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KOKUSHICORP.COM // MIRROR 03 OF 07
B-003  PACIFIC LEISURE FM 82.6
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STATUS:   DOCUMENTED
PERIOD:   1981–1990s
ADDED:    30 Apr 1999   UPDATED: 11 Jun 2019
SHA-1:    6B39FFCC425B
SOURCE:   https://kokushicorp.com/files/pacific-leisure-fm/
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Kokushi's in-house radio station played in offices, lifts and company
housing. After hours, something else played on the same frequency.

## The station

Pacific Leisure FM broadcast continuously to every Kokushi floor, lift
and company home: morning programming, announcements and "approved
music". Domestic receivers were fixtures, not property.

Station idents from the period end the same way:

> Everything is within tolerance.

## After hours

Night staff describe a second programme on 82.6 after midnight: disco
records with far too much bass, hold music played somewhere less
comfortable, and short poems read over the top. Haiku about overtime,
annual leave, and meetings with HR.

Internal memos call these unauthorised transmissions and attribute them
to a group called Corporate Haiku. Holders of company organisers were
told not to hum, tap or nod along.

## Why it matters

If Node 42 is right, and listener response feeds a profile, then the
after-hours broadcasts weren't just a prank. They were the only
programme on the frequency that wasn't listening back.

Someone has put the Corporate Haiku recordings back online at
corporatehaiku.com. I've listened to the excerpts. The bass is, as
advertised, too much.

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