Indeed and amen! Woulda been awesome. But at the very least, they could've pulled out an MLK "classic" yesterday. They must've played one or 2 of those on the HD-2 channel.
Which reminds... I've been wondering what effect, if any, the "all 10@10 all the time" format on their HD-2 channel has on which sets they pull for these classics? And how far back the HD-2 sets go? Surely they have hundreds of sets at their fingertips if they've built an entire channel around them, no?
Haven't listened to the HD channel at all, but I would guess that they must have at least enough 10@10s archived to not have to repeat any for a couple weeks of 24-7 programming, and I'd hope more. Otherwise people are going to start hearing the same sets over and over and that would not do much for listener loyalty. However, assuming the classics we're hearing now are drawn from that archive, it seems like most of them are from 2006 or newer, although we do occasionally hear one from pre-2002, when the Yahoo group was still a functioning entity. When did KFOG go to all digitized programming? My guess is that's when they started saving them on a daily basis, but Dave probably has loads that are older than that, so I guess they could have digitized those as well. Which begs the question: why the H-E-double toothpicks aren't we hearing those as classics? I'd LOVE to hear one from 1993 or something--now that really would be a classic.
As for the MLK set, if they have one in their archive, they've got all of them. Because between 2003 and 2007 Dave played the same set every year. Last year there was no MLK set, and no explanation. Maybe Cumulus wasn't comfortable with it? Dunno.
If one of our group has an extra hundred bucks or so burning a hole in their pocket, run down to Circuit City while they're still doing closeouts and pick up an HD radio for cheap so we can answer these questions. I'd do it, but their signal doesn't reach this far. Of course, no telling how long HD radio is going to continue--seems to me like it's kind of been a bust for the radio industry as no one's got a receiver.
