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CHR in Denver
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Denver Needs A CHR. I hate it when places don't have the basics:Spanish,CHR,Rock,Hot A/C,A/C,Hip-Hop,& Oldies. I especially hate it when places don't have a CHR-Pop.Wow I must sound like a freak saying that. ;D 8) ;DThese smiles make me seem more stupid!
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STEALINGyourAUDIENCEgirl
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I flew into Denver a few months back and I was blown away by the market not having a true CHR station. It would do o well there. Especially since there would be no competition.
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STEALINGyourAUDIENCEgirl
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My mistake. I guess I dont know the market and the history. Let me ask you this, the past CHRs were they rhy? Or were they top 40?
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STEALINGyourAUDIENCEgirl
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I hear all this talk about mainstream CHRs in Denver. What about a true rhythmic CHR? Would it work?
Pat Cook said:Hi everyone:Not since the days of Y108 has Denver SEEN ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO a truly successful CHR. It's been that long ago.Hope this answers your question.pbf1 said:Cheers
What was this station like? When was it on? Do you or anyone else have a logo of this? Please either post or e-mail it to me. Thanks.
STEALINGyourAUDIENCEgirl said:
I consider KQKS KS 107-5 kinda rhythmic CHR though it's more urban leading.
icycool7227 said:
Y-108 was CHR in Denver in the late 80's/early 90's. It became Mix 107.5 in 1991 and eventually took calls KWMX. It was a Capital Cities/ABC product until Jefferson-Pilot paid big bucks for it in either 1992 or '93 after duopoly became legal. I seem to remember it being the big CHR in Denver until KQKS 104.3 "KS-104" launched and quickly dominated by being the edgy, personality-driven and more contemporary CHR.
it just seems so odd that the Mainstream format doesn't succeed in Denver. Why?
salad dressing said:
Could be a number of reasons:
- It was never done "right"
- Companies didn't research the market to learn what listeners want
- The existence of a Rhythmic and 2 Hot AC's maybe "squeezed" too hard on a CHR to make it viable.
I guess we'd have to conduct, or see, our own research. No one really knows why unless you ask the market what they want, and why they didn't get that.
Just my opinion.
>Not since the days of Y108 has Denver seen anything remotely close to a truly successful CHR. It's been that long ago.
>What was this station like? When was it on? Do you or anyone else have a logo of this? Please either post or e-mail it to me. Thanks.
I was lucky enough to work as production director of Y108 from January 1988 until the nasty end in 1992.
While we billed ourselves as a mainstream CHR, PD Mark Bolke actually leaned the station in kind of a Rock 40 direction, playing a few more rock cuts a mainstream CHR might bypass and being careful not to OD on dance music or rap. There was a lot of emphasis on personality with an airstaff that included guys like Dave Otto, Peter McClaine, Michael Moon, Scott Fischer, Craig Hunt (hired away from KS104) and others. We were incredibly visible on the street, in fact, we were the only station I ever worked for that had its own bus. It was a big retired Greyhound painted black with red and orange flames and huge Y108 logos.
Being a production guy, I loved the fact that were did some heavy imaging (called "Hype" by today's standards) and did tons of cash contests, the biggest being our "Y108 Mile of Money". That's where we figured out that dollar bills laid end-to-end would come up to $10,800, if you cheated by adding a couple of fives and twenties. It was just a basic cash giveaway, but the imaging we came up with gave it some great visuals.
KQKS started coming on in about 1990 after the demise of Q103 (KOAQ), and while they gave us a pretty good run for our money, they never beat us until ABC came up with their now infamous Mix 107.5 experiment, not long after Mark Bolke resigned as PD to return to Minneapolis. I don't believe the company really cared if Mix worked or not, as rumor said the station was already on the block when the change was made. Jeff Pilot came along in the fall of 1992 and mercifully pulled the plug.
Sorry to say, the only thing I still have with the logo on it is the black leather jacket they handed out to all of us when I got there in 1988, and I'm not parting with it. It was kinda funny, because every time the whole staff showed up somewhere in these jackets, we looked like some kind of wimpy motorcycle gang.
>What was this station like? When was it on? Do you or anyone else have a logo of this? Please either post or e-mail it to me. Thanks.
I was lucky enough to work as production director of Y108 from January 1988 until the nasty end in 1992.
While we billed ourselves as a mainstream CHR, PD Mark Bolke actually leaned the station in kind of a Rock 40 direction, playing a few more rock cuts a mainstream CHR might bypass and being careful not to OD on dance music or rap. There was a lot of emphasis on personality with an airstaff that included guys like Dave Otto, Peter McClaine, Michael Moon, Scott Fischer, Craig Hunt (hired away from KS104) and others. We were incredibly visible on the street, in fact, we were the only station I ever worked for that had its own bus. It was a big retired Greyhound painted black with red and orange flames and huge Y108 logos.
Being a production guy, I loved the fact that were did some heavy imaging (called "Hype" by today's standards) and did tons of cash contests, the biggest being our "Y108 Mile of Money". That's where we figured out that dollar bills laid end-to-end would come up to $10,800, if you cheated by adding a couple of fives and twenties. It was just a basic cash giveaway, but the imaging we came up with gave it some great visuals.
KQKS started coming on in about 1990 after the demise of Q103 (KOAQ), and while they gave us a pretty good run for our money, they never beat us until ABC came up with their now infamous Mix 107.5 experiment, not long after Mark Bolke resigned as PD to return to Minneapolis. I don't believe the company really cared if Mix worked or not, as rumor said the station was already on the block when the change was made. Jeff Pilot came along in the fall of 1992 and mercifully pulled the plug.
Sorry to say, the only thing I still have with the logo on it is the black leather jacket they handed out to all of us when I got there in 1988, and I'm not parting with it. It was kinda funny, because every time the whole staff showed up somewhere in these jackets, we looked like some kind of wimpy motorcycle gang.
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