Stephen King's Maine radio stations will go silent for good on New Year's Eve

[Mick_Mickerson]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Stephen King’s raucous rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going silent at year’s end.

The renowned author and lifelong rocker who used to perform with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band that featured literary icons, said Monday that at age 77, it’s time to say good-bye to three Bangor, Maine, stations that have been bleeding money. King kept the stations afloat for decades, and he said he and his wife, Tabitha, are proud to have kept them going for so long.

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How THAT Feel, FUCKER?!?!?!

 

[whyarewedoingthisagain_mybb]

Won't hear him no more.

 

[satanssockpuppet]

LOL radio stations. Does he listen to them while driving in his steam-powered car?

 

[H0meRunCumia]

To make up for this, he'll put a scene in his next novel where a child gets raped in an abandoned radio station...

 

[Finger Trigger Attachment]

LOL radio stations. Does he listen to them while driving in his steam-powered car?

he listens to them while getting run over by a steam-powered van.

 

[turdstew]

If radio stations no one listens to go silent, does anybody notice?

 

[wbgreen]

 

[RoTheHo69]

 

[satanssockpuppet]

he listens to them while getting run over by a steam-powered van.

Radio stations. Why didn't he open an icehouse, or a blacksmith shop too? And maybe a corner soda shop where they sell comic books in spinner racks. Then he'd really be on to something.

 

[RoTheHo69]

Radio stations. Why didn't he open an icehouse, or a blacksmith shop too? And maybe a corner soda shop where they sell comic books in spinner racks. Then he'd really be on to something.

What is this 195fiiiiive?

 

[satanssockpuppet]

What is this 195fiiiiive??

Imagine what working at those radio stations must have been like. It must have been soul-destroying to be sitting there spinning those Southside Johnny records all night, knowing no one is listening.

 

[IcarusPAnybody]

Looks like Mark 'The Shark' Young needs to find a new gig. He's still there according to the WKIT-FM website.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

At this point, everyone agrees the wacky Maine character with the Maine-ah accent was definitely just Stephen King himself, right? Article says he just poured money into the failing enterprise for decades because he liked the idea of having these wacky INDEPENDENT radio stations up in Bangor

 

[DMAN]

Wha happen Stephie? Running low on cash?

 

[IanCurtis]

Great work Stephen, a genuinely rare celebrity author who wrote some pretty good books who, when his career went into downturn after decades, decided to nuke it all by being a bitch-whore for the democrats for $$ on twitter. Shit on his fan base, shit on his own readers and now post-election likely called his agent and said 'I've fucking had enough, I'm not fucking doing this shit for another 4 years, I'm 77 fucking years old!!!'. Maybe he'll go back to 'writing' for his diminishing audience, without the Dem checks he can't afford his hobby-stations anymore. Un-fucking-believable what dickheads will do for money and to hold onto their celebrity - and for what? To preach to people who don't even buy his books, fuckin' incredible, pathetic ending overall.

 

[BrotherMan1488]

I want a electric typewriter

 

[The Sue Deal]

Outlived O&A by a decade lol. Hows Book Radio doing?

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

I do have to say the guy is incredibly prolific even though he shit on the bbbbbbooooyyys.

I walked past one of those "leave a book, take a book" huts yuppies put in front of their houses and grabbed a stephen king collection of novellas. I didn't realize until I got home, out of the four novellas, one became Shawshank Redemption and the other Stand By Me.

He just shits out two classic movie plots in a random collection of novellas

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Didn’t he buy the stations because there was no good classic rock stations by him and he had nothing to listen to when driving? Get an iPod, stupid. Also this is the Jocktober with the guy eating all the whacky beef jerky flavors, right?

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Imagine what working at those radio stations must have been like. It must have been soul-destroying to be sitting there spinning those Southside Johnny records all night, knowing no one is listening.

Probably not -- they were likely grateful to be doing a job that isn't in demand anymore. Spinning records in Bangor Maine in a physical studio in 2023 lol. King hooked them up