What? Portland had a "Hard Rock' station? Huh, you mean that "alternative" station that played mostly comercial garbage that barely distinguished it from all the other shit music stations on the radio? Sucks that all it's programing has since been replaced with right-wing/christian talk, but i never listened to the station in the first place.

And fyi, Portland's Metal scene is at NO loss over this, i garantee you that! KBOO's Heavy Metal Vomit party will more than fill the void.

All of this crappy ass KUFO was a "Metal Station" stuff makes me sick! Try out http://www.tcorradio.com/ Based out of Portland and they kill it every day! Real metal-heads stream off the net. Fuck FM radio! I cannot believe there was no mention of TCOR in this article. They were all over the place at Rockfest!

The rise of heavy metal music was due to the disbursement of unauthorized copies of the music to the people, along with shows, not radio airplay. I'm with DamosA, I didn't know Portland had a station that played heavy metal, but according to the DJ's they didn't really play the real metal, so.. No loss for metal fans, but I'm sorry some folks lost their jobs. That just sucks.

KUFO was garbabe. Slow news day?

Is a garbabe some metal meme I haven't seen online yet? Half hottie and half pointy-nosed, snaggle-toothed fish?

Damosa, you are right. KUFO was shit when it went off the air. But from 89-2000 it was awesome. Especially on the "menage-a-trois weekend" when they played 3 in a row from everyone from Nirvana to The Scorpions to Pink Floyd. Once Nu-Metal took over, that was it

I agree with Iceprez. The glory days of KUFO were decent for nerds like me who like metal but aren't obsessed with it (and seriously, if I'm going to stream, why not just make my own Pandora channel). I do miss Cort and Fatboy, and enjoy their podcasts when I have the chance.

It's telling, though, that the "outrage" of listeners was mainly vented on some out-of-town radio host's page (and a jerk's page at that). KUFO switched from stuff like the harder Tool and Iron Maiden to AC/DC and Guns and Roses (they could have moved forward to Mastadon, but clearly moved back), cut cult favorites like C&F and Viva la Luna and replaced a channel that was about rebelling against that which is wrong with the world with one that was about simply being unpleasant yourself.

So basically, it sort of seems like conservative talk radio was just the next step - though I don't know how they plan to pay for a spot on the FM dial in the Portland Metro area. C&F, we still love you!

For anyone who's into marginalized genres such as Metal, Punk, Gothic, Industrial, etc. i never figured that radio was ever much of a choice, anyways. Not for MUSIC. If you're into dumb shit like 90% of people then sure. But i feel like the rest of us have always gotten [our] music from other sources.

Who here even noticed KUFO was gone before they saw those Slayer/Rob Zombie billboards all over town?

Iceprez has it. From '89-'00 KUFO actually rocked. I was bummed when Bill Prescott got bumped in favor of Howard Stern (I don't have a beef with Stern but local chatter always struck me as more engaging than syndicated stuff) but Cort and Fatboy certainly made up for it. Once C&F got the ax, the shit was over with.
So long as some rocker folks are stuck working the graveyard shift somewhere with nothing to listen to but a radio we probably won't hear the ultimate death knell for FM radio, but I must concur with Punky that TCOR Radio is doing a good job of stepping in to fill the void across the spectrum of metal.

Hey Marconi, The station heads wanna see 500,000 likes! not 5,000.

Well, I'm glad that we all seem to be in agreement, KUFO SUCKED. I am surprised though, in a city as big as Portland, that there is no good hard rock station. I wanna hear a little Pantera sometimes, I want to hear a little Tool, throw in some Faith No More, and I want to hear it on the radio. Is that too much to ask? Does anybody really like Disturbed/Papa Roach/Linkin Park? Anyone, anyone?

Yeah, i do find it abit odd that there isn't a really strong and genuinely ALTERNATIVE radio station - especially in Portland. Something that plays a good mix across the board from The Cure to NIN to Sound Garden, Bad Brains, etc. The station could play way more local artists like Thrones and The Red King. At night they could play more Metal. They could even have certain nights/slots set aside just for Extreme Metal or Electronic music.

It's wierd we don't already have that here in Portland b/c there's way more than just a "niche" audience for this. But we have all these goddamned sports stations, right-wing talk, christian, etc.

What happened to Ditch? I thought he was supposed to be the savior of KUFO when Larry Wilson brought him in.