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Article #99Re: KJ104 Going Country -- What You Can Do
From: Peter Palmer,#Rich Franta
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:03
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:03
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In article 12LDPB2w165w@cybrspc.UUCP, roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >qplp@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Pete Palmer) writes: > >> That's right, Modern Rock 104 is switching to a Country format on >> September 8th. Instead of getting out the moonshine, kicking the >> dog, and whining about your broken heart, you can help save the best >> format the Twin Cities have ever had. > >With the worst signal profile, I might add. I used to like listening, >but 104 won't come in reliably at home, and not at all where I work. > >But to the point... write it off and hope another station picks up the >format. This decision was most likely mandated by absentee owners, and >the local manager had/has little control over it. It wouldn't surprise >me if the manager was about to be fired, as well. (I don't have any >inside information, but I was in radio for a number of years, and I've >seen this type of thing many times before) >-- >Due to failure of my mail connection, please use the following emergency > addresses to reply: >roy%cybrspc@tfsquad.mn.org cybrspc!roy@tfsquad.mn.org roy@tfsquad.mn.org Roy is correct. KJJO is owned by Park Communications in Ithica. KJJO is collecting all mail and FAXes (KJJO's FAX number is 941-8750) and sending them on to Park. If you wish to contact Park directly, here's the address: Park Communication P.O. Box 550 Terrace Hill Ithica, NY 14851 (607) 272-9020 Joke from a friend: What Happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife and job back and you quit drinking. What do you get when you play New Age music Backwards? New Age music.
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Newsgroups: mn.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!willow33!n3884 From: n3884@cray.com (Peter Palmer,#Rich Franta) Subject: Re: KJ104 Going Country -- What You Can Do Message-ID: <1992Aug12.100342.25336@hemlock.cray.com> Lines: 42 Reply-To: n3884@cray.com Organization: Cray Research, Inc. References: <12LDPB2w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 92 10:03:42 CDT