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Inhailer Radio: Listen to the Modern Rock 500

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Inhailer Radio: Listen to the Modern Rock 500 Now playing: inhailer.com/modernrock500 I’ve been looking forward to this since it was announced in March. I’m reading her excellent book about 97X WOXY (chapter four is up next for me), and in her newsletter from last week, Robin James makes “the case that you should listen to … Read more

New Book Details How WOXY-FM Bucked the Norms of the Day While Cultivating Community

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New Book Details How WOXY-FM Bucked the Norms of the Day While Cultivating Community Besides being a remembrance and celebration of WOXY’s history, the book also is something more. It’s a thesis, in a way, that in its ownership, programming and outreach, the station was a role model for how to ethically seek independence in … Read more

WOXY-FM’s ‘Modern Rock 500’ Countdown Finally Returns in May After 20 Years off the Radio Dial

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WOXY-FM’s ‘Modern Rock 500’ Countdown Finally Returns in May After 20 Years off the Radio Dial Here’s some great news I got via Facebook where it’s spreading like wildfire—at least within my social graphs. Quotes from and links to reporting are below. Allison Babka this afternoon on citybeat.com: The new iteration of the “97X Modern … Read more

More than ten years without 97X on the air

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The final mic break is worth a fresh listen. Station manager and DJ Steve Baker articulated really well what the station was about, what it meant, and how it did business the right way and for the right reasons. Leading up to that final mic break, the playlist for the station’s final week on the … Read more