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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Oregon District bars “band” together
This just in, a press release from Steve Tieber, owner of the Dublin Pub:
I wanted to let you know about a new program that the bars in the Oregon District have implemented to keep and attract more customers to The Oregon District.
Beginning this Friday, The Dublin Pub, Trolley Stop, Tumbleweed, & Blind Bob’s will begin a new shared wristband cooperative inviting customers to patronize their bar of choice, recieve a wristband which is the same at all the bars, and they will then be able to visit all the other bars for free.
The “Oregon One Stop Bar Hop” is an incentive to invite patrons of The Oregon District to visit all the bars, clubs, and pubs which have live music, and be turned off by paying a cover charge at every place. They will then only pay ONE cover charge and be able to hop from place to place.
The Oregon Distict has been a center of live music in Dayton for 40 years, and while it is expensive to host live music, the District wants to promote the ability of its customers to stay in the Oregon and visit all the live music venues withou having to pay every time they visit a new venue.
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Sad news for the woxy.com
Some of you may recall the late, great 97X, the amazing altrock station from Oxford that went by the call letters WOXY-FM, 97.7, for some twos decades starting in the early 1980s — remember, the “bam!” station featured in “Rain Man?” That one.
The web broadcast that remained of it is about to be no more, as of today.
It was one of the best, boldest, most original stations most of us had ever heard, leaving behind corporate playlists and bland cookie-cutter programming to put odd, inventive, off-the-charts artists that you pretty much could only hear from them. The staff was smart and hip and very plugged-in, and while it was on the air SW Ohio was a land of intelligent, radio bliss. Ahhhh.
Of course, nothing good lasts forever, and several years ago the station’s owners shut down the broadcast signal and too the whole operation online, moving from Oxford to Cincinnati. The flavor was still there, but I sure missed hearing them in my car.
Last year, they moved the station to Austin in order, I assume, to be located someplace cooler than Cincinnati.
Alas, now comes word via the station’s website, woxy.com, that finances have caught the station short yet again.
Here’s the text of the short, sad message that’s posted on the site:
WOXY Listeners, Fans and Friends…
Due to current economic realities and the lack of ongoing funding for WOXY’s operations, we’ve been forced to suspend our live broadcasts as of March 23rd. We’re continuing to explore options to keep The Future of Rock and Roll alive. For business inquiries, please contact Bryan Jay (bryan@woxy.com) or John at Future Sounds (john@futuresounds.com).
Thanks for your years of dedicated support.
- Mike, Shiv, Joe, Paige, Brian and Bryan Jay
I asked Bryan Jay Miller, the station manager, for extra comments, and he emailed this: “Unfortunately there is not much to add. Basically our ongoing funding was pulled and we were unable to execute on our plans to bring the station to profitability. We had been looking for a buyer for the past several months but nothing materialized.”
The end of an era. Or the end of several eras, I guess. Very sad.
