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Hot AC in Seattle

It is my recollection that up to the early 90's, KRWM was smooth jazz, I think under different calls. Before that is was top40 in the mid 80's as KHIT. When KRWM went AC after smooth jazz, I believe they were a softer version of KLSY, with less talk.
 
searadiofreak said:
It is my recollection that up to the early 90's, KRWM was smooth jazz, I think under different calls. Before that is was top40 in the mid 80's as KHIT. When KRWM went AC after smooth jazz, I believe they were a softer version of KLSY, with less talk.
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KLSY as I recall started going uptempo in the late '80s as K-Lite 95.7 and KSEA ("K-Sea", "Mix 101/100.7") duked it out in the Lite AC pillow fight.

Meanwhile up at 106.9, they were KNUA ("Music For A New Age") and dropped the Kitaro and Andreas Vollenwieder to go Smooth Jazz in 1990 as KKNW ("Sound FM 106.9")

100.7 gave up the near Hot AC they had moved to by summer of 1992 and became KIRO-FM, initially a simulcast of KIRO-AM that later added separate celebrity hosts as "The Buzz". In August of 1992, KRWM came on as "Warm 107"

K-Lite gave up the ghost after a brief flirtation with Smooth Jazz ("City Lights")
 
Someone, anyone, please tell me why a station like STAR chooses to play the 'radio edit' version of something like Katy Perry's California Gurls (the version with Snoop Dogg edited out). The 'regular' version doesn't have any foul language that I can determine. Why do stations do this-especially when they bring the song back as a recurrent after years of hearing the other way everywhere else.

Kent I beg you- let Snoopy free....
 
There are 2 things I find more annoying than the no-rap edit of California Girls.
1. The way they edit Party Rock Anthem.
2. They edit the first half, but not the second half of the rap on Suit and Tie.
 
Most HOT-AC stations play the AC or HOT-AC edit mix of artists delivered by the labels. Heard four different versions of Suit and Tie in Dallas this week. No rap on KVIL, some rap on KDMX, longer rap mix on KHKS and yet an even longer version with intro on KKDA. There are typically three or four different versions of songs and artists/producers do the edit themselves and labels send the appropriate mix to the appropriate station. You don't hear the Snoop California Girls mix on AC or HOT-AC stations across the country either. I agree, I kind of like that version, but there must be a reasoning behind it. I assume artists are trying to reach different audiences. Country songs are completely remixed for Pop as well. Have always thought it would be a shock when someone buys the album version and gets something entirely different. Most of this from what I understand is driven by labels and artists, stations just download the mix appropriate for their audience. I agree, let Snoop Free!

Love listening to Vancouver Radio, they let it fly, language and all. No gaps in music. Crazy fun.
 
Interesting topic. Should music always be pure? Or should certain formats edit content?

Well, guess what? Most record companies welcome edits. Because it exposes their music to more consumers. They don't give a flying fart how the consumer receives it. They just want to sell the maximum units. Great to see American consumerism at its best.
 
Probably back to my "blasphemy" of jocks making decisions....but ......

I worked at a couple places where we would have choices of versions to air based on what was happening as the song flowed. A regular "cold intro" might have an alternative edit with a small lip if you needed one in a music set (e.g. Ashford & Simpson SOLID ... with a horn intro), or might have an album version that featured longer intro than normal or special solo, extended bridge, etc. Or conversely a long intro might have a convenient edit to keep flow going (for example...Superstition where we clipped the open drum beat so it would cruise after a shotgun jingle).

Those were places where the MD/PD really "got it" and knew we were all collaborating to make the station sound unique...giving listeners an experience they would NOT be getting across the dial.

...and then came the computer systems and the "don't TOUCH anything" mandates!
 
Steenman said:
Someone, anyone, please tell me why a station like STAR chooses to play the 'radio edit' version of something like Katy Perry's California Gurls (the version with Snoop Dogg edited out). The 'regular' version doesn't have any foul language that I can determine. Why do stations do this-especially when they bring the song back as a recurrent after years of hearing the other way everywhere else.

Kent I beg you- let Snoopy free....
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Because Snoop Dogg rapping about squeezing buns and "ass hangin' out" might not be what the Bellevue at work crowd wants to hear?

Is this the new Kokomo?
 
Steenman said:
Someone, anyone, please tell me why a station like STAR chooses to play the 'radio edit' version of something like Katy Perry's California Gurls (the version with Snoop Dogg edited out). The 'regular' version doesn't have any foul language that I can determine. Why do stations do this-especially when they bring the song back as a recurrent after years of hearing the other way everywhere else.

Kent I beg you- let Snoopy free....
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Up in my corner of the NW....CHQM in Vancouver plays "California Gurls" (often before or after a "Soft Favourites" positioner....) Which always left me a bit puzzled...(No Snoop here either...)
 
I do understand editing Thrift Shop so that when it plays at 7:30 in the morning when mom is driving the kids to school in the mini-van we're not hearing the 'f' bomb every 30 seconds. And I now see the point about Snoop and that one line. It's just that a quick trip to You Tube or pretty much anywhere on the internet gets you the full unedited version so then radio looks like kind of silly playing a 'watered down' substitute. Back when I was jock (like 100 years ago) we did take liberties at night with longer 'album' cuts so I guess it's always been this way. But it seems a throwback in today's digital age.
 
Steenman said:
I do understand editing Thrift Shop so that when it plays at 7:30 in the morning when mom is driving the kids to school in the mini-van we're not hearing the 'f' bomb every 30 seconds. And I now see the point about Snoop and that one line. It's just that a quick trip to You Tube or pretty much anywhere on the internet gets you the full unedited version so then radio looks like kind of silly playing a 'watered down' substitute. Back when I was jock (like 100 years ago) we did take liberties at night with longer 'album' cuts so I guess it's always been this way. But it seems a throwback in today's digital age.
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101.9 KINK still does that in Portland (Ms. Mays are you here?)! I heard Death Cab for Cutie's full album cut of "I will possess your heart" just after 7 pm. Pretty dang cool.
 
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