{"id":15724,"date":"2010-04-28T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2010-04-28T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T19:01:11","slug":"rockin-fig-is-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15724","title":{"rendered":"Rockin&#8217; Fig Is Off The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rockin_fig.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rockin_fig.jpg','popup','width=192,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rockin_fig-tm.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rockin Fig\" \/><\/a>Anyone who grew up listening to LA and Orange County&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kroq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Famous KROQ<\/a><\/strong> radio station will agree that one of the best parts of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kroq.radio.com\/shows\/kevin-bean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin &#38; Bean Show<\/a><\/strong> every morning was when <strong>Rockin&#8217; Fig<\/strong> aka <strong>Rick Fignetti <\/strong>would call in with the morning surf report. Fignetti&#8217;s sing-song, surfer-dude whine is synonymous with Southern California surfing and yet, KROQ has apparently decided to switch to an &#8220;automated online forecast,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beach.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/27\/surf-fans-bummed-about-kroq-and-rockin-fig-parting-ways\/22817\/\" target=\"_blank\">OrangeCounty.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local surfers and fans are bummed that Fig\u2019s upbeat voice is no longer waking them up during his 30-second radio spot, the departure leaving a void in people\u2019s early morning routines. . . \u201cSurfing is bigger than ever, and I can\u2019t believe they took him off the air,\u201d said listener Bob Kizanis, who listens to the report during his morning drive. \u201cWe have to let them know that this is a tremendous mistake for their station.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess if we still listened to radio, we&#8217;d be bummed, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beach.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/27\/surf-fans-bummed-about-kroq-and-rockin-fig-parting-ways\/22817\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orangecounty.com<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/press-release\/surf-fans-bummed-kroq-took-rockin-fig-off-the-air_42966\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who grew up listening to LA and Orange County&#8217;s World Famous KROQ radio station will agree that one of the best parts of the Kevin &#38; Bean Show every morning was when Rockin&#8217; Fig aka Rick Fignetti would call in with the morning surf report. Fignetti&#8217;s sing-song, surfer-dude whine is synonymous with Southern California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15725,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}