Alan Cross is History at Edge 102.1

The revered music journalist has cut ties with the Toronto radio station that launched his career as host of The Ongoing History of New Music.

Alan Cross, host of the The Ongoing History of New Music, is leaving Toronto's 102.1 The Edge after 18 years with the station. Corus Entertainment, which owns The Edge, dropped Cross' position in a reorganization of the division he was working in. Ongoing History first debuted on The Edge in 1993, and its weekly histories of the bands that built alternative music quickly established it as one of the premier radio programs in the country, going into syndication in nearly every major market. While Ongoing History will all but certainly be preserved in some form (Corus has offered Cross opportunities to freelance, and there are surely dozens of music outlet executives who would sacrifice their first-born to bring him on), for those whose knowledge of alternative music from the 1970s onward is taken almost exclusively from Cross, this marks the end of an era in radio.