Goodbye, Live 100.5!

I wish to say goodbye to a great friend, Live 100.5.  You have been a constant companion in my car and sometimes at my computer for eighteen months, providing me with music I love and new music I have grown to love as well.

While Citadel Broadcasting (which I've heard is going bankrupt) decided that music was far less important than middle-aged men ranting on the radio 24-7, I will constantly disagree.  Scott Register and Chirs Adler were forming the basis of a great station only to have the corporate bigwigs tear it down piece by piece.

I think that the loss of this station will send shockwaves throughout Birmingham.  Workplay and other venues won't be able to court top quality artists as well because there will not be an outlet for the music of those artists other than the venue itself.  Why would a musician spare the expense to come to a town that has never heard their music?

I only hope that Reg will podcast or start his own station.  Someone needs to pull some strings at the FCC to get him his own frequency.  And it better be FM, 'cause no one really listens to the ol' AM anymore.  That's why all the broadcasters are thrusting their crappy AM programming onto the FM waves.

Citadel, Cox, and Clear Channel take note: I, like many others, want to hear GOOD MUSIC on the radio, not ranting old men.  Bring back the music and Live 100.5!!!!!