I came home for christmas to find, with great pleasure, that there are now 4 rock stations on the local roster rather than 1 as there used to be, which was cut down from 2 some three years ago. 104.7 is even better than 98.7, which was the only one for those years.
The only trouble is that 104.7, in its defiance, prides itself on fewer commercial interruptions.
Well, 104.7, I hope your fewer commercial breaks are longer than average, or your gift to audiences of longer music segments will be a short lived one because failing to rake it in with advertising will make you a liability for your parent company. I like your programming, but unless you can supplement your lack of advertising, I won’t be enjoying your repetoir any more by the time I leave for school again on the 11th. If not by then, you won’t be there when I get back for spring break.
I fucking hate it when the local radio stations break out with something I like that lasts for about a month before it can’t support itself any more and then gets switched to oldies or soft rock like so many others.
They’re here, then they’re gone. Hence the cocktease.
We have an all 80s station here that does indeed play less commercials, and they’re still doing fine. They don’t have any huge ego, full of themselves DJs though, which probably helps with the lower budget.
Well, maybe they’re priding themselves on fewer interruptions because they’re having trouble selling airtime. Fewer interruptions could lead to more listeners. More listeners means more advertisers.
I like jazz. We regularly have a jazz station start up once a year, last about 2 months and like the OP’s station, buy the farm and quit. It happens fairly regularly, so I watch for it. Meanwhile, I’ve bought a new car with a CD player.:rolleyes:
I like rock, but I really want our classical station to come back. It died about five years ago, and nothing has risen to replace it yet. One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard on any radio station was when our stuffy, starched-collar classical station played the entire soundtrack to “What’s Opera, Doc?” on April Fools’ Day.
Radio is terrible in Indy. If you don’t like Britney Spears or Bob Seger then you’re SOL. Not to mention the godawful morning shows ala Bob and Tom. Blech. I’ll stick with NPR when I’m in the car.
You are in luck–ccording to the Federal Communication Commission’s Call Sign Desk - Query, “Call Sign KOCK is available.”
Also, contrary to what even most people in the radio industry believe, the FCC stopped reviewing call letters for appropriateness in 1987, saying at that time that if anyone objected to a call, they would now have to convince the courts that it violated “community standards”.
Here in L.A. we’re still mourning the demise, after a brief but glorious life, of the alternative rock station KEDJ. After about six months, it went back to its old format, and its old call letters, which were K-LITE.
Canada has only been assigned part of the C calls, specifically CF- through CK-, with CG- reserved for government stations. (It also has given CB- calls to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations, and there are a small number of VO- broadcasting stations in Newfoundland, which was a separate colony until 1947).
A list of national prefixes is at Call Sign Prefixes. However, in most of the world radio station’s don’t announce their call letters on the air, and instead use network IDs or individual slogans.
What he said. Fred kicks ass. (Channel 44 on your XM Satellite Radio.)
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Hey Jonathan Chance! Didja catch all those live shows on Fred during the week of Thanksgiving? I was painting my kitchen and blessed Fred every day of that ordeal for making it so much more pleasant.
FM radio is for pussies.
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You may now resume trashing your local radio stations.
As an ancient radio dude, the promotional possibilities for KOCK-FM are damn near limitless:
KOCK - You KNOW you want it!
The others promise, but KOCK delivers!
The home of KOCK around the clock!
Get is straight from the KOCK!
Less talk, more KOCK!
For radio that satisfies, turn on KOCK!
and etc.
Also, an old radio joke: Didja hear about the new station KUNT? It comes in a little fuzzy, but everyone’s trying to get it.
::wild laughter from the 7th graders::
