signal varies as well on my radio at home. Not sure why the newspapers haven't covered it.

― steve-k, Monday, 4 April 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah, what pete said

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

come on steve you got 95.5 down there! i heard some insanely good go-go on it just the other night.

― Amon (eman), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Yea both 95.5 and 93.9 feature some fine go-go on ocassion at night, but for a change of pace I look elsewhere and try to convince myself that there's some good commercial rock out there. I'm best off sticking with the go-go, hiphop,& Baltimore club on commercial rap/r'n'b radio; the African, latin, carribean, blues and jazz on 89.3 WPFW; and the diversity of WMUC 88.1 online or near College Park.

― Steve-k (Steve K), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

WTMD 89.7 out of Towson. Best we've got right now.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

89.3 used to have this wonderful show late at night called '2000 Black.' it was pretty much freeform as far as I could tell, they'd play a wide variety, from turntablism to bad brains. i first heard mouse on mars thanks to them. one summer i was working a shift that started at 4am so I always got to hear the tail end of it on the drive to work.

speaking of DC101, anyone remember this jackass?

http://www.greaseman.org/images/Grease_t-shirt.jpg

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

WTMD 89.7 out of Towson. Best we've got right now.

-- Cheek0 (mcheek...), April 5th, 2005.

man I go to Towson and I barely listen to WTMD

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

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