The cut-together stock-footage (with likely copyright-infringing CG space ship at the end) with the Apple Macintosh synthesized voice shows how pathetic and desperate the station is. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that going the route of the lowest common denominator with a racist, juvenile, sophomoric, offensively stupid and brain-numbing fratfest "I wanna be a rock and roller, but I'm just a DJ instead" line-up that they're clearly aiming for this coming week will pay off for them. But a lot of things in life pay off if you're willing to sell your soul for it. And that's what KUFO already did by ditching the best group of on air talent around (C&FB and the Rick Emerson Show).

You could get decent ratings with a television show that's just full of people getting hit in the nuts, but at the end of the day, you have to live with yourself for contributing nothing more to the world with your time alive than nutshots. KUFO is aiming for the aural version of nutshots.

This "mothership refueling" [?] is like they asked themselves, "How can we piss off our listeners even more than we did by firing RES & C+F? How can we make them go beyond just taking us off their presets? How can we make them inflict violence upon their radios, denying us listeners to all of our stations? Let's see what kind of torture Microsoft Windows XP can inflict."

I'm done with radio.

"the stations playlist appeared to consist of only 20 songs"

Though I've never performed an actual study, I'm fairly certain that KUFO had more commercials in rotation than it ever had songs.

job opening

I do believe that KUFO will change formats this week!

KUFO was the last station on my preset. I want a real rock station. In the late 90s KNRK and KUFO really battled it out both playing current (at the time) Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, Incubus, etc. Then it changed, NRK changed formats to some sort of adult easy listening (They were playing Peter Cetera the other day) and KUFO went all butt rock all the time. I want modern rock and nobody really does that well around here.

Honestly I used to listen to Marconi but I was listening when he played that David Pearl beheading clip and it jacked me up for a day or so. They fired him for that but I never really regularly listened to the station again.

I'm excited for something new. Maybe I'll hate it when it gets here but maybe I won't. I know I don't like the old format so it can only get better.

Good luck station formerly known as KUFO. Your stunt worked. I'm waiting to see what the new format will be. Only time will tell if I listen after I find out.

I feel horrible for Rick Emerson and the crew. They have consistently had one of the best daytime programs for over 10 years. They have been tossed around throughout the Portland dial and have always seemed to land on their feet. Then they made it to FM and morning drive. I was cautiously pleased, knowing how tough it might be for them to keep that slot that had been held by the likes of Stern and Carolla. Too bad to hear that they once again have to find a new home. Hopefully Lara doesn't tell Rick that its time to move.

The last thing Portland needs is another pop rock station. I listen to KGON for Mark and Brian, but the rest of the days was KUFO, as I cant stand classic rock all day. KUFO was a front runner in Portland radio when it came on the air. It has changed over the years.. at first no one would play Metallica, they started to play it and the rest was history. I found the Rick Emerson show to be a little better than some morning shows in the Portland air waves that wasn't syndicated from another outside source. Cort and Fatboy shows were a little immature... but still entertaining enough to keep me listening to them.

I fear the new format will be what big business wants... something that caters to a bigger listening audience. You know the ones that have money for better commercials and this leads to improving profits. The music will probably be rock, but what kind of rock? If it goes to what I call douche music...butt rock, cheese rock, hair band rock, poser rock.. I will remove it from my listening channel line up and get sat radio.

Ricker's on his way from KISW. KISW's pretty much the 'butt' "Rock of Seattle" - so we'll see how that turns out. Isn't PPM in Portland now? That tends to cause smaller markets to shift a bunch of things around.

Here's the dream radio station in Portland:

Mornings: Marconi

Middays: Tara Dublin

Drive Time: Rick Emerson

Nights: Cort & Fatboy

well..you got half of the dream team right....the last half....and, by the way, I guess marconi is getting the morning show.

I think Marconi had it right (late 90s, on 94.7 before they also started to suck awrze) when he said: "F U F O, boy!!"
Nuff said.

Of course a few years later he sold out and started working for KUFO. I never heard how or why he was canceled - but i think that's the only show I've ever wanted to listen to on this station.

Maybe they'll suck a bit less -- once their "mother ship" is refueled? Maybe not. Whatever.

For now -- I agree -- F U F O!!!
Someone needs to make a station that doesn't suck. *wink*

maybe this means an end to the constant stream of metallica and commercials! its about time, if you ask me. will i miss cort, fatboy and anyone else the fired, maybe. but it's still gonna be what i listen to unless they start playing dashboard confessional and hire gustav.

Mike's right. The RES was pretty bad on KUFO. They made the best of it, but the music was a giant sinkhole.

As for this "new" KUFO, no thanks, I have an iPod. Email me when Rick's back on the air...

