{"id":12591,"date":"2020-12-24T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2020-12-24T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:38:06","slug":"koel-back-to-92-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/koel-back-to-92-3\/","title":{"rendered":"KOEL back to 92.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KKCV-FM, 98.5 &#8220;The Hog,&#8221; was a new country music station in the Waterloo area in the 1990s. Throughout my school years, that was my most frequently listened-to station. I even spent a job-shadow day there learning about the radio programming. (The radio industry nowadays is subject to lots of job insecurity and increased nationalization, but I ended up in the field of journalism, which is <em>totally<\/em> different.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, the KKCV call sign and &#8220;Hog&#8221; branding was discontinued. The much-longer-lived KOEL-FM took over 98.5 while its old home, 92.3, changed formats.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the quarter-century of country music on 98.5 came to an end with a direct swap of KOEL and &#8220;Q92.3&#8221;. The latter is now &#8220;Q98.5&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/202456\/townsquare-swaps-formats-in-waterloo\/\">(Source: Radio Insight)<\/a>\u00a0The new place has a greater reach, which is good. However, instead of 1990s country, it&#8217;s playing 2010s country, which aside from a few exceptions I have little taste for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KKCV-FM, 98.5 &#8220;The Hog,&#8221; was a new country music station in the Waterloo area in the 1990s. Throughout my school years, that was my most frequently listened-to station. I even spent a job-shadow day there learning about the radio programming. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/koel-back-to-92-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}