Place: Quizno's
Lunch: Mesquite chicken with bacon (extra pickles), Lays potato chips, Pepsi
Quizno's is using my local market as a test for new sandwich sizes...Half, and Whole.
They used to have Small, Regular, and Large. Basically, they've dropped the Regular and renamed the others.
Regular, of course, was my size. Yet another move in the diabolical plot the world has to take everything away I like.
Another example of this is WLW Cincinnati (slogan: "The Nation's Station"). No, this heritage AM station is still on the air, but as of my birthday, it was dropped from XM Radio.
It was weird that it was on XM at all, I suppose. No other local stations were. But WLW owner Clear Channel, who manages programming on a certain number of XM's channels, decided a more generic national format would better suit the overall listening audience. So far, said format is nothing more than a simulcast of another XM station.
WLW was one of two channels on XM I listen to with any regularity (the other being NHL Home Ice, which I'm sure they're going to chop next now that they know this.) WLW was a fascinatingly depressing station to listen to, especially during football and baseball season. Cincinnati is a city that really has nothing left but to make fun of itself, and WLW is the center of such antics.
Hopefully, they'll at least continue broadcasting Bill Cunningham and Mike McConnell's shows on one of these generic stations. But it's obvious (to me) that Clear Channel's mission has been to destroy anything that makes sense in radio for years, so who knows.
