Or, it will be, come September 30.

According to the local news, Radio-I (79.5FM) -- the Nagoya area radio station
that was conceived with foreign audiences in mind, prompting me to call it
"Radio Round-Eye" -- has been hemorrhaging money for the past five years or so
(and probably longer) due to the vanishingly small market. It has decided to
turn off its transmitter at the end of September.

I'd switch over to it once in a while when Zip-FM was being overly irritating
with its song selection, which was often during the day, and invariably I'd run
into

1) 80s Day;
2) Some news announcer lady attempting to do the news in Engish but sounding
like she's reading a sheet full of phonetic-katakanenglish in a dark closet;
3) Chris Glenn, whose Japanese DRIVES ME UP THE FUCKING WALL!!!{!+{`+!{`"+%${;
4) four hours of music so mellow the DJ takes quaaludes to WAKE UP ((tm) Dave
Barry).

I suspect it got more use as restaurant and boutique background noise than as
actual radio for foreignerpersons. It sucks, but then again, all FM radio in
Japan sucks. For that matter, all FM radio in the US sucks.


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