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CHRIS MAYS NEW PD @ KINK/PORTLAND
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a great programmer........right you are!
i met chris mays back around the first few months KMTT come on the air. it was called the "listener advisory panel".
watching KMTT progress in its music, programming, and advertising from the early 90's through the mid 90's was very interesting. lots of stuff was done right back then, in 20/20 hindsight....
when i contacted her to voice my opinions on something, she always responded quick, and even made some changes based on my input.
ironically, i just learned ex KMTTer brad dolbeer, works the eve airshift at KINK(just like he did at KMTT), and ex KMTT air personality archer, works as KINK production director.
so hows that KMTT/mountain music programming nowadays? yawn
i met chris mays back around the first few months KMTT come on the air. it was called the "listener advisory panel".
watching KMTT progress in its music, programming, and advertising from the early 90's through the mid 90's was very interesting. lots of stuff was done right back then, in 20/20 hindsight....
when i contacted her to voice my opinions on something, she always responded quick, and even made some changes based on my input.
ironically, i just learned ex KMTTer brad dolbeer, works the eve airshift at KINK(just like he did at KMTT), and ex KMTT air personality archer, works as KINK production director.
so hows that KMTT/mountain music programming nowadays? yawn
Sorry to hear about Dennis.
In the 1970s he made WYRE-Annapolis one of the biggest small stations in America. He pushed every one of those 250 watts.
He was Music Director at KTLK in Denver during John Rook's consultancy and could have had a nice run in Top 40 but he liked Colorado and loved music. He was slow and steady at KBCO in Boulder. He put the music first and it wasn't long before people all over greater Denver were tuning in to "That Boulder station," despite some pretty tough multi-path and picket-fencing. By the 1990s KBCO was the new KBPI. That was a heckuva an accomplishment.
With KINK he took over one of the great heritage AOR stations and he had me doing the same thing as those people in Colorado--putting up with the hash to listen to KINK as I drove around the Puget Sound region. KINK always had one of Portland's best signals.
Me thinks time and 21st century radio caught up with Dennis. Here's hoping someone picks him up. IMO he has the best set of ears this industry has ever had.
In the 1970s he made WYRE-Annapolis one of the biggest small stations in America. He pushed every one of those 250 watts.
He was Music Director at KTLK in Denver during John Rook's consultancy and could have had a nice run in Top 40 but he liked Colorado and loved music. He was slow and steady at KBCO in Boulder. He put the music first and it wasn't long before people all over greater Denver were tuning in to "That Boulder station," despite some pretty tough multi-path and picket-fencing. By the 1990s KBCO was the new KBPI. That was a heckuva an accomplishment.
With KINK he took over one of the great heritage AOR stations and he had me doing the same thing as those people in Colorado--putting up with the hash to listen to KINK as I drove around the Puget Sound region. KINK always had one of Portland's best signals.
Me thinks time and 21st century radio caught up with Dennis. Here's hoping someone picks him up. IMO he has the best set of ears this industry has ever had.
Dusty Dale Brooks said:
Some years back, I was visiting a friend who had a high-rise apartment up on Capitol Hill, near the top floor. And he had KINK playing on his stereo. The signal was rock solid and in stereo, albeit with noticeable distance hiss, but not enough to ruin the music. He said KINK came like that all the time up there...
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