No. It's not 101.1 in New York going back to oldies.

It's this one.

Dance music is on the air in San Diego!

Oops. Excuse me. Make that the Internet.

As of Midnight this morning, a San Diego radio station has changed formats.

The stream for DFSXRadio.com is no more.

Replacing the longtime comedy and music station that helped keep dementia music alive is a new all-dance music fomrat called "David's Groove Thing", sort of like Jack-FM at a dance club 24/7.

"Due to low ratings and uncertanities of Internet radio, the decision to drop comedy music was a financial decision," says longtime Internet broadcaster David Tanny. "We felt that with three months left on the live365 contract, we decided to use the dance mix format to be the closing format for the stream, which may last four days or until October 7th."

"We decided to move all of our comedy and novelty shows to podcasts and dump the stream to save money," continues Tanny. "It was also in the nick of time because Live365 and the DMCA won't let us present our shows the way they were meant to be produced and the fact that the CRB high royalty rates might shut Live365 down anyway."

DFSX has championed the comedy music format, otherwise known as dementia, named after Dr. Demento, since many local stations in less than fine cities have a bad idea what constitutes comedy and what is really juvenile humor that doesn't have wide appeal.

DFSX, unlike 91X and FM 94/9 and even KCR, was the cutting edge of the alternative to boredom and noise: dementia music. DFSX exposed many artists that have continued to thrive on their own websites and Myspace such as Power Salad, Throwing Toasters, Worm Quartet, the great Luke Ski, everybody from Robert Lund all the way back to Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

David's Groove Thing radio remembers the hits from radio stations of the past as it plays the dance hits and mixes that used to populate the radio airwaves in the 70s-90s. DGT pays homage to Disco 105, the 80s version of XHRM, Q106, Power 106, 91X in the 80s, The Flash in 93-96, Channel 933 and Groove 103.1 from 96-98, and several dance formats on the Internet.

What will happen to Internet radio on July 15th is anybody's guess, and it's up to Congress to stop the CRB rates from taking effect on that day or many streamers will go silent. Independents such as ipartyradio.com will shut down. Big companies like AOL and Clear Channel are likely to survive without the streaming business since they're diversified in other fields. Midsize streamers like live365 may be toast.

The decision to close down the dfsx stream was made two weeks ago after examining the falling listener numbers, the stagnation of the VIP listeners, and the possible higher stream renewal rates, which are already too high to begin with.

The last shows to air on the DFSX stream were the marathon of the "Mad Music Show", "Kahnman's Comedy Corner," and two episodes of "The Best of Manic Mondays." All of the specialty shows can be found by going to the website http://www.dfsxradio.com

Says Tanny on the new dance music format, "This is the kind of mix San Diego radio needed to have for a very long time. What I eliminated from the mix are songs that are boring, hard, or scary. All that's left is some 1,000 dance mix songs dating from the 70's funk and disco era through the 00's, a range that Magic 92.5 hasn't matched. DGT plays the classic dance hits Jack-FM is missing. Even KBIG out of Los Angeles isn't as diverse as you might think when it comes to doing dance blocks."

Tanny continues, "Remember those other Mix formats that bombed? Mix 94.9. Rock Mix 103.7. Mix 95.7. None of these are real mix stations because they're not what Mix means: dance music. There's only one kind of mix music, and that's dance mix music."

David's Groove Thing also has a webpage on the dfsxradio.com website. Visit them at http://www.dfsxradio.com/8900.htm

What is David's Groove Thing? (July 12, 2007)

I remember the glory days of KROQ from the late 70s through the early 90s, the 86-91 days of Power 106, the two years of Groove 103.1, the 1997 B100 radio station, the 1991-93 Mars-FM, Disco 105 in 1979, the 1990-97 Jammin' Z90, the 1996-98 Radio Disney, the 90s More-FM, the 87-90 Q106, the 81-85 KIQQ, the 80s KIIS-FM, the 83-91 91X, XHRM 81-88, The Flash 93-96, Channel 933 96-98, and other dance radio stations from all over America that streamed their signals on the Internet since the mid 90s such as C89.5, Energy 98, WKTU, Party 93.1, and more.

This is what radio is missing today. Upbeat and fun dance music for the masses. Today, radio programmers would rather program depressing emo and indie rock formats that just don't do justice to my ears. And let's not get into the topic of hip hop.

David's Groove Thing plays what David wants: dance pop music. If it was a hit, it will play it. No strange album cuts or filler stuff that all those other Internet stations like to play but just don't sound catchy. Just the dance hits from the disco era all the way through to the present.

No grunge, emo, folk, soft rock, indie, hip hop, smooth jazz, gangsta, nu-metal, and other undancable genres.

Other stations like to call a radio station a "Mix" format, but the problem is, they don't know the meaning of mix. There's only one kind of mix music: dance mix, as in remix house mix, etc.

At David's Groove Thing, we play anything that grooves, from disco to old school to new wave to synth pop to techno to electronica to modern dance. Most radio stations play a narrow range of music and many don't play any new dance hits from 1993 and newer.

David's Groove Thing. It's a hip hit thing.