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*What's this site's history?
Chuck69.com started on July 1st, 1999 as a site called
Bring Howard Stern to Northern Michigan Radio and TV.
Despite being the third-most-listened-to radio host nationally,
Stern had nearly zero presence in the Traverse City area. Unfair,
since most of the talk radio in the area is your basic right-winged
totalitarian who blames life's problems on the 'liberal media'.
Well, in July 2002, I moved to the Grand Rapids area, where Stern
was heard on first WKLQ (then at 94.5) then WBBL 1340 from Xmas
2002-New Years 2005. Now, with Stern on Sirius, ANYBODY in northern
Michigan and Grand Rapids can now hear Stern legally.
*Can I get the audio feed of Stern's show over
the web?
Yes you can, if you're a Sirius subscriber.
*What the dilly-o about WBBL? Who's Huge? Hanlon?
You'll see these words time-to-time on this site. At
Christmastime in 2002, the Stern show unexpectedly moved to WBBL
1340 here in Grand Rapids from WKLQ 94.5. WBBL is a 1,000-watt
Sports station with a five-mile radius, while WKLQ was a 50KW Active
Rocker with a signal hearable from Howard City to south of
Kalamazoo. Since WBBL started carrying the show, they butchered it
beyond belief. They even cut off the show at 10am so they could go
to lame ESPN radio.
Hanlon is the moronic GM of WKLQ and
WBBL. It's because of him that KLQ's overall product has suffered
horrendously since Stern's departure to staticky AM. Ron and Don are
basically lame Stern clones, and they spin the crap out of
Billy Squier (who?) and Def Leppard all day. All of KLQ's employees
are nothing more than Hanlon yes-men.
Huge is basically Howard Cosell on crack cocaine. He's
a has-been from Chicago who cried for Hanlon to give him a job. His
show is mostly a bunch of ads for Little Caesar's and Miller
Beer and almost no sports. He even reads all of WBBL's ads, making
commercial breaks during the Stern show in GR
unlistenable. His show's syndicated by the money-losing
Michigan Talk Radio Network, mostly to AM stations 250 watts or
less.
**Update 2.05**
WBBL and all Citadel stations have canned Stern. KLQ
now carries the "Justice and Jim" show, which is downright
horrid.
**Update 11.07**
Stern's now on Sirius, and WKLQ carries Opie and Anthony. They are now the 3rd-lowest-rated FM station in Grand Rapids behind WFUR and WMAX.
*Where's former WGRD jock Suzy Cole?
*Do you STILL like/endorse testical radio?
A part of me does. Overall, I avoid Grand Rapids radio
at most costs, but there's a LOT of great people who work in
testical radio, so I have to endorse them (some of them are friends
on my MySpace
profile). Probably my current favorite station here in the Grand
Rapids area is WION 1430 in
Ionia, which is a community-minded AC/oldies/classic rock
hybrid. The station's impressive for having a small budget and a
small staff.
*What's your favorite Sirius music channels?
Octane, First Wave, Hard Attack, Alt Nation and
Faction. Outlaw Country rocks,
too.
*(A girl asked me this one:) Why do you call your website Chuck69.com? It's offensive.
Because even though I'm in my 20's, I find girls gross and disgusting... Just kidding. The truth is that I created this website when I was a high schooler, and the name stuck. My name is Chuck, and the number 69 was fashionable. Now that I'm
in my 20's, you know, I kinda agree -- it's somewhat childish. However, look at MTV: even though they haven't played much in the way of music videos since 1986, they're still referred to "Music Television". The supermarket chain A&P is still formally called
The Great and Atlantic Tea Company, even though they sell more than just tea. Hell, there's a supermarket in Glen Arbor, MI called Anderson's Market whose URL's www.andersonsiga.com, even though they dropped IGA as their supplier a few years ago. I could change my website's
name, but that would mean sending countless e-mails to the people who link to this site, changing this, that and everything else. I just don't want to go through that trouble, so that means simply that my teenage past will stick with me for some time to come...
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