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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-16
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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):
Upstaging Blanchett, Russ Feingold Also Plays Bob Dylan
In the wake of recent news that British chameleon Cate Blanchett will be one of three actors to portray Bob Dylan in a new picture by Todd Haynes, Senator Russ Feingold gets in on the action with his take on the famous pre-video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – often knocked off in the decades since.
Over at Progressive Patriots Fund (Feingold’s PAC), the Senator gives you a way to join in the action:
Since we formed the Progressive Patriots Fund, we’ve focused on supporting candidates and promoting a progressive reform agenda. As part of those efforts, today we are asking you to use a word or short phrase and tell us a quality you’d like you see in our next president.
Please take a moment to download the ‘My President Will Be…’ sign or make your own. Write down your word or phrase and upload a photo of yourself with your sign using the form below. Stay tuned to www.progressivepatriotsfund.com to see your photo featured on our website in our slideshow of Presidential qualities! Don’t have a digital camera or don’t want your photo online? Click here to send us your word without a picture. (Progressive Patriots Fund: My President Will Be…)
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