All The Excess! can't help but notice that another trade site is getting into our act. And we think it's pretty funny, at that. There's a report out there that the Max Media outlet in the Hampton Roads, VA market has gone to a format of "Classic Chinese Hits" and is calling itself "Kung Pao 100.5." Now, isn't this the kind of writer's embellishment on mundane news that you've come to expect from your friends here at All The Excess!? It's nice to know that after just three weeks and some change, our reporting style is being mimicked by one of the very trade sites we satirize. Imitation IS the most sincere form of flattery!UPDATE: It seems that, independently of each other, several other trade sites are reporting the same thing, and an apparently legitimate web site for this Kung Pao 100.5 has even been uncovered. All The Excess! hesitates to admit that for the first time, we may have been duped into reporting factual radio dirt. How honest-to-god creativity could have seeped back into our medium is baffling, and the investigation is continuing at this hour. We'll get to the bottom of this.
OPINION: If this Kung Pao 100.5 is real, how much of the rest of the stuff in our archives is possible? Right now we are too frightened to speak. We can only hope that this station comes to its senses soon and ends this stunt, segueing smoothly into a safety-first format of auditorium tested music that will again lull the masses into a state of ennui, as it should be.
ANOTHER UPDATE: It was all a stunt, and now Tidewater gets Britney every fifteen minutes on the new "Hot 100.5." Kung Pao was fun while it lasted, but our prediction (in "Opinion," above) seems to have come true.
