she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye

it seems that don henley was right, apparently, it's interesting when people die. i can't take the news anymore, friends, ladies and gentlemen. it's sickening now. i know i'm strong of heart and definitely not the queasy type, but jesus, every anchorperson who's on at 7:30 tells of murders and deaths with such an interested, and almost, just a teeny bit, happy tone!

i personally like mike enriquez but i just can't get with the program here anymore. he says the word "patay!" as if he's actually happy about it. i'm sure he doesn't really give a rat's ass about what happened or who died, since that's pretty much 60% of everyday news, but damn it, he makes it sound like war is finally over and peace finally reigns on earth. okay, i'm exaggerating, but any tone that is not somber when talking about death and destruction, jesus, it's just not right.

the news has no more integrity, my friends. right now its only use is to tell us when to not get up early.

but we can always whistle that mike post theme! that's the beauty of suspension of disbelief, isn't it?

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turn the eagles up

i am slowly beginning to have this grudge against the AM band. like i said before, the news is a stressful little creature, so i try my best to avoid it as much as possible - either by playing one of the twelve cds or switching to the FM band, where i listen to only one station anyway (RJ. bite me). i wanna listen to the eagles, they wanna listen to the news. what gives?

like don henley sang in his annoyingly synth-driven song, and i agree with it all the way, "people love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry. / it's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

so i am forced to listen to the god damned news, which in turn forces me to lose my faith in humankind. what did i hear tonight? rod strunk. the highlight of that news coverage was the american homeless shelter dudes who gave some statements (especially the black guy. you don't hear much black guys on philippine AM radio). what else? kids (read: teenagers) storming and stampeding down comelec just to register themselves for the damn SK. as if there was no greater show of stupidity. man, am i ashamed or what.

the only respite i get is when mike enriquez does his endorsements. now that, my friends, is how you advertise. no stupid, inane jingles and songs, no dumb catchphrases and taglines. mike enriquez is like jbl; he knows how to put over something. the only problem i have is that he overdoes it (think, after every other commercial break he's got something to patronize).

this is why i live, breathe and think music. it's the only way. FM > AM. screw the damn news, you'll just die early from all the stress you'll get from listening to all the dirty laundry. you only listen to the news for suspension announcements, period. and foreign exchange rates. showbiz news ain't even funny - it's useless. if i were kris aquino i'd take a macho gun and shoot down any reporter who tries to ask about what james yap gave me for our 2nd wedding anniversary.

why not just listen to RJ 100.3? if you tune in from 5 'til 6 in the morning, you get an hour-long beatles marathon. saan ka pa?

radio ga ga

Thank you for your comments about DWLS and we commend your loyalty and patronage of its former format. The decision to change our programming was based on research studies and was driven by the objective of reaching a bigger audience. As a matter of fact, DWLS has lost a significant amount of revenue from advertisers who were supportive of the previous format. GMA Network is absorbing that revenue loss only because it is in exchange for providing more listeners with programming that research shows they prefer. We respect and thank you for your strong disagreement with our decision but we hope that it will somehow be tempered by your knowing that DWLS now provides listening fun to more listeners. And we certainly hope and wish for you to continue enjoying radio no matter what station you listen to.

All the best.

Mike Enriquez
GMA Network, Inc.
Senior Vice-President For Radio

of course, the need to reach bigger audiences is due to the need for more revenue. it's always been that way, hasn't it?

why can't they be the rock in a raging river and stand against the flow? must they really conform with the rest of the horrible stations? what makes them think that they will attract new audiences when such audiences have already a lot of crap to choose from? their [former] loyal fanbase would account for a lot more than "new audiences".

the move to remove what was their only strength against abs-cbn was a move of stupid greed. it didn't do anything but raise even more negative sentiments towards gma. i mean, it's already considered the b-channel of the country with what used to be the a-radio station.

quoting freddie mercury, "all we hear is radio ga ga, radio blah blah."

we really need a classic rock station, folks. 96.3, 97.9, nor 107.1 (is it that? i'm not sure) isn't going to cut it. we need the pillars of rock.