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All Access reports (via a Philly paper): Kidd Chris to K-Rock

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Johnny Morgan

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Kidd Chris--whoever that is--currently on WYSP in Philly, will be premiering on 93.7 K-Rock in Pittsburgh starting Monday afternoon (8/28).

Unless the chairs are being re-arranged, this leaves Dave Cook out of the air-staff (he being the only one bridging the B-94/K-Rock change).
 
Thought crossed my mind. Not sure though. There's no word that Dave is unemployed, or nat he's even losing an air shift. Just probably won't be in afternoons.

Will be interesting to see what happens.

Nice, though, that CBS is once again supporting local talent...[sarcasm off]
 
It’s such a shame that CBS Radio fired old John Cline and now maybe Dave Cook, two vets in PGH radio. You guys are right...there goes local talent being replaced by these out of town hot shots who know nothing about the area. This is what you have at Kiss and this is what Clear Channel has been doing for years. I bet 98% of those plastic baby faced boy DJs who wear American Eagle clothing and probably have never changed a car tire or know where the radiator is or have never hammered a nail in a board don't have the love for radio and know it well like all of you do here on this message board. It's a shame that radio has turned into this monopoly business and has gone away from being a place where a local kid with the love for radio can work up the ladder without having to have a plastic face or yuppie parents who bought the station for him. What happened to local hosts?
I could say we could protest but the plastic faced kids who listen to Kiss don’t give a crap about things like that. As long as mommy and daddy buy them a new car with a FM radio and leather seats that is all that matters.

Yes I have issues but do you see what I mean? ha Ha. I need some Advil I got a headache now.

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Not to beat a dead horse, but just as in the case of changing the morning guy on The X, how big a deal is the DJ in terms of attracting listeners for a station that has a unique music format? It's not like fans of the music selection played on K-Rock have any other station in town to go to for that particular kind of music.

Is there any research that indicates that mass numbers of people will switch from a station that plays their favorite music to one that plays music they don't like as much just because of the DJ?
 
No, but what you have on this board is basically a bunch of wannabes who aren't getting shots at work, and when they see another local guy join them on the unemployment line it makes them feel as if it will be that much tougher for them to get work in the field.
 
Thanks Pratte. Couldn't said it better. :) I will put it this way Radio Realist, I am fat and ugly and from rural Western PA. I have no shot in hell in radio, at least at a Top 40 station because you have to be pretty and have women who will hang off of you without being paid. Little joke there....

I want to clarify that I meant in the orginal post that I was referring to Top 40 stations, not all stations and all genres. It seems that the 'pretty factor' and the out of town deal is more directed at Top 40 stations. E.G. Kiss FM. I made the mistake of not pointing that out. Most of our stations in PGH have local talent except Top 40 station Kiss Fm. I am a younger guy and its hard to compete against others wanna be radio guys when stations like Kiss FM want only kids from LA or something to be behind the mike. Classic Rock, Lite Rock formats seem to be different, you have more older (45+) local DJs who are from Pittsburgh and started at Top 40 stations years ago and worked their way up. If I went into Kiss FM with my tape they would tell me to get a face lift, loose 200 lbs, move to LA and get an agent.
 
Johnny Morgan said:
Kidd Chris--whoever that is--currently on WYSP in Philly, will be premiering on 93.7 K-Rock in Pittsburgh starting Monday afternoon (8/28).

Do you know what kind of show Kidd Chris did on Free FM? For speculation purposes, I wonder if this is any sign that K ROCK will flip to Free FM in the near future.

Unless the chairs are being re-arranged, this leaves Dave Cook out of the air-staff (he being the only one bridging the B-94/K-Rock change).
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what you have on this board is basically a bunch of wannabes who aren't getting shots at work
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You meant that generally, right? And not specifically at anyone?
 
ChancellorDukat said:
Thanks Pratte. Couldn't said it better. :) I will put it this way Radio Realist, I am fat and ugly and from rural Western PA. I have no shot in hell in radio, at least at a Top 40 station because you have to be pretty and have women who will hang off of you without being paid. Little joke there....

I want to clarify that I meant in the orginal post that I was referring to Top 40 stations, not all stations and all genres. It seems that the 'pretty factor' and the out of town deal is more directed at Top 40 stations. E.G. Kiss FM. I made the mistake of not pointing that out. Most of our stations in PGH have local talent except Top 40 station Kiss Fm. I am a younger guy and its hard to compete against others wanna be radio guys when stations like Kiss FM want only kids from LA or something to be behind the mike. Classic Rock, Lite Rock formats seem to be different, you have more older (45+) local DJs who are from Pittsburgh and started at Top 40 stations years ago and worked their way up. If I went into Kiss FM with my tape they would tell me to get a face lift, loose 200 lbs, move to LA and get an agent.
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96.1 Kiss started out that way, but now all the jocks are live and local. Not that it's any better....
 
Being FROM a certain city has its advantages, but it's not really a necessity. What IS a necessity is knowing, appreciating, and caring about the town.

If it really was about BEING FROM Pittsburgh, there'd be alot of out of work and very good jocks. And alot more of the yinzer rabble mixed in with greats like Clarke Ingram.

And I'd never have been allowed on air, either. And I consider that a slight.
 
"Being FROM a certain city has its advantages, but it's not really a necessity. What IS a necessity is knowing, appreciating, and caring about the town."

If that is true, then it is also true that being located in a certain city whilst speaking into the mic is also not a necessity.
 
Not correct. It's not necessary to be born in and never leave a city to be an on-air host. But it is emblematic of "being Pittsburgh," for example, that you relate to the Pittsburgh audience. That encompasses more than reading a PGH newspaper in Philly or knowing what they serve at Eleven, or knowing that Tequila Willy's is a happening, albeit shady, place. It means interacting with Pittsburgh listeners on-air, being up-to-date/up-to-the-minute with what's happening in Pittsburgh, knowing the weather, knowing the city's mood (live radio around early-February 2006 in Pittsburgh had a very different aura than any voicetracking could have shown).

We all understand your point, so stop making it.
 
We all understand your point, so stop making it.

Tell you what, name a specific DJ here in Pittsburgh (other than a morning show) who says the kind of local things you're talking about. You, and many others, have expressed in general principles what one should expect from a live local DJ instead of someone who is voice tracked. And I understand the theory and principle behind that position.

But, in listening to 'DVE, 3WS, WLTJ, and 100.7 during the day, I can't recall ever hearing any DJ on any of those stations ever having the kind of content that you described in your post.

So, if the theory of the benefits of "live and local" is sound, then surely you can list some specific examples of those benefits in actual practice.
 
R.D Summers.

Sean McDowell.

Mike McGann.

You can tell there is a certain brightness, an awareness, interaction in their voices when they're on the air. They take calls, talk to listeners, talk to traffic reporters, talk to the news staff--and actually sound like human beings chatting with other human beings. Not like machines repeating a human being.

But if the latter strikes your fancy, fine. But since you're on record as seeing no use for a modern disk jockey, why does it matter? You're all about a jukebox, provided it plays what you want to hear--which isn't a train wreck, as you define it, nor is it music that you don't want to hear.

So, tell me, son, why exactly should radio narrowcast to you?

Unless, of course, you're being your usual obtuse self. In which case...
 
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