"The Beast must be fed"
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Sounds to me like an Alternate Reality Game (ARG), but I can't find any more information online. Anyone else suspect this? The online video clip says things like "Everyone must prepare for it", "You are the only ones who can help us", and "Deployment is mandatory". The radio station itself has Microsoft voice emulator Sam telling us to "stay tuned for updates", and similar messages. This all looks to me (as well as this guy) like a starting lead to a marketing ARG, like The Beast, or I Love Bees or other similar ARGs in the past.

Anyone with any info? mjolnir [dot] 54gmail [dot] com (Email me)

Personally, I think Alpha Broadcasting et al is headed into a court of law, if it isn't already there. After that last publicity stunt with the Dodge truck sit in, where I think most of the real liability is being reviewed and focused on for accountability, likely some other really stupid stuff that has been going on live over the air with both of these so called radio shows. Bad legal judgment and unguided decision making. Well anyway that should shed some light as to why the station went off the air so abruptly.

Johnjay and Rich on Z100 out of Arizona, is the best morning talk show from 6:00 to 10:00. so far in Portland for entertainment.
I never listen to top 40-100 format but WOW, johnjay and Rich are entertaining.

I think this sucks if Rick Emerson is going to be gone from the station. Honestly. It is much less expensive to have local talent than to beam in a signal from out of state. Rick was the only reason I listened to KUFO.

The only format change I would approve of is that they allow Rick to have his regular format show again. That way he could go off on the many tangents I remember. That is what kept me listening. Not the crappy music I am supposed to be inspired to buy.

Radio is for information and entertainment. I am constantly hitting my presets looking for something better. I can't imagine KUFO will stay on my number 4 preset. Without Rick, It will probably get bumped to preset 10, just after ROSY (or is it THE BUZZ? Thing change so often, I'm losing track.).

I'm glad to hear that big changes in radio programming can still cause an uproar. It is an important media.

I am not in any demographic, I enjoy it all. I just wish station owners would stop trying to guess what most people want to hear. This constant changing is driving us away.

Today, unfortunately, the most entertainig thing on the radio was the computer voice counting down. Just in case you missed the phone numbers they're giving out, find them here:

5032940840
5032432122

P.S. I hope I find the Rick Emmerson Show (whole and complete) somewhere. My SCAN button is going to get a good beating in these next few weeks. 'Sigh'.

My coffee cups are posted and ready to ship. wtf were they thinking?
ATTACK!

Thank God! I was so tired of listening to Cort and Fatboy. I will listen to NPR if I want to hear about politics. Bring some decent music back and spare us the poorly educated, regurgitating political commentary.

And give Rick Emmerson his old show back. This format just did not work for him. He was much more entertaining when he could just do his talk show.

Well the death of another radio Station has come, i will not hold my breath that they can fix this... i guess its a good thing that in Salem we can still get KFLY 101.5 crappy thing is i can't get it at work in Beaverton...DAMN!!!!!
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the inhumanity

So heres a thought What if we petition to have them back we can for everything else it seems like...so why not this!?!?!?!?!?!

KUFO has been the only radio station I really listen to for years (every since the demise of KRCK soooo long ago - betchya don't remember that...) simply because they've been the only local station to play anything worth a rip. That's not to say that I like the onslaught of commercial rock they play - but hey, what else is there that can survive in the mainstream ... they hit a balance between rocking and being commercial. They kinda _had_ to in order to play that type of music and survive in the market. But at least I could tune in and hear some good stuff on occasion (I actually heard them play some DK not too long ago!). So, if they're changing formats, then there is nothing left of rock on radio in portland. Real rock (metal, thrash, industrial, punk, grindcore, etc...) has been burried in the stank onslaught of commercialism, top 40 and hip-hop crap! Real rock is only surviving in the smallest sectors which are inaccessible to us in portland in a radio format. Sad as it is, it's time to just go digital and give up the airwaves. KUFO is the end of radio. Shame they have no scruples. Good luck Rick, Cort and FB wherever you go - and to HELL with KUFO! Oh, and the publicity stunt is shamelss crap! The genuis behind that definitely needs to be FIRED for general stupidity and malfesance! LAME!
-t0x-

What is radio? Listener's choice is what it should be, if you want talk, tune it in, if you want blues, tune it in, my point is, I don't want all morning to be some babbling Bozo that may or may not share my views, nearly every station in this area now has some dingbat duo, or more, that spews irrelevant and/or worthless nonsense until lunchtime, I don't have time to mess with my radio at work, I want to turn it on and work, if I wanted to listen to the rantings of random people who I wouldn't otherwise listen to, I'd go have coffee with some of the liberals in the office.

Give me music, if I want news, that's what the am band is for...

Just my .02

7am is way too early for me to be awake. How much of KUFO's old demographic is like me? The suspense isn't killing me.

I will tune in around 915 to see if, by some miracle, Rick still has his old time slot. If not, K.U.F.O. can K.I.S.S. my A.R.S.E..

Put the RES back on am... Lunch hasn't been the same since they moved.

