Katie’s Beer

I am not alone.  Many of the listeners of my formerly favorite radio station,KOOL 108, are not happy with recent changes - adding more 80’s tunes and removing Jeff Olsen’s Morning Show.  I now find that I am not listening to the station as much anymore, sad to say.  I am, however, buying my favorite songs for my iPod.  My next move may be satellite radio.  Hope someone at KOOL 108 reads this blog and the bulletin board at MNSpeak.

Jeff Olsen - if you read this, please let me and your many listeners know where to find you on the radio dial!

Here are some pretty good comments I found on MNSpeak:

Please PLEASE Kool, move it back, this new format is just not working. The 70’s were so much about the Southern California style soft rock, such as Player, Firefall, Steely Dan, Ambrosia, Chicago, Seals and Crofts, etc. You had the 80’s at 8pm leave them there, we need the old format back, that was the appeal of your station, sadly it has lost that appeal now. Please give us back our old format, we waited so long through the nonstop Christmas music, only to come back to this?

Come on Kool, move it back, please!!!

I am 49 years old and have been listening to Kool for approx 30 yrs throughout it’s various incarnations. I listen to everything from Big Band to Eminem-and enjoyed Kool–until now–the new format is pitiful-and listening to the new morning show this am was painful-2 men- no brains -ea fighting over the mike trying to get their share of air-time. No more KOOL for me-I can hear what they are now playing anywhere. And by the way nobody wants to “move” 24/7 I know that money talks-but this girl’s walkin

I am 27 years old and I am a huge fan of the 50s and 60s music. (I love the Beatles!) I loved listening to Kool 108 when that was the format. Now it is even further from that. Personal I am not a fan of the 80s at all or the end half of the 70s. I grew up in that era and I think that there wasn’t a whole lot of good quality music made, it a rather disappointing era overall. There are other stations that music from the 70s can be heard, why can’t they let us have our oldies?!

I just have to say that I am kind of disappointed in the way KOOL 108 took Jeff Olson off the air w/o an explaintion. I called yesturday and all they said was that he wasn’t going his show anymore. I was thinking of calling back today and asking where we can find him.
I think we should all call and let them know what we think. Until they say why Jeff is not there anymore.
The phone # is Office: 952-417-3000 they are open from 9-5. Let’ give them heck for what they did.

And get this! Last week I sent them a email and told them they need to change it back {pretty much what I said here} it went to programming, and they did not even have the courtesy to respond to me at all, not even a “thanks for the comment”. There is a insider there, and they have said that the feedback has not been good on the format change and the Jeff Olson situation.

Whose hare-brained idea was it to change a perfectly good radio format. Did someone think all the original rock and rollers were going to drop dead Christmas Day. The morning show with Jeff was the best. This new format is AWFUL. It’s nothing new or innovative. It’s just a copy of KQ and quite annoying. I am no longer a listener.

For my part, I’ve printed up the dialog at MNSpeak and will be faxing it to ClearChannel.

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