, 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 was based at the Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building (Cosmo Tower) in Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan.
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.
Branding is a Japanese term for "heart", and also stands for Cooperation, Communication, Love.
History FM Cocolo began broadcasting on 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 Shin Nishida (also a navigator for sister station FM802) Rahman (Malaysia) Rogerio (Portugal) Roxana (Spain) Sandya (Sri Lanka) Sirinada (Sri Lanka) Sunny (India) Masayuki "Mark E" Taniguchi Eri Fukamachi Daigo Iimuro Satoko Nii Miki Kato Ryudo Uzaki Satomi Wakura Xiaochen (PR China)
See also MegaNet InterFM Love FM Radio neo FM802
External links Official website Multilingual Support System, Useful for Mid- to Long-Term Stay , Brand-new Osaka, Osaka Prefectural Government