Petition to save Y100 Radio in Philly (last alternative station gone)

[LynneSin]

http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/

Last Thursday, with no warning, Y100 was forced off the air by owners Radio One, who decided to change format and give the city its sixth hip-hop station. Almost the entire staff was fired and locked out of their offices. Since last Friday, there's been a huge backlash by fans of the station -- a Web site was founded and a petition started, which in four days over 35,000 people have signed. Even Weezer has given the situation a nod on their Web site. The ex-DJs are broadcasting over an Internet radio station (available on iTunes and Live365) and have virtually maxed out their streaming capacity."

Indeed, when I tried to listen to the stream via Live365, I got a message that the maximum number of listeners was already signed on. I don't live in Philadelphia and I've never heard Y100, but any outlet providing an alternative to the Radio One/Clear Channel agenda of world domination by musical homogeny needs all the support it can get. Sign the petition to save Y100.

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http://www.y100rocks.com/index.php
On Thursday, February 24, 2005, 100.3fm, WPLY, Y100, was taken off the air. After nearly 12 years at 100.3, Alternative Rock disappeared from the Philadelphia radio landscape. With it went the musical companion of over 500,000 residents of the Delaware Valley. Y100Rocks.com is being put together to give the fans and staff of Y100 a place to come to share, to vent, and to work together towards the future. To do this, we have set up a few things:

1 - A petition to protest the loss of Y100. Click here and send a message to the owners of Radio One to demand that they return Y100 to 100.3fm immediately. Only if we complain loudly enough will we be heard! NOTE: OK - We are hearing about problems... we think we have it figured out. You can only sign up 1x per computer! The singnup is not by email address, but IP Address (so that you can't 'stuff' the ballot box by making up fake email addresses). Keep pushing - We are making a difference!

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Seriously! Nothing against Hip-Hop music but we don't need 6 stations filled with this and nothing that features alternative rock music. I highly doubt that RadioOne is going to get any better ratings with this switch in format unless it's thinking they'll get more payola kickbacks by playing what is already overplayed on the radio

:grr:

[vi5]

1. I'll be honest about this whole situation...

Y-100 was comparatively a really good station. And there's definitely not a need for 6 hip hop stations.

But in this process it's making it all seem like Y100 was some sort of free-form radical alternative station when it really wasn't. It's not like it was WFMU or something like that. It was a big, commercial rock station.

I'll be sorry to not have it to listen to when I'm down in the Philly area at my in-laws. But some of the press this issue is getting is a bit silly.