Classic Rock/ Rock & Roll statons which used Reellworld

[levi99]

Hi! I know WBIG FM, a classic rock station, used Reelworld jingles. What other classic rock stations used Reelworld?

 

[Oldbones]

Jingles on a classic rock station? That's a new one on me.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Jingles on a classic rock station? That's a new one on me.

Here are some "new examples" for you, then.

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[vchimpanzee]

The WBIG call letters have been used on so many stations. Which one?

 

[K.M. Richards]

The WBIG call letters have been used on so many stations. Which one?

I don't see where that matters, since the question isn't about that station but about the jingles used by Rock stations anywhere in the country.

Did you see something in the question that I missed?

 

[levi99]

The one in washington

 

[K.M. Richards]

The one in washington

Because we always have to spell things out for Chimp, lest we get hit with a bunch of additional questions, please allow me to flesh this out for clarification.

@levi99, you are referring to the station at 100.3 in Washington DC which has had those call letters for more than 30 years.

@vchimpanzee, I realize your confusion came from the fact that those call letters used to be on stations in your part of the country (North Carolina) but the last time they were on a station there was back in 1989 ... and I doubt any of them were Rock stations.

Now that (I hope) it's clearer, if we could try to answer the original question, which was other Rock stations that used jingles from Reelworld ...?

 

[Oldbones]

Here are some "new examples" for you, then.

The samples all seem to be for stations in the UK. Maybe that's a thing there, but I can say I've never heard jingles on a rock station here in the U.S. Not to say there aren't any, but those that use(d) them must be few and far between. Kind of goes against the whole rock station image.

 

[garfradio]

Jingles on rock stations in the US have been rare.

The Doubleday stations in the early 1980s (then WAPP NYC, WMET Chicago, WLLZ Detroit, WAVA Washington, KWK St Louis, KDWB-FM Minneapolis, KPKE Denver) did experiment with a TM jingle package that sounded like the music they were playing. Most of those stations got crushed when Top 40 had a big ratings resurgence in 1983/84 (not that the jingle package had anything to do with that).

There has been some ironic use of jingles over the decades. In the late 90s/early 2K, a few mainstream/active rock stations produced old-timey PAMS jingles with snarky attitude-driven lyrics. That fit the boys-club imaging of the time in that format. Recall one with lyrics "the station to listen to while you're having unsafe sex." These didn't have a lot of shelf life though, and didn't last long on the air.

Alternative stations have done in-house sung IDs over songs from the format. These were not really traditional jingles, but some very creative stuff at times. More ironic/tongue in cheek, appropriate to the format.

 

[vchimpanzee]

@levi99, you are referring to the station at 100.3 in Washington DC which has had those call letters for more than 30 years.

I thought it might be that station, but I was thinking it made changes that might have included the call letters. Saying where the station is would have still been a good idea.

If I go check, I get distracted and end up doing other things. Better just to finish here before going on to something else.

 

[levi99]

I think I was referring to 100.3