Back when I was young and Jazz was old-people music, I listened to WYEP. That was in the late 70s. When I started making real money, I started contributing to the station --- thousands of dollars, over 20 years for my girlfriend and I (we met at a WYEP member show).
But sometime in the last decade, WYEP started playlisting, and they started shaving back the hours on their non-mix programming. We protested, then stopped contributing, and now, except for a few niche shows, we cant even stand to listen to it. Like another poster said here, now theyre an adult alternative format- based pre-programmed pseudo top 40 station that has very little to do with its community based origins. They abandoned the people who helped build the station. And I know dozens of over-fifty ex-WYEPers who feel the same way.
Now I listen to WDUQ more than I used to listen to WYEP. Its not groundbreaking music, but I never feel like someones pandering to my listening habits. I think the whole EPM/PPM/PMC/PRC thing smells fishy. The fact that PPM hired initially PRC to act on their behalf, the fact that PPMs bid was for MORE money (kinda reminds you of the casino fiasco with the Isle of Capri deal), the fact that no ones talking about it .. I think WYEPs got an agenda here, that they want to become content providers (no Virginia , the music doesnt matter anymore), that theyre just itchin to send Wrett and Bumblebee and Mike Canton and Ken Batista packin. WDUQ will provide a handy repository for anything (prosidy, the Allegheny front, etc.) that doesnt meet their adult contemporary mold. That way, they will finally achieve their manifest destiny of ALL MIX, ALL THE TIME.
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But sometime in the last decade, WYEP started playlisting, and they started shaving back the hours on their non-mix programming. We protested, then stopped contributing, and now, except for a few niche shows, we cant even stand to listen to it. Like another poster said here, now theyre an adult alternative format- based pre-programmed pseudo top 40 station that has very little to do with its community based origins. They abandoned the people who helped build the station. And I know dozens of over-fifty ex-WYEPers who feel the same way.
Now I listen to WDUQ more than I used to listen to WYEP. Its not groundbreaking music, but I never feel like someones pandering to my listening habits. I think the whole EPM/PPM/PMC/PRC thing smells fishy. The fact that PPM hired initially PRC to act on their behalf, the fact that PPMs bid was for MORE money (kinda reminds you of the casino fiasco with the Isle of Capri deal), the fact that no ones talking about it .. I think WYEPs got an agenda here, that they want to become content providers (no Virginia , the music doesnt matter anymore), that theyre just itchin to send Wrett and Bumblebee and Mike Canton and Ken Batista packin. WDUQ will provide a handy repository for anything (prosidy, the Allegheny front, etc.) that doesnt meet their adult contemporary mold. That way, they will finally achieve their manifest destiny of ALL MIX, ALL THE TIME.
Jack Barton was a visionary.