March, 2th 2010 - Well... here it is, the inevitable. After almost 5 years on the air I have decided that it is time to say goodbye to Rotten Radio.

You may be asking yourself why I would want to stop doing the show and there are numerous answers to that question and I'm not going to detail them all here. I will however give a summary (for those that might care) of a few recent issues that lead to the decision.

I guess the first thing that impacted the decision was Ryan's departure from the show, not to any fault of his but with his real job and living 45 minutes away from the studio, it just didn't work anymore and the dude was burning the candle at both ends. It was a long time coming and the dude gave 100% and really tried to make it to as many shows as he could towards the end and sometimes even feel asleep in the studio. Ryan started to come in less and less until it just got to the point that he couldn't show up anymore at all. As I said, this is to no fault of his and I appreciate everything he has done for the show and we are still good friends.

Another thing is that my own free time has become limited as well. I work at WBLQ Monday through Friday as office manager and I also have two small children. Doing a show like Rotten Radio is very time consuming, making radio edits takes anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour PER SONG to do and thats just a small part of the preparation that goes into a show. Some of that was relieved when the show moved to a new day and time (to comply with the FCC's Safe Harbor rules) and went uncensored in September. Things went pretty well for the month and a half that it was on until the recent hiatus

The most recent hiatus was triggered by a few things. My father passed away at the end of November so I wasn't in the mindset to do the show for a while. Simultaneously, WBLQ switched from 96.7 FM to AM 1230, a much larger radio station. That change kept me pretty preoccupied during the business day at WBLQ in my capacity as Office Manager. Shortly after making the switch to 1230 (while Rotten Radio was still on hiatus) we started getting in calls complaining about some of the other programing on the station being a bit too extreme (like the metal show and a couple others). The down side of having a bigger radio station and more listeners is that you are under a larger microscope.

It became apparent to me that if Rotten Radio was to return at all it would have to go back to being censored. After all, if people are gonna call and complain about other shows that they think are too extreme, what would they think of me playing uncensored rap? Going censored again is just something I'm not interested in doing... at all. I just don't have the time to make radio edits anymore and I feel like it would be taking a step backwards.

In the end I guess a part of me also just wants to do other things. Rotten Radio certainly isn't the first radio show I've done and it wont be my last. I have actually had a couple other projects in mind for a couple years now. Also, just because the show is over now, that doesn't mean that it couldn't return someday down the road in some other form. One very cool side effect of the show being on hiatus is that I have been able to just sit back and be a fan of the music I love so much that I wanted to do this show in the first place! I always feel the need to be involved in the music I listen to so you never know what will happen.

So there it is... the website will be kept up and running for archival reasons and you will still eb able to download the old interviews, ill still log into the myspace from time to time also to see whats up and the twitter has really already become a personal page for myself so thats how ill treat that.

Finally, I just want to thank everyone that has ever listened to, appeared on, helped out with, promoted, downloaded an interview from, or even heard of Rotten Radio. The amount of love the show has been shown over the years is something I am very proud of and it really means a lot to me! Stay Rotten!

- Lorren