Fuuuuuck. Boston commercial radio, you will soon be dead to me.

WFNX, which has been mostly doing a good job of being independent radio in Boston[1] since 1983, is being sold to Clear Channel. I've been listening to them off and on since they started, and they've been my go-to radio station for every boston-area vehicle I've had that included a radio. Even when I was living in Seattle, when I had a way to listen to them streaming (back before radio stations were doing streaming), I was listening to them sometimes.

[1] modulo the few years they sucked when they had some program director they got from WAAF and were full of angry grungey buttrock snarly dickwaving music around 2001. I stopped listening regularly and then was happily surprised when they started not sucking again.