Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 19:16:13 GMT
WFMU has decided to stop airing the Hour of Slack
The official reason is "they are trying out new programming"
The reality is they are going to see if enough people are going to
miss it.
So if you listen to the HOS on WFMU and want to see it back next
semester,
send a letter saying so to the program director
Brian
bt@wfmu.org
or call
(201)521-1416
Better yet, support the station financially IN THE NAME OF HOUR OF SLACK. It was low pledge drive response that killed it. Since the show is prerecorded, there's no one pestering the audience to pledge.
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From: x2quest@yahoo.com (Rev. Waldo of Flatbush)
I just stumbled bass-ackwards onto this fact myself. They probably figure
enough yeti-bloods are wired to get RealAudio so they don't hafta bother
anymore. Well, if the HOS was intended to preach to the converted, what would
be the damn point? It's for that young, confused not-normal kid, let call him
Timmy, who's fumbling across the dial, looking for something..ANYTHING..that
might point the way, that might have the answers he needs. Then suddenly, in
the crackly numbers of the FM band reserved for the lowlifes and scum of the
radio world, he latches on to something that changes his entire prespective
on the whole fucking universe and cries out "PRAISE BOB!"
And now that call has suddenly been switch off for the potential few of the
twenty millions ears it could have reached. It is a sad sad day...
Now, I love FMU. I listen to them whenever I get the chance. It's truly a
bastion of freeform. But its taken a wrong turn here. It's gone through many
changes recently, mainly moving from a dilapidated house in East Orange NJ to
a building in Jersey City. Perhaps somehow the move has disrupted the energy
field that kept them from making such stupid mistakes. Next thing you know
the station manager will be making suggestions to the DJs on how to improve
their show, perhaps a "recommended" playlist, "Y'know, JM in the AM is really
such a cash cow, perhaps we should expand it beyond drive time, y'know, just
until we get over this budget crunch.."
Well, if you're in WFMUs broadcast range, tell them to get HOS back on the
air! Do you realize that it only costs them $8.50 a week to get the tapes and
beam them out to millions of potential listeners? I suggest you tell them if
they get HOS back on the air, you'll give them pledge money (the minimum
pledge is $10.00 - you get a fridge magnet and I think the LCD program guide
too). As anyone that bought themselves a last-minute saucer ticket will tell
you, MONEY TALKS.
And if you're thinking "Hey, screw WFMU, I can listen to HOS on the web
anytime I want", well then don't just do it for yourself, do it for the poor
Timmys out there..lost, alone, cold, confused by the burning sensation of the
Yeti blood coursing through their veins that makes them want to go to the
high school dance with their dad's M-16 and start slaughtering everyone there
and they DON'T KNOW WHY!
Help save Timmy. Prevent their needless deaths. Support The Hour of Slack.
Right Reverend Waldo of Flatbush
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