WOXY Goes Silent

Posted on Mar 23rd 2010 7:59PM by Benjy Eisen
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For local residents in Austin, Texas, Monday morning may have felt something like "the day the music died" -- the hangover after SXSW. A couple thousand bands that filled every corner of the downtown area with sound last week are gone now, off to tour the nation or the world or return to normal life in one way or the other.

But music fans from coast to coast felt a frosty silence coming from Austin on Tuesday morning when WOXY -- the uber-hip web-based indie radio station -- announced that all of its live broadcasts have been pulled, effective immediately. "Due to current economic realities and the lack of ongoing funding for WOXY's operations, we've been forced to suspend our live broadcasts," reads a statement on the WOXY homepage. "We're continuing to explore options to keep The Future of Rock 'n' Roll alive."

USA Today reports that the station was purchased by Future Sounds, Inc. last year when it relocated to Austin from Cincinnati. The WOXY staff valiantly continued their duties last week, soldiering on through their SXSW shifts, in hopes of a happy ending. And, indeed, nobody is sticking a fork in it, just yet. But it is goodnight, for now, dear WOXY. We wish you a speedy recovery.