In case people don't notice the updates, read the first full interview with Cort and Fatboy since they were fired, and how the changes at the station are designed to "put hair back on KUFO's chest."

Well I for one hope they decide to make this a real rock station. Like, without classic rock at all. KGON and the Brew already do that. No more Led Zep and Pink Floyd or the Eagles on another damn station. And maybe no Nirvana or Pearl Jam, since every other station in town except the country stations play them. My girlfriend heard Pearl Jam on THE BUZZ the other day. We don't need another station playing those bands every 10 minutes.I'd like to hear local music too,. You never get that on the radio here, which is crazy because there are so many great local bands. Why play the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the billionth time when we have The Thermals and many others?

If they built a rock station with local and smart voice talents, I'd give it a chance. I hope they give Ricker a local sidekick at least, and if Marconi's coming back, that's great. I also still think Tara would be a great addition. When was the last time a chick had her own show on that station, where she wasn't the second fiddle to some guy? (Yes, I have a crush on Tara. Any warm blooded male mammal would. )But I also think for KUFO to be anything decent they need to make sure they have enough local people. Same goes for their other stations. Isn't the morning show gone now from the country station? Why isn't anyone complaining about that? As long as they get people better than those robot morons on NRK they might be fine.

KUFO hasn't been a rock station in a long time. For too long, it has been an occasional music station with near constant prattling of cheap, wannabe Howard Stern impersonators 24/7. If I want to listen to Stern, I'll get satellite- I f I want to listen to an A-hole, I'll fart.
I didn't mind Rick Emerson, C&FB were only mildly annoying, but if I want to hear talk. I'll turn on OPB. I hope Emerson lands a new gig somewhere, but I'm not going to go out of my way to find him. From the sounds of the new "talent", I may just delete 101 from my radio presets, especially if the current stunt is any indication of the quality of programming we are to expect from the new KUFO

At 54, I'm probably outside KUFO's target demographic, which is just as well because I don't listen to it. I am not in the business either; I am just somebody who follows this site because I love keeping up with media news. That said, all of this stunting talk and the video has picqued my interest enough to a) have shared this with friends, b) posted the video on my FB page, and c) am anxiously looking for Wednesday morning to tune in to see what the new format change is all about. And then I'll go back to "my world" of 60s and 70s stations on XM. LOL.

I really hope they dont bring back Macaroni, He sucked, if they bring in a talk show get Bob and Tom at least they have a Marconi Award.

so to me the downfall was when cbs cut adam corralla. that is when i walked from kufo, so this is what i make of it and ya i do not think you hard core kufo listeners are going to like what i am about to say. these little one liners from nate kingcole to the beattles are segments of what is to come. that is a pre-curser of the intention and it is a wise move. let me explain for all the hard core iron maiden punk ass rockers out there who do not listen to things such as garth brooks please raise your hand. at onetime or another you have listened and song along to low places or some version of that media. therefore those who are close minded rockers that only listen to hard core music i am sorry to tell you but yes you are not in the medium bracket and are fazing out :( sorry. there fore your new radio station will have its hard rock and its mellow side. wow its charlie folks just on 101. just what we need. as again I like my hard core rock and my mellow soul music and jazz. kufo self destructed and the little one liners is only the beginning. last but not least if I am wrong and i could be maybe it will just be a buttrock station...

I can't take it any more! First Howard, then Adam and now this bs. I should have left when Adam did. Listening to NPR in the morning is better then anything KUFO can swing.

i live in seattle and listened to ricker i checked this site to see if ricker was really going to portland but do not see anything conclusive. they were actually talking about california more but if you do get ricker as a morning host he is by far one of the best in the city of seattle and will dominate the smaller city of portland with the people he knows in the business he is not racist and is funnier then hell it might take a little bit to get use to but once you do you will be hooked by the big broski himself.

Just hope Bubba the Love Sponge is coming. This show is the best thing going anywhere. This Rickert character from Seattle steals all of Bubba's stuff.

you guys all sound like you are all a little butthurt? being from Seattle, and traveling to Portland on a regular basis for Buisness, I can say that this WILL be an improvement over the boring and over rated personality you guys at KUFO had before. I am not a guy that listens to CD's very often I like the compaionship of radio, especally on long trips, but I would alway dread the time, usually between Castle Rock and Longview, when KISW just wasn't within range anymore, and I knew that KUFO was my only "good" option, most of the time it would force me to CD's untill the same point on my northern trip, where I would despratly strain to hear "The Rock of Seattle." More recently I discovered a program for my phone that allows me to stream KISW over my phone, then plug the headphone jack into the Ipod input on my stereo, Ahhhhh.....no need for KUFO anymore.......

Give Ricker and the new on air personality a chance, Love them or hate them, I am confident that you'll find yourself tuning in every day.

BTW, keep your "you're wrong, Dur Dur DERP" BS to yourself, I am not comming back to read comments, nor am I receiving e-mail updates.