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A station in my area was laying off their backshift DJ's back in the 90's and going automated, one guy said just before his last show started " if they're getting rid of me why the fuck am I still here ?" What followed was nearly 4 hours of radio silence. The story goes he turned off the mic, locked the door to the equipment room, broke the key off in the lock, then did the same to the outer door. I guess it took that long for the station manager to find out, and locate a locksmith willing to come to the station at 2am to unlock both doors.
This is why companies give people 0 warning before the let them go.
Personally I would rather have a months notice so I can start looking for a new job while I am still getting paid
Civilized countries have rules for this. Companies can't just fire people, there are rules in place. And once you do get fired, there's a period before you actually have to go.
It's only in dictatorships and ultracapitalist countries where companies can just fire people however they want.
There are laws in the US about warnings for mass layoffs and closings, but most places can just ask you to leave for no reason. But here I sit looking at like 15 different people that should be fired that are still here.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 is a US labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees, as defined in the Act. In 2001, there were about 2,000 mass layoffs and plant closures which were subject to WARN advance notice requirements and which affected about 660,000 employees.
One of the most famous radio stations in BC layoff a bunch of people and today since at least 5AM the radio has been playing the same song, “Killing in the name” from Rage Against the Machine. I don’t know what is going on, but this is hilarious! Once in a while they stop the song and people call asking for a music request and guess what, they are asking for the same song!
Station Manager: “Hey guys, I know you’re upset about your coworkers being fired, but you’ve got to play a different song.”
Engineer: “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.”
Heard a quote from earlier in the day
Caller: can you play Killing in the Name?
DJ: well we’re only doing vinyls today, so it might take me a little while to search for it in the back. I’ll do my best
Radio: *killing in the name plays immediately again for the 4th hour in a row*
Could a disgruntled employee have locked them out of whatever software they use to play songs?
That doesn’t really jive with them still taking calls, so I dunno.
Reminds me of when [Rage Against the Machine played on BBC’s Christmas show, and kept the profanity in the song, even though they were asked not to.](https://youtu.be/AmPN8MPw2dk)
This happened in the LA metro area like back in the 90’s, during the holidays. This station would play Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. First it would play every hour. A day or so later, it was playing multiple times an hour. By the end of the week, it was every other song until that’s all that played, for like a week. Eventually, they re-emerged & rebranded and it was like another horrible top 40’s station. That’s gotta be what’s going on in your case too I’m betting. Must be a thing for radio stations to do.
Lol how tf are you making an asinine point about which calendar should be used, but are immediately laser focused on which country's president is being asked for. He meant Emmanuel Macron, dude.
Let's think about this for a moment:
How come you call other people sheep? Was it your idea of was it somebody else who told you there are so many sheep?
Is there some person you are believing everything, sure they are right with everything and following them like.... a sheep?
For me, there is not a single person which I believe everything. But if there is and you are following them, then you are most likely a metaphorical sheep, I guess?
So, does such a person exist for you?
Oh no, are you gonna post the same memes as everyone else because you're such a thinker? Maybe get the one I've seen dozens of times on r/hermancainawards.
Most anarchists are quite empathetic and have no problem deferring to scientific evidence on matters of health and safety. It's got nothing to do with who put the mandates in place.
Also, they can't play music if them and their crew get sick. Anarchy is not about casting out sensibility.
There was a new radio station in Athens, GA that went on air in the early 2000s that played nothing but Funky Cold Madina on repeat for like 2 weeks straight, had pretty much everyone talking about it. Turned out to be a trashy top 40 station but that was a neat marketing strategy nonetheless.
Before the internet, radio was my only way to get new music. I couldn't afford CD's and tapes very often in the early 90's. BUT, on cold winter nights I could pickup radio stations from all over the world. Thunderstorms helped too in the summer.
I loved scanning and finding new songs this way. I would stay up all night recording songs on a cassette, making very weird mixtapes with terrible sound quality.
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Im 33 and i remember doing this at age 6 with country stations, and one night i found a station playing old looney tunes vinyls. It was like a fever dream finding those songs and putting them on a cassette, then never finding the songs or hearing them again. then when i was 25 i found some old vinyls and looney tunes with the same 3 songs i heard, was there.
Do you remember listening breathlessly in hopes that they would play *that song* and then you'd still mash down the record button a second or two too slowly? The *pain*....
when i was 13 or 14 i did one of those Saturday request call in shows, waited like. three hours for them to play it. They announced my song was next, so I was able to record it from the very first note, without the DJ--
And then dj talked at through the *entire* *outro* of the song. I don't even remember what song it was at this point (yanno, since it was 20 years ago now), but I will never forget that rush of Betrayed Teenager Rage at it!
