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- From: myke@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann)
- Newsgroups: mi.misc
- Subject: Re: The electronic countdown on 99.5 FM?
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- Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:41:19 -0500
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- Summary: four thousand three hundred twenty one....
- Keywords: dull
-
- In article <725537242snx@dojo.mi.org> sensei@dojo.mi.org (the Maniak) writes:
- >
- >As I was flipping through the FM band a couple days ago ("seek" is a
- >wonderful thang), I tuned into 99.5. At the time, all that was on
- >99.5 was some electronic voice counting down from some very large #.
- >(40,000 or so.) I thought little of it other to berate myself for
- >not finding any decent tapes in my car and went on to my search for
- >good music.
- >
-
-
- my guess is that you won't find good music on 99.5 anymore... They
- started the countdown at 70,000 (the voice synthesizer is of very poor
- quality... reminded me of the TRS-80 Model I version from circa 1979?)
- Thursday at Midnight after spending all Christmas Eve with some hick
- (named "Hugh Chardon"... say it out loud) playing the same Garth Brooks
- song over and over and over, all day, whilst trying to kill/maim/symbolically
- destroy the old station mascot, the "FOX".
-
- My s.o. says that the rumor she heard was that WOWF (99.5's new call
- letters) has been bought out by a country station and is going to
- be switching to a country format. UGH. Just what we need.
-
- When I drove into work this morning about 3 a.m., the countdown was
- at somewhere around 25,000... so I'm guessing it'll hit zero sometime
- Monday afternoon/evening....
-
- 99... it's not cool anymore and you'll know it.
-
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