What the hell happened to my favorite radio station?

[make_your_move]

For the love of god, does anyone have any idea what happened to Z104? (104.1) - I listened to them this morning and by this afternoon they were a classical station ... WTF?!!! And here is what the webpage says ....Z104

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Here's what happened

[sierra-victor.livejournal.com]

Billboard is the pub. for this kind of news.

http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/business/top_news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001804476

Reading between the lines, as someone who's a journalist and has friends in the radio side of the biz, a local 2 share is awful. Awful. This wasn't about making more money or Mormons, this was about trying to get back into the black.

It doesn't help any that adult top 40 is a dying genre on the air-waves.

As someone else said in the thread, music radio is taking it on the chin anyway between XM and Sirus, Internet radio for every niche audience, and more and more radio ending up in fewer and fewer hands where the only thing that matters is the bottom line.

Sadly, after taking a look at its business side, the question isn't "why did Z104 go away," it's really "how did it stay around so long?"

Soory dear.

Signed, still in mourning for HFS,

S_V