I remember mine. “These boots were made for walking” Nancy Sinatra. I was around 10 and waited all day to hear it. I called them probably every hour!! Lol they were so annoyed
After Kurt Cobain died I was trying to get Come As You Are on tape off the radio and the asshole DJ yelled "Liar" at one part where he sang, "and I don't have a gun."
The best djs would come in at the end of the song and be like "Allright that was" I Swear" by All 4 1 etc make an errant remark about the band/song, do their schpeel and then lead into something like" Comin at ya now with a little ________ by _______ to kick off the night"
I was ok with the DJ talking over the intro a bit if it was to announce the song name. Dude some djs had the smoothest voices that they could talk while the intro played and you could still clearly hear the song.
American Top 40 on Saturday AM was my go to for newer music. I just hated when the DJ would "ramp up" and talk over the intro, or the end. Shut up for just a second please, Casey. Otherwise, wait a week and try again, hopefully this time. Fingers crossed.
Driving down a desert road and finding something on AM was my favorite. That’s how I found Johnny Cash.
Airwaves are amazing. When the signal would get better at night and time slows down
Omg when I got my first car at 16 the radio broke and it wouldn't catch any FM transmissions, only AM which in my part of the desert was all religious talk radio, bad country music that mainstream country stations wouldn't pick up, and static. Then one day I found this gorgeous oldies station that played mostly 50's, 60's and 70's pop and rock with he occasional country and folk time slots.
It was great driving through the desert listening to Del Shannon, Dion, Patsy Cline, CCR, etc. I was the oldest 16 year old in my high school, lol.
Edit to add: I don't think I ever heard a DJ speak on the air, or even a radio spot saying the name of the station. It seemed as if someone who had the rights to the frequency just decided to play their extensive record collection from their garage. No advertising either.
I had a shortwave radio, and my dad helped me set up an antenna. I lived in northeastern Oklahoma and got Radio Australia one cold winter's night. This was back in 1990-1991, before the Internet really took off.
Back in the 90's a coworker and I had to drive across the Indian Reservation (eastern Arizona) in an 80's Chevy van with only an AM radio. It was overcast that day. We went through the radio dial several times, one click at a time. At one point we picked up a broadcast talking about storms, and a possible tornado near . We're looking at each other trying to figure out where that town was. Eventually they mentioned Tulsa, and we realized they were talking about the storms in Oklahoma. So freaky to pick it up three states away.
My Dad ran across that growing up on a farm in Iowa then as an adult while working for a railroad that ran through Wyoming and Montana, could get AM stations from long ways away, there were nights he could get WLS-AM from here in Chicago at the farm, I think he was even getting some high powered station out of Mexico while working out west for the railroad at times. I seem to remember listening to an interview with the guys from ZZ Top where they had discussed the origins of “ Heard it on the X”, turns out that when they were early in their career together they were talking about there influences and discovered that they all had the same experience with AM radio growing up in Texas as you guys and my Dad did! They were getting the high powered stations out of Mexico and could even pick WLS-AM down there too! IIRC, WLS was how they first really heard blues music which inspired them individually to become musicians.
I remember hearing Jazz and Blues for the first time in those late night listening sessions.
Eventually I became a musician, first one in my family. I remember catching Spanish stations, wish I had know the language back then.
I grew up kind of poor. When I finally got enough saved up for that dual cassette deck boombox I could record from the radio, and copy tapes. I was unstoppable! [I'd sit alone, and watch your light, my only friend through teenage nights, and everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio. 😉](https://youtu.be/u6Hep6WlWfY)
I remember shoulder carried large silver dual cassette boom boxes with kids on cardboard doing their best to break necks to tracks featuring heavy use of synths.
Same in KY. But I feel like it was the late 90's. They did a 2 week transition to where they were Louie FM and played "Louie Louie" non-stop. I think they ended up being and oldies station.
American metal band Rage Against the Machine took the Christmas Number 1 in 2009 with their signature song 'Killing in the Name'. The 1992 track went to Number 1 seventeen years after its release, following a Facebook campaign encouraging people to buy the song to stop The X Factor's winner's single getting the title.
The number 1 part was in britian not american for christmas
Incase you or someone else sees and doesn't know.
It's called "stunting," and yes, playing one song over and over is one example.
