Worst Moments From Your Local Radio Station

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

DJ: Welcome to the one hit wonder weekend!

*plays Rolling Stones*

[Paul]

My favorite Oldies station flipped to brokered Religious programing.

[Spider2024]

Oct 20, 2018 7:29:08 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

DJ: Welcome to the one hit wonder weekend!

*plays Rolling Stones*

I mean, Jimi Hendrix, technically. But, The Rolling Stones?

[Deleted]

I was listening to a radio station at a friend's when the transport news said their were holdups because of someone threatening suicide.

The jerkass DJ played 'Jump' by Van Halen.

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Oct 20, 2018 7:36:31 GMT -5 Paul said:

My favorite Oldies station flipped to brokered Religious programing.

The one oldies station we had (104.3 WJMK) became a JackFM affiliate.
Took a while before Chicago got another one. WLS simulcast news/talk on both AM & FM, so they turned their FM station back in time and brought back the days when they were "The Big 89". Even brought back Larry Lujack to spin the wax.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Playing JLo's "Jenny on the Block" 3 damn times within a half hour...

[jagilki]

Don't really listen to the local station that much. Nothing really "wrong" with it. Just prefer to listen to RadioClassics on XM.

Local station though, never really had anything too noticeable like that.

When we go deer hunting / camping, we get a station for a town closer to there (we can get it when we get about 5 miles out of my home town) and in the mornings they go to all the Senior Citizens centers throughout the region and have updates on the old farts.

A few years ago the update was "It's Bills 80th today. Since he can't eat cake, he had pancakes. They were good."

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Oct 20, 2018 8:28:38 GMT -5 @sandman said:

Oct 20, 2018 7:36:31 GMT -5 Paul said:

My favorite Oldies station flipped to brokered Religious programing.

The one oldies station we had (104.3 WJMK) became a JackFM affiliate.
Took a while before Chicago got another one. WLS simulcast news/talk on both AM & FM, so they turned their FM station back in time and brought back the days when they were "The Big 89". Even brought back Larry Lujack to spin the wax.

Ugh. That happened in Indianapolis, too. The oldies station (which was originally a rock station) became a JackFM affiliate, and then went back to classic rock, where it has managed to become the #2 station in the city, which me and my brother have playing all the time in our apartment. Honestly, the oldies station introduced me to the most campy song there was; "In The Year 2525".

Earlier this year, I discovered a hard rock/metal station in Indianapolis, and thought that was too good to be true. Turns out... it was, as less than two months after discovering it, they transitioned into Mexican radio. Now, what I'm about to say may be off-color, but just hear me out; the problem with Mexican stations in Indianapolis is that they all play the same genre of music; Mariachi bands. I know how vibrant Mexican music can be, but listening to the same trombones and maracas over 4 AM and 3 FM stations is madness, especially given that Indianapolis hadn't had a hard rock station since the hard rock station became alternative where Nirvana is about as hardcore as they are willing to get.

[James Fabiano]

CBS-FM becomes Jack.

[Tiger Millionaire]

When they brought 30 drunkards to the NFL Draft to boo Donovan McNabb.

[James Fabiano]

Many years ago, New Jersey 101.5 had a couple of hosts eventually get sued by Pennsylvania kiddie host/icon Sally Starr for calling her "that lesbian cowgirl."

More recently on the station, there was the "turban man" incident.

I'm also sure you've heard of the misadventures of Craig Carton by now.

Opie and Anthony were based out of NYC, no? Probably won't count cause they're syndicated, but...nuff said.

The revolving door of formats on 102.7 FM After O&A got kicked off the station, they became a women's talk channel, a light talk channel, then Fresh 102.7 (easy listening/pop from the 80s and up). Now they re-adopted the WNEW call letters and promote "upbeat" music.

The former 92.3 K-ROCK becoming a talk station around the time of the CBS/Jack change. Turned back before the return of the CBS-FM name, then became a Top 40 channel, seems it's rock again now though.

[Cyno]

It's not K-ROCK anymore, but at least Alt 92.3 plays actual rock music again. Though it's a lot more of an eclectic selection than K-ROCK used to be, with more alternative stuff than like, Metallica or AC/DC or whathaveyou.

Then again, we have WRAT and WDHA to play that stuff in NJ, so 92.3 is a nice alternative to them.

Speaking of NJ music, the great cardinal sin in terms of robbing us of a fantastic radio station was the format change to FM106.3. 106.3 was an institution of the NJ alternative and punk scene, especially when Matt Pinfield was there. They played a ton of great music, including a lot of stuff from up-and-coming bands. Then they changed into a more mainstream station, though they pivoted back to rock and punk for awhile. Then the great betrayal came about when they format changed to a Top 40 station without any prior announcement, then a country station after that bombed. And it's been that ever since.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

One local dj called the town I live in a trailer park

[G✇JI☈A]

About a decade ago Triple M Melbourne a part of the Austero network axed a popular comedy show called “Get This” hosted by comedian Tony Martin.

The reason I have heard was it rated well, but the audience was too niche. The show used a lot of nerd based humour like movie and scripted tv talk. While the station was considered a “Blokey” station (bloke is Australian slang, it’s like the American term Bro) with a heavy emphasis on sport (they do live calls of AFL, and NRL matches), and station higher ups did not like that the audience would tune in for Get This and then switch off as soon it was over.

Radio management is wierd.

[MC Blowfish]

A couple of weeks after Kurt Cobain killed himself. They played "Come As You Are" and after it was over. The DJ got back on the air and said something like "well I guess he did have a gun".

[The Ichi]

Chris Evans*: "Oh you like this song? It'd be a shame if I talked over the whole thing."

*Radio DJ in the UK, not the one you're thinking of

[Sir Woodrow]

Oct 20, 2018 20:05:57 GMT -5 MC Blowfish said:

A couple of weeks after Kurt Cobain killed himself. They played "Come As You Are" and after it was over. The DJ got back on the air and said something like "well I guess he did have a gun".

The day Kurt Cobain committed suicide a local community station in my town played Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana"

[Long A, Short A]

Oct 20, 2018 14:58:01 GMT -5 Brood Lone Wolf Funker said:

One local dj called the town I live in a trailer park

Was his name McGregor? That dudes got fired because someone vandalized NSYNC's bus and somehow someway he was called out for inciting the act.

One of the local rock stations changed it's format to sock rock the Monday after Woodstock 99.

None of the local rock stations keep their place on the radio dial paid up, their call letters change every other year.

The local old school hip hop station turned to and old school alternative station on labor day weekend and everyone roasted them for it.

The other radio moment is more funny than anything and it belongs in the wrestling section.

[ayumidah]

Oct 20, 2018 14:58:01 GMT -5 Brood Lone Wolf Funker said:

One local dj called the town I live in a trailer park

For literal years the radio station I listen to regularly made jokes about my town and the town next to it being nothing but methheads (which... there are a lot of meth lab explosions/arrests in the area so you couldn't really ARGUE it...). I'm not very excitable so any time I'd call in and win tickets or something, the deejay would inevitably ask if I was smoking because I'd just be like "Hey... cool" haha. Then a few years back they were like "Hey so we've decided to stop making fun of our neighboring towns and show the love to everyone, so, towns, we like you now!" It was so random, ha.


But I think the most annoying thing my radio station's ever done is they changed call numbers about probably 15 years back or so and the deejays were making a big deal about it, claiming they were going to have a huge farewell party just before they switched over, and they were going to do as much of it on-air as they could, and yada. So I tuned in, expecting to hear something special about the switch over or whatever, and... nope. They played Green Day's Time Of Your Life on repeat. For over an hour straight. I still remember that night whenever I hear that song, haha.

[Derk!]

Don't listen to the radio aside from I hear my dad play.

The worst I can think of was when a station played Tone Loc's(I think) Wild thing for 24 hours because it was rebranding itself as WILD.

KZEP becoming a contemporary or hip-hop station(when there were a few of those here as it is)

KISS being afraid of playing anything after mid 2000's or anything aside from certain bands big hits.