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Unusual station names or slogans

RadioPatrol said:
Where is this and it looks like they use the KGB Radio chicken here too.
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It was not attributed, but the vehicle suggests the UK or Australia; I found one that looks likely and it is a community station in Australia.
 
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While monikers like Peach and Fire may make sense in Atlanta and Chicago, respectively, they would probably be amiss in, say, Boston. Thus, a brand such as The Apple might be malapropos outside New York. In 1982 Doubleday launched WAPP (with a commercial-free summer) in the Big Apple.
 
DXingRadio said:
One that’s still on, sort of, is “KHZ TV” in Maryland. Began as a network of low powered AMs in the early 2000s, running top-40 (their slogan, programming was CHR with some 80s/90s). Today just one AMer, WAMD 970. Running pop music on an AM network is tough enough, but who besides radio nerds know what KHz means? Also TV? They had a camera in the usually empty studio, and linked music videos on their website. So sure, TV.
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Dang that's rare for AM radio to even air Top 40 music in this decade. I would have guessed that CHR/Top40 would have been gone completely within the past 35 years.
 
Kemosabe said:
While monikers like Peach and Fire may make sense in Atlanta and Chicago, respectively, they would probably be amiss in, say, Boston. Thus, a brand such as The Apple might be malapropos outside New York. In 1982 Doubleday launched WAPP (with a commercial-free summer) in the Big Apple.
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Boston had a very city-appropriate Harbor (WHBA 101.7) briefly, but it turned out to be a placeholder format on the road to Clear Channel/iHeart's retrofitting of newly purchased WFNX to its current country incarnation as The Bull, WBWL.
 
L.A. has "K-Jazz" (KKJZ) and "K-Mozart" (KMZT). NYC used to have "K-Rock" (WXRK, now WNYL) and "Z-Rock" (WZRC). Long Island has AC station "K-Joy" (WKJY). They shortened it to "K 98.3" when Christian network "K-Love" came to the area, but returned to using the "K-Joy" name in 2019.
 
"The Bus, 100.3" Des Moines IA. Adult hits on one of the few full class C FMs (450 meters plus HAAT), about 1700' at 100 kW. In ancient times, this was the original WHO-FM. Less ancient times, KLYF.
 
CTListener said:
Outlaw is an excellent Saga classic country format that even includes some early alt-country tracks. It's a must listen when I'm passing through on I-91. Unfortunately the signal is only usable from around Deerfield to the Vermont line.
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Saga upgraded its Outlaw 92.3 signal within the last four months. Have you noticed any improvements? (Pardon the thread drift.)
 
Salem Media Group brands its Contemporary Christian Music format as The Fish. A more secular aquatic brand, 102.9 The Whale, is heard on WDRC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut.
 
in Dallas, we had a station that the branding that outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area would not work. from 1980 to 1998, KPLX 99.5 FM Was branded as K-Plex, that branding was retired in 1998 as KPLX was given a station imaging update while retaining the country music format due to the station losing ratings to the then Young County KYNG 105.3 FM (now KRLD FM 105.3 The Fan) and 96.3 KSCS (then owned by Disney and was a rival station as KPLX was Susquehanna owned at the time and did became sister station until after Cumulus first bought out Susquehanna and then bought out Citadel who before Cumulus bought them out, bought out all but a few Disney owned radio stations and then went bankrupt during the great recession).
 
Naples FL used to have a Smooth Jazz station with the name 'Dream 98.5'. WDRR San Carlos Park FL, now a K-LOVE affiliate. They were a Jones Smooth Jazz affiliate in the early '00s.
Wave and Oasis were common SJ station names, but never 'Dream'.
 
CTListener said:
Thread drift alert! Isn't this thread supposed to be about unusual branding/slogans? "Rock," "Jazz" and "Love" are the very definition of normal.
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The use of fake call signs is the unusual part -- when people hear "K-Jazz" they'll think the station's call letters are actually KJAZZ.
 
Kemosabe said:
Saga upgraded its Outlaw 92.3 signal within the last four months. Have you noticed any improvements? (Pardon the thread drift.)
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I'll be "drifting" up that way on Saturday. I'll start listening for it when I get to Springfield and note where the signal becomes usable and where it fades out.
 
RadioPatrol said:
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KYRV - Wikipedia

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KLIB - Wikipedia

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KPOP Radio yes these are call letters that have been in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and Oklahoma at some points in their history but they were not intended to be based on the Korean Pop according to these links.
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There are Rivers in the Boston MA, Hartford CT, Albany NY and Hanover/Lebanon/White River Jct. NH/VT markets, all of which I listen to every year at some point.
 
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