Things are changing at PLANET ZEB! After almost eight years of being one of Live365.com's Top 10 radio stations, bringing you a better variety of 80s-based hits and rock classics 24/7, we've finally decided that we've proven what we needed to prove about the kind of eclectic, open, fun variety that we always thought great listeners like YOU deserved in the era of corporate overhype, over-format-specialization and over-everything else that threatened to drive a once-proud medium to its grave. Effective January 1, 2008, therefore, PLANET ZEB! moves back to its roots-- as just a funky li'l ole hobby station that Zebby runs for his amusement, as well as for a select audience of buddies still in the radio, recording, music and other aspects of the entertainment industries. They already have 24/7 unlimited access to the station... do you? If not, use the "listen AD-FREE!" link above to get a Live365 VIP account and you'll have unlimited access 'round the clock too! Otherwise, the number of free listeners that will be allowed to listen simultaneously will be severely curtailed after 1/1/08. We tried to democratize the process as long as possible, subsidizing as many free listeners as we could-- but the donations and other forms of support just weren't sufficient in the end, and Zeb can eat tomato soup for only so long paying for it all out of his own pocket!!! You can use the "blog" link above to keep up with the latest news from PZ Central Command.
Thanks for an amazing eight years.... your patronage, as well as your excitement about the format and willingness to spread the news about PLANET ZEB! to co-workers and friends, has been remarkable-- and greatly appreciated. :) -- Zebby Rhoads
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Planet Zeb! is dedicated to the memory of two of the greatest rock-and-roll medium-market monster stations of their day in the history of radio-- the immortal WLCS AM 910 and WIBR AM 1300, both of Baton Rouge, LA. Many of the ideas on how "loose FM" radio should sound with a hybrid format such as this were born and nurtured at WBRH FM 90.1, as well. You had to grow up with them to understand what pioneers they were, or how many countless numbers of people they entertained with their music and their talented, dedicated air and sales staffs over most of the 20th Century (before the FCC deregulated the business and welcomed the watered-down corporate monopolistic crap that blathers over American airwaves here at the start of the 21st!). I also appreciate having had the opportunity to work at these stations, which was a childhood dream come true-- now a reminiscence I wish could come true again!
"In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when. . . radio was rather proud, alert and fast."