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FM Cocolo
Multilingual FM radio station in Osaka, Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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FM Cocolo (エフエムココロ, Efu Emu Kokoro), stylized as FM COCOLO, is a multilingual FM radio station owned and operated by FM 802 Co., Ltd. The station broadcasts on the 76.5 MHz FM to the Kansai area which includes Osaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo(city of Kobe), Nara, Shiga, and Wakayama prefectures. FM Cocolo's former owner Kansai Intermedia Co., Ltd. (関西インターメディア株式会社) was based at the Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building (Cosmo Tower) in Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan.
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FM Cocolo is part of the Megalopolis Radio Network (MegaNet), linking Japan's international FM radio stations (InterFM, FM Cocolo, RADIOi and LoveFM), covering more than 65% of Japan's population.
Most of its programs on FM Cocolo are in English and Japanese, with programs in Chinese, French, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian, Portuguese, Sinhalese, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese air in allocated timeslots, with different music genres played in each hour. Its variety of music contains Top 40, hot adult contemporary, adult contemporary, soft adult contemporary, classic hits, classic rock, and oldies formats. Easy listening music was also presented once an hour during the overnight hours, and some non-categorized music was also presented as well.
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Branding
Cocolo (ココロ, Kokoro) is a Japanese term for "heart", and also stands for Cooperation, Communication, Love.
History
FM Cocolo began broadcasting in October 16, 1995.
On April 1, 2012, FM802 Co., Ltd., through its subsidiary 802 MediaWorks, bought Kansai Intermedia, making FM Cocolo its sister station.
Slogan
- "Whole Earth Station"
- "The Heart of the City"
Disc Jockeys
- Anin (Indonesia)
- Anung (Indonesia)
- Toshihide Baba
- Don Beaver (also a navigator for sister station FM802)
- Mayumi Chiwaki
- Chris
- Cindy (Philippines)
- Eric
- Masayuki Furuya
- Gary
- Setsubai Haku
- Huy (Vietnam)
- Namiko Ikeda
- Shozo Ise
- Yukio Iwata
- Wolfman Jack
- Janne
- Kong Kamasami
- Yukinobu Kami
- Noriyuki Makihara
- Matsuo Khanittha (Thailand)
- Kim, Hee-tae (South Korea)
- Kim, Soo-jung (South Korea)
- Kiyomi
- Mamiko Kotani
- Li, Jia (PR China)
- Maxie (Sri Lanka)
- Meme
- Mina (Philippines)
- Yoshitaka Minami
- Monica
- Mylan (Vietnam)
- Mitsuko Nagao
- Kaname Nemoto
- Karen Okubo
- Masaji Otsuka
- Rahman (Malaysia)
- Rogerio (Portugal)
- Roxana (Spain)
- Sandya (Sri Lanka)
- Sirinada (Sri Lanka)
- Sunny (India)
- Masayuki "Mark E" Taniguchi (also a navigator for sister station FM802)
- Ryudo Uzaki
- Satomi Wakura
- Xiaochen (PR China)
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See also
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Multilingual Support System, Useful for Mid- to Long-Term Stay Archived 2007-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, Brand-new Osaka, Osaka Prefectural Government
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