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worst radio station nicknames
- Thread starter firepoint525
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There was a radio station here in Nashville that had the call letters WMMU and was known as "Moo 102." Yes, their logo was a cow! :
Later, they had the calls WZPC and were "PC103." How could they refer to themselves as both "102" and "103" without moving frequencies? Were they at 102.5? No, but they have a sister station at 102.5. "Moo 102" and "PC103" were both at 102.9. Confused yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBUZ_(FM)
Later, they had the calls WZPC and were "PC103." How could they refer to themselves as both "102" and "103" without moving frequencies? Were they at 102.5? No, but they have a sister station at 102.5. "Moo 102" and "PC103" were both at 102.9. Confused yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBUZ_(FM)
firepoint525 said:
In the 80s, San Francisco had KQAK, The Quake. And that's a town that was pretty much levelled by one 80 years before (1906).
michael hagerty said:
And it was so stupid, they did it TWICE. About 10 years ago, Clear Channel decided to call their 960 AM talk station in the Bay Area "The Quake" (KQKE). Didn't last long. 960 AM had been the legendary KABL ("Cable")...as in cable cars, not cable TV.
The former "beautiful music" "elevator music" station in Memphis was WEZI, and of course, it was just too "EZ" for everyone to phonetically pronounce it "weezy" like George Jefferson's wife. Fortunately, since then, they have "moved on up" to other formats and call letters.
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firepoint525 said:
The WEZI calls were here in the Miami area (105.1 Coral Gables) 1983-85; it was "EZ 105," a soft AC/soft oldies station, promising 5 songs in a row at the beginning & end of each hour. In Jan 1985, it made way for the calls WHQT "Hot 105," where it has been consistently #1 in the market for years now (adult R&B).
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How could I have forgotten this one? 104.5 here in Nashville was known as "104 the Core" (or more precisely, "the new 104 the Core") back about 2000-2001. They actually had a "naming contest" in which they invited listeners to call in suggestions for a new station name. In the meantime, they had briefly been known as "that '70s station," which was actually a far better name than "104 the Core"! : When they chose the name, they actually played back the call from the listener who suggested, "how about 104 the Core?" (Actually, I think he was joking!) His "prize" for coming up with a new name for them? "Absolutely nothing!" as they said in that spot.
Being the cynic that I was, I would have suggested "Arrow 104.5" since they were reverting right back to the same format that they had had when they were "Arrow 104.5" from about 1994-1999. : But I suppose that that was too obvious for them! :
But about a year later (2002-ish), they changed names yet again! : I knew that something was up (at the time) when I heard Whitesnake on 104.5, which had lampooned Whitesnake while they were "the Core"! :
During one of their many incarnations during that 1998-2003 time period, one of their jocks had something on his page on their website ridiculing a competing station for having four formats in four years (which, indeed, they had), but 104.5 ALSO had four different formats (or at least four different names) during those same four years!
By the way, "104 the Core" was the station that I made fun of in the other thread for incorporating the overused word "new" right into their "Core" logo, which pretty much guaranteed that they would be "new" as long as they were "Core."
And I had the perfect slogan for them: "104 the Core. You don't get the whole apple; just the core!" :
When they chose the name, they actually played back the call from the listener who suggested, "how about 104 the Core?" (Actually, I think he was joking!) His "prize" for coming up with a new name for them? "Absolutely nothing!" as they said in that spot.Being the cynic that I was, I would have suggested "Arrow 104.5" since they were reverting right back to the same format that they had had when they were "Arrow 104.5" from about 1994-1999. :
But I suppose that that was too obvious for them! :But about a year later (2002-ish), they changed names yet again! :
I knew that something was up (at the time) when I heard Whitesnake on 104.5, which had lampooned Whitesnake while they were "the Core"! :During one of their many incarnations during that 1998-2003 time period, one of their jocks had something on his page on their website ridiculing a competing station for having four formats in four years (which, indeed, they had), but 104.5 ALSO had four different formats (or at least four different names) during those same four years!
By the way, "104 the Core" was the station that I made fun of in the other thread for incorporating the overused word "new" right into their "Core" logo, which pretty much guaranteed that they would be "new" as long as they were "Core."
And I had the perfect slogan for them: "104 the Core. You don't get the whole apple; just the core!" :
cd637299 said:
Hot is an interesting story. When it changed to rhythmic, it immediately jumped in the ratings. The then-GM Chuck Goldmark fired PD Bill Tanner along with Coleen and the crew and it tanked, while a year or so later Tanner, at WPOW, began a decade long run alternating with WEDR and, occasionally, WLYF, for the top spot. It's only been in the last years of PPM that WHQT has had a consistent run at the top.
firepoint525 said:
I had the thought about Weezy from the Jeffersons, but I also thought that the music was wheezy as in out of breath, like a lot of their listeners probably were. :
When Salem started what became the Fish stations on 93.7 and 94.1 in Nashville they called them The One, which came from 101.1, which had been a failed CCM station owned by Clear Channel from a year or two earlier. This never made much sense to me because why would they want to take the name of the station that had failed, and it didn't make sense for the new frequencies. Thankfully it didn't last for long and Salem gave them the name of The Fish that was being used by their stations in other cities like Atlanta.
Yeah, "the One" was a LOT of "ones" in just ONE name: "ONE oh ONE point ONE, the ONE." That probably got old with listeners after a while. Meanwhile, the Fish, which has always used the generic "94FM" in their promotions and advertising, since they use those two frequencies near 94 on the FM dial, may soon be forced to broaden their name even further, since they are now also heard on 104.9 in Murfreesboro.
Wasn't there a K-Lite FM in California. K-Lite wasn't so bad, not as bad as the KLIT calls. KLIT is now in Texas, as Jill-FM.
PirateJohnny said:
Yes. Gene Autry bought KUTE. It became KMPC-FM for a while, then KEDG, then KLIT, which was supposed to represent K-Lite.
That was the second go-round for those call letters in the L.A. area. They'd been on a low-powered AM most of the 70s.
crainbebo said:
Just find out who the manager was and you will find out who let this idea prosper.
98.9 CHICK FM in Charleston. They tried to be a women's oriented AC, and alienated the men. They also had a morning show called "Moms in the Morning." It lasted only about a year.
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charlestondxman said:
I'm still waiting for *one* station to try this all-female format and make it work. I am not holding my breath (not that I'd listen anyway).....
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102.5 FM here in Nashville was "Venus FM" for a while there, and they even adopted the call letters WVNS to go along with it. They even brought in the Bob and Sheri morning show (which had already proven itself to be a failure on another Nashville station which I have mentioned elsewhere on this thread! :charlestondxman said:
), but they didn't keep it for long. The "Venus" name soon disappeared, as did the Bob and Sheri show (no surprise there!), but they kept the WVNS call letters for the duration of their time in that particular format, although they were by that time going by the name "V-102.5." I should point out that they are the sister station to the "Moo 102"/"PC103" that I mentioned earlier in this thread. :
Y'all are reminding me of so many more really bad names here in Nashville. WSM 95.5, which has had about 10,000 different names over the years, all while remaining, for the most part, country, but they were "ninety-five dot five" there for a while! :crainbebo said:
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