{"id":266016,"date":"2026-02-03T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266016\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:10:08","slug":"sonny-cher-out-john-williams-in-as-we-102-9-loops-the-star-wars-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny &#038; Cher out, John Williams in as WE 102.9 loops the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 On Monday, Portland radio station WE 102.9 began stunting by looping Sonny &amp; Cher\u2019s \u201cI Got You Babe\u201d on a continuous loop. <\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/offbeat\/portland-station-we-1029-loops-i-got-you-babe-nonstop-hints-at-changes-ahead-connoisseur-media-portland-oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland radio station WE 102.9 loops &#8220;I Got You Babe&#8221; nonstop, hints at changes ahead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it happened, Monday was Groundhog Day and that song was featured in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Stunting is a common practice in radio when a station will likely change formats.<\/p>\n<p>WE 102.9, known as KINK-FM HD2, had been playing rap and hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>Late Monday night, Sonny &amp; Cher was replaced with John Williams\u2019 \u201cStar Wars (Main Title),\u201d playing on a continuous loop. <\/p>\n<p>The station is playing roughly two minutes of the track that originally lasts almost six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSIGNAL ACQUISITION IN PROGRESS,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehiphop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">station\u2019s website<\/a> says. \u201cRe-establishing connection to the 102.9 coordinate. Do you copy Portland?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The site features a countdown clock that would expire at midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Connoisseur Media Operations Manager Ross MacLeod told KATU News, \u201cYou should have all the answers you need on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (8)<\/p>\n<p>In the latest ratings released from Nielsen, WE 102.9 had a 0.2 share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 On Monday, Portland radio station WE 102.9 began stunting by looping Sonny &amp; Cher\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-266016","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\/266016","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=266016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}