[Ads-l] Throwback

[Ben Zimmer]

(Oops, I meant "alliterative features," not "rhyming.")

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 5:16 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 4:51 PM Alice Faber <afaber at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/3/22 8:09 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>> > When did "throwback" become a category of radio station? Is "oldies" or
>> > "classic" too old and classy?
>> >
>> Sometime after "Throwback Thursday" became a thing on social media?
>>
>
> Other way around, actually -- "Throwback Thursday" has been a thing on
> rock radio at least since the '90s, along with other rhyming features like
> "Twofer Tuesday."
>
> A dance club on Long Island had "Throwback Thursdays" in 1996:
> https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106954611/throwback-thursdays/
>
> And here's "throw-back Thursday" on an Indiana radio station in 1998:
> https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106955181/throw-back-thursday/
>
> --bgz
>
>

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