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WFNX signs off
By adamg on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 7:52pm
Promptly at 7 p.m., with "Let's Go to Bed" by the Cure as the last ever song (was also the station's first ever song).
Kay Hanley tweeted:
Goodbye, WFNX. Thank you for teaching me about good music and changing my life.
The happiness + pride I felt when WFNX played Cleo's music still indescribable. You played a HUGE role in me & Greg even starting a band.
J.P. Dowd tweets:
Just listened to the last minutes of WFNX. The silence when the last note ended was both eerie and sad.
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Comments
I got a bit misty around 6pm
when I heard "Blue Monday" by New Order. I remember buying the import 12 inch vinyl at Newbury Comics as a young teen.
did anyone record the last hour or two?
I'm sad I completely forgot about this, and I'd like to listen.
The "cool" has died on Boston's airwaves
I was compelled to listen to the final hour tonight. It wasn't as moving or as good as the goodbye shows by Adam 12 and the other DJ's a couple months ago, but still I had to hear the last farewell.
Boston has lost some of it's cool - the voice of it's indie, alt music scene. With it, I have lost my "in" with new music, new bands, my new fav song. Sad to say, but the last of my "cool" has died with FNX tonight.
Thank you FNX for 29 great years. (and a big F-U to clear channel)
For what it's worth...
...opinions about Clear Channel notwithstanding, shouldn't you be more pissed off at Steven Mindich? Clear Channel is merely buying this up, but they aren't the one who decided to close it down and sell.
Just sayin'
Mindich sold out because the
Mindich sold out because the station had become a money pit. Broadcast radio is not a charity, and owners have no responsibility to provide you with free stuff.
Mourning FNX on the Front Page of the Phoenix
That was like listening to Charles Stuart mourn his wife - you know, the one he MURDERED!
Assholes, both.
Where to go now?
Sad to see it go. I know there are other alternatives for discovering music nowadays, but for me radio was always #1. Yes I go to iTunes, but it's cause I hear the song on FNX first.
I know there's satellite radio, but I like the local sensibility.
We've been told we can continue to stream FNX, but that's limiting: it will work fine in the office, but rules out listening during my drive to work or waking up on my clock radio alarm.
FNX signing off is definitely a loss!
WBRU in Providence if your radio can pick it up
I can't believe Providence has better radio choices than Boston but I work in Rhode Island twice a week and they do. They have a much wider spectrum of choices than we do.
Meanwhile....at the Mindich home
Stephen and Judge Maria spent the night in and had cook prepare them a lovely hasenfeffer, which they found pares well with Dom Romanee Conti 1997 at $1000 a bottle.
Then at 7PM, they retired to the den to watch Lou Dobbs on Fox. He's a friend, don't you know? After that Judge Maria helped Stephen go over the phone sex line ads for next week's issue of The Phoenix.
Later on that evening, they watched unaired episodes of Judge Maria Lopez and went to bed by ten.
perfect!
too bad his progressive street cred and ponytail make him untouchable. Wonder if their little snowflake son has stopped torturing the Newton cops yet? He was in a footrace with Joe (Wang)Spaulding's son to see who could be the bigger a-hole.
Mindich is obviously a Fop man....
Not to me they don't. Of all the people I've watched over the years sell out their progressive beginnings, Mindich is the worst example.
The man is nothing more than a pimp. I've said it before and I'll say it every day until the day I leave this mortal coil. Fuck him and that rag he calls a newspaper.
Oh, and fuck Joe Spaulding, too. Almost forgot about him, like everyone else has.
New Radio Station for Boston
Harbor 101.7:
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/59018/clear...
It won't be right wing talk, but it will be a safe, adult contemporary format aimed at suburbanites, one already represented on our radio dial in several spots.
My radio is dead today
I got up this morning (Saturday) and realized that ERS is playing show tunes or some crap and FNX is gone and there is no good radio in Boston on the weekends or evenings anymore.
We've gone right back to the mid 1970s.
What about 'ZBC?
'ERS has been playing show tunes on the weekends for a long time now (along with a capella and kids' stuff and, on Sunday mornings, Israeli pop).
Au contraire!
"We've gone right back to the mid 1970s."
Au contraiire! Some radio around here in the early/mid 70s was terrific. It was the 80s that killed radio, without a doubt. In the early/mid 70s we had WBCN whch at the time was still pretty (if not completely)true to its 1968 roots. There was the great and uncompromising WCAS for the folkier (but still pretty rock) side of things, and the now little remembered WNTN which was GREAT and as hip as you could get.
And besides, FNX was better when it was WLYN. LYN was less mainstream.
The world is becoming almost unrecognizable from the way it was
20 years ago, even 15-10 years ago. Over the air music radio has been on life support for some time, but in general it seems like anything independent and local in America is disappearing. We've become a much more homogenized society since I was a kid. I even have trouble now finding a Boston Cream Pie! In Boston! Or see how many people 'downtown' speak with a Boston accent. It's actually the people who do speak with a Boston accent that stand out. All the locally owned stores are pretty much all gone, and I'm not referring to Filenes and Jordan Marsh, they were owned by large corporations. I mean the cool army/navy stores, the mom and pop sub shops, variety stores, etc. One of the few exceptions to the rule is liquor stores. Go figure.
Honestly, I'm surprised FNX lasted this long, Haven't listened to it in years.
Theory
I think most of it has to do with mobility. Most people don't stay in one place for their whole lives. They usually at least leave for college or a short-term job, long enough to pick up habits of another geographical region and port them back home. Hence the growth of chains. If you travel a lot, Starbucks is always Starbucks, but you have to work to find an Espresso Royale in every city.
Honestly, I'm surprised FNX
And now you know.