Most Overused Radio Slogans or Sayings...

[thenetwork]

Since it seems there is a lot of talk about music & radio stations in the off-topic section, I figured I'd throw this one out to the forum...

Much like how stations have shrunken down their playlists to the same 200-300 songs (especially insulting on stations which boast a 10+ year span on the music they play), corporate stations have homogenized station names or slogans so much that hearing the slogans 10 times an hour is almost as bad as hearing "Jack & Diane" (et, al) 3 times a day, 7 days a week.

What are some of the most overused radio slogans or sayings that you can't stand?

-  For Example in the station ID department, it seems like EVERY city has a "KISS-FM" -- what does a "Kiss" REALLY have to do with the music on the station?  And when was the last time you heard the band Kiss on a KISS-FM??

-  In the slogan department, stations, like a "JACK-FM" (another overused ID) like to use a slogan that claims "We play what WE want".  -- Well, duh, you sure don't play everything the listeners want, which is more than the same 300 songs day in and day out.

-  And for those stations still playing "oldies", why does everyone like to use the slogan "Good Times And Great Oldies" to death?  -- Some of those times in the 50's, 60's and 70's weren't all that good (Vietnam, Energy Crisis,...), nor are all the oldies they play "great".

-  Finally, for any station to claim they play "The Greatest Hits of All Time", then why do they now ignore Elvis, The (early era of the) Beatles, or Glen Miller.  Heck Beethoven's music has held on for how many CENTURY's now???  That slogan is the biggest lie out there.

Others?

[Pete from Boston]

"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"

[oscar]

Nothing to do with music, but local news station WTOP-FM is constantly and annoyingly touting its "glass-enclosed nerve center", even though us radio listeners will never see all that glass or what's therein, and it's not obvious how we benefit from the glass enclosure. 

[bandit957]

Anyone else remember "The variety is in the mix"?

[golden eagle]

"The #1 hit music station" and "(insert city)'s blazin' hip-hop and R&B" come to mind. Also, "more music, less talk".

[SteveG1988]

"We turn to the *insert BS name here* weather radar *insert number here* sponsored by *insert company here* the most accurate weather radar in the *insert region here*"

[Pete from Boston]

Any bullshit about "commercial-free blocks" that are bookended by ten minutes of commercials.  Stations like this are tube-fed gruel for the brain-dead, successful because people don't care and keep tuning in anyway.   

[golden eagle]

A few more I thought of:

"Today's Hit Music"

"Today's Best Country"

"Traffic and Weather Together"

"Today's R&B and Classic Soul"

[SSOWorld]

Nationwide is on your side!


oh wait :l

[renegade]

"Classic Rock that Really Rocks!"

[txstateends]

*ugh*
Live!! from the -favorite sponsor here- news center!
Live!! from the -even more of a favorite sponsor here- sports desk!

Can't news radio or sports radio stations say a segment is sponsored by such-and-such company/firm without being so ridiculous?
(guess not.......)

[roadman65]

Most music less talk.

How about the Best X Music in the (listening area).

[GCrites]

"Tri-State"

I wonder what percentage of the U.S. live in a Tri-State DMA.

[SteveG1988]

"Tri-State"

I wonder what percentage of the U.S. live in a Tri-State DMA.

In NJ the Tri-State thing gets annoying at times, since NJ is in at least Two tri-state areas. If you listen to PA Radio/TV it is NJ-DE-PA, if you listen to NYC it either will be NJ-PA-NY or NJ-NY-CONN.

[hbelkins]

"Every hour on the hour."

"Every hour on the half-hour."

"Traffic And Weather Together."

"Traffic (or weather) on the 8s (or 9s or whatever)."

[roadman65]

Another music hour.

WNEW in NYC, may they rest in peace, New York's Quality Rock.  However we could have given them a free pass being they were competing with K Rock at the time.

More music, less talk.

How about the "New" sound even years after the format changed.  One station in Orlando has been Orlando's new sound for Hip Hop for over ten years now.

Then Tom Joyner with his "Oh oh oh, its the Tom Joyner morning show" could be now consider overused if he is still using it.  I do not work at my old job anymore where 98 percent of the staff had their radios turned on to him each and every morning, so I do not know if he still uses it now, but he did overuse it my six years on the job there.

[SSOWorld]

The <insert sponsor here> halftime show, sponsored by <insert SAME sponsor here>

[bing101]

Hot talk 560 am KSFO. It really means rant by a political Troll Host in question.
also 24/7 News by Iheartradio app only is really 15 minutes of headlines read by total traffic crew. AP and Reuters is where the headlines came from.

[Pete from Boston]

Wow, this thread creates an almost physical reaction akin to that experienced while being stuck as a passenger in the car of someone who listens to these kinds of stations.  Make it stop!

[formulanone]

"Tune in, and rip off the knob/dial!"...used quite a lot until the mid 1990s, when radios started losing tuning dials.

[tidecat]

"All the Hits" - most people never see it, but the CHR/Pop chart actually tracks upwards of 150 songs from all of the "Top 40" stations nationwide.  No station plays 150 current songs.

[1995hoo]

Nothing to do with music, but local news station WTOP-FM is constantly and annoyingly touting its "glass-enclosed nerve center", even though us radio listeners will never see all that glass or what's therein, and it's not obvious how we benefit from the glass enclosure.

What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.

(I know where Channel 4 is located because I've been to their studios, but they don't cite their own location very often in weather reports. Channel 9 used to refer to "Broadcast House," which is on Wisconsin Avenue. I don't know if they still do that because I watch Channel 4's news instead.)

[roadman65]

"All the Hits" - most people never see it, but the CHR/Pop chart actually tracks upwards of 150 songs from all of the "Top 40" stations nationwide.  No station plays 150 current songs.

Right about that one as XL 106 in Orlando will be repeating songs within two hours of airplay. 

I love it now that the Christmas season is almost here, you will hear some stations interrupt their regularly scheduled programing to bring you 24/7 Christmas songs where they will be repeating the same songs over and over and in many cases play the same song by the same artist within the hour.  Example is Magic 107 in Orlando is one to play a very limited list of songs of decades of many artists all performing the songs of the season.  In fact you will hear some songs played every other season and some every third or fourth season.  Like Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie not played every year regularly.  Maybe every two or three years you will hear it, but not like Elvis' Blue Christmas or Andy Williams Its The Most Wonderful Time of the Year which get played every year, every day, and every two hours.

[vdeane]

I once saw a graph with the common Christmas songs on them.  Basically, the Christmas music played on most radio stations and in stores hasn't evolved much since the Baby Boomers were children.

[roadman65]

I once saw a graph with the common Christmas songs on them.  Basically, the Christmas music played on most radio stations and in stores hasn't evolved much since the Baby Boomers were children.

With the exception of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, which now remains as a classic since it was first recorded 20 years ago.