Save WJFK!

I’m not usually one to take action on something like this, but for some reason, the 4th of July has me feeling patriotic, so I threw this up as just another place to show support for the WJFK we have all come to know and love.  I know we’re all hearing a lot of rumors, and to be honest, if the CBS suits have their mind set on disbanding the last great, live, local talk station in the ole’ Estados Unidos, there’s probably not much we can do about it (though if I thought that heading up to NYC and doing mule kicks through the corporate offices would change their minds, I’m all in).

I started listening to Don and Mike when I was in High School, then left the area and lost touch with WJFK for a few years, until I ended up in Chicago talking to a friend in a bar who got me back into it, listening on the stream and via podcast.  I bought my first iPod so I could listen to podcasts on my drive to work, because the reality was that day old WJFK shows were better than anything I could find on terrestrial radio.  I moved back to DC 2 years ago and since I got back, I don’t think I’ve changed the dial on my radio…I might as well rip off the knob and just let it sit at 106.7.

Who knows what’s going to happen…maybe July 20th comes and nothing changes, maybe they all move to other stations, or maybe we all meet at the Sonic in Fredericksburg for one last maneuver with some cherry pie for dessert. 

So that’s my story on WJFK.  Send this to your friends, CBS, WJFK, whoever, and feel free to share your thoughts and comments with everyone.  Follow the guys on Twitter, check out their sites, and let us know if you hear anything. 

Save WJFK!

No news is…good news?

I’ve never been an avid listner of any station that flipped formats before, so I’m new to this whole thing, but it seems to me that in this day and age, there’s basically no way to keep anything like this a secret, so why won’t CBS just come out and tell us what the plan is, and treat  us like adults.  NBC announced that Jay Leno was stepping down a year before it happened, but CBS expects us to ignore all these rumors about what’s going on until one day, I go to turn on O&D and get a Sports Center update with the latest MLB scores, or EVEN WORSE, 8 hours a day of Nubinals news. 

They’re obviously going to do what they want to do, and even though I’d gladly forge 1,000 signatures on any petition to keep WJFK as it is, all I really care about is where can I listen to the Junkies, O & D and TMOS.  So if they are going to can the shows, or drastically alter them, just come out and tell us, and maybe WJFK could enjoy a week of #1 PPMs when everyone in DC who cares about great radio will tune in for one last week .

I recorded a video response to my plans for the first time I hear a canned score update from Bristol or New York…enjoy.