One format change of a radio station that I applaud is when KMET-FM in Los Angeles became KTWV-FM. The station had changed from playing weirdo, garbagy music to good, wonderful; and fabulous music.

In the Arthur movie for adults, in the area where the Catholic boarding school where the mainstream kids attend and live in; there’s another fictional radio station with a format change modeled exactly after that of KTWV. This fictional radio station, too changes formats from Rock music to New Wave/Smooth Jazz. This fictional radio station, too also brands itself as “The Wave”.

The nuns, teachers, school principal, Dean of students, and the ‘house moms’ in the living quarters of the Catholic boarding school each laud the format change to New Wave/Smooth Jazz while the kids (especially some of those who listen to the station when it had a Rock music format) poo poo the format change. The personnel at the Catholic boarding school even listen to a standard AM-Mediumwave/FM radio set turned to the Rock turned New Wave/Smooth Jazz formatted radio station.