Talk:Bob FM

Sacremento
Don't know if this goes in this article; but on October 25, 2005, variety hits radio returned to Sacramento when adult album alternative KHWD flipped to 93.7 Jack FM and its callsign to KQJK...Ranma9617 00:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Repeats
Bob FM's tagline in Pittsburgh is "We play anything." But they do not play "anything." It is obvious that they recycle the same old music, just like every other station, they just try to pull out a little more variety, and throw in some obscure songs. I don't even listen that often, but within a couple weeks of the station's beginning, I had heard them play "Mr. Roboto" at least three times. I find the concept of a fictional "Bob" to be very annoying.
 * This is not a message board. --Chris Griswold 02:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, take that elsewhere. Shutup. Yesitsnot (talk) 11:30, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It is true, though, that their list design does include many repeats within a short period of days or a week, then changes again. At least mine does.  But I don't know of any reputable citation that notes playlists and repeats of stations to verify their claims.  Probably advertising claims don't meet wiki standards for citations, so we should be clear that it's a slogan, not a verified claim. 174.62.68.53 (talk) 08:38, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

At least it's competition
They just took over a local FM station here in S.W. Florida. They do try to make it seem local, and it definitely does play a larger variety of music than the other stations. We'll have to see how the station continues over time.Capedude2005 21:59, 18 April 2007 (EST)

Dubious info
I don't believe there is such a station as KYUM in the Bay Area...Ranma9617 02:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Timeframe?
When was this format created? Can anyone chart or at least give a timeframe for its rise to prominence? Thanks. --Chris Griswold 02:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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this BOB channel took over a popular radio station in PA. called Froggy 94.7 the original DJ was not informed till AFTER Bob showed up. ~unicogirl —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.131.50.208 (talk) 04:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

Knob to BOB and MST3K?
"Many Bob FM stations market themselves with the slogan 'Turn your knob to Bob'; this was parodied in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 skit in which TV's Frank creates his own radio station and exhorts viewers to 'Turn your crank to Frank'." How can this circa 1993 reference to MST3K's "FRANK Radio Station" be a Parody of a 2000s Radio format? This seems dubious. If anything BOB-FM might have been influenced by the FRANK reference ... Tsubasa 23:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Even if Bob FM came about in the 2000s, I don't think it originated the slogan "Turn your knob to Bob". MST3K actually references the slogan directly in the episode "The Amazing Transparent Man" (aired 1995). Combine that with the earlier mentioned skit and it's clear some station somewhere was using it long before Bob FM. 75.82.201.0 (talk) 07:46, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I am a Minneapolis area resident since, oh, the mid-80s and an MST3K fan since '92 or so. Remember MST3K was filmed in Eden Prairie MN, and everyone involved were residents in the area. Go read the KTLK-FM article. According to that article, it became WBOB, a country station, in 93-94 and I can tell you at that time the TV airwaves (Maybe radio? I don't listen to the radio. I do believe there was billboard and print advertising as well. Total media saturation...) in the Minneapolis area were absolutely flooded with obnoxious pushy "Turn your knob to BOB" commercials, playing constantly, featuring clips of country music hits of the time playing as a voice-over simply chanted the names of the artists. These commercials are what the MST3K episode "The Violent Years", aired in Oct '94, is directly satirizing. MST3K did not originate it. "BOB 100" was using the "Turn your knob to BOB" slogan back around '93-94 in the Minneapolis area. Now if only someone would dig up a copy of that commercial and put it on youtube so you all can see what we had to suffer through... :) 24.179.151.124 (talk) 19:02, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

BOB is dead here
BOB FM has failed in Abilene, Tx, as well, and has been turned into a country music radio station.Leprechaun Gamer (talk) 12:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

No DJ
The most noteworthy aspect of BOB FM is that the stations don't have DJs. The music is preprogrammed like a jukebox. This should be discussed in the article. --Dwane E Anderson (talk) 20:40, 22 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That changed around 2011 for a large part of the day, at least on the Santa Rosa, CA affiliate, KNOB. —Xyzzy☥the☥Avatar 06:58, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

"Bob" or "BOB"?
Have no idea which is correct, but even if both are, it should be consistently one or the other in the article rather than varying from paragraph to paragraph. FWIW, the similar "Jack" format is primarily "Jack", although "JACK" does seem to be acceptable as well. 75.201.88.33 (talk) 01:25, 4 August 2012 (UTC)