Seriously? OMG! WTF?

KFYE-FM hasn’t budged from the Fresno-area dial, but it’s about as far as you can get from the Christian music, sermons and Bible stories it was broadcasting until about a week ago.Now it calls itself "Porn Radio" — "all sex radio, all the time," with a suggestion that people under 21 not listen.Songs with little in common except suggestive titles and lyrics fill the playlist, including "Why Don’t We Do It in the Road" by The Beatles, "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and "Nasty" by Janet Jackson. Tamer songs are heated up by adding recorded moans and groans.The change, made after the station was sold this month, was met with several non-sexual groans from some residents."It would appear this is another of those promotions that are simply designed to create controversy," longtime Fresno radio personality Ed Beckman told The Fresno Bee. "This format belongs on Sirius or XM, not on over-the-air."The station tries not to cross the line, said owner Jerry Clifton.KFYE has been playing songs in a continuous one-hour loop without commercials. Clifton wouldn’t tell the Bee whether he plans to eventually switch to a more traditional format.

USA Today 

Online teen hangout MySpace.com ranked as the No. 1 U.S. Web site last week, displacing Yahoo Inc.’s top-rated e-mail gateway and Google Inc.’s search site, Internet tracking firm Hitwise said on Tuesday.News Corp.’s MySpace accounted for 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet visits for the week ending July 8, pushing it past Yahoo Mail for the first time and outpacing the home pages for Yahoo, Google and Microsoft’s MSN Hotmail.Hitwise does not provide figures for the number of unique visitors to a site.MySpace, which dominates social networking on the Web, also gained share in June from other sites that aim to create virtual communities online for sharing music, photos or other interests, Hitwise said. MySpace captured nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking sites, up from 76 percent in April. A distant second was FaceBook at 7.6 percent.Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought MySpace for $580 million one year ago as part of a strategy to rapidly build up the media conglomerate’s Internet presence.

Reuters 

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