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It may be early but START PAYING ATTENTION TO KTU!

neo11 said:
What kind of radio did you try to use to tune into the station in those locations?
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I tried on a pioneer tuner through a McIntosh system (LOVE their equipment.. top sound quality www.mcIntoshlabs.com) and speakers in my apt... couldn't get it, so I hung a sony tuner out the window on the ledge and got it behind a ton of fuzz... in Gramercy it was just a bose counter top radio, at work it was a sony system, and a pioneer system across the river in Hoboken.
 
lalumia said:
just went to ktu's web page,clicked on the 'top ten songs',as follows






1 No One
Alicia Keys

2 Clumsy
Fergie

3 The Way I Are
Timbaland f/Keri Hilson & D.O.E.

4 Tattoo
Jordin Sparks

5 APOLOGIZE
Timbaland/One Republic

6 Big Girls Don't Cry
Fergie

7 WAKE UP CALL
Maroon 5

8 HATE THAT I LOVE YOU
Rihanna / Ne-Yo

9 Don't Stop The Music
Rihanna

10 Love Like This
Natasha Bedingfield


I hate to tell ya, but that's currently the real beat of NY,as far as the average down load buying,MTV viewing young demographic is concerned
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And according to yes.com, here's some other songs they played just this morning:

Miquel Brown - So Many Men, So Little Time
Whitney Houston - It's Not Right, But It's Okay
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Captain Hollywood - More & More
Cover Girls - Because of You
Donna Summer - On the Radio
When in Rome - The Promise (!)
Lisa Stansfield - All Around the World
Lara Fabian - I Will Love Again
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Samantha Fox - Naughty Girls
Nice & Wild - Diamond Girl
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
Madonna - Holiday
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (!)
Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my Heart
Donna Summer - MacArthur Park
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Livin Joy - Dreamer
Abba - Dancing Queen
Stevie B. - In My Eyