{"id":14563,"date":"2022-12-23T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:46:37","slug":"kokz-comes-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/kokz-comes-full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"KOKZ comes full circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I said, what about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” I said “I think I remember the film”…<\/em><\/p>\n

During the last school year I regularly rode the bus, KOKZ 105.7 in Waterloo switched from Top 40 (the previous 15 years of such, more or less) to oldies. In the time since a post six years ago<\/a> about KOKZ moving toward playing the ’70s, I found some Waterloo Courier<\/em> references pegging the switch to the first half of February 1997. The one-hit wonder referenced there and here, which peaked on the Billboard charts in October 1996, was played frequently before the time warp to 1967.*<\/p>\n

But as the audience for oldies gradually ages out (if you know what I mean) (and they’re doing it VERY gradually), the stations have to move accordingly.<\/p>\n

So KOKZ is now “Iowa’s Classic Hits” and plays\u00a0classic Casey Kasem countdowns on the weekends. And “Centerfold”<\/a>\u00a0and “Material Girl”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AND A GOO GOO DOLLS SONG FROM 1998<\/a>. Which, it needs to be pointed out, is after February 1997. KOKZ has come full circle.<\/p>\n

I had no idea those Medicare open enrollment commercials were targeted at me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: “Rock 108” played Linkin Park, and not just any Linkin Park song, that<\/em> Linkin Park song. Ow.<\/p>\n

*Writing that paragraph reminds me of the time-travel-ish “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episode from that year, and her first outfit in the opening credits<\/a> (the last one always changes) fits in today, IMO.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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