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

[omarius.livejournal.com]

We have the opposite problem here--all the "alternative" stations focus on Modern Rock--specifically, on the louder/faster/angrier varieties. The one real "alternative" station we had here got dumped to make room for a third classic rock station we don't need. The only local rock station I enjoy now are the rock portions of one of our two local public radio station.