> > WRAX's website once boasted about: "The X is the 4th most
> > influential modern rock station in America according to
> > Billboard". WOW, WTF has happend???
> >
> > Nah, nah, nah, nah.... hey, hey, hey.... GOODBYE!
> >
> >
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229100640/http://wrax.com/
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> >
> maybe in 1998!
> today? NO WAY!
>
> I remember back when they used to play the X over the PA
> system in Point Mallard Water Park, It was truly a good
> station back then, and i don't even listen to new rock
>
I moved to Birmingham in March of 1997 when it was 105.9 the X. On my first Birmingham telephone book was the logo for 95X. I called Dave Rossi and asked him about the logo and why they hadn't switched to it already...he told me it fell through, then magically 6 months later the 107.7 - 105.9 swap deal was struck and the X was there. Dick Broadcasting knew what kind of format it had on its hands and they did what it took to make sure it was taken care of.
If the X blames their low ratings on signal or anything else besides bad programming then they are forgetting their history. 105.9 the X was on an awful signal but everyone I knew (Males 18-25) listened because of the personalities and the music despite the static. It seems simple to me what it would take to fix the X...a back to its root beginning. The X needs to grow up with the audience (now males, married 25 - 34) that defined it and move forward. <P ID="signature">______________
Brian
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