{"id":657907,"date":"2026-05-22T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:02:13","slug":"rock-to-krak-open-in-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657907\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock To KRAK Open In Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RockOhana Media Group will flip \u201cClassic Hits 102.1\u201d in Anchorage AK to \u201cRock 102.1<\/a>\u201d KRAK on Friday at 10:21am.<\/p>\n

The flip follows the call letter change from KTMB to KRAK that took place last November. The new station will be led by former 106.5 KWHL<\/a> Program Director Brad \u2018The Beard\u2019 Stennett, who will also host middays.<\/p>\n

The format will compete against the aforementioned Connoisseur Media owned KWHL, which had a 4.7 share in the Fall 2025 Nielsen Audio ratings<\/a>. and iHeartMedia Classic Rock \u201c100.5 The Fox<\/a>\u201d KBFX, which was second overall with a 7.0 share.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of funny how this all came about. It\u2019s a small town and we know how people love to talk. Apparently, I have an agenda and the word bitterness is being thrown around a lot. That\u2019s pretty fantastic honestly. So I figured why not tell the origin story of the evil character that is Rock 102.1.<\/p>\n

Sadly, many years ago I got removed from my first radio love. A station that I had given 20+ years of everything that I had. My soul, my personality, my everything. One day I woke up and it was taken from me. As Forrest Gump says, \u201cThat\u2019s all I have to say about that.\u201d
What I will say is there was a void in my heart. It really hit when Ozzy died and I had nowhere to express it. I wrote and it helped, but that was just a band aid. Part of my personality was gone. Honestly, it was more of a struggle than I care to explain. The ability to entertain. To make people smile. To love what you do. The ability to be myself. Yes, I got another job. And I really enjoy KFAT and the music. I\u2019ll still be on it for a while till I can figure some things out. But that is not my first love. I can\u2019t really be me.<\/p>\n

But if I\u2019m being honest, I never really thought doing something like this was going to be an option. I had made jokes and laughed about how weird it would be to compete with something I built and loved so much.<\/p>\n

Then one day conversations started to happen behind the scenes. I had heard about the possibility of flipping one of our formats.<\/p>\n

So I approached the powers that be and pointed out we did not have a radio station in our cluster that focused primarily on men. Although we do have some great stations, they do not cater to men 25 to 54, which is a missing piece of the pie. And my way back into my true love. Plus it\u2019s an important demo for radio. Yes ladies, I know you love the rock and it loves you as well.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, it just so happens that demo is in my professional wheelhouse. So decisions were made. Again, this is well over a year after being fired from the mothership. I hadn\u2019t listened to that radio station much that entire time. It just didn\u2019t feel right. I would tune in to Alice from time to time (miss you and always have a job for you) because I love him and then my friend Kellen was working there for a little while and I\u2019d catch his show from time to time as well.<\/p>\n

So the decision was made to fire up a new rock station, but what kind? I needed to see what they were doing. I mean, I was gonna be competing against my baby. So I listened more. But the more I listened, the more it became clear it had become everything we fought against in radio. It was no longer my baby. It was different now. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the changes had begun when I was there, but this was much worse now and no one was left there to push back.
National contests. No local winners. All that text to win crap. Key words. Selling contests to other companies. (Go read their rules sometime \ud83d\ude09) Pounding certain songs down your throat every hour while being forced to play that terrible new stuff as well. Yes, you Sleep Token (and so many others). The direction was gone. The imaging was stale and generic. No texture, no tempo and most importantly no feelings. Nothing was local. Then I heard Creed on it. I cried a little. My baby was officially gone. The people no longer cared about the product. And that\u2019s OK and that\u2019s up to them. That\u2019s not mine anymore.
But I still care about what I do. And the people I do it for. I\u2019m still very good at what I do. And I\u2019ve missed what I do very much. So now, I get to do it again. Honestly, I don\u2019t have a problem with the mothership. You can listen to them. You can enjoy them if that\u2019s your bag. It\u2019s OK. I still know people there. You can play along with their national contests. I wish you luck.<\/p>\n

But my station is going to be exactly that. It\u2019s going to be my station. Nobody\u2019s telling me what I have to play. Nobody\u2019s telling me what I have to do. As a matter of fact, they\u2019re pretty much letting me do whatever I think is right because they trust me. Not sure that\u2019s the right call hahaha, but I do have a track record of doing it right and having a great time while doing it. Of giving the market what it wants. I mean, Jesus Christ, they let me name it KRAK Rock. Seriously, my sense of humor and KRAK Rock. Having a bad day? Sprinkle some KRAK on it. So if you have a problem with the station, come to me. Don\u2019t like the music? That\u2019s me too. The imaging offend you? I\u2019m your problem. Too many innuendos and KRAK jokes? Guess who doesn\u2019t care?<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing I will promise you. We\u2019re going back to having fun. We\u2019re gonna do some cool shit. We\u2019re not going to play With Arms Wide Open or No Doubt or what other whack shit they decide to play because a chart says it\u2019s good even though our ears say it sucks.
Oh, and you\u2019re hearing it here first. We\u2019re going to send somebody to see **Metallica in Las Vegas at Sphere on Halloween**. Not a national contest. Local qualifiers. 102 of them. Then we\u2019re gonna have a big ass party at The Peanut Farm and that person is going to win the trip to see Metallica in Vegas on Halloween. Not some random bullshit throwaway day. Someone local is winning. It could be you. It could be your brother. But what it won\u2019t be is somebody who doesn\u2019t live in the state of Alaska. What it won\u2019t be is something that sounds like you can win on air, but the reality is it\u2019s no different than a lottery with everyone else in the lower 48.<\/p>\n

And if you think that\u2019s where it\u2019s going to stop, you\u2019re wrong. We\u2019ve got some huge promotions on the way. Things that I have never done in my radio career. Prizes bigger than anything I\u2019ve ever given away. Your best way to stay informed is by following these 2 pages. KRAK Rock 102.1 and Gettin\u2019 Weird With The Beard.<\/p>\n

The fun starts at 10:21 AM on Friday. And it\u2019s gonna be great. Take us with you this weekend wherever you\u2019re heading for the holidays. No commercials, no DJs, just ass kicking rock from 7 PM Friday night to 10 AM Monday morning. Commercial free, so why not see what we\u2019re all about. You trusted me before, why not do it again.<\/p>\n

KRAK may not have the biggest tower or be the oldest station, but we are going to be the best at what we do. Because that\u2019s the only way I know how to do it.<\/p>\n

Please go hit the Facebook page with a like. Please share this post and the new KRAK Rock 102.1 page if you want. Help me spread the word. Please preset that dial to 102.1. Let\u2019s get back to rock and roll, having fun and winning cool shit.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t be happier to be back.
Not Bitter, Just Better! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohana Media Group will flip \u201cClassic Hits 102.1\u201d in Anchorage AK to \u201cRock 102.1\u201d KRAK on Friday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-657907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}