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Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say 2000? I had heard I thought at one point there was. If there was what station was it? What was the format like? Who was on the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format? Thanks
 
> Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say 2000? I
> had heard I thought at one point there was. If there was
> what station was it? What was the format like? Who was on
> the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format?
> Thanks

KHOT-FM 100.3. March-July 1995. Stern, and Leykis, among others.
 
> > Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say 2000?
> I
> > had heard I thought at one point there was. If there was
> > what station was it? What was the format like? Who was on
> > the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format?
> > Thanks
>
> KHOT-FM 100.3. March-July 1995. Stern, and Leykis, among
> others.

Although this was Leykis' pre-KLSX days and the schtick was a little different.
 
> > > Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say
> 2000?
> > I
> > > had heard I thought at one point there was. If there was
>
> > > what station was it? What was the format like? Who was
> on
> > > the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format?
> > > Thanks
> >
> > KHOT-FM 100.3. March-July 1995. Stern, and Leykis, among
> > others.
>
> Although this was Leykis' pre-KLSX days and the schtick was
> a little different.
>
Yeah I remember hearing Leykis back in buffalo on WGR during that time period and his show was a bit dfferent than it is these days. Still like his show but it was different.
 
> > > > Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say
> > 2000?
> > > I
> > > > had heard I thought at one point there was. If there
> was
> >
> > > > what station was it? What was the format like? Who was
>
> > on
> > > > the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format?
>
> > > > Thanks




> http://carlafoxx.voice123.com/

carla foxx was programming the station and was also a mid-day host.

jarrod kniff (kukq) hosted a show following stern geared towards the college crowd.

stern was on 100.3 kzrx (z-rock) just before the flip to khot (k-hot).

later, kedj (the edge) used 100.3 for simulcast.
 
> carla foxx was programming the station and was also a
> mid-day host.
>
> jarrod kniff (kukq) hosted a show following stern geared
> towards the college crowd.
>
> stern was on 100.3 kzrx (z-rock) just before the flip to
> khot (k-hot).

[snipped some stuff that I screwed up... it's been years!]


Stern was brought in to launch KHOT - by the time Stern did the "press conference" show that used to launch an affiliate, KZRX was dead. Carla Foxx did middays (and it was awful), and Leykis (who *was* on KLSX in LA at this point doing Flash Friday) in afternoons.

When it first signed on, they used to run some really cheesy satellite-fed Hollywood gossip show between Stern and Foxx that was hosted by someone from the National Enquirer. Maybe they added the guy from KUKQ later, but the whole station was a train wreck. They had Stern and Leykis and they had no idea how to fill the rest of the broadcast day... and it showed.

The first week on air, Leykis did it live from Phoenix. Except KHOT didn't have an ISDN line or a Zephyr. So they used their KGME connections (which at the time was co-owned and on 1360) to get Leykis into Tempe Diablo Stadium [this was during spring training] and they used the Zephyr and ISDN line in the press box to get the show back to Westwood One.

KHOT was bush-league radio, right down to the jingles. (jingles? for stern?)

Then they gave up and flipped 100.3 to a simulcast of 106.3 KEDJ and put Stern on the Edge.

KHOT's calls were moved to 105.9 (which at that point they either owned or LMA'd) after they blew up Young Buck Country and went R&B and 100.3 became KDDJ.

Somewhere after that, the fiasco that was Big City Radio came along and ran out of money. 1360 went to Salem and 100.3/106.3/105.9/105.3 went to Univision.

The KEDJ calls and intellectual property were sold to 103.9 in exchange for the KPTY call sign now used by Univision in Houston. The KGME calls and intellectual property went to Chancellor or whatever they were called at the moment and put on 910 (bouncing KFYI to a better signal on 550 and KOY to 1230). And the beat goes on.

> <P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
> > carla foxx was programming the station and was also a
> > mid-day host.
> >
> > jarrod kniff (kukq) hosted a show following stern geared
> > towards the college crowd.
> >
> > stern was on 100.3 kzrx (z-rock) just before the flip to
> > khot (k-hot).
>
> Nope. Z-Rock was dead around 1991, long before they added
> Stern. Z-Rock became The Wave and ran a NAC format. Before
> they plugged in the satellite, the board ops jocked. They
> couldn't pronounce Sade when they played her. (this would
> have been the second time that station tried NAC, because
> after they moved KIKO down to the Valley, it went KEYX
> (alternative) to KGRX (NAC) to KZRX (Z-Rock) to NAC again
> (did they change the calls?), then to the KHOT fiasco) I'm
> fuzzy about when, but I remember Z-Rock going NAC when I
> lived in the dorm, and KHOT happening in my second
> apartment, so there had to be a couple of years between the
> two.


nope.

i was there.

we moved z-rock, the edge & the game into the new 7th st / c.b. facility in '95, iirc.

i don't remember leykis being there for the sign-on. ??

i don't remember leykis on 100.3 ?? ..he may have been after i moved to cali.

kxrx's pd guy giuliano, who started z-rock with his uncle in chicago, didn't carry z-rock network programming at the time; kzrx was programmed local, using the moniker z-rock.

larry mac was the md.

