I signed this petition. I first got into rock music about 5 years ago, my junior year of high school. Up until that point I had been basically a country music listener because that is what my family predominantly listened to then. Now, I am rock music fan first and foremost, and two of my favorite bands are Metallica and AC/DC, very old school rock/metal. Rock 101 played great music. They were the one station in town that played a mandatory Metallica segment every night, so I could listen to my favorite band on the radio. The majority of the songs they played were good, not like 94.5(though I listen to it too). There are far more deserving stations to be shut off than Rock 101 KLOL, and while I wasn't around to see how the station was viewed in it's heyday it was my favorite station in houston. When you think about it, it's very sad that there are more country music stations than rock stations in a town of this size. Of course country music is popular down here but that doesn't mean good rock music should ever be second to it. I was floored when I turned on my radio the day this news broke and found out it was true. Luckily, the time I spend in my car is small, and I have an IPod to listen to the music I like at home.
Well, that email is oficially a copy/pasted response. I emailed to see what response I would get and it was the exact same.
From what I understand, owners get a big tax break when they operate a minority oriented radio station. It makes sense for clear channel to operate a few since they have so many in their stable. Z-rock was a sattelite station. Most of the program was centralized except the morning show.
Just curious, when did clear channel buy KLOL? It was a still a really great station 5-6 years ago but started geting bad over the last year or two.
Clear Channel agreed to buy AMFM in late 1999, and the sale went through in mid-2000, after a bit of a tussle with the Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2000/5183.htm KBXX was among the properties that the combined entity had to sell. In a display of either "the government gets something right," or "CC really does kill radio stations like Jeff Van Gundy kills offenses," 97.9 "The Box" is consistently at the top of the ratings these days.
I'm not sure about Houston itself, but "Texas is made up of whites, who constitute about 75% of the population; blacks, about 12%; and other nonwhites, about 13%. Hispanics account for 25.5% of the population."
Kinda depends on what you mean by "minority" According to the 2000 census, Harris county is 58.7 % white 18.5% black 32.9% hispanic (yes - I know that adds up to 110%. don't ask me) These numbers are probably greatly inaccurate because 1) there are probably a large amount of the hispanic and black ghettos that don't fill out the census information 2) this information is 4 years old and the hispanic numbers have been increasing in huge amounts over the past decade So, in truth.... whites outnumber hispanics and whites outnumber blacks, but blacks and hispanics together outnumber whites. -- droxford
Yeah, I'm digging up this thread, 'cause I'm still PO'ed that KLOL is gone. The petition is at 19,237. Think there's any chance it will break 20,000? -- droxford (no - I won't let it go. not yet)
