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by Deleted User 16093 » Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:24 pm
I skipped around the video a little bit. Yes, early 1990s fashion was icky.
WLLZ in its last years had an identity crisis. In the early 90s, at one point they were playing Phil Collins " Against all odds" and Chicago. Then classic rock and as a last-ditch effort Modern rock as " Todays music, todays wheels". And.... it failed.
97.1 as a rock station. I could write a book on that. Pretty much what Infinity/CBS did was just put Howard Stern on with a generic rock format, with the idea of Stern would just carry the station. I do recall a couple of the DJ's brining up what had been discussed on Stern's show that morning, it sounded canned like " make sure you mention it".
Then... the endless station liners making fun of WRIF. " Riff sucks" and one that talked about blowing WRIF's transmitter up or something, they went way too far with that. A little bit of poking or prodding is ok but after a fashion, I could only think " Ok enough of it already."
The making fun of Arthur P really did them in and got CBS in legal trouble. I quite liked Extreme radio, I thought it was neat idea but clearly it was really just a placeholder format, before they got all the talk shows in place and ready for the change to FM talk.
Z-rock was epic, maybe not as cool as some of the air checks I've heard from the late 80s but good. Just south of Monroe, where I grew up. In my 2nd story bedroom, if I turned my receiver on mono and played with VHF antenna, I had hooked into it. I could get Z-rock ok at times. Trying to recall, as time went on a couple day parts were local but, in the evening, it was feed from Texas.
The Edge, lasted 16 months abouts.