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Item 16: 96.3fm has left the planet

Entered by tpryan on Fri Jun 29 22:33:53 2001:

        Another new radio station on the Detroit Radio dial.
WDVD started calling itself that today.  96.3(fm) is the new DVD.
Musically, it sounds just like the old 96.3, which stopped reffering
to itself as "Planet 96.3" some time ago.  Now the call sign makes
sense, I thought I was hearing something wrong when they quickly 
said it in the 'El Breako Grande' before the top of the hour.
        Anybody hear any other news on this.
        The 963detroit.com site has no text, it must be all embedded,
planet963.com points you right back and 963dvd.com is coming soon.
For the hits of the 80s, 90s and now, I wonder why the identity 
change.  Why today?
11 responses total.
#1 of 11 by eeyore on Sat Jun 30 02:50:28 2001:

I kinda like the Planet stuff...the Mr. Planet commercials were a hoot. :)

#2 of 11 by senna on Sat Jun 30 05:10:26 2001:

Thank god.  The planet theme sucked and the station suffered immensely under
it.  Perhaps it will become listenable.

#3 of 11 by ashke on Sat Jun 30 19:14:42 2001:

Planet was good until they switched over to 80s exclusivly (LOVED IT!) and
then switched back and the 80's all but dissapeared, including getting rid
of the 5 o'clock flash backs on the drive home, and then went downhill from
there.  The morning show started to get bad too....  They keep switching the
format, and mucking it up

#4 of 11 by tpryan on Sat Jun 30 22:21:06 2001:

        They started doing one of my pet peeves...trying to define what
they do by what they don't do.  ("No rap, no kids stuff").

#5 of 11 by slynne on Sun Jul 1 16:49:11 2001:

Gosh. I listen to that radio station everytime I get in the car and I 
didnt notice the change.

#6 of 11 by tpryan on Mon Jul 2 16:10:41 2001:

        Sounds like the lunchtime 80's request show is toast.

#7 of 11 by michaela on Wed Jul 4 19:51:37 2001:

They dropped the Planet thing when they were purchased by another company.

#8 of 11 by tpryan on Wed Jul 4 22:41:41 2001:

        It seems like the music mix is a bit different.  It just might
be the few new songs added this week, but it seems like more new songs
added this week.  Myabe they are playing current stuff more often.

#9 of 11 by eeyore on Thu Jul 5 06:15:05 2001:

They are now owned by ABC.  Go figure.

#10 of 11 by krj on Sun Aug 19 22:15:21 2001:

  ((( summer agora #41 linked as music #16 )))

#11 of 11 by otaking on Tue Aug 21 04:31:31 2001:

Re #9: Owned by ABC? No wonder they're sounding like the alternative lite rock
station more and more..

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