Friday, March 19, 2004



Music Anyone?

The last 4 days have brought about some really insane changes to the radio stations in Omaha.

1) Sweet 98 - 98.5 FM - was top 40 with a strong influence in R&B, has now become Q98, plays a lot of Dave Matthews type stuff, other lighter rock and roll type of music.

2) 106.9 The City FM - was playing a lot of tori amos, sting, music that is supposed to be hip, but not hit, that sort of music, now is playing all hits from 80's and early 90's,

3) turned on 93.3 the dam today, and it's all country music, it WAS hard rock, the only station that played hard rock in all of omaha, THIS made me really mad, well, at least there is still 106.3, the hard rock sister station of 93.3, in Lincoln, with it's 100,000 watt transmitter, to listen to. I don't know why it is country, tried to listen to find out, but only got really sad and suicidal (country music will do that you know?)

4) so I'm listening to 106.3 The Blaze, and god dammit, now they are going to be on another station, same format, but it will be called 94.1 The Blaze. Problem? 94.1 must be the weakest transmitting station on the planet, I can't get it in Omaha, so that's it for hard rock for me (sad sad sad face)

So, here is the breakdown of all this activity:

There are no longer any top 40 stations in Omaha

There are no longer any hard rock stations in Omaha

There is ANOTHER country station in Omaha that I won't be listening to

I might listen to the 80's and 90's station occasionally

I won't really listen to the new Q98, they were already playing music I'd never heard of. They are like a tad harder version of what 106.9 The City was.

All in all, this really sucks. I never listened to Sweet 98 anyway, but the loss of both 93.3 and 106.3 for me is devastating, due to the amount of time at work I would spend listening to those stations.

Oh well, I guess there is always A.M. sports radio all day long from now on. *sigh*

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