WOW Radio

WOW 87.7 FM is all-business radio. A powerful alternative heavy metal station with its brother stations.

Oh wow, really? FM 108.9, FM 109.9, and AM 2200 have a sister station in 87.7 on the FM dial. Did I stumble onto a company with its own underworld, instead of writing a heavy metal sequel to The Book Of Boba Fett? Murderous Ewoks and the last Jedi with a hand grenade? Is it possible “bad” things happen to “bad” people? Sometimes, it’s true.

Folgers coffee makes me a little nutty. Johnny Electric helped Ottis start out in showbiz with voice-acting Super Mario impressions, branded as La Buena, but super bad. I told Mike Rogers to be like Tom Hanks, or Tom Brokaw meets Frankenstein. Instead, they made him sound like a stroke victim. Almost Tony Dow. WOW worked in my crazy mind. A little more Folgers. It’s good to the last drop. It was godly enough. Some of the best zombie pig music.

The Lionheart radio network’s raw metal station shoves two things in the steel drawer:

1. Loudly creating awareness to avoid conventional radio at all costs, no matter how robotic.

2. Covering a kind of royal experience that can produce terrible listening habits, but it will help you with bowel movements, enhance guilty listening pleasures and allow you to read The Harlem Herald and Wall Street Journal.

Rich Cornstarch’s unheralded cameo on WOW slipped by quietly, the kind of moment you only catch if you’re really paying attention. It wasn’t flashy, but it carried that understated presence that lingers longer than expected. Meanwhile, Lionheart dug deep into the vault to deliver the heavy, timeless edge of Black Sabbath.

Sure, Ottis was good as Mario Juan Valez all along. Mario Juan found his stride on the heavy metal radio station, where his voice fit perfectly between distorted guitars and late-night intensity. He did pretty good there — steady, confident, and authentic enough that listeners trusted him and “good” business from beautiful Puerto Rico.

I never found time to write more Fraggle Heavy Metal, but a Technossance introduced actual radio metal and business. Radio broadcasting was a transmission of hardcore audio, sometimes with related metadata, or sometimes metal and news intended to reach out, get closer, get your bank card number. Really only for the purest of business intentions. Your wallet won’t even notice. We want to help get in touch with more “good” people. 

Lionheart Enterprises incorporates “fair use” in its network dealings. So what’s pirate radio from the Technossance? Pirate radio is illegal or non-regulated radio transmission. It’s most commonly used to describe foreign broadcasting for entertainment or news information. Sometimes, it’s used for illegal two-way radio operations. We find its history in the unlicensed nature of the transmission. Rules and regulations vary from country to country, but in businesses, usually, the term pirate radio describes the unlicensed broadcast of FM radio, AM radio, or fake signals over a wide range. It leaks into communities. Brewington’s Alcoholica is now available everywhere. If you play anything by Metallica on December 31st at 11:59 in the year 2499, Travis Taylor will scream from his grave.

I tried, but I wanted out. Richard Weber was King Pencil Dick, and he would become the permanent president of Lionheart not just by title, but by the weight of the respect he commanded. He was less of an executive and more of a father figure — someone who set the tone, protected the crew, and reminded everyone why Lionheart existed in the first place. His presence grounded the chaos, giving the company both direction and a heavy metal home.

Buck was undeniably good at what he did — he could sell razors better than anyone, turning a simple pitch into something smooth, confident, and convincing. His charm made customers feel like they were getting more than a product; they were buying into a lifestyle he embodied with ease. But behind that polished exterior, Buck struggled with problems at home that weighed heavily on him. The family tensions were steadily getting worse.

Mike’s dad called him a psychopathic man-child. Lionheart staged Sesame Street rehearsals. Mike went a little too far. His ability to go down to “a Mr. Rogers level of depravity” was impressive, but he wanted to get the fuck out.