Hi -

I don't know if anyone still stops by this page anymore - it's not even linked from the new YRockOnXPN.org site... but, I figured I might as well put this up in case someone does.

Anyway, I would like to congratulate (the now former) Y100Rocks.com and XPN on their historic merger. And when I say historic ... I mean historic. It's an amazing accomplishment - taking a radio station's identity, stripping away the restraints of a corporation, and making it a real, viable music outlet for those who no longer had an alternative rock station on their radio. The radio industry, on the whole, thought it was nuts. Well ... it was. No one had tried it before, and no one knew whether or not it would work.

I'd say that it did.

And as the reborn / rechristened "Y-Rock" is set to debut on 88.5 XPN in mere days ... I think everyone - staff and listeners included - should feel a sense of pride. You were the ones who believed alternative rock radio was not dead in Philadelphia, and stood by that belief - regardless of what your friends / peers / co-workers, etc., did. And you were the ones who helped build, to paraphrase Jim, a community - one that truly felt like it was an underground revolution against the status quo of radio.

Y100 was a very special place in my career and my life - I spent 6 1/2 years there, doing production and some on-air work ... and when they blew up Y100, I gladly got on board with the Y100Rocks.com folks - It's actually on my resume!

The only downside to the birth of YRock, for me personally, is that my voice had to come off the station... and my participation level has had to decrease significantly. This is the price of having a real job at a big corporation. Things are in good hands though, with Jude Corbett (our old Y100 voice guy!) and Kristen (who you've all heard for a while on Y100Rocks.com) taking over the voice duties.

However, I'm still alive and well ... and if anyone wants to get in touch, you can find me here on MySpace ... or at an Otispunk show.

I guess I just wanted to say goodbye to you, the listeners ... and since I never got to do it on-air / on the stream ... this seemed the best way to do it.

Thanks to everyone ... for everything - and here's to the future.

-Zack
Former Imaging Director
Y100 / Y100Rocks.com

My Final Y100Rocks / Y-Rock Blog