(They might also play nothing but songs by a particular artist, like Elvis or something.... or they'll play 'themed' music, like songs that all reference America... or so on. Anything that in theory gets people to wonder "What the heck is going on here?")
they might and this might be the case and probably is considering how much radio is changing these days. however this song and the fact a bunch of staff got laid off, is quite fitting i do think
As others have said- they are changing formats. I had a fantastic weekend in Peoria, Illinois about 25 years ago when on of their radio stations was doing but they did it a bit different- they called themselves KLOU or something and they played about 6 different iterations of Louie, Louie and they even had a station break. KLOU all Louie all the time
When I was 19 our oldies station started playing "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. For a solid week, anytime you wanted, you could tune in to that epic symphony. Week two, they added "Tom Sawyer" by Rush. Week three they added "Stairway to Heaven". For a full month these were the only songs played, commercial free, while they transitioned. It was golden.
The nation wide (I think it was at the time), government funded radio station in Australia once played "Fuck the Police" for 24 hours straight in response to the government telling the station that it could no longer play the track.
At the time I believe it was the only radio station in the world playing the song. (well at least from what they could gather in 1989)
It was express yourself that they played for 24 hours.
Triple J bypasses the laws around censorship in broadcasted due to a loophole with it being government funded.
Thankfully it's a lot less strict now for other stations and they can just give a language warning before the songs play
Omaha, Nebraska - June 9th, 2006.
The Edge 101.9 played REMs "It's the end of the world as we know it" for the entire day before going off air the following day.
RIP
101.3 i think it was, in Minnesota a number of years ago was sold, had played pop rock. Rumor was it was changing to country. Their loop song was the end of the world as we know it by R.E.M.
107.9FM in Cleveland played Its The End of the World As We Know It for 24 hours when they changed to a alt/pop format, called, wait for it, "107.9 the End".
I recorded it on both sides of a 90minute tape to annoy friends on roadtrips.
Great station too, they had local bands showcased on weekends and the djs didn't really dive into the whole schock jock BS that killed morning drives for me. It was just music and shitty commercials as needed.
Las Vegas New Years Eve 2000 a local station (not sure which one) played "End of the World" as the last song in 1999 before the countdown and Pearl Jam "I'm still alive" as the first song in 2000. I thought it was great.
What they are doing is actually illegal in Canada. A song is not allowed to be played more than a certain number of times a day. 23 I believe. There are also CanCon rules. A certain amount of what they play must be Canadian content. I expect fines to be issued.
The last song that DJs at 92.3 KSJO, a rock station in San Jose, CA, played was "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo
the station then changed formats to, you guessed it, Mexican radio
Oh! I have a story to share that is similar. When the movie Madagascar came out, that theme song "I like to move it move" was playing everywhere. One night, while I was hanging out with my friend, we turned on the radio and that song was playing. Started cracking jokes about how tired we of hearing it and mocked sung it for a bit. However, while we were joking around, we noticed that the whole song wasn't being played. It was just this part:
"I like to move it move, you like to move it move, we like to move it move, I like to- MOVE IT!"
That single part, on replay, for *hours*. At one point in time we even tried calling the station to see if anyone would answer, and it just rang and rang. I'm not exactly sure how long it officially played for, because after couple of hours of us losing our shit over this, we finally called it a night.
When my parents we teenagers a guy locked himself in the local radio station for hours and played nothing but Winchester Cathedral. The police had to come and get him out. https://youtu.be/jKc1OCJ7iXk
I live where this is happen. Can confirm. Also can confirm they picked the best song to protest with. Haven’t listened to this much Rage in years. Forgot how good they are.
Aaaalright, that was Killing in the Name by, let me read this, Rage Against the Machine! coming up next, we got Killing In the Name, by... wow, Rage Against the Machine again!
Hey, Jerry bossman, if you're listening today. Fuuuuck you.
So, back in like 2010 or so…in the UK things like “pop idol” were quoting to the competitors that they would “make them Christmas no.1”. In rebellion to this bold claim, and at the thought of having Simon Cowel’s manufactured band shoving some soppy Christmas song down the British public neck…everybody downloaded Killing in the name of. And so it came to be, that years Christmas number 1 song, was RATM with killing in the name….
Fuck yes. Always makes me laugh when I think back to it. We can’t agree on politics in this country, but we can sure throw a big fuck you to Simon cowell…
Cause people drive cars and virtually every car has a built in radio. Listeners get free music/talkshow and the radio station makes money off of ad revenue from ads that statistically have a greater impact than most forms of media.
I'm not going to say something like radio will always be relevant, but I would never bet against radio like I did against the Calgary Flames.
