Post #135242 by johntiki on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 10:31 PM

I haven't listened to HFS on a regular basis for probably 10 years - when they were bought by Infinity their "free-form" format really ended up in the crapper! They completely turned their backs on those listeners who stuck with the station when they played real "alternative" music. For quite some time WHFS was the only station in this area where you could hear stuff like the Cure, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, etc. sandwiched between specialty programs as varied as Indian Sitar and a fairly decent reggae show on Sunday nights! Once they started playing that "rap-rock" shit like Limp Biskit and catering to fifteen year old boys their demise was imminent! The final straw for me was when the 3 hour reggae show on Sunday nights became a daily 2 song set at 1AM that they called "Get the Dread Out" - usually a song by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones or 311, sometimes if you were lucky you could get both back to back! :roll: They even slowly did away with their Sunday morning "oldies" show hosted by this DJ Weasel who had been there for as long as anyone could remember! I got rid of the 99.1 preset on the car stereo and eventually scolded my wife into doing the same! In a way the situation at WHFS was very much like a witnessing a family member battling a terminal disease – you’ve grown heartbroken and weary watching it suffer and now its gone all that remains is a calming sense of relief and closure.