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WRXP Cancels Its 1st Multi-Stage Rock Festival

It was so strange that the concert was announced a day before the news that WRXP was being sold. Then it was promoted for over a week. I'm surprised Emmis let this happen.
This must represent a lot of work down the drain for some of WRXP's staff. I feel bad for them.
 
I was working for an alternative rock station in Pittsburgh when a similar thing happened. The concert festival was set up, heavily promoted, AND THEN WE GOT SOLD! Fortunately for the listeners, the promoters went on with the show, albeit unbranded and devoid of the name we gave to it.
 
they should have let the station go out the way 103.9 WDRE in philly did back in 1997 hold one big concert then @ midnight let a lucky listener pull the plug
 
@Barry: I was reading on the Houston board about how Cox planned to kill the alternative "Zone" in favor of a simulcast of the classic rock "Eagle", which they did - but proceeded to let the "Zone", er, zone out the entire weekend following the announcement. Your guess is as good as mine as to why the concert wasn't scrapped immediately after the sale of the station, Coldplay be damned...

@AltExpert: One must wonder why the Coldplay concert wasn't planned to go on "unbranded" like your defunct station's did - I guess WRXP was that much of an influence of the event to warrant ultimately pulling the plug...

@Mike: It always has to come back to WDRE with you, doesn't it? ::)
 
WHFS has been Spanish for years now and they still do the "HFStival"... If the money is there, they will milk it!
 
Radaioman said:
DToTheJ said:
So, remember that big concert featuring Coldplay that WRXP announced not too long ago?

The Village Voice reports that Emmis has canceled it "due to unforeseen circumstances" (read: station sale).
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/06/rxp_takliberty_festival_canceled.php
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I liked RXP but in my opinion, it jumped the shark as a rock station when it started playing Adelle "Rolling in The Deep Pandering to the charts is sad.
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Why? *Adele* is an established AAA act and she will never be mistaken for Gaga or Katy Perry. Or did you want RXP to be a RAWK station like WSOU?
 
(From previous thread page...)

Barry said:
According to AllAccess.com, PD Leslie Fram said she worked on the now cancelled concert for a year...
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frozenfiresb said:
According to this article, 'RXP will be gone before the end of summer...
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Ah, hell, why just talk about this AllAccess article, when I can link it for you, right here! ;D
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/93345/wrxp-cancels-takliberty-festival

@Rich: Technically, WHFS as it exists today is a mostly bird-fed talk station on AM (though its most recent home on 99.1 is now WLZL).
 
across the nation alternative radio have been flipping format. will this be the trend just like smooth jazz? keep flipping, nothing to hear on the radio.
 
They could have had it without tying it to a radio station, like Beatstock this year isn't tied to KTU, RXP might show up on an HD2 or HD3 so it may still exist in some form.
 
Mike said:
they should have let the station go out the way 103.9 WDRE in philly did back in 1997 hold one big concert then @ midnight let a lucky listener pull the plug
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WDRE used to be a rock station in Philadelphia until it pulled the plug in 1997 after the whole concert thing. After the station went off, the WDRE calls moved and parked in Long Island right where it is.
 
Rich said:
WHFS has been Spanish for years now and they still do the "HFStival"... If the money is there, they will milk it!
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What WAS WHFS/99.1... of course, CBS later recycled the calls in Baltimore for a hot talk/rock hybrid (which was how HFStival was revived), and now has the alt-rock format on an HD2 subchannel (i.e., next to no one knows) and the calls parked on a low-rung brokered talk station.
 
WHFS has existed for a couple of years on the 2nd subchannel for DC's " Fresh afiliate: WIAD 94.7.
( Not So Fresh WIUD )
They can be also heard on WHFS.COM, as well as CBS's streaming player.
Not a bad station! if you like WRXP, then you'll love HFS2.
Mostly automated, except live announcers weekdays from 7:00AM-5:00PM

What WAS WHFS/99.1... of course, CBS later recycled the calls in Baltimore for a hot talk/rock hybrid (which was how HFStival was revived), and now has the alt-rock format on an HD2 subchannel (i.e., next to no one knows) and the calls parked on a low-rung brokered talk station.
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disney fanatic said:
Mike said:
they should have let the station go out the way 103.9 WDRE in philly did back in 1997 hold one big concert then @ midnight let a lucky listener pull the plug
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WDRE used to be a rock station in Philadelphia until it pulled the plug in 1997 after the whole concert thing. After the station went off, the WDRE calls moved and parked in Long Island right where it is.
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WDRE is now WPTY
 
Indeed. I just checked the FCC FM database and "Foogled" the WDRE calls... nada. And those are some legendary calls. They'll probably end up on a translator somewhere...

@Nathan - Yes, exactly what I said about WHFS-AM on the top of this thread - but I like your description better. ::)
 
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