RIP Drive105
So, Drive105 (the only station I could handle on the FM side) has changed their format: "We're bringing back the great music from the mid-'60s through the mid-'80s that isn't being played anywhere else," is all that ABC Radio staff offered in a statement Monday. It will now be called Love105 *puke*
Story: http://www.startribune.com/459/story/1168888.html
Please, send you comments to: love105comments@gmail.com
Good morning;
After being a devoted Drive105 (preceded by being a devoted Zone105, 93.7 The Edge and Rev105) listener, I can definitively say there are now no FM music stations worth listening to in the Twin Cities. There is not one station on the dial at which I can tune in to listen to classic and new alternative rock. The cop-out of a format change to the best of the dentist's office waiting room is one the likes of which I cannot fathom. I will never understand how playing such drivel will ever be successful in a city with the music history (especially alternative) of Minneapolis. How a city that spawned the likes of Paul Westerberg, The Suburbs, Husker Du, The Replacements and Soul Asylum, not to mention incredible support of bands like Soul Coughing, Cake and Wilco can now have no station playing their music is beyond me. While I understand how some people can support 89.3 The Current, I cannot listen to the arrogance of the on-air staff and listening audience, so there was never a comparison between listening to the two stations.
I am horribly disappointed in this decision, and hope it is a monumental failure, forcing you to change your minds and return alt-rock to the MSP air waves once again. Until that time, I guess I'll be listening to talk radio and my iPod instead of the hits of Hall and Oates.
Nathan
Story: http://www.startribune.com/459/story/1168888.html
Please, send you comments to: love105comments@gmail.com
Good morning;
After being a devoted Drive105 (preceded by being a devoted Zone105, 93.7 The Edge and Rev105) listener, I can definitively say there are now no FM music stations worth listening to in the Twin Cities. There is not one station on the dial at which I can tune in to listen to classic and new alternative rock. The cop-out of a format change to the best of the dentist's office waiting room is one the likes of which I cannot fathom. I will never understand how playing such drivel will ever be successful in a city with the music history (especially alternative) of Minneapolis. How a city that spawned the likes of Paul Westerberg, The Suburbs, Husker Du, The Replacements and Soul Asylum, not to mention incredible support of bands like Soul Coughing, Cake and Wilco can now have no station playing their music is beyond me. While I understand how some people can support 89.3 The Current, I cannot listen to the arrogance of the on-air staff and listening audience, so there was never a comparison between listening to the two stations.
I am horribly disappointed in this decision, and hope it is a monumental failure, forcing you to change your minds and return alt-rock to the MSP air waves once again. Until that time, I guess I'll be listening to talk radio and my iPod instead of the hits of Hall and Oates.
Nathan