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While I’m sure their 56 Facebook friends will be devastated, 97.5 “Bob FM” will be no more in a few minutes, as Cumulus Media flips the station to “i97.5”, which I guess is supposed to make you think of iPhones or something. Cumulus has other stations with the “lower case letter I” theme, including Indianapolis’ WRWM, so if you’re looking for a station that plays The Fray, Adele, Katy Perry, Gavin DeGraw and Selena Gomez (WRWM’s top five artists over the last five days) another place to hear the KRQ playlist, you’re probably in luck. If you’re looking for some sort of local presence or personality, you’re still going to need to look elsewhere. But, hey, they’re playing N*SYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” now, so there’s that.

UPDATE, although probably no one cares: They’re going to play 10,000 songs in a row without a commercial break, kicking off with LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem”, a song you certainly CAN’T HEAR ANYWHERE ELSE. Sigh.

This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

3 replies on “Goodbye Bob FM, Hello i97.5”

  1. Because we needed yet another krq format….yet somehow we have NO oldies station in town now, not even on AM…with all the baby boomers and older snow birds, I’d think that demographic would cause stations to jump at the chance to market music and products to them… As BOB used to say ‘whatever’

  2. I had just returned to BOB within the last couple of weeks after switching to 92.9 right before their switch. I had listened to 107.5 for years and they changed their format starting this whole thing! I don’t have a local radio station that I care to listen to anymore. Hello Pandora!

  3. It is a shame that locally produced radio is fast disappearing. The “need” to save money and play whatever the corporate wanks in Two-dot Montana decide is “right” for the Tucson market now dominates the radio scene. There are but a handful of locally owned and programmed stations left, and most of those are non-music formats. (ie “talk” radio)

    There are several stations in the Tucson area with a decent signal that could do local origination..and quite a few local personalities to staff those stations. Now..to put a package together with those people, and along with a competent sales staff to get advertising…you COULD have a winner.

    I can dream, can’t I??

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