{"id":60052,"date":"2024-06-22T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60052"},"modified":"2024-06-23T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T22:10:03","slug":"micro-fm-broadcasting-boyz-ii-men-repeating-ad-infinitum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/micro-fm-broadcasting-boyz-ii-men-repeating-ad-infinitum\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro FM Broadcasting: Boyz II Men repeating ad infinitum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David Iurescia, for sharing the following news item:<\/strong><\/p>\n

How a tiny Montclair radio station came to play a continuous loop of one Boyz II Men song (NorthJersey.com)<\/a><\/h1>\n

George Louvis has broadcast WVRM on short wave radio [SWLing Post note: FM not shortwave] from his office on Valley Road since the late-1990s. Its signal is weak, only commanding antennas for one block between Bellevue and Lorraine avenues.<\/p>\n

Unwitting listeners tuned to 91.9 FM as they drive through the uptown shopping district are delighted to find the signal as it plays its only program: a one-minute loop of Boyz II Men\u2019s 1994 hit \u201cI\u2019ll Make Love to You\u201d that repeats ad infinitum. But the bemusing broadcast is no irreverent prank. Or, if it is a joke on anyone, it would be Louvis, who\u2019s been pumping the signal into Upper Montclair\u2019s airwaves for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mystery of it has been so amusing to people,\u201d Louvis said from his home in the Midwest ? although he still returns to New Jersey regularly. \u201cI feel obligated to let it play until the machine dies.\u201d [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, for sharing the following news item: How a tiny Montclair radio station came to play a continuous loop of one Boyz II Men song (NorthJersey.com) George Louvis has broadcast WVRM on short wave radio [SWLing Post note: FM not shortwave] from his office on Valley Road since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fCA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51124,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/guest-post-peters-fm-cb-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":60052,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Peter’s FM CB Update","author":"Thomas","date":"December 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Laws, who shares the following guest post: Thomas - Still Famous by Peter Laws We're getting closer to the first legal FM CB on the market in the USA.\u00a0 President Electronics\u00a0 USA has announced that the President Thomas FCC CB radio will hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CB"","block_context":{"text":"CB","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/cb\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/President-Barry-II-CB-FM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":49469,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-beam-box-model-fm-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":60052,"position":1},"title":"The Beam Box Model FM 10","author":"Thomas","date":"July 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who recently shared a link to this Craigslist listing and asked if anyone in the SWLing Post community might be familiar with this Beam Box Electronically Directable FM Antenna. 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