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“WAVE”-ing Goodbye …

Ugh. What a terrible way to start the morning off.

I got in to work and turned the radio on this morning to find that the station I listen to was gone. GONE. Not like someone switched the channel, but gone like the station didn’t exist anymore and had been replaced with a different one.

The station I speak of is 93.3 The Wave, in San Francisco. It played a good mix of what they termed “world music”, but just about anything went. It was nice. I could go almost all day without hearing repeats. I turned the radio on yesterday and was greeted by “The Wave” DJ’s. I turned it on this morning and found myself listening to some soft rock station.

Erm. So, I inspected the radio to make sure that it was set properly and then heard the lady give the station digits as 93.3 KBAY. What the fuck. A little searching online and I found that overnight they switched formats and radio stations. The Wave was out and the quiet rock shit was in. Ugh.

So, for the last few hours I’ve been sitting here listening to Hootie and Elton John. Yay. Let me break out into the white boy dance. Oh yeah, I can’t because you can’t white boy dance to this shit. Someone just kill me now.

Why is it that when stations go kaput, they do it like drug dealers trying to make a big score. They do it overnight, in the middle of the freaking night, when no one is freaking up to hear about it. They don’t talk about it, or give warning … they just pull their shit out and put someone else’s in. It’s disorienting. It’s like going into a parking lot and not finding your car in the spot where you parked it. Damn it to hell.

With that mild nervous breakdown past me … has anyone seen the new commericals for Survivor. Damn. That’s some wicked shit they’re pulling on those folks.

“Hi, get dressed for dinner, because we’re going on a cruise before you get thrown out into the wilderness” Psssssssssssyyyyccch!!!

So, these folks are all dressed up … one guy in a business suit and a girl with no panties go on this boat to find out they have to jump overboard and whatever they are wearing is what they get to bring to Survivor. Dude. So this girl won’t have panties for her entire stay on the island and the guy will only have his suit. Hope those loafers are comfortable.

I think, as soon as Survivor called me to tell me that I was going to be on … I’d be dressed in full military survival mode. I’d have one of those jackets that you pull a string and it turns into a life jacket and my pants would have made of pockets. Shit, I’d be wearing a watch that was secretly a cell phone.

Damn … this is gonna be good.

5 Responses to '“WAVE”-ing Goodbye …'

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    hmw | 08 September 2003

    At least your radio station did it smoothly – ours just went wonky and then came back.

    I usually prefer hard rock, but in work we have to compromise, So I would put on a pop-ish station that played a good mix of everything.

    One day, about 8a.m. they cut into the middle of the song to play “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles. And it played and played and played, over and over and over. Naturally, we changed stations but kept going back to see if they fixed whatever it was.

    When I got up the next day at 5, it was still playing…got into work at 6:30 and it was still playing. Finally, around noon we checked and found that they had indeed switched formats and it only took them about 27 hours to do it…..now they are Sunny 104.5 – all soft rock, all the freakin’ time – lol 😉


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    ronnie smoot | 08 September 2003

    Well I was very surprised myself when 93.3 the wave was replaced over night. Whats up with that? I rarely switched station in my car when they were around. I thought it was a very good station and played lots of great sounds ( and no repeat!!!!) I AM MAD AND WILL NOT LISTEN TO THE new 93.3 there are enough “spoft rocks” stations around already


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    yo | 12 September 2003

    The wave was the best radio… i guess i’m going have to go back to my mp3’s.


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    Judy | 16 September 2003

    I have to agree. I loved the WAVE.

    It took me a while to realize that it was gone. I kept thinking I had just hit a bad hour when I turned it to the station. However after three or so times, I realized I lost my favorite station!


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    mac | 22 December 2003

    I couldn’t agree more about 93.3. That was a really cool station. I hadn’t even been listening to it that long before the pulled the plug. The wave had something for everyone. They could of least let people know they going to axe it. They did the same thing to another station I use to listen to called Z95.7. It was much like The wave it had something for everyone too. hey why is it that every time there’s a station that has a real good mix of diffrent genres of music they pull the plug on them?


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