[Trash-talk] a sad day in philadelphia...

[Sri Gupta]

In houston, where my sister lives, they changed the only rock station left 
to "Spanglish Top-40" over the summer.  The big labels run the radio, and 
they're after one thing: $

-Sri

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:08:03PM -0800, matt wrote:
> The music industry is so incomprehensible sometimes. 
> There's a market for alternative music in eastern
> Pennsylvania, and they were the only station filling
> that market.  Why take them off the air?
> 
> -Matt
> 
> --- Brendan Kelly <garbageotaku at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday, Thursday 2/24, Philadelphia's last
> > alternative rock station, Y100 (100.3 FM) was taken
> > off the air.  To my knowledge, this was the ONLY
> > radio station playing WDYLM.  In fact, it was the
> > only radio station playing ANY rock released within
> > the past year.  The best thing we have now is 94.1
> > WYSP, which sometimes plays 90's alt-rock if they
> > have time between Ozzy, Metallica, and Aerosmith
> > (don't expect to hear any Garbage on there).
> >  
> > On top of that, it was at Y100's Sonic Session with
> > Garbage that I got to meet the band for the first
> > time.  And the staff at the studio that day were
> > fantastically cool to boot!
> >  
> > If you guys would be so kind, please check out
> > www.y100rocks.com and sign the petition there to try
> > and get Y100 back on the air.  The former Y100 staff
> > members have also set up a streaming internet radio
> > station there, so they can at least keep
> > broadcasting on that medium.
> >  
> > If nothing happens to remedy this situation, I fear
> > Philadelphia's airwaves will be completely void of
> > any Garbage, especially the new Bleed Like Me
> > tracks.  If anyone else has news on this, or knows
> > of another alt-rock station in the works for philly,
> > please do tell.
> >  
> > - g.o.