Is WFXH-FM The Worst Programmed "Alternative" Station In Georgia?

[FilmCritic3K]

Behold the unimaginative monstrosity that is WFXH-FM Rock 106.1 - The Only Station That Really Rocks! (nice lame positioner there)! Other than an occasional alt-rock song, a classic rock song, or a gold or two, If it isn't Saliva, Godsmack, or a litany of other active rock bands, it doesn't get massive airplay. Yet this station is allowed to report as an alternative! It's horrible and I really wish someone would get the nerve to challenge this lame duck of a supposed alternative station. Meanwhile bands like The Raconteurs are barely represented and songs by bands or artists like Death Cab For Cutie, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, Snow Patrol, Starsailor, Thom Yorke, Regina Spektor, Paul Westerberg, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Jack Johnson, The Decemberists, and many others are being ignored outside of a two-hour specialty show on Sunday nights. WFXH, stop with the uncreative playlist, the consultants (no doubt), and ditch the classic rock! You're allegedly an alternative station...try acting like it! Someone needs to show this market that an alternative/modern rock station can flourish and doesn't have to play hours and hours of nu-metal
to do so. Z102, when it was alternative, proved that. 96Wave in Charleston proves it, and has done so for years. In other words, WFXH - stop fearing songs with melodies or acoustic guitars. They won't harm you or your listeners.

Here's a sample music log from December 9th...

1PM - "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
1:05 - "The Pot" - Tool
1:13 - "Hash Pipe" - Weezer
1:16 - "Glycerine" - Bush
1:20 - "Politics" - Korn
1:31 - "Whereve I May Roam" - Metallica
1:37 - "Crazy Bitch" - Buckcherry
1:40 - "Hell's Bells" - AC/DC
1:45 - "Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
1:58 - "Sex Type Thing" - Stone Temple Pilots

2PM
2:02 - "Through Glass" - Stone Sour
2:06 - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
2:11 - "B.Y.O.B." - System Of A Down
2:16 - "Again" - Alice In Chains
2:20 - "Face Down" - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
2:30 - "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" - The Beastie Boys
2:34 - "Speak" - Godsmack
2:38 - "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin
2:47 - "Bawitdaba" - Kid Rock
2:51 - "Mudshovel" - Staind
2:55 - "Only" - Nine Inch Nails

3PM - "Everlong" - Foo Fighters
3:04 - "Welcome To The Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
3:09 - "The Red" - Chevelle
3:13 - "Are You Gonna Go My Way" - Lenny Kravitz
3:16 - "Goodbye" - Army Of Anyone
3:26 - "The Unforgiven" - Metallica
3:32 - "The Kill (Bury Me)" - 30 Seconds To Mars
3:36 - "All Along The Watchtower" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3:40 - "Land Of Confusion" - Disturbed
3:53 - "Brain Stew" - Green Day
3:57 - "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" - Fuel

4PM
4:01 - "Anna Molly" - Incubus
4:05 - "Loser" - Beck
4:09 - "So Cold" - Breaking Benjamin
4:14 - "The Down Town" - Days Of The New
4:18 - "Drown You Out" - Crossfade
4:28 - "Come Down" - Bush
4:32 - "Save Me" - Shinedown
4:36 - "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" - Van Halen
4:40 - "The Pot" - Tool
4:54 - "Lightning Crashes" - Live
4:59 - "Scars" - Papa Roach

5PM
5:03 - "No Excuses" - Alice In Chains
5:07 - "Snow (Hey Oh)" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5:13 - "Guerilla Radio" - Rage Against The Machine
5:17 - "Holiday In Cambodia" - Richard Cheese
5:18 - "Ladies And Gentlemen" - Saliva
5:29 - "Shine" - Collective Soul
5:35 - "Just Stop" - Disturbed
5:38 - "Hard To Handle" - The Black Crowes
5:41 - "Pain" - Three Days Grace
5:52 - "Interstate Love Song" - Stone Temple Pilots
5:55 - "Change (In The House Of Flies)" - Deftones
5:59 - "-45-" - Shinedown

6PM
6:03 - "Through Glass" - Stone Sour
6:07 - "Been Caught Stealing" - Jane's Addiction
6:12 - "Cold" - Crossfade
6:15 - "Chop Suey" - System Of A Down

 

[middlega]

Granted, alternative is not a format that I know a whole lot about, but comparing that sample playlist to the current R&R Alternative chart, I'm not seeing anything that seems too out of line.

Looks like fewer currents than I might expect to see from an Alt., and 1-2 songs per hour that I would consider more Active Rock than Alt. these days, but on the whole it really doesn't look that out of synch with what the rest of the reporting Alternatives are playing.

 

[Radio-X]

A) You have to realize that WFXH has primarily been an active rock station since it signed on. It was designed for that...

B) To add to that, Savannah's "Alternative" station (Wave 104.9) was a clusterbuddy with Rock up until a few months ago. We see that the AAA version of Wave never caught on in either HHI or Savannah (partly because of its signal), so going alternative would have been bad for Wave.

That being said, I have a feeling deep in my gut that a signal (probably 92.3) will probably go modern rock at some point, leaving a better chance of a more alternative Rock 106-1.

Radio-X