The Infinite Dial

A few years ago, several CBS stations were among those that briefly (and unsuccessfully, as it happened) stunted by telling listeners that they were going away. Now here's one that really is dead:

CBS yesterday debuted the Internet-only I Hear Dead People, under the auspices of CBS/Denver's Bill Gamble, also responsible for the recently launched AllNumberOneRadio.com. The station is currently on-line (and on the CBS player) only, not on a HD multicast channel (thus depriving the detractors of the inevitable "HD Radio is Dead" headline).

The motif of 'the planet's only multi-dimensional radio station" is that every song is by an artist or at least features a band member who is no longer living. The format is mostly Classic Rock, although the Vicki Sue Robinson song below was set up by a stager using Sesame Street's "One of These Things Is Not Like The Other."

(I did, by the way, look into the inevitable, "how different is this format from any classic rock station?" question; crosstown KRFX [the Fox] was averaging about 3-4 songs an hour that would have qualified.

Here's IHearDeadPeople.com at 9 a.m. local time; the less obvious

Elton John, "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" (Dee Murray)
Stevie Ray Vaughan, "House Is Rockin'"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "What's Your Name"
Who, "I Can't Explain"
Pantera, "Walk"
Ramones, "Rock & Roll High School"
Vicki Sue Robinson, "Turn The Beat Around"
Led Zeppelin, "Kashmir"
Credeence Clearwater Revival, "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" (Tom Fogerty)
Styx, "Renegade" (drummer John Panozzo)