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=kzrx+z+rock&btnG=Search
 
> > carla foxx was programming the station and was also a
> > mid-day host.
> >
> > jarrod kniff (kukq) hosted a show following stern geared
> > towards the college crowd.
> >
> > stern was on 100.3 kzrx (z-rock) just before the flip to
> > khot (k-hot).
>
> Nope. Z-Rock was dead around 1991, long before they added
> Stern. Z-Rock became The Wave and ran a NAC format. Before
> they plugged in the satellite, the board ops jocked. They
> couldn't pronounce Sade when they played her. (this would
> have been the second time that station tried NAC, because
> after they moved KIKO down to the Valley, it went KEYX
> (alternative) to KGRX (NAC) to KZRX (Z-Rock) to NAC again
> (did they change the calls?), then to the KHOT fiasco) I'm
> fuzzy about when, but I remember Z-Rock going NAC when I
> lived in the dorm, and KHOT happening in my second
> apartment, so there had to be a couple of years between the
> two.

Actually, 100.3 was Z-Rock up until the launch of KHOT. The "New Age" format of KGRX began in 1988, and was gone by 1991 or '92. And, I do recall hearing Leykis on the first day of the format back in March of '95.

> KHOT was bush-league radio, right down to the jingles.
> (jingles? for stern?)

I remember those as well.

"Howard Stern in the morning - On Arizona's Hot Talk - One Hundred Point Three, K-H-O-T"
 
> > > carla foxx was programming the station and was also a
> > > mid-day host.
> > >
> > > jarrod kniff (kukq) hosted a show following stern geared
>
> > > towards the college crowd.
> > >
> > > stern was on 100.3 kzrx (z-rock) just before the flip to
>
> > > khot (k-hot).
> >
> > Nope. Z-Rock was dead around 1991, long before they added
>
> > Stern. Z-Rock became The Wave and ran a NAC format.
> Before
> > they plugged in the satellite, the board ops jocked. They
>
> > couldn't pronounce Sade when they played her. (this would
> > have been the second time that station tried NAC, because
> > after they moved KIKO down to the Valley, it went KEYX
> > (alternative) to KGRX (NAC) to KZRX (Z-Rock) to NAC again
> > (did they change the calls?), then to the KHOT fiasco)
> I'm
> > fuzzy about when, but I remember Z-Rock going NAC when I
> > lived in the dorm, and KHOT happening in my second
> > apartment, so there had to be a couple of years between
> the
> > two.
>
> Actually, 100.3 was Z-Rock up until the launch of KHOT. The
> "New Age" format of KGRX began in 1988, and was gone by 1991
> or '92. And, I do recall hearing Leykis on the first day of
> the format back in March of '95.
>
> > KHOT was bush-league radio, right down to the jingles.
> > (jingles? for stern?)
>
> I remember those as well.
>
> "Howard Stern in the morning - On Arizona's Hot Talk - One
> Hundred Point Three, K-H-O-T"
>

Does anyone have any airchecks of KHOT as Hot Talk?
 
> Actually, 100.3 was Z-Rock up until the launch of KHOT. The
> "New Age" format of KGRX began in 1988, and was gone by 1991
> or '92. And, I do recall hearing Leykis on the first day of
> the format back in March of '95.

Now that I think about it, you're right. ABC killed The Wave as a satellite service, and after a week of their board ops trying to do the format, they plugged in Z-Rock.

Where it gets really hazy was when ABC killed off Z-Rock and KZRX tried to make a go of it on their own. "Z-Rock. Get Hard!" never quite caught on.

But it's all fuzzy memories of awful radio.

> "Howard Stern in the morning - On Arizona's Hot Talk - One
> Hundred Point Three, K-H-O-T"

And "Arizona's Hot Talk (shout: Howard Stern) one hundred point three K-Hot!" Ick.<P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
> nope.
>
> i was there.
>
> we moved z-rock, the edge & the game into the new 7th st /
> c.b. facility in '95, iirc.

Makes sense. I was at the Zone, and we were out of that building by what, '93?

> i don't remember leykis being there for the sign-on. ??

He wasn't at the station, but he did do the first week live from Phoenix. I went to go visit at the stadium.

When Westwood One told Leykis he was going to be back in Phoenix he was excited because he wanted to settle a score with Fred. They didn't tell him what station he was going to be on when he got there. He was pretty disappointed when he got there between the station's signal and having to do the show in a press box.

> kxrx's pd guy giuliano, who started z-rock with his uncle in
> chicago, didn't carry z-rock network programming at the
> time; kzrx was programmed local, using the moniker z-rock.

Unless his uncle was Lee Abrams... who started the Z-Rock format in Dallas... The Rock-40 format that had some short-lived success in Chicago was The Blaze (later ripped off by 103.9) IIRC.

KZRX started on the bird and stayed on it until ABC pulled the plug on the network. I'm fuzzy on when that went down. They may have done a local afternoon show and the net the rest of the time for awhile, too. I know that Z-Rock didn't exist as a network by '95; hair bands were dead by then and "Rock 40" went down with it.

I remember Guilano was there when it went local. The logo had morphed from the old ABC Z-Rock into a knock-off of Pirate Radio in LA by that time. It was low budget radio.

But Stern wasn't on KZRX. He was brought in for Carla Foxx's PD debut.

The one station that Resource Media really got right was The Edge. KHOT... really wasn't that hot.

How much did they pay to get those calls from the station in Modesto?

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>
> But Stern wasn't on KZRX. He was brought in for Carla
> Foxx's PD debut.
>

" But it's all fuzzy memories of awful radio. "


.
.


i completely forgot about leykis on the 100-3 lineup, after airing tom's program on other stations in the past few years.

i'm not a fan of tom leykis.

his pukey jock delivery is kinda funny. ..but after hearing one of his shows, you've heard 'em all.

as to howard on 100-3..

we had the howard feed in the production room a month before the debut..

my fuzzy thinkin.. that howard was on z-rock towards z-rocks end. ??

it was e.b. & the morning rage, kzrx.
 
> we had the howard feed in the production room a month before
> the debut..

Yeah, and your engineer borrowed a 2-line Comrex from us to try to get audio from the press conference back to New York. IIRC, that didn't work.

We're spoiled by POTS codecs now.

> his pukey jock delivery is kinda funny. ..but after hearing one of his shows,
> you've heard 'em all.

"Really?"

I used to keep track of how many times he'd tell a woman he wanted to sign her rack while stuck in traffic.

Carla could have owned this town if she hadn't quit KEZ (and run over a lawyer, and gotten busted returning to jail drunk while on her work release...). It was funny. Usually when another jock gets into trouble, everyone else has their back. Carla was not as well loved by other radio people in this town.

Best bit ever was Sherriff Joe having Michael Hagerty blow a .000 on the breathalyzer on channel 3 to knock down Carla's claim that the machine was faulty.

<P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
I got your Hot Talk in Phoenix

> Was there a Hot Talk station in phoenix before say 2000? I
> had heard I thought at one point there was. If there was
> what station was it? What was the format like? Who was on
> the air? Does anyone have any tapes/cds of the format?
> Thanks
>
Does Earl Baldwin complaining about a swamp cooler malfunction at "Newsscope 9-10" count?

Or Pat Mcmahon the night KRIZ caught fire? I was listening ... I believe he put on Let It be and evacuated.

I guess Wolfman Jack's melting Popsicle scene in American Graffiti doesn't count.
 
> KHOT was bush-league radio, right down to the jingles.
> (jingles? for stern?)

Before I moved back to PHX, I remember driving through and hearing KHOT. What I heard was the JAM "New York Fan" package with the lyric

ARIZONA'S HOT TALK - ONE HUNDRED POINT THREE K H O T

With Stern's past on WNBC, I think it's only appropriate to have jingles (especially JAM) on a station with Stern.

ec
 
johndavis...not sure who you are but you are sooo wrong about the facts at KZRX! I was Sales Manager there! First of all Z-Rock started in Chicago on WZRC, which was the launch pad for the network, then owned by SMN and John Tyler. Wild Bill Scott started the network, 2 years before Lee Abrams was hired! ABC later took over SMN in Dallas. Guiliano dumped the network in Phoenix at 'ZRX for local programming, in it's first book it hit a 2.6 12+... it was all zeros before with Z-Rock network stuff. In mid 1993, they hired Tim Andrews to program it locally and he ran it into the ground. The owners had already negotiated to bring Stern to Phoenix but could not afford it yet. Originally Stern was going to go on KZRX however plans changed to KEDJ in order to gain a larger audience for the fledgeling alternative rocker. The PD John Clay wanted music not Stern! They had Willobee and Mary Zeal doing mornings before Stern. After the owners decided to dump KZRX, then Hot Talk launched, it died, they merged signals and did a simulcast.
 
Uh Huh...no way

ZROCK was and still is remembered as the BEST KICK ASS ROCK Radio STATION in Arizona. It covered from Phoenix to Tucson. The airstaff from KC Kennedy, Jan Williams and even the G-Ster kicked KUPD's and KDLB's ass.........
 
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