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Former KOST PD Jhani Kaye

Interesting. Great insight about being "first" in a format, or if you are not first, being first in taking a format in a new direction, progressing it.

When I think of Jhani Kaye's KOST, I think of "seamless continuity". I don't think I have ever heard a station that sounds so much the same, both throughout the day and throughout the years. As a listener who likes a lot of variety, I found it to be very irritating at the time, but I am not like most listeners and can set my personal preferences aside, and I always really respected the effort put in, the attention to detail, how he could get the entire air staff to buy in and do their thing the "KOST way" instead of whatever they did before, to make the station sound so smooth and polished. It literally brought decades of success.

I of course am not in the industry, but there is one thing I know about it - The easier it looks to do, the harder it is to actually do it. Jhani always made it look easy, which is how you know a lot of damn hard work had to go into it. Respect to a programmer who knew how to do it.
 
As a lot of you know, Jhani and I have been friends for over four decades.

I'd like to share my favorite quote from him about programming instinct:

"A programmer can hear the station in his head before he starts to create it."

The man was a programming genius and I am both fortunate and thankful to be able to call him a friend. (I only say "was" because he insists that he is retired.)
 
It turns out the above video was only part 4 of a seven part series.

Part one is here:

And you can find a link to the whole series here (but for some reason the "playlist" is out of sequence):
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There was a lot of shared philosophy between Rook and Bill Drake, and both Jhani and I have similar mindsets.

It might not be innovative, but we know what works.
 
AM-FM-DXer said:
Wasn't he at K-Earth at one point?
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Yes. After his success with KOST, Cox gave him responsibility for KFI as well, then after Clear Channel acquired both and flipped the AM to talk he also programmed KBIG.

Then he retired ... or at least he thought he did.

Instead, CBS lured him into postponing that and program KRTH. And then KTWV in addition to that.
 
I used to very frequently listen to KBIG online back in the 2000s when Jhani was programming it. I loved the music mix on KBIG during that era. I also discovered KOST online during that same period and listened to it frequently, as well. Both stations were outstanding!
 
MikeyBos said:
I used to very frequently listen to KBIG online back in the 2000s when Jhani was programming it. I loved the music mix on KBIG during that era. I also discovered KOST online during that same period and listened to it frequently, as well. Both stations were outstanding!
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I'm not surprised. Jhani is a perfectionist ... a programmer trait that we share.
 


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