no comprende! sombrero!

[rone]

So the evil that is ClearChannel has killed old KSJO and replaced it with a Spanish music station (PDF), and if there's something that San Jose really needed, it was another Spanish music station. This follows changes made three weeks ago, when they turned an AM big band station into liberal talk radio, moved the big band station to 92.1, which was the Walnut Creek KSJO frequency, which doesn't come in south of Hwy 92 or so. It was amusing last night to go to KSJO's Web site (don't bother now, it's dead) and see the butthead rocker style all over the place, but watch the playlist include stuff by Los Tigres del Norte and Camilo Sesto.

So, now there is no catch-all rock station to be found in the Bay Area. Sure, KSJO has been in a downward spiral of suck in the last few years, but then, so has rock. Still, if mainstreamed rock were to improve, where would we be able to hear it now? The alternative stations will rarely touch anything that's abrasive. CC's Radio page has a big graphic in the middle that reads, "LESS IS MORE". Less variety means more money for them, i guess.

And, yes, i know the lyrics are officially, "No comprende - it's a riddle", but fuck `em, that's stupid. My interpretation is much better.

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Still, if mainstreamed rock were to improve, where would we be able to hear it now?

The only place it was to be found for, at least!, the last decade or two.

It's called word-of-mouth.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Er, the last decade or two included KSJO, and word-of-mouth probably sprang from it. And even if i do hear about new rock, where will i actually hear it?

Or, by "word-of-mouth", do you mean my friends will be singing to me in lieu of radio?

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

We don't have "KSJO" here, so getting introduced to non-"Top10" new music has always been via word-of-mouth. Unless you want to count MTV, which I don't. There's been shows on various radio statuins with clueful people, but they were rare to start with, and are non-existant for at least 10 years now ("GR's rock show"!!).