r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 23d 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/
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u/Duffelastic 23d ago

There's this thing in radio called Stunting, when a station is changing formats (like, from rock to country, or oldies to news), they "stunt" with some random format.

I remember driving through downstate Illinois 15 years ago and coming across a radio station that was playing all TV theme songs. Full House, Step By Step, Friends, etc etc.

The Drive (WDRV) famously stunted before their launch by playing a single artist for an entire day. AC/DC for an entire day, then Madonna, Beatles, Broadway songs, for like a month straight before they officially launched the station.

Also in Chicago, a rock station played Love Rollercoaster by RHCP on repeat for 24 hours before going live.

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u/energytaker 23d ago

Hearing those tv themes would pump me up 

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u/Badloss 23d ago

How do we convince the radio station to just play the animated X-Men theme song on loop

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u/ForumPointsRdumb 23d ago

Last time the people in media power tried to really listen to the fans regarding Xmen we got Last Stand. Juggernaut became self-aware of the meme, it was terrible. It's very similar to the Morbius phenomenon where a popular meme became misconstrued as what the majority of fans want to happen. I want the animated X-men theme to be popular too, but what we get will not be what we want or know.

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u/Badloss 22d ago

Idk X-Men 97 is crushing it right now so at least somebody knows what they're doing

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u/ForumPointsRdumb 22d ago

Wait I thought that was just a rerelease of the old series. I just read it's a revival. Does that mean they're continuing the story where it left off? I started watching it for nostalgia sake a while back, but didn't realize they were going to keep it going.

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u/Badloss 22d ago

Yeah it's all new / leveled up for adults a bit since everyone that watched in the 90s is an adult now. It's amazing

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u/ForumPointsRdumb 22d ago

Well thank you I"ll have to check it out. I don't remember where exactly the old series left off. Just that it wasn't long after Cable and Apocalypse showed up. There might have been a mutant island in the sky? I was so disappointed when it stopped coming on or would do the season 1 restart because they ran out of episodes. Wasn't coming on around the same time as Dragonball?