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When Did Kool 101 Stop Using the O-Word?

Unless I didn't get the memo, I don't think we stopped. Nearly all of our jingles sing the "O" word... and the "O" word is still on the Yellow Sub in the parking lot as well the GT I drive.... I hear the jocks using it... (maybe some more than others...) and the "O" word is still sung following the legal ID. (But, then again, I have yet to receive the new batch of business cards I asked for weeks ago..) Gee Scott, is there something I need to know ? Tonight my key worked in the front door. I hope it does in the morning !

Jim
 
"Resident Kool 101 expert" here... ::)

Look at the Kool 101 streaming page... You will even see the "O" word there:
http://player.streamtheworld.com/liveplayer.php?callsign=WKNLFM

Although I have been meaning to post about a concern I have had about whether or not they may eventually drop the "O" word; this was after a period of listening a few months ago when I seemed to hear more liners emphasizing "the best music ever made." Now that Jim mentions a "new batch of business cards," I'm curious...

By the way... Happy 11th birthday, Kool 101! (It was actually yesterday.) I heard the routine Jim did on the air last week in re-enacting what "led" to the flip from "The Tide" to "Kool"... did a Celine Dion record really set you off? :eek:
 
I listened yesterday for about 15 minutes (admittedly, not a good sample), and both voiceovers talked about Kool 101 playing the "best rock 'n roll." I never once heard the o-word. I thought they might be transitioning away from its usage.
 
Jocks have been known (to me, at least) to use variations of the "good times, great oldies" tagline, as this is already heard on some of the station's imaging. On the top of the hour ID, the jock usually says "the greatest rock n' roll on the radio, on WKNL, New London." Maybe you were hearing a TOH ID, Scott? Or it could have been Dave Wright, he's used the "best rock n' roll" line, too. Also, Dan O'Brien has the knack of using the phrase, "The most music and the most fun." As well as the aforementioned "best music ever made" line.
 
It was definitely Dan O'Brien, who used the term "best rock 'n roll" but never used the o-word. It was just a brief listen, so I should not have jumped to such conclusions.
 
Hmmm. My part 15 is very heavily oldies, we don't really miss any decades until you start getting to the teens.
I'm dead serious, 1927 plays next to 2007 without comment, yet there a lot of mid 60 centered rock.

I never ever use the term because age of anything is irrelevant. Especially in music.

"Imaging" is a problem. It's too defining. Don't define yourself.

Just go and be. Let the listeners figure out what you are and what you're doing.

I've entertained and rejected every idea of a simple imaging that is correct for what I do so that's what I use,
quite intentionally and specifically: NOTHING.


There is one element that runs enough to be heard occasionally:

"At W Nuthin Nuthin Nuthin we don't waste any time telling you what we're trying to do, we think you're smart enough to figure that out."
 
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