From a time long-long ago, did KYA's Thanksgiving promotion list turkeys named after the KFRC jocks?
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? KFRC Jocks Labeled Turkeys by KYA ?
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Can people response without having like 87 views with no replys
Maybe no one knows they answer to that so....no replies.
I mean, with what? "I don't know?" How would that be helpful?
If you know something, reply---if you don't----don't.
Wouldn't that make a better forum, and in fact, a better internet?
All that said....
I don't know.
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Sorry guys was in a bad mood 
I never heard that.
Quick! Somebody get a stergen!
I took had never heard that but why would you mention the competition? Was it friendly ribbing, or petty name calling?
The funniest competitor "prank" I have seen or heard in years was the "swap" of the two late night Jimmy's on April Fools. I have been told that many years ago several on the morning shows in Atlanta swapped staions on April Fools too.
The funniest competitor "prank" I have seen or heard in years was the "swap" of the two late night Jimmy's on April Fools. I have been told that many years ago several on the morning shows in Atlanta swapped staions on April Fools too.
If you are so sure that you can make the other station truly seem un-cool to listeners, it is a calculated gamble.
Keep in mind that in that era, the core of Top 40 stations was teens. And teens moved like a herd of cattle; if one could get the herd leaders to move away from a station because that station was no longer the right one to listen to, then naming them negatively was a good idea.
I've had that happen to me twice; a station started jabbing mine on the air. We responded with an hourly ID that said "... the station other stations talk about... but don't equal". The other stations stopped within a day.
The only time I’ve heard a station mention another in KC recently is a Vibe promo where they jab Mix by saying they play more songs in a row than Mix. In the mid-late 90’s, one mentioned the other negatively in the context of how they ran a contest, and the station that went negative ended up running a correction/apology that I have on an aircheck.
Why didn't they counter with liners "The station other stations talk about talking about them!"
I could see that war getting out of hand fairly quickly.
Kind of related in KC was what KYYS did on June 15, 1990 when KXXR abruptly changed from "Rock 40" to CHR. KY-102 just was rolling in it, taunting KXXR staff and sponsors and culminating in playing Queen's "We Are the Champions". Given what happened subsequently, KXXR might have been better off going head-on with KYYS - and KY-102 might have been better just shutting up about it; after all, that version of 102.1 has been long gone.
This sounds as exciting as the San Diego Chicken!
This is close to two months old with no one having a recollection of anything like the OP asked about.
The only time I can recall either station referencing the other was in 1974, when Steve Garland on KYA did at least one show as “Michael Spears” (the name of KFRC’s PD at the time).
Given that Spears only rarely pulled a shift or gave his name in a promo, it was a beyond inside joke, mostly intended to just bug Spears himself.
The only time I can recall either station referencing the other was in 1974, when Steve Garland on KYA did at least one show as “Michael Spears” (the name of KFRC’s PD at the time).
Given that Spears only rarely pulled a shift or gave his name in a promo, it was a beyond inside joke, mostly intended to just bug Spears himself.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
When I relaunched The Eighties Channel™ on KRKE in October 2022, the "Big" Classic Hits station almost immediately started running a sweeper saying "NOBODY plays more 80s than..."
I countered with a liner that said "whenever you hear someone say that, remember that 'Eighties' is part of our name."
Of course, the other station had no basis for their sweeper, with two 70s and a 90s song every hour, plus a heavier commercial load. But it was gratifying to see that they saw us as a threat of sorts...
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