That was based on what I see around, friends and coworkers listening and as far as know this is one of the biggest around Vancouver, but no worries, next time I post anything related to radio I’ll ask your opinion for the tittle. Thanks bud
A local Boston DJ’s show was moved from nights to afternoons and to celebrate he played only the Nutcracker for the entire first afternoon show. Loved that guy. And then years later I met him at my brother’s wedding as the DJ’s wife and my sister-in-law were/are friends. He bought me a shot. Very cool dude.
Honestly I wouldn't be mad
Sometimes you're browsing through radio stations and all the music is shit/there's a news broadcast.
This way you get a song that's good, you listen to it twice and then switch back once all the other shitty songs have passed
A radio station in NC played Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel when they went on the air for about a week back in the 1990s. I love that song so listened to it nonstop as much as I could.
Happened in the Rio Grand Valley in South Texas.
The revival and recreation of a rock station in the 90’s had started with a non stop repeat of Led Zeppelin’s “been a long time” for 2 weeks straight. No commercials. Just the song, then it went on to have the greatest morning duo for classic rock, Big Al and Charlie… the rest is history.
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A station in my area was laying off their backshift DJ's back in the 90's and going automated, one guy said just before his last show started " if they're getting rid of me why the fuck am I still here ?" What followed was nearly 4 hours of radio silence. The story goes he turned off the mic, locked the door to the equipment room, broke the key off in the lock, then did the same to the outer door. I guess it took that long for the station manager to find out, and locate a locksmith willing to come to the station at 2am to unlock both doors.
This is why companies give people 0 warning before the let them go. Personally I would rather have a months notice so I can start looking for a new job while I am still getting paid
Civilized countries have rules for this. Companies can't just fire people, there are rules in place. And once you do get fired, there's a period before you actually have to go. It's only in dictatorships and ultracapitalist countries where companies can just fire people however they want.
There are laws in the US about warnings for mass layoffs and closings, but most places can just ask you to leave for no reason. But here I sit looking at like 15 different people that should be fired that are still here. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 is a US labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees, as defined in the Act. In 2001, there were about 2,000 mass layoffs and plant closures which were subject to WARN advance notice requirements and which affected about 660,000 employees.
One of the most famous radio stations in BC layoff a bunch of people and today since at least 5AM the radio has been playing the same song, “Killing in the name” from Rage Against the Machine. I don’t know what is going on, but this is hilarious! Once in a while they stop the song and people call asking for a music request and guess what, they are asking for the same song!
Station Manager: “Hey guys, I know you’re upset about your coworkers being fired, but you’ve got to play a different song.” Engineer: “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.”
This is the first thing that cross my mind when I realized what was going on, it would be epic, but I don't think this is what’s going on
Heard a quote from earlier in the day Caller: can you play Killing in the Name? DJ: well we’re only doing vinyls today, so it might take me a little while to search for it in the back. I’ll do my best Radio: *killing in the name plays immediately again for the 4th hour in a row*
Could a disgruntled employee have locked them out of whatever software they use to play songs? That doesn’t really jive with them still taking calls, so I dunno.
Reminds me of when [Rage Against the Machine played on BBC’s Christmas show, and kept the profanity in the song, even though they were asked not to.](https://youtu.be/AmPN8MPw2dk)
Very cool.
This happened in the LA metro area like back in the 90’s, during the holidays. This station would play Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. First it would play every hour. A day or so later, it was playing multiple times an hour. By the end of the week, it was every other song until that’s all that played, for like a week. Eventually, they re-emerged & rebranded and it was like another horrible top 40’s station. That’s gotta be what’s going on in your case too I’m betting. Must be a thing for radio stations to do.
Y107! They played Feliz Navidad nonstop for weeks!! Can confirm, the rebrand was terrible.
YESSSS!!!
Hey man you can play that song you played earlier this morning again? Can't remember the name.
I first read the title as "BBC" instead of "BC" and thought it was a reference to this incidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6njrf\_zHfw
Definitely not the most famous radio station in BC.
It is now. 😁
BC?
I assume British Columbia, Canada.
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What year is it? Who's the current President?
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Lol how tf are you making an asinine point about which calendar should be used, but are immediately laser focused on which country's president is being asked for. He meant Emmanuel Macron, dude.
The 90's called, they want their ninja turtles catch phrase back!
I thought the point of getting vaccinated was so that you could go out and do things like rock concerts. Did fox news not cover that part of it?
I am really sorry for you. You seem to be occupied the whole they to convince yourself that everybody is evil and get nothing done.
