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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.
 


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