Update to an update: Some Scottish Dude
“Hi guys,
I’m Ian the Scottish guy who wrote the post.
Basically I wrote it thinking that it was common knowledge as when I asked about WOXY at goNORTH all I was greeted with was ‘WOXY will be back’. It wasn’t some ‘Scottish dude’ who told me this either, it was Adam from Planetary Sounds. Who I believe are owned by Future Sounds? I don’t really know the logicistics of all this so I won’t pretend to. All he said is that it is getting a new owner and that it will be back at some point.
I don’t know if this means it will be the same DJs to make it the WOXY I know and love but I really do hope so.
I didn’t mean to get anyone’s hopes up as I truly did think it must have been common knowledge due to the manner in which I was told and the fact I was allowed to write about it.
I hope you can make some sense out of this.
WOXY forever. Cheers,
Ian”
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HUGE thanks to Matt Sledge who posted this on twitter tonight:
@mattsledge woxy.com fans will want to hit the link… RT @ohjawbone Amended version of this; Go North; Thursday and Friday. Have Fun At Dinner
Halfway down the page is this quote: “Admittedly, I did raise a rather redundant question (in terms of SxSW) as I mentioned the closure of WOXY, the American independent radio station and website. I was met with a very frank ‘WOXY will be back’. In the ensuing hours I would learn that a company has stepped in and it is looking as though WOXY will be up and running sooner than expected. I don’t know if that is a scoop or not. Fuck it. WOXY is coming back, so I don’t care if it is.”
Have no idea of the validity of the post and there has been nothing from the DJ’s or the boards to indicate this is verified. Just an update for those of us who are following the station.
My own opinion is without the DJ’s Woxy.com isn’t Woxy.com. Joe Long has accepted a position with the Cincinnati Enquirer and is seeking to move back to the Cincinnati area. He also runs Each Note Secure. Mike Taylor is seeking work in the Austin, TX area and has recently started his own blog The Big Beat. Matt Shiverdecker is also seeking work in Austin, TX and can be found at Hotter Than Georgia Asphalt.
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“My own opinion is without the DJ’s Woxy.com isn’t Woxy.com. ”
Correct. Sorry to sound like a jerk by stating the obvious but the DJs of WOXY couldn’t save WOXY by being the same DJs they were before. WOXY had tweaked their format since the Baloughs left &, as far as I’m concerned, while reaching for the stars their feet left the ground. They became disconnected from their roots but were caught floating between success & abandoning their previous standards.
I would like WOXY to return. I, however, would like for them to return to a small-market target & operate within that scope instead of trying to blow up. Family owned business usually start off seeking sustainability & community reactiveness but by the 2nd or 3rd generation of operators they focus on the financial opportunity.
Now, granted, I don’t know what all happened in what discussions after the Baloughs left or were leaving. I don’t know what happened after LaLa came in nor after the next handoff. But doesn’t that amount of handoffs while maintaining the same DJs kinda tell a story? They changed formats (no more local connections). They changed playlists (going from a live-person operated sequence to a digital list back to a partial live-person operated). They changed radio bands (97x to HD2 of 91.7). They didn’t change the DJs.
Besides, the DJs have moved on. They’ve had to. I wish them well. Maybe they can be back under new direction, but if you change a car’s tires, windshield, upholstry, paintjob, crankshaft, pedals, & A/C but it still don’t run maybe you have to face the fact it’s the engine.
Maybe.