{"id":327487,"date":"2025-12-03T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327487\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:31:08","slug":"cities-97-1-gets-viral-moment-after-automation-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327487\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities 97.1 Gets Viral Moment After Automation Glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CitiesAn automation glitch made iHeartMedia Modern AC \u201cCities 97.1<\/a>\u201d KTCZ Minneapolis the talk of at least one social media app on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Just before 7:40pm, KTCZ began looping a few seconds of Max McNown\u2019s 2024 song \u201cA Lot More Free\u201d until 10:09pm when the station began running iHeart\u2019s national Hot AC \u201cToday\u2019s Mix<\/a>\u201d feed. It would appear the station\u2019s automation computer either froze or died leading to the looping.<\/p>\n

Boosted by former Mystery Science Theatre 3000 performer Bill \u2018Crooooooooow\u2019 Corbett, the automation glitch went viral on Bluesky. Although not intentional, there were many similarities to the 2014 \u201c#Nelly1057\u201d stunt on Unvision\u2019s KVVF\/KVVZ San Francisco that went viral<\/a> for looping \u201cHot In Herre\u201d for a weekend ahead of a format change.<\/p>\n

INSTANT INSIGHT: You never know what it will be that gets people talking about your station. But we simply need to give people a reason to talk about it and then build off of it to sustain growth. I hope KTCZ leans into the situation and can construct it to something. Many of the comments leaned into what the station was as opposed to what the station is now. Hopefully these listeners are given something to warrant coming back again and again.<\/p>\n

Cities97 has been playing the last two bars of the @maxmcnown01.bsky.social song \u201cA Lot More Free\u201d for over 7 minutes. lol methinks this is in error<\/p>\n

\u2014 Staciaann, Esq. (@staciaann.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

A radio station here in Minneapolis is stuck \u2013
cities971.iheart.com<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Bill Corbett (@billcorbett.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Cities 97.1 in Minneapolis\/St. Paul (IHeart) is either doing a new take on a stunt, or Otto Mation has lost his damn mind for the last hour-plus!<\/p>\n

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\u2014 SamWalkerOBXNews \ud83c\udf99\ud83d\udcfb\ud83d\udcf0\ud83e\udd4d\ud83e\udd93 (@samwalkerobxnews.com<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

This Cities 97 Sampler reboot is taking the sample part way too literally.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ray, future proprietor of the 1990’s three star thriller museum (@fatassets.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe there is some kind of subliminal message that is currently uploading into the brains of the 5 people on this bluesky thread and\u2026 whoever listens to Cities97<\/p>\n

\u2014 e_lana (@e-lana.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

I am choosing to interpret Cities 97’s skipped-record routine as a gimmick for the format change we mouth-organ fans have been clamoring for!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Chris Steller (@chrissteller.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Cities 97 playing a never-ending song. It’s like a Phish concert.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Steve Quick (@stevequick.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Cities 97? More like HARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICAGUITARHARMONICA<\/p>\n

\u2014 Karlee Suszan (@karleekanz.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2014 petriform (@petriform.com<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Aaand now we\u2019ve moved on the Panic! At The Disco after a wonderful heartwarming two hours and 33 minutes of @maxmcnowm.bsky.social<\/p>\n

I hope you all felt the zen and have a peaceful evening.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Staciaann, Esq. (@staciaann.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Highest ratings in WEEKS for that station.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Staciaann, Esq. (@staciaann.bsky.social<\/a>) December 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An automation glitch made iHeartMedia Modern AC \u201cCities 97.1\u201d KTCZ Minneapolis the talk of at least one social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-327487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}