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Article: NET SOUNDS
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 6, 2009
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In mid-January, at about 10am on a Tuesday, the Los Angeles-
based radio station Indie 103.1 played the Frank Sinatra and Sid
Vicious versions of My Way followed by a recorded announcement that
the station was ceasing its FM broadcast and would in future
broadcast only online - another media venture suffering in these
recessionary times.
The station was acclaimed for its eclecticism and for its roster
of high-profile DJs, including Rob Zombie and Steve Jones. The
former Sex Pistols guitarist's midday show, Jonesy's Jukebox, was
the station's signature programme, but it is not surviving the
downsizing to the online-only incarnation.
Other station DJs though, including Henry Rollins, are ...