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Any Seattle stations doing Prince tributes?

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Rob Piotrowski

Haven't been able to tune in since the news was announced...was curious if Prince is being remembered like Bowie was. He certainly deserves to be.
 
BTW Digital outlets are technically prevented from doing such tributes without written permission from the rights holders. When Michael Jackson died it took about a day for Sirius to get permission.
 
CaliRadioFan said:
106.9 had a full hour of Prince from 12-1 today
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Meanwhile, Sirius XM, handicapped by the DMCA rules, could only play so many actual Prince songs an hour in its tribute on The Loft (Channel 30). Tracks that were merely produced by Prince and covers of Prince songs by others had to fill up much of the time. I believe the only way SXM could have done an all-Prince tribute would have been to get permission from Prince's label and management to do so, or go the "legal payola" route and allow the label to buy airtime and bandwidth for a temporary channel.
 
Not Seattle, but KMGW 99.3 Naches/Yakima (Mega 99.3) was all Prince this afternoon with no DJs. There were commercials however, but very few. RIP to a legend.
 
Well it's 9pm and Hot 103.7 is still going all-Prince at 9pm. Their website claims they'll go all day all Prince. However, like KMGW they do have occasional commercials.
 
crainbebo said:
Not Seattle, but KMGW 99.3 Naches/Yakima (Mega 99.3) was all Prince this afternoon with no DJs. There were commercials however, but very few. RIP to a legend.
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Somehow I doubt Apple Farmers and Goat Ranchers will appreciate 99.3 going wall to wall Prince. The explanation? The PD is a huge Prince fan.
 
Hot 103.7 did the right thing in going all Prince songs around 11:00 a.m. The dry station voice was well done, kudos for getting it all together and put on the air. The phone calls Kristin aired sounded more Yakima, not that of Market #13.
 
KMGW did flip to Slow Jams/R Dub around 8 or 9 last night, and then went back to regular format this morning (I was hearing Prince's "1999" however, mixing with Chaka Khan and some '70s R&B song, the normal rhythmic oldies stuff).
 
Hot 104.5 in Knoxville went wall-to-wall Prince yesterday. I wouldn't have figured the rhythmic CHR would do so instead of the Classic Hits in the same building, but, whatever.
 
Strange. KHTP was in regular format yesterday with a few Prince songs thrown in. Star was also throwing in one an hour on Thursday.
 
I was trying to go back to what stations were actively playing Prince songs in the early to mid 80's, and surprisingly, my memory recalls many.

KUBE-FM, KPLZ-FM, KIXI-FM, KLSY-FM, KHIT-FM, KNBQ-FM, and perhaps even KJR-AM. There may be more...
 
KCMU played early Prince. KJET played Prince up to Under The Cherry Moon. KRKO's last days as a CHR had Prince, KYYX played Prince (KIXI-FM not so much), KISW and KZOK both played the album version of "Let's Go Crazy" (which was an AOR crossover hit), KISM and KNWR 104.3 Bellingham also played Prince. KRIZ played Prince. KSEA played the B/EZ rendition of "Take Me With U", KCMS played "4 The Tears In Your Eyes" (a religiously themed tune from the "We Are The World" benefit album)...If you were any kind of pop/rock fan, there was just no escape from Prince anywhere on the Puget Sound radio dial.
 
KNHC, during the C89 days, was the first station in Seattle to play Prince. The song was "Controversy", via a test pressing from the label.
 
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