An audience of two

Thursday January 05, 2006

Bye Bye KCNL
KOME went away some time in 1998 after about 28 years of broadcasting and the movie FM.

KSJO died 14 months ago after some 36 years of broadcasting. Now it's a Spanish station called La Preciosa.

And now KCNL has gone. I turn on the radio on the way to work - again, it's suddenly all spanish music. It's now La Romantica.

KCNL was just a clone of Live 105. They had near identical playlists - some time ago I bitched about switching from one to the other because I was sick of a particular song only to find that the other station was playing it. Both of them had suddenly rediscovered Bush's excellent album Sixteen Stone from 10 years ago and were playing it to death. It wasn't much of a choice, but it was a choice.

These days my iPod can hold more songs than the average station's playlist. I've now got the radio programmed with 107.7 The Bone (Metallica, Led Zeppelin and not much else), 98.5 KUFX (nothing recorded in the last 20 years), KFOG (good selection, but too mellow) or Live 105 (the aforementioned iPod). I think Clear Channel are in league with Sirius and XM, trying to persuade me to buy a satellite radio.

Incidentally I got John Peel's posthumous autobiography "Margrave Of The Marshes" for Christmas. I've only read the first few chapters, but it's an interesting read. Goodbye Mr. Ravenscroft. We need you now more than ever.

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