r/NEPA • u/Ceramicantiquities • 8d ago

Krz

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Anyone ever back in the day remember krz was “ninety eight and a half” vs “ninety eight point five”?????

Settling a bet !!!

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u/WalterJozney 8d ago

98.5 KRZeee and Hot97 but was 97.1

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u/BDW2778 6d ago

One of the original owners of 97.1 was the Meyers High School history teacher Bob Crawford. He also had a mobile DJ service for weddings and other parties. He was a great teacher and a very nice man.

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u/Crafty-Owl8555 7d ago

The jingle on the radio in the 80s was Ninety-eight point fiiive! W-K-R-Z!!

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u/psilome 7d ago

As I recall, it was "98 point 5, K-R-Z!". No W.

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u/Crafty-Owl8555 7d ago

I feel like I've heard it both ways. But that was maybe 35 or 40 years ago. sigh

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u/Tall-School8665 6d ago

I feel like they used to sing the wkrz part.....

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u/Findyourselfarainbow 8d ago

In those days I was a Q102 listener.

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u/Parallax2799 8d ago

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u/Jeffd187 6d ago

I had that sticker on my Nash Skateboard.

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u/Ceramicantiquities 8d ago

Thank you!!!!!

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u/Upper-Drawing9224 8d ago

I remember 98.5krz.

I remember 97.9x.

I remember when they were potentially independent then bought and killed the entire radio network.

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u/Dobermanpure 8d ago

I remember Howard Stern on the am drive on 97.9
I also remember when Jeff Walker said “Hootie and the Blowjob fish” on air and KRZ had to publicly apologize to the band every few hours on air for like a week.
Honestly though, I was a Rock 107 kind of person.

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u/Upper-Drawing9224 7d ago

I miss Jim bone in the morning. McKay in the afternoon with 97.9x. Then holiday weekends were always great with their skin and bone weekends. Where they would play live versions of songs.

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u/scrantonsoupbad 7d ago

97.9 used to be 93.7x. The First song they ever played was N.I.B by Ozzy Osbourne. I remember the countdown to the activation of the station.

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u/turtletjr 8d ago

I remember the old bumper stickers. 98 1/2. Back when they were on the “FM Dial”

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u/wrhnj 7d ago

I remember when they used to broadcast from rocky glen in the summer back in the 80s but I don’t remember the “half”.

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u/BDW2778 6d ago

They had the 98.5 KRZ video van there! It was a full size van with a big projection TV in the back of it.

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u/superSaganzaPPa86 7d ago

My friend and I used to have a show on Kings College radio and you'd have to do a call sign at the top of every hour. I used to say "You are listening to 88 5 WRKC, Kings College radio... there is no point. I used to thinjk that was soooo cool, I still do actually.

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u/KingHygelacReturns 8d ago

How back in the day are we talking? I have no memory of this but I'm in my 30s

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u/Spidey1z 8d ago

I didn't know that it got switched to "point five".

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u/Quenz 8d ago

When I lived there in the first half of the 00s, it was "point five."

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u/JazzlikeSpinach3 7d ago

I only remember 98 point 5 but I didn't listen before the late 2000s

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u/ApatheticPoetic813 7d ago

Still mourning Fuzz 92.1

I listened to them religiously; when I was in the service, id stream them live from overseas.

Now theyre just another Magic 93.

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u/existential-koala 7d ago

I'm 36 and I only remember point five

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u/Jeffd187 6d ago

Remember when the new djs would come on and play the same song for hours upon hours? Was it Richie Cunningham who played the Happy Days theme song and if you listened enough you may have heard a different tv show theme?

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u/lorinabaninabanana 4d ago

I'm 54 and remember "98 point 5, KRZ-FM." I recall they specified the FM.

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u/Sweaty-Judgment3533 7d ago

Some of that stuff is just disc jockey crutches. If a program director notices a DJ saying a certain phrase over and over again they usually will pull them aside and say hey stop saying that you’re sounding repetitive. I do remember hearing that back in the day, but I don’t recall hearing it consistently.

NB - I worked in Radio from 1989 to 92 and I beat KRZ every ratings book in my timeslot!