Re:This station is great (Score 2, Interesting)

i'm a fixture over at WOXY---streaming and posting daily for a couple years---so, this is a fan's take. as mentioned before, it's all about the DJs, who've not only got a great sensibility, but have also created this aforementioned sense of community, which is what's missing in other streams, or even on the dial with DJ-bots. because WOXY started out as a terrestrial, there was a local listener-base that carried over to the online-only format along with the three surviving DJs. so you have the intimacy of the original local entity, but with listeners jumping in from all over the country, as well as from places like sao paulo, london, paris, sydney, glasgow. makes for an interesting mix of characters on the message boards. i tried a lot of the DJ-less online streams when WOXY went down as a terrestrial, but it was hard for me to feel a personal connection to any of them. i'd got used to feeling that i was a part of something---all of us on the boards listening to the same stream, bantering, laughing, fighting, responding to the playlist. it's a very different experience than SOMA or RadioXY, for instance---both very good streams, but without that personal quality. it's hard not to spam when we're fighting for our lives over there, but it'll be a sad, sad day for us when the site shuts down. really nothing else like it, and i've searched.