Summary
"This city is so incredible. You know, it took me five years to actually feel like OK, I'm going to stay here, I live here,'" says [Majoun], hanging around the XPN studio to chat one afternoon after signing off the air. "I literally used to watch TV to see streets in L.A., I missed it so much. But it was a tough time when I moved here. The city was bankrupt, there were lots of shootings in West Philadelphia, nobody went downtown at night. Now look at it, it's just such a gem. And such wonderful people live here."
"Back in the day when [David Dye] was first on the radio, there were these progressive forward-thinking amazing places to go for radio, and it's not that way anymore," says Majoun. "They're really commercial. They're cynical. They have tunnel vision for what people want to hear. And I feel like XPN really is a bastion of that old kind of idea of FM radio.""It's hard to believe we didn't have a Web site back then," she laughs. "There's so much more music now ... there are new ways of music coming to people. And yet XPN can continue to do what it's doing in the same way. We just have more ways to find music and more outlets for music because we're on the Internet, too."See the full content of this document
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Angel of the Morning
Michaela Majoun 's voice is instantly recognizable to locals who listen to WXPN. It can be disconcerting to meet her in person and hear the radio coming out of her mouth, but after a few minutes she'll crack a joke, collapse into laughter- and sound snaps back into sync.
A bubbly riot in person, Maj...See the full content of this document
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