Text by Sarah Phelan
We’re hearing from several sources that Energy 92.7, the agressively gay-friendly radio station that everyone loves or hates, has new owners.
Riley Manlapaz, the Guardian’s promotions marketing manager, found this on Bebe Sweetbriar Facebook (Facebook being such a bastion of accuracy!) :
“From my understanding at 3pm today ENERGY 92.7 will no longer be the gay radio station we love. New owners will be changing the format, and all of our fav djs and radio personalities are going bye-bye….:-(
I heard this from someone who works for the station last night. We already knew it had been sold to a supposed homophobic owner….of course, no announcement has been or will be made by the new group until the changes go into affect. The mill has it that the new format will be some sort of music streaming that won’t require the likes of a DJ. Let’s see what happens! Wish for the best for the current 92.7 staff!”
Meanwhile, calls to Energy 92.7 staffers remain unanswered, and other sources say that folks were told to be out by 2 p.m. in which case they’ll all be down at the local bar drowning their sorrows.
For those of you who are already feeling nostalgic, or possibly smugly satisfied, even though you don’t yet know if the rumors are true, feel free to travel back in time to 2007 when the Guardian’s Marke B wrote an exhaustive story about this “pure dance station”, which you can read by clicking here.
As Marke B classically wrote back then, “There’s no middle ground when it comes to Energy. I’ve been in cars where people have fought over it until blood spurted.”