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Genesis....on K-Hits?

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purpledevil

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Noticed it this morning on the way to work during Scott Sparks' morning show. Also noted was the station dropping the "Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's" tag for simply "Houston's Greatest Hits". What's the story here? Someone got the skinny on why Cox is subtly changing K-Hits again, and why they are adding 80's music to the rotation when they already have an 80's station next door on the dial?
 
mhhh, I smell something fishy? Adding 80's music you say? I'll have to listen for myself. I can't listen to KHTC all the way up here in College Station. I get blocked by KXTN where I live almost 3/4ths of the time. I need to move my truck around.
 
Yep, Genesis' "In The Air Tonight" as a matter of fact. I'll raise the stakes with ZZ Top's "La Grange" I heard around 10:30 this morning. I never thought ZZ Top and the station formerly known as KLDE would ever meet.
 
Was The Cars' "Just What I Needed" released in the 70's or 80's? Because it's now part of the KHTC rotation, too.
 
Just an observation... nothing from the inside, but they could be morphing to the same format which KBGO (95.7) is using in Waco. It is a CC station, but maybe Cox thinks that format will work in Houston. KBGO has a pretty good playlist from what I've heard which covers the 60's, 70's & 80's. I was kind of puzzled when I heard "In the Air Tonight" in 107.5's rotation, but at this point, radio in Houston doesn't surprise me. Maybe this will improve things at the late KLDE.

poops
 
purpledevil said:
Was The Cars' "Just What I Needed" released in the 70's or 80's? Because it's now part of the KHTC rotation, too.
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purpledevil,

I googled the Cars and the discography shows "Just what I needed" to be from their self titled album, 'The Cars", in 1978, so it is within the current (or previous) K-Hits time frame.

poops
 
purpledevil said:
Yep, Genesis' "In The Air Tonight" as a matter of fact. I'll raise the stakes with ZZ Top's "La Grange" I heard around 10:30 this morning. I never thought ZZ Top and the station formerly known as KLDE would ever meet.
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That's what Houston needs is another station that plays Genesis, ZZ Top and The Cars!! What the hell?

I think I feel some good old fashioned projectile vomiting coming on..... :p
 
Not that it matters nuch to anyone except us music geeks, but "In the air tonight" was done by Phil Collins, not Genesis. It was on his first solo album "Face Value".

purpledevil said:
Yep, Genesis' "In The Air Tonight" as a matter of fact. I'll raise the stakes with ZZ Top's "La Grange" I heard around 10:30 this morning. I never thought ZZ Top and the station formerly known as KLDE would ever meet.
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NHRadio said:
Not that it matters nuch to anyone except us music geeks, but "In the air tonight" was done by Phil Collins.
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Trust me, The Point has cornered the market on Phil Collins... K-Hits better get in line!!!
 
Why why why can't 107.5 just stick to the 60s and 70s? Christ. We have enough stations playing 80s ... can any market just have ONE oldies station? ???
 
And the inevitable playlist collision between KHTC and KHPT comes even closer. Sort of like two galaxies colliding--they could pass through each other with only slight morphing, or start smacking together, with one possibly sucked into the other.
 
a 60s-80s format wouldn't be too bad, if Cox kills off the point and give birth to a sister station of KISS in San Antonio.

They could even call it Kiss: KHSS 106.9 Kiss Rocks Houston

to dream the impossible dream...
 
Mediafrog+ said:
And the inevitable playlist collision between KHTC and KHPT comes even closer. Sort of like two galaxies colliding--they could pass through each other with only slight morphing, or start smacking together, with one possibly sucked into the other.
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Since they are both owned by Cox, you'd think that they'd try to spread a wider net by keeping the point & K-Hits out of competition with each other, but... this is Houston radio, soooooo... the illogical actions are the norm.

BTW.. on the way to Houston this morning, if I'm not mistaken , heard "That's All" (1983)by Genesis about sevenish. Oh well, it will be interesting to see where this takes us. Maybe someone on the inside might divulge the plan.

poops
 
Perhaps they want too play more music titles? Doing so may be a good thing even with the Point. I thought the Point recently added some more titles too?


I have XM and have given up on local radio.
 
sdh483 said:
They could even call it Kiss: KHSS 106.9 Kiss Rocks Houston
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Sorry, but that call is in use by a Catholic religious station in Walla Walla, Washington.

The KKHS call is available, however. So is KHSH.
 
poops said:
purpledevil said:
Was The Cars' "Just What I Needed" released in the 70's or 80's? Because it's now part of the KHTC rotation, too.
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purpledevil,

I googled the Cars and the discography shows "Just what I needed" to be from their self titled album, 'The Cars", in 1978, so it is within the current (or previous) K-Hits time frame.

poops
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Thanks for the info, poops. I wasn't sure about its decade of origin, but I'm sure it was not a part of the regular rotation previously. My apologies for getting a Genesis release confused with one solely from Phil Collins. As a fellow geek, I should know better! :-[
 
Hahaha....K-Hits played Toto's "Hold The Line". Now if they change "Mony, Mony" from Tommy James version to Billy Idol's the transition will be complete. :D
 
purpledevil said:
Hahaha....K-Hits played Toto's "Hold The Line". Now if they change "Mony, Mony" from Tommy James version to Billy Idol's the transition will be complete. :D
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"Hold the line" circa 78-79 (got the "Toto" album as an anniversary gift in 79). I agree that there is a change afoot.... maybe they will morph to "K-Point" or "P-Hits"

Could it be that Kevinc is playing with us and slipping some ringers in the playlist? just joking Kevin ;D

poops
 
I know NOTHING! And I reveal nothing... other than the fact that yes we are playing more "new" music from the early 80s...you'll probably hear fewer of the 60s tunes.. its more or less a natural evolution...if you think about it.

When I started work at KLDE in 1989, we were playing the 50s and 60s, with only a few 70s songs. Still the music selections went back around 30 years max.... So here we are in 2008...almost 20 years later and the music is still going back about 30 years...actually more like 35 or so... Its just no longer called an "Oldies" station, because the songs we grew up listening to can't be old can they? No way.

By the way, we had been playing ZZ Top La Grange for quite a while, maybe a year or more, before the recent evolution. And I doubt most people would have a problem with the Billy Idol version of Mony Mony. I use it at my DJ gigs all the time, even in the middle of an "oldies" set... because its got a much more danceable sound... (is danceable a word????)

Thats it for me..

Kevinc
 
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