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Yikes…97.1 😱

I drove down to TJ on the 4th to avoid the loud banging, when I tuned around the dial I noticed that San Diego’s 97.3 was carrying the same blather that was on Yikes! 97.1. Not sure what it was. It was around 11am to Noon.
 
K.M. Richards said:
When I express an opinion that has no citeable basis in fact, I say so. I don't hide behind verbiage such as "which some found questionable".

This is how rumors become "fake news". It starts with someone posting their personal view as if it were fact, and then the Internet spreads it around. That is the only reason I bring this up ... it has to stop, and the only way that it will is if all of us are more vigilant about not inadvertently starting rumors.

Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
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I think you had too much coffee this morning! Your overreacting! I merely implied that I myself including members of my own family found those call letters "questionable" so I found it safe to assume that there might be others as well.
 
TomásEstefan said:
I think you had too much coffee this morning! Your overreacting! I merely implied that I myself including members of my own family found those call letters "questionable" so I found it safe to assume that there might be others as well.
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Actually, I have had no coffee yet today (which is unusual for me, but there was too much happening here this morning for me to even think about my morning meal).

I only overreact because I am sick and tired of these rumors being innocently started. I appreciate your explanation, and only wish you had said it that way in the first place.
 
michael hagerty said:
I mean, there have been worse ideas.

True story:

Back in the 1990s, Clear Channel took 100.3 R&B Oldies and had a listener contest—"send in entries for the new station name and we’ll choose it at random."

(Yeah....sure.)

The announcement came: It was “MEGA 100”.

That night, Phil Hendrie did the first 15 minutes of his show on KFI about how relieved everyone in the building was that, miraculously, the winning entry just happened to be the number one name for that format on radio stations all over the country.

“I mean, what if they’d pulled out the random winner and it was “Asshole 100”? Man, we dodged a bullet!”
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It's pretty unbelievable they would just choose a name from listeners at random for a full powered FM in Los Angeles. Like they just randomly picked the most popular name for the format. I'm sure it was decided beforehand.

Reminds me of when Garry Wing bought KWXY and KKGX, and announced a website to vote for what the new formats will be. In the end, he admitted he already knew that it would be Standards and Talk. It was strictly to engage interest and attention from the public.
 
I remember when they had that contest to name the station. They spoke to the woman who won on air. She said she came up with the name Mega after her church pastor gave a sermon called "God is Mega." I'm thinking the woman was probably a Clear Channel employee who was told to make up a good story.
 
radio128 said:
I remember when they had that contest to name the station. They spoke to the woman who won on air. She said she came up with the name Mega after her church pastor gave a sermon called "God is Mega." I'm thinking the woman was probably a Clear Channel employee who was told to make up a good story.
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There's another possibility, equally as likely, I think.

They had already decided on "Mega", discarded all of the entries that suggested anything else, and then randomly chose from the ones that already matched the decision. That way, they could still say with a straight face that the winning entry was "chosen at random" ... after all, they didn't say "from all entries received".
 
KilowattKat said:
It's pretty unbelievable they would just choose a name from listeners at random for a full powered FM in Los Angeles. Like they just randomly picked the most popular name for the format. I'm sure it was decided beforehand.
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That’s what the (“Yeah…sure”) and Hendrie’s rant were about.

KilowattKat said:
Reminds me of when Garry Wing bought KWXY and KKGX, and announced a website to vote for what the new formats will be. In the end, he admitted he already knew that it would be Standards and Talk. It was strictly to engage interest and attention from the public.
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As we know, iHeart did the same when they put 107.9 back on the air in Sacramento. I admit it was fun back then listening to the wheel of various formats while stunting. Asking listeners to go and vote for their favorite one online. I don't recall the format they ended up with even being one of the choices.
 
I don’t know if this was the case with Mega (I was listening to Hendrie in Phoenix—-that massive KFI signal), but almost every new station—-on the day they launch—-has a dozen or so “real people” shoutouts—“I love the variety”—-“you guys play more music”—-“(station name) rocks!”——-all of which clearly were staged and recorded in advance because the station just went on the air.

The really dumb ones run them in the first hour. But I guess not many people question it, because they keep doing it.
 
Gee, and we waited three years to install a listener feedback line for KRKE.
 
ted chittenden said:
Keep in mind that the slur being referenced was used during and just after WWII, some 80 years ago. Most of the people of that era have passed on, and not all have explained to their own offspring why the word is offensive. That said, I do know some who have, and would take offense today, if they heard the word in question pronounced as it was during WWII. Fortunately, all of the radio stations I know of who have callsigns that could be pronounced as the offending word do not pronounce it that way, and they don't go out of their way to try to offend the group the slur is being aimed at.
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My last high school in the United States in the earlier 60s was about 70% Jewish. Believe me, that derogatory term was used by non-shoes and was prevalent at the time. That was two decades after WW.II.
 
Weiserguy said:
Lufkin, Texas is ~120 miles northeast of Houston, ~100 miles southwest of Shreveport, Louisiana (and, incredibly, ~60 miles from Palestine). Those first two are probably the closest places where you can find a synagogue or any significant population of Jews. So KYKS is probably safe from offending any locals. (And for all we know, they might bury the calls in their TOH ID and never say them any other time on air.)

But is it possible no one there ever noticed the alternate pronunciation of those calls? Yeah, possible, but I doubt it. More likely it's the kind of inside joke that people snicker about when they are among friends or co-workers. You may not notice it immediately, but one would have to be pretty dense to say those calls day after day and not have it eventually invade your consciousness.
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Please… that HAD to be pronounced as kay-lite. The hyphen was not optional.
 
TomásEstefan said:
There used to be a station in Orange County here in SoCal called "Kick-FM" at 94.3. Their calls were KIKF which some found questionable.

It might sound trivial to some, but I really wish a certain Dodgers ball player would change the spilling of his nickname to Qui-Que instead of well you know...

It's particularly disturbing when i've seen some fans at the stadium wear a Dodgers jersey or a shirt that just has K..E on the back!
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I had a morning guy on WQII in San Juan decades ago, whose name was Enrique Cruz. But he went by. K—e Cruz with a “k” in there. Not the more proper Quique Cruz. He finally accepted the mor correct spelling when he became an anchor at WAPA TV.
 


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