RIP 99X

http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/entertainment/stories/2008/01/23/99x_0124_web.html

If you spent any considerable time in north Georgia in the last 15 years, this is heartbreaking news. No more Big Day Outs. No more Live Xs. No more dominating Music Midtown stages. An entire era of my childhood is gone. :'(

I still have my old Freeloader card in my wallet, even though I moved away from Atlanta a few years ago.

 

Once 96Rock died, all I ever listened to in Atlanta, and Athens, was 99X.

 

It was a sad day when Z-93 went down, too. Loved that station.

What's popped up in its place on 92.9 is Dave.fm, which is probably the most listenable radio station in Atlanta these days.

 

One of those over the air stations where one would walk away with a musical education after listening to it for a while.

On a more whimsical and board related note, I believe they were also behind the prank at the Masters with Martha Burk where they got Heywood Jablome printed in a few newspapers around the south.

 

They were a supporter of Butch Walker, so they are A-OK by me.

 

in the Seventies there was a 99X in New York, which was top 40, I guess. I switched to WNEW for AOR.

 

I thought another wrestler died.

 

You know, I never forgave them for that.

But you're right -- they never stopped supporting him. He was ALWAYS on a local stage at their festivals over the years. (Of course, I tried to conveniently time my beer runs during that hour. ;D)

 

I was a 96 rock man in my youth, fwiw, which admittedly is not much. My son now listens to Project 961, which occupies 96 rock's old place on the dial, and this makes me feel old, which I suppose I am. As for 99x, when Music Midtown died a couple years ago, the station's days were numbered.

 

I expect nothing else from Rich Rodriguez supporters!

 

Lemme guess from the rave reviews.

99X was NOT owned by Clear Channel.