AZ Republic Y-95 & Glenn Beck Article

[brian4]

On Friday 7 November, the Arizona Republic's Richard Ruelas wrote an article about Glenn Beck's time as a DJ at KOY-FM also known as Y-95.

Ruelas wrote that it was '20 years ago' but didn't mention exact dates. Beck was at the station for 11 months and left in 1988. Article talks about Beck replacing Bill Heywood, some of the stunts that Y-95 played, and their battle with KZZP. There is picture of Beck with Jessica Hahn announcing that Hahn was hired. Even though I was living in Detroit Michigan I remember hearing about that.

While Beck was not quoted in the piece, Tim Hattrick, who worked with Beck, had some good stories. The article also updates the Tim & Willy Show status.

For longtime Valley listeners, this article should bring back good memories. Here is a link:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarep...rticles/2008/11/07/20081107azjournal1107.html

 

[landtuna]

""In many ways, he was just so great at being a grandstanding, pompous idiot," Hattrick said."

Pretty much wraps up Beck (and Tim and Silly).

Sounds like Beck's 11 months in Phoenix were the highlight of his career.

 

[mickeyfranko]

There was never any "competition" between ZZP and Y-95.

ZZP in double digits usually and Y never cracked a 3 share - until.....

T&W fired on New Years Day 1990 to make room for......Bruce Kelly.

Y goes 2.9 to a 7.7 - ZZP goes from a 9.1 to a 2.9. In one book.

 

[justthenumbers]

OK…fast forward to April 1991, which is when KZZP flipped to AC as KVRY.

This left Y95 and Power 92 in the CHR battle. Was Y95 still the leader at this point? If so, how long was it before they began to lose ground to Power 92? Or if it happened earlier, when exactly was it?

Bruce Kelly left Y95 in the Fall of 1992 and started at Power in - I think - March of 1993. But was Y95 already losing to Power by the time BK left?

Besides Bruce Kelly, Kid Corona and Jackie West also left Y95 in favor of Power 92 (see THIS thread). How much of a factor were their depatures in Y95's downfall?

 

[DangerousLoner]

"But he kicked alcohol and drugs and converted to the Mormon faith, according to his biography. Soon after he accepted the Latter-day Saints faith, he was offered a job hosting a talk-radio show, according to his Web site."

Lightbulb goes on above Hattrick's head.

Tim and Willy travel via bus to SLC and join LDS.

30 days later they're working and have new (additional) wives.

Thanks, Glen!

 

[johndavis]

OK…fast forward to April 1991, which is when KZZP flipped to AC as KVRY.

This left Y95 and Power 92 in the CHR battle. Was Y95 still the leader at this point? If so, how long was it before they began to lose ground to Power 92? Or if it happened earlier, when exactly was it?

Bruce Kelly left Y95 in the Fall of 1992 and started at Power in - I think - March of 1993. But was Y95 already losing to Power by the time BK left?

Besides Bruce Kelly, Kid Corona and Jackie West also left Y95 in favor of Power 92 (see THIS thread). How much of a factor were their depatures in Y95's downfall?

Power started to beat Y-95 by 1990 if memory serves correctly. The two stations were focused pretty much on each other; KZZP was largely ignored in the battle.

Y-95's downfall had less to do with the people on its air and more to do with its (mis)management. Of course, once it was sold to Jorgy, the format was doomed. I remember Mike telling me and Chris Lewis (I think that was his name... really nice black guy, built like a football player) to take home the old Y-95 music library because "I hate this music, and if it's sitting around this building, somebody's going to play it."

 

[johndavis]

There was never any "competition" between ZZP and Y-95.

ZZP in double digits usually and Y never cracked a 3 share - until.....

T&W fired on New Years Day 1990 to make room for......Bruce Kelly.

Y goes 2.9 to a 7.7 - ZZP goes from a 9.1 to a 2.9. In one book.

KZZP did two really dumb things: 1. They fired Bruce at the peak of his popularity. Even after it flipped to KVRY, research showed that when you asked someone about 104.7, the response was "that's the station that fired Bruce Kelly." 2. They tried to turn it into a wimpy knock-off of WNCI to get 25-54 numbers. Power and Y are playing Me So Horny every hour and 15 and KZZP is running sweepers saying "No rap, no hard rock, just your #1 hit music" and playing Stephen Bishop & Phil Collins at 8:00 at night. End result: the teens left KZZP and the adults never sampled it because they thought of it as the station that their daughter listened to. A case study of that station should be in a marketing textbook next to New Coke.