Rock

...granted, I wasn't here at the beginning. I was working the 7p-11p show at the local rock station in Kalispell, MT. But I have family here and every few months I would drive over and scan the local stations to see what Spokane was listening to. I happened to be here the weekend prior to when "94.5 KHTQ - The Best Hits of the 80s and 90s" became Rock 94½... and I don't remember the specifics but I thought it was the oddest radio I had ever heard. They were doing some sort of spoof or parody or something for the weekend, and then first thing Monday morning G.A. launched the Rock. He of course was here before the format flip (as we radio geeks call it), which was also odd because I remembered listening to Rock 106 back in the day when I would come visit, and had a hard time putting G.A. and "pop" music on the same frequency in my mind. But apparently he had enough pull with the company to talk them into letting 94.5 become louder and heavier, and we haven't looked back since!!

Nine years in the radio biz is quite a long time, especially nowadays. In the 70s and 80s, there weren't nearly as many stations, and each one (two at most) were owned by its own company. And they usually stuck around awhile. Since the 94.5 frequency went on the air back in the early 90s, it's played Country, different variations of Pop, and now Rock. And I can count the radio stations that are doing the same thing now as they did then, one one hand. Some have changed 3 and 4 times. And here we still are, and we truly owe it to YOU!

Thanks for being involved. Thanks for entering our photo contests, our Most Pit All Stars, a HUGE thanks for Rating our Rock each week.. and thanks for allowing us to do this for a living instead of having to work real jobs. And thanks for selling out so many shows, that is a driving force in why we've had so many concerts in the last few years. If you keep attending the shows, they'll keep coming to town!

Hope to see you at our birthday celebration, Rocktober 25th with Neurosonic @ Big Easy's Bourbon St. Stage (or whatever it may be called at the time, Big Easy and Bourbon St. are undergoing a name change in the next few weeks). And Keep Rockin'!!

Beav