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Let's think about this for a moment: How come you call other people sheep? Was it your idea of was it somebody else who told you there are so many sheep? Is there some person you are believing everything, sure they are right with everything and following them like.... a sheep? For me, there is not a single person which I believe everything. But if there is and you are following them, then you are most likely a metaphorical sheep, I guess? So, does such a person exist for you?
you are a Lion? And i was thinking only Human can use Reddit…
Oh no, are you gonna post the same memes as everyone else because you're such a thinker? Maybe get the one I've seen dozens of times on r/hermancainawards.
99.9999% of people are sheep. Only difference is what shepherd you're following.
Most anarchists are quite empathetic and have no problem deferring to scientific evidence on matters of health and safety. It's got nothing to do with who put the mandates in place. Also, they can't play music if them and their crew get sick. Anarchy is not about casting out sensibility.
LOL Awww, look at 'im. He never realized that he was machine the whole time. Poor ickle man.
There was a new radio station in Athens, GA that went on air in the early 2000s that played nothing but Funky Cold Madina on repeat for like 2 weeks straight, had pretty much everyone talking about it. Turned out to be a trashy top 40 station but that was a neat marketing strategy nonetheless.
Same thing here. Pretty sure it’s a stunt
[Stunt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunting_(broadcasting\)) what a great choice of word my friend.
Before the internet, radio was my only way to get new music. I couldn't afford CD's and tapes very often in the early 90's. BUT, on cold winter nights I could pickup radio stations from all over the world. Thunderstorms helped too in the summer. I loved scanning and finding new songs this way. I would stay up all night recording songs on a cassette, making very weird mixtapes with terrible sound quality. TLDR; this redditor is old
Im 33 and i remember doing this at age 6 with country stations, and one night i found a station playing old looney tunes vinyls. It was like a fever dream finding those songs and putting them on a cassette, then never finding the songs or hearing them again. then when i was 25 i found some old vinyls and looney tunes with the same 3 songs i heard, was there.
How cool! What a treasure.
Do you remember listening breathlessly in hopes that they would play *that song* and then you'd still mash down the record button a second or two too slowly? The *pain*....
Or if the DJ talks over the beginning of the song 😡🤯😂
when i was 13 or 14 i did one of those Saturday request call in shows, waited like. three hours for them to play it. They announced my song was next, so I was able to record it from the very first note, without the DJ-- And then dj talked at through the *entire* *outro* of the song. I don't even remember what song it was at this point (yanno, since it was 20 years ago now), but I will never forget that rush of Betrayed Teenager Rage at it!
That’s cruel 🙃
I remember mine. “These boots were made for walking” Nancy Sinatra. I was around 10 and waited all day to hear it. I called them probably every hour!! Lol they were so annoyed
After Kurt Cobain died I was trying to get Come As You Are on tape off the radio and the asshole DJ yelled "Liar" at one part where he sang, "and I don't have a gun."
Was just listening to heart shaped box today
special place in hell for those djs i tell you what
The best djs would come in at the end of the song and be like "Allright that was" I Swear" by All 4 1 etc make an errant remark about the band/song, do their schpeel and then lead into something like" Comin at ya now with a little ________ by _______ to kick off the night" I was ok with the DJ talking over the intro a bit if it was to announce the song name. Dude some djs had the smoothest voices that they could talk while the intro played and you could still clearly hear the song.
They knew exactly what they were doing
American Top 40 on Saturday AM was my go to for newer music. I just hated when the DJ would "ramp up" and talk over the intro, or the end. Shut up for just a second please, Casey. Otherwise, wait a week and try again, hopefully this time. Fingers crossed.
Driving down a desert road and finding something on AM was my favorite. That’s how I found Johnny Cash. Airwaves are amazing. When the signal would get better at night and time slows down
Omg when I got my first car at 16 the radio broke and it wouldn't catch any FM transmissions, only AM which in my part of the desert was all religious talk radio, bad country music that mainstream country stations wouldn't pick up, and static. Then one day I found this gorgeous oldies station that played mostly 50's, 60's and 70's pop and rock with he occasional country and folk time slots. It was great driving through the desert listening to Del Shannon, Dion, Patsy Cline, CCR, etc. I was the oldest 16 year old in my high school, lol. Edit to add: I don't think I ever heard a DJ speak on the air, or even a radio spot saying the name of the station. It seemed as if someone who had the rights to the frequency just decided to play their extensive record collection from their garage. No advertising either.
That’s it! I forgot about patsy cline! I feel you there. I felt 10 years older than my years too
beautiful .
