Indie 103.1 is Dead. Long live Indie 103.1

New logo for a new Indie 103.1 - now going all web-based

Driving to work this morning I was a little surprised to hear Sinatra’s My Way on Indie 103.1 FM.  Not too terribly surprised, mind you.  Free from the usual constrained playlists, Indie was capable of anything.

What followed the last trailing strings of the Anka-penned tune was very disheartening for me.  A promo that Indie 103.1 was leaving the radio dial and becoming an internet-only broadcaster.

I don’t know how this change will effect their revenues and budget, and worry that the array of hosts won’t stick around for web only broadcasting.   WIll this be goodbye to Jonesy, Rollins, and the other great jocks Indie has had picking and spinning records since going on the air a few years back?

Aside from losing a great voice for independent, new and local music on the Los Angeles airwaves; I always take stations changing formats hard.  I grew up around the radio business.  Since he was seventeen – not too long before I was born! – my dad has been a disc jockey. A station changing formats hits a radio station like a factory closing.  People and families who work there are thrust into a very uncertain situation.

So here’s the best to Indie 103.1 in its new incarnation, and to the staff and their families who will be effected by this change.  May Marconi smile down on you from the radio heavens.

I’ll leave you with an in studio acoustic performance by The TIng Tings on Indie 103.1 (including That’s Not My Name):