Animal nicknames for radio stations

[Dan Strassberg]

Good to know that North America's only indigenous marsupial has a station
named for it. I know of no stations named for other marsupials, but KGRU
(kanguru) and WLBY (wallaby) come quickly to mind--along with slogans such
as "You're hoppin' with the Kanguru." There must be "pocket" puns for these
also, but all I can think of are giveaways of money to put in your, umm,
pocket.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Pappalardo <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
To: Roy Lawrence <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>; <raccoonradio@myway.com>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Animal nicknames for radio stations


> There is a station in the South I hear on my teks down there (in Va?)
called
> "The Possum!".
>
> They tease going to the stop-set by saying "12 more Possum tracks are
coming
> up!"
>
> The billboard on the highway is the call letter/frequency...with possum
> footprints going across it.  ;-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Lawrence" <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>
> To: <raccoonradio@myway.com>
> Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Animal nicknames for radio stations
>
>
> > Here in the Bay area we have - 95.7 "The Bear"
> > (Country) owned by Bonneville Broadcasting, 104.1 "The
> > Hawk" (Classic Rock) in Modesto owned by Citidel
> > Communications, and in that same cluster 103.3 "Cat
> > Country". We even have weather named stations too,
> > "Sunny 102.3" and 104.5/97.7 K-FOG (Our WBOS of the
> > West Coast). Back in my native state, Maine has 92.3
> > "The Moose" (CHR). Does anyone recall the television
> > spot the old "FM-103" in Portland used days prior to
> > their launch from the beautiful music format? It was
> > when they announced "the end of boring radio in
> > Portland" sporting a monkey with a banana dancing
> > around on an office desk with the voice person saying
> > "we are going to go banana's on Wednesday". It was an
> > ad that stood out in any stop-set. The station climbed
> > to the top of the ratings in short time. Me thinks
> > "The Monkey", "The Chimp" or "The Banana" might be
> > worked in as catchy phrases. ;-)
> >
> > Portland has "Frank-FM". WBLM could become "George of
> > the Jungle". <g>
> >
> > Roy Lawrence
> > San Francisco, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@myway.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >>Well..there is "94.5 FM The Hawk" from Trenton, NJ
> > > with Classic Rock music.  It's owned by Nassau
> > > Broadcasting.  I think the calls are WTHK. I'd love
> > > to see one go on the air as "The Sheep" with
> > > elevator music
> > >
> > > yup!
> > >
> > > >>Bob, do Tom & Jerry toons count as "furry
> > > cartoons" ^__^
> > >
> > > yes, they certainly do! the animals don't have to
> > > necessarily talk...
> > >
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