{"id":264630,"date":"2026-02-03T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264630\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:19:08","slug":"portland-radio-station-we-102-9-loops-i-got-you-babe-nonstop-hints-at-changes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264630\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland radio station WE 102.9 loops &#8220;I Got You Babe&#8221; nonstop, hints at changes ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Possible changes are underway at one Portland radio station.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/stumptown-fil-oregon-zoo-beaver-calls-for-six-more-weeks-of-winter-in-portland-metro-filbert-maple-branch-managers-meteorologist-climatologist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stumptown Fil, Oregon Zoo beaver, calls for six more weeks of winter in Portland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the online playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehiphop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WE 102.9\u2019s website<\/a>, the station has been playing Sonny &amp; Cher\u2019s \u201cI Got You Babe\u201d on a continuous loop since Sunday night at 10:51 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The station also promoted the song on their socials media pages, including comment saying, \u201cStuck in a loop, changes coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That song was featured in the 1993 comedy \u201cGroundhog Day,\u201d starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. The song was a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1965.<\/p>\n<p>According to RadioInsight, Connoisseur Media, the owners of WE 102.9, recently registered a website with the KUFO call letters in the address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 92.3 KGON and 105.9 The Brew combining for over ten percent of the audience share in the Portland market combined with Connoisseur Portland Operations Manager Ross Macleod\u2019s career mostly spent in the Rock genre, they likely see a hole to bring a heritage brand back to Portland,&#8221; says Lance Venta, publisher of RadioInsight. <\/p>\n<p>Venta adds that just because a website has been registered, it is not a guarantee that the station would broadcast a rock format.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should have all the answers you need on Wednesday,&#8221; said Ross MacLeod, Operations Manager Connoisseur Media.<\/p>\n<p>KUFO went off the air when KXL made the jump from AM to FM in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Possible changes are underway at one Portland radio station. READ MORE | Stumptown Fil,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-264630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}