{"id":9293,"date":"2017-11-21T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2017-11-19T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T05:24:15","slug":"short-life-for-90s-country-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/short-life-for-90s-country-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Short life for &#8217;90s country station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how excited I was that I found a radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/grandpa-tell-me-bout-the-good-old-days\/\">playing real country music<\/a> that isn&#8217;t on the airwaves anymore?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/120327\/iheart-commemorates-cedar-rapids-icon-leo-1360\/\">Well, that was short-lived.<\/a>\u00a0The changeover happened while I was on vacation.<\/p>\n<p><em>iHeartMedia has flipped Classic Country 1360 KMJM Cedar Rapids IA to Adult Standards &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/1360kmjm.iheart.com\/\">Leo 1360<\/a>&#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s an oldies station, tilting toward the <em>old<\/em> end of the oldies. I&#8217;ve heard Frank Sinatra twice.<\/p>\n<p>While on the subject of Iowa radio, I also wanted to ask, what happened to the BBRE on KXEL? Turns out he left, but the only way I found that out was <a href=\"http:\/\/redandnater.com\/threads\/changes-at-kxel.2873\/\">on a message board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also also, KDAT (104.5) started Christmas music on Thursday and KMYR (104.1) started Friday. Nowadays, that counts as restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how excited I was that I found a radio station playing real country music that isn&#8217;t on the airwaves anymore? Well, that was short-lived.\u00a0The changeover happened while I was on vacation. iHeartMedia has flipped Classic Country 1360 KMJM Cedar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/short-life-for-90s-country-station\/\">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-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9363,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}