Chicago Resident Is Unaware Of Awful 101.1 Change

Chicago – Chicago resident James Hovack has been in Chicago since 1993. He moved to Chicago from Boston, Massachusetts with nothing but his simple belongings packed tightly into his brand new 1993 Ford Escort (with ridiculous rims) to start a new life as a machinist in the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Despite having his presets on his 1993 Ford Escort tuned to Boston stations, he maintained them for 8 years in Chicago, saying that he didn’t know how to change them. Meanwhile, several girlfriends and majority of his friends who rode with Hovack in his Escort claimed that the true reason was laziness.

In 2001, Hovack obtained a 1997 Chevy Malibu that he still drives to this day. Hovack still maintains his job in Cicero and his residency in Chicago. However, with the new car, he adjusted the presets for his top five favorite FM and top five AM stations. (Which are of no importance, because no one listens to AM anymore.) This included (on the FM side) 97.9, The Loop, 94.7 The Zone, 101.1 Q101, 101.9 The Mix and 103.5 Kiss FM. He claimed that the Kiss FM station was to please a girlfriend at the time. However, some speculate that when alone Hovack enjoys singing along to the occasional Avril Lavigne song. This stems from one night where in a local bar, Avril Lavigne's “Girlfriend” played and Hovack sang each word flawlessly after several Bud Lights.

On Monday, Hovack was scanning his presets in search of a song that would put him in a good mood on his way to work. There were commercials on The Loop, The Mix and Kiss FM and The Zone no longer existed, but it was still on his presets. He fell on Q101 and was disgusted with what he heard. “It was a (expletive) Edwin McCain song!” he said recalling the horror. “What the (expletive) is going on with them?! I assumed it was one of their ‘This Request Sucks’ games and that the pain would end soon. But, it didn’t. They played the whole (expletive) thing! Honestly, who wants to hear ‘I’ll Be’ ever again? I’m sure that even Edwin (expletive) McCain can’t stand that stupid song.” Hovack went on to tell of how a strange female voice came on and said something difficult to understand along with the frequency with the sound of traffic or kids or something else annoying in the background and they broke for a commercial break.

Hovack was one of the very few that had not heard of the format switch of Q101 into awful music. What was once the only station in Chicago to play modern rock/alternative (Besides WXRT, which no one is trendy enough for) had changed to pansy music. Hovack was taken aback. He hadn’t heard the final sign-off of the many disc jockeys the week prior and was completely confused. “I expected to hear them comment on the joke and nothing happened. After the commercials they went into something that I was told was ‘Vertical Horizon.’” (After talking with Hovack’s friends it was revealed that Hovack actually attended an Vertical Horizon concert in the early 2000’s in Joliet and this was the reason he recognized the garbage.)

When asked if he would change his preset to something other than 101.1, Hovack said he wasn’t familiar with how to do such a change, but was shaking with anger over the change. Hovack was told how easy the change would be. He was instructed that he just had to locate a new station and hold down the #4, where Q101 had rested before, for a few seconds. However, he claimed that it wasn’t that simple. “Naw. Now I have to go through the hassle of finding another station? Plus, I would need to find the owner’s manual to figure this extremely technical stuff out.” he claimed.

Hovack’s friends feel that he may secretly welcome the change, being a closet pansy. However, Hovack says that he is just as enraged as the other 1 million former Q101 listeners and is currently looking through “Auto Trader” in order to find a new car with other Chicago presets to rectify his situation. He just hopes that he doesn’t buy one from a fan of La Ley 107.9 FM.