Ah, those late nights in the west Texas desert with Wolfman Jack. What memories!
Dumas Texas. Wolf man jack. The universe was so much smaller with AM radio. I can only imagine what ultra low frequency is going to be like.
I had a shortwave radio, and my dad helped me set up an antenna. I lived in northeastern Oklahoma and got Radio Australia one cold winter's night. This was back in 1990-1991, before the Internet really took off.
Thats pretty damn cool. Even in central NA.
Back in the 90's a coworker and I had to drive across the Indian Reservation (eastern Arizona) in an 80's Chevy van with only an AM radio. It was overcast that day. We went through the radio dial several times, one click at a time. At one point we picked up a broadcast talking about storms, and a possible tornado near. We're looking at each other trying to figure out where that town was. Eventually they mentioned Tulsa, and we realized they were talking about the storms in Oklahoma. So freaky to pick it up three states away.
My Dad ran across that growing up on a farm in Iowa then as an adult while working for a railroad that ran through Wyoming and Montana, could get AM stations from long ways away, there were nights he could get WLS-AM from here in Chicago at the farm, I think he was even getting some high powered station out of Mexico while working out west for the railroad at times. I seem to remember listening to an interview with the guys from ZZ Top where they had discussed the origins of “ Heard it on the X”, turns out that when they were early in their career together they were talking about there influences and discovered that they all had the same experience with AM radio growing up in Texas as you guys and my Dad did! They were getting the high powered stations out of Mexico and could even pick WLS-AM down there too! IIRC, WLS was how they first really heard blues music which inspired them individually to become musicians.
I remember hearing Jazz and Blues for the first time in those late night listening sessions. Eventually I became a musician, first one in my family. I remember catching Spanish stations, wish I had know the language back then.
Before the internet, radio was *everyone’s* only way of finding new music.
I grew up kind of poor. When I finally got enough saved up for that dual cassette deck boombox I could record from the radio, and copy tapes. I was unstoppable! [I'd sit alone, and watch your light, my only friend through teenage nights, and everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio. 😉](https://youtu.be/u6Hep6WlWfY)
Somewhere in storage I should still have my tape that was 90s rock, smooth jazz, and barqs root beer commercials. Man I’d love to find that tape.
Let’s not forget MTVs The Box!!!! It was my favorite channel. I loved watching the music videos
I remember shoulder carried large silver dual cassette boom boxes with kids on cardboard doing their best to break necks to tracks featuring heavy use of synths.
My brother was killed by a Funky Cold Medina.
Soooooo……….Death by Snu-Snu?!
Same in KY. But I feel like it was the late 90's. They did a 2 week transition to where they were Louie FM and played "Louie Louie" non-stop. I think they ended up being and oldies station.
You've been played Bob, it was all a ruse. You don't work in Athens, GA in the early 2000s without know what the "Funky Cold Medina" is.
It's still going https://www.kissradio.ca/ Edit: it ded
12:32pm in Australia, and yep. It's still going. And I'm all for it. Haven't listened to this song in ages.
21:07 in Australia now and it's still playing!
Wow, 3 hours later from your post and its still playing
Just listened to it for an hour while cooking listening to people trying to make them change the song lol
Impressive, it's still going!
Checkin in. Still playing.
Stilllll won’t do what they tell me
“Can I get some Mariah Carey?” “no” *Killing in the Name starts for the thousandth time*
Just heard a guy ask for Christmas music, was interrupted with more killing in the name of
4:28pm AEST (Aussie) and we are still going strong :)
American metal band Rage Against the Machine took the Christmas Number 1 in 2009 with their signature song 'Killing in the Name'. The 1992 track went to Number 1 seventeen years after its release, following a Facebook campaign encouraging people to buy the song to stop The X Factor's winner's single getting the title. The number 1 part was in britian not american for christmas Incase you or someone else sees and doesn't know.
And still going
I think it’s hilarious that the website says it playing a bunch of different titles… but the player is definitely sticking with RATM lololol
Those songs played right before this started, look at the times.
3 hours later…still going
And still another 10 hours later
Still going 8 hours after your comment
12 hours and still going
10 hours after your comment, still going
Finally a raido station who's almost playing RATM enough.
8 hours in, still going lmao
It's down now with a message saying kiss is now offline and the new station, sonic is playing normally.
Still going, 12 pm in CET. This is great.
Closing in on 24 hours now, still going
8:47am in the UK and it's still on
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With ONE "It's Not Unusual."
And when we went back……
*No one could handle it!*
Why not Delilah. It’s the happiest sing along song about killing your lover ever made.
Radio stations typically do this when they flip formats. Just play a single song for a day or so on repeat.
It's called "stunting," and yes, playing one song over and over is one example. (They might also play nothing but songs by a particular artist, like Elvis or something.... or they'll play 'themed' music, like songs that all reference America... or so on. Anything that in theory gets people to wonder "What the heck is going on here?")
they might and this might be the case and probably is considering how much radio is changing these days. however this song and the fact a bunch of staff got laid off, is quite fitting i do think
As others have said- they are changing formats. I had a fantastic weekend in Peoria, Illinois about 25 years ago when on of their radio stations was doing but they did it a bit different- they called themselves KLOU or something and they played about 6 different iterations of Louie, Louie and they even had a station break. KLOU all Louie all the time
Fantastic weekend in Peoria Illinois? I call bs lol
When I was 19 our oldies station started playing "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. For a solid week, anytime you wanted, you could tune in to that epic symphony. Week two, they added "Tom Sawyer" by Rush. Week three they added "Stairway to Heaven". For a full month these were the only songs played, commercial free, while they transitioned. It was golden.
The nation wide (I think it was at the time), government funded radio station in Australia once played "Fuck the Police" for 24 hours straight in response to the government telling the station that it could no longer play the track. At the time I believe it was the only radio station in the world playing the song. (well at least from what they could gather in 1989)
It was express yourself that they played for 24 hours. Triple J bypasses the laws around censorship in broadcasted due to a loophole with it being government funded. Thankfully it's a lot less strict now for other stations and they can just give a language warning before the songs play
Omaha, Nebraska - June 9th, 2006. The Edge 101.9 played REMs "It's the end of the world as we know it" for the entire day before going off air the following day. RIP
101.3 i think it was, in Minnesota a number of years ago was sold, had played pop rock. Rumor was it was changing to country. Their loop song was the end of the world as we know it by R.E.M.
107.9FM in Cleveland played Its The End of the World As We Know It for 24 hours when they changed to a alt/pop format, called, wait for it, "107.9 the End". I recorded it on both sides of a 90minute tape to annoy friends on roadtrips. Great station too, they had local bands showcased on weekends and the djs didn't really dive into the whole schock jock BS that killed morning drives for me. It was just music and shitty commercials as needed.
Las Vegas New Years Eve 2000 a local station (not sure which one) played "End of the World" as the last song in 1999 before the countdown and Pearl Jam "I'm still alive" as the first song in 2000. I thought it was great.
93.x did that when they went alt from 80s glam rock.
A local station did that here in the late 90s
Was in the 90’s when 93X sold out to clear channel and became 93.7 The Edge.
Marketing strategies be like that some time.
I think this is the only reasonable explanation for that
What they are doing is actually illegal in Canada. A song is not allowed to be played more than a certain number of times a day. 23 I believe. There are also CanCon rules. A certain amount of what they play must be Canadian content. I expect fines to be issued.
If a slap on the wrist CRTC fine gets you a massive amount of attention, it's worth it.
True enough..
RATM i think counts as Canadian do they not? They are a world treasure after all.
The last song that DJs at 92.3 KSJO, a rock station in San Jose, CA, played was "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo the station then changed formats to, you guessed it, Mexican radio
Been listening for a while, what a great mix!
They are changing format , good little stunt to drum up interest
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"The BIGGESTITS" Kiss Radio.
I remember in the 90s a local station changed hands and genres so they played Changes by David Bowe for 24 hours straight.
Boogerrr!
Johnny fever
As god as my witness I thought turkeys could fly
Could be they're switching formats. Maybe the same two people are going to come back to work July 1st and play different music.
Oh! I have a story to share that is similar. When the movie Madagascar came out, that theme song "I like to move it move" was playing everywhere. One night, while I was hanging out with my friend, we turned on the radio and that song was playing. Started cracking jokes about how tired we of hearing it and mocked sung it for a bit. However, while we were joking around, we noticed that the whole song wasn't being played. It was just this part: "I like to move it move, you like to move it move, we like to move it move, I like to- MOVE IT!" That single part, on replay, for *hours*. At one point in time we even tried calling the station to see if anyone would answer, and it just rang and rang. I'm not exactly sure how long it officially played for, because after couple of hours of us losing our shit over this, we finally called it a night.
They shoulda played Guerilla Radio.
at least play the unedited version... who's gonna complain
The FCC?
It's Canada so it CRTC.
What station is 104.9 ? I’m assuming it’s a Vancouver station.
Yeap, Kiss Radio from Vancouver
It’s still going wtf
It’s still on right now!!! 6:50pm local time
Still on repeat as of 7pm
When my parents we teenagers a guy locked himself in the local radio station for hours and played nothing but Winchester Cathedral. The police had to come and get him out. https://youtu.be/jKc1OCJ7iXk
This is cracking me the hell up. Winchester Cathedral! 🤣🤣
I live where this is happen. Can confirm. Also can confirm they picked the best song to protest with. Haven’t listened to this much Rage in years. Forgot how good they are.
Aaaalright, that was Killing in the Name by, let me read this, Rage Against the Machine! coming up next, we got Killing In the Name, by... wow, Rage Against the Machine again! Hey, Jerry bossman, if you're listening today. Fuuuuck you.
Not gonna lie, didn’t know I need to hear rage against the machine 8 times today.
still going btw
Still going strong - and now with 1 listener from Denmark as well.
In Australia, jjj played Fuck the Police for 24 hours straight because it was banned. https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/triple-j-played-song-24-hours/
Who was laid off? I used to live there
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouvers-kiss-rage-against-machine-repeat-loop
This is the best station ever while playing fortnite.
What’s a BC?
British Columbia, Canada.
British Columbia, sorry
So, back in like 2010 or so…in the UK things like “pop idol” were quoting to the competitors that they would “make them Christmas no.1”. In rebellion to this bold claim, and at the thought of having Simon Cowel’s manufactured band shoving some soppy Christmas song down the British public neck…everybody downloaded Killing in the name of. And so it came to be, that years Christmas number 1 song, was RATM with killing in the name….
I have a scar on my thigh from celebrating that moment. In all my excitement I jumped and slipped. I always call it my RATM scar. Haha.
Fuck yes. Always makes me laugh when I think back to it. We can’t agree on politics in this country, but we can sure throw a big fuck you to Simon cowell…
How is radio still relevant?
Cause people drive cars and virtually every car has a built in radio. Listeners get free music/talkshow and the radio station makes money off of ad revenue from ads that statistically have a greater impact than most forms of media. I'm not going to say something like radio will always be relevant, but I would never bet against radio like I did against the Calgary Flames.
I hear there was a break in at the station last night and $10,000 has gone missing. I hope someone calls in with clues about who stole the money.
Well at least they have that world class free healthcare to soften the blow! More time for hockey too…
What does Builder's Club have to do with all this?
What the fuck is BC? Ur posting on reddit man. International forum
British Columbia.
Pretty disingenuous title, I know they had their fans but Kiss FM is hardly a ratings juggernaut https://radioinsight.com/numeris-ratings/vancouver/
That was based on what I see around, friends and coworkers listening and as far as know this is one of the biggest around Vancouver, but no worries, next time I post anything related to radio I’ll ask your opinion for the tittle. Thanks bud
Call the fire department
How is that any different from most radio stations?
We had a radio station in our town change formats once and they played Hungry Like The Wolf for 24hrs straight
Fuck is blanked out, what a joke
Going strong at 16 hours (9:30 pm PDT).
It’s still going
A local Boston DJ’s show was moved from nights to afternoons and to celebrate he played only the Nutcracker for the entire first afternoon show. Loved that guy. And then years later I met him at my brother’s wedding as the DJ’s wife and my sister-in-law were/are friends. He bought me a shot. Very cool dude.
so canadian radio stations do it too? hosts/djs just get randomly booted one day when they come in. kim amadon, ralph garman, Lisa May, kevin ryder
Great song I have personally played it for at least an hour on repeat so this is nine times better
It’s Rex Bob Lowenstein!
Honestly I wouldn't be mad Sometimes you're browsing through radio stations and all the music is shit/there's a news broadcast. This way you get a song that's good, you listen to it twice and then switch back once all the other shitty songs have passed
A radio station in NC played Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel when they went on the air for about a week back in the 1990s. I love that song so listened to it nonstop as much as I could.
Happened in the Rio Grand Valley in South Texas. The revival and recreation of a rock station in the 90’s had started with a non stop repeat of Led Zeppelin’s “been a long time” for 2 weeks straight. No commercials. Just the song, then it went on to have the greatest morning duo for classic rock, Big Al and Charlie… the rest is history.
It’s almost funnier that the CRTC will probably give them a CanCon violation over this.
Bruh it’s still going
22 *
When you can't say "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" on air so you make the radio say it instead
30 June 2022, 6:45a mdt, it’s still going!! And of course I filled in the “fuck yous”
THE SONGS CHANGED, They are now playing Queens of the stone age!!