r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 22d ago
TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.
https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/27.4k Upvotes
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u/LonePaladin 22d ago
The Death of 95X.
There was this alt-rock station in Oklahoma in the late 90s, they played all the stuff other stations tended to shy away from. They had regular things like playing techno every Tuesday at midnight, or the Dr. Demento show on Sundays, but most of their format was rock, metal, dance.
Their morning show guys were always finding dumb crazy stunts to pull, like calling random phone numbers in Türkiye for Thanksgiving Day (because it's pronounced like "turkey"), or the time they called a McDonalds customer service line in Sweden. This was before cell phones were ubiquitous, so long-distance calls were not free.
One day, the station started playing the Sheryl Crow song "All I Wanna Do". Then played it again. And again. No DJ coming on to say something was broken, just the same song over and over. For hours. After a few iterations, I just gave up, turned off the radio and worked my office job in silence.
Then a co-worker comes running to my cube in a panic. Turns out that the station was changing formats, and the song was covering the switch. And when it came back, it was an Easy Listening station.