{"id":7338,"date":"2016-12-22T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2022-12-13T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T06:10:18","slug":"kokz-begins-closing-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/kokz-begins-closing-the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"KOKZ begins closing the circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ClCpfeIELw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>^ So mid-&#8217;90s it hurts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KOKZ-FM 105.7 in Waterloo switched to oldies in late 1996 or early 1997*. That was the station the school bus radio was turned to, and for quite a while there was a one-hit wonder practically on repeat, &#8220;Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s&#8221;. After the format change, the bus driver found a different station, I started driving myself to school, and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>But recently, as I was scanning the airwaves to find something other than bro-country, the dial landed on KOKZ again, and what I heard was &#8220;Everybody Wants to Rule the World&#8221; and then &#8220;The Boys of Summer&#8221; &#8211; definitely <i>not<\/i> oldies.<\/p>\n<p>So, KOKZ dropped contemporary (1981-96) to play music from 40 to 25 years ago (1956-71), and is now playing music from 45 to 30 years ago (1971-86). At this rate, &#8220;Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s&#8221; will make its return to the station in about a decade.<\/p>\n<p>(Filed under &#8220;The Oldies Station is Playing Van Halen.&#8221; Related blog post: <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/1990s-country-is-splitting-into-its-own-genre\/\">1990s country is splitting into its own genre<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>*I wanted to be precise about this and was getting nowhere. I found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanradiohistory.com\/Duncan-American-Radio-Issue-Guide.htm\">archives for Duncan&#8217;s<em> American Radio<\/em><\/a>, 1976 to 2002, PDFs with searchable text. KOKZ is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanradiohistory.com\/Archive-Duncan-American-Radio\/Duncan-1996-Fall.pdf\">Top 40\/contemporary in fall 1996<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanradiohistory.com\/Archive-Duncan-American-Radio\/Duncan-1997-Spring.pdf\">oldies in spring 1997<\/a>. Perhaps I should also point to NorthPine.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpine.com\/broadcast\/archive\/index.html\">which keeps tabs on Upper Midwest broadcasting<\/a>\u00a0like I do Iowa school districts.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 12\/13\/22: The changeover was in February 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>^ So mid-&#8217;90s it hurts. KOKZ-FM 105.7 in Waterloo switched to oldies in late 1996 or early 1997*. That was the station the school bus radio was turned to, and for quite a while there was a one-hit wonder practically &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/kokz-begins-closing-the-circle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","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=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}