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Name: Del
Reynolds
Age: 5x
Occupation: owner of several northern Michigan
radio stations
Last Seen: Cheboygan, MI
Bee-otched For: pissing off knuckleheads
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Northern Michigan: where there's four rock
stations and none of them care enough about
those who love new rock.
Back in the 1990's, stations like WKLT had
nothing to worry about. They could air moose
farts 24/7 and they'd still be a healthy #2 in
the ratings. Yeah, there was classic rocker The
Bear and pop alternative The Zone, but if you
were a fan of KoRn, Rage Against the Machine,
Tool and other bands that had balls,
fuhgeddaboutit.
Thankfully, The Zone added those bands and more
in 2000, and they kicked ass throughout most of
the 2000's. However, poor management and bad
decisions killed the station in 2009, replacing
it with Real Rock 105/95-5.
One minute, Real Rock sounded good, the next
minute, it was a mix of decent music and crap
from the 70's that KLT overplayed. On April
Fool's Day, Real Rock dropped the 95-5 signal
and it flipped to simply "Rock 105".
Rock 105 is pretty much a mainstream rock
station that focuses on the 1990's with a few
newer tunes mixed in. Yeah, it's thankfully not
like KLT, but there's a few big problems. One of
them is the lack of new rock. Right now, Rock
105's currents include Pop Evil's "Trenches",
Nine Inch Nails' "Came Back Haunted", Imagine
Dragons' "Radioactive", Pearl Jam's "Mind Your
Manners", Volbeat's "Hangman's Bodycount" and
not a whole lot else.
One of the biggest disappointments regarding
Rock 105: WHERE THE FUCK IS FIVE FINGER DEATH
PUNCH?!?! Their latest single, "Lift Me Up" is
not on the playlist! This is the most-successful
real rock band in America right now, and Rock
105 has so far passed on it.
Even worse, Rock 105 plays a shitload of pop
crap that no station with the word "Rock" in
their name should ever play, such as Gin
Blossoms, Counting Crows and Dave Matthews Band.
Then again, since their programming director,
Cartman is a self-proclaimed alternative nerd,
that's what the people of northern Michigan get.
It's sad that back in 2006, The Zone had a great
programmer in Chad Barron who made the station
stand out from the crowd. But then, Del Reynolds
re-took over the station and the others he sold
off to Northern Star back in 1998 and flipped it
into a virtual jukebox claiming that it wasn't
billing well. But, that's northern Michigan.
Now, Rock 105 is the only home for new rock in
northern Michigan and they're not doing a great
job at it.
Oh, and where's anything from Device,
Disturbed's David Draiman's new band? How about
Deftones' last two singles? Halestorm? The list
of new rock absentees goes on and on.
Also, I love how Del blew up the 95.5 signal in
Traverse City and made that into another lame AC
station. Did he learn ANYTHING from what
happened to WSRT? That station was an abortion
and judging by the fact that Easy 95.5/106.3
only has 83 likes on Facebook, it's heading down
that same road.
You see, this is why people have Pandora,
Slacker and Sirius. They have a better product
for little to no cost. They care about rock's
future while Rock 105 and WKLT don't. Why is
WGRD here in Grand Rapids kicking ass? Simple:
they love their listeners. Great morning show,
good music and great jocks. I can't say that
about Rock 105. As long as they're keeping their
currents at a bare minimum and overplaying
Everclear's "Father of Mine", I'll be happy that
I have a ton of apps on my phone to keep me
happy when I'm up north.
Maybe that's why the Spring Arbitron books for
northern Michigan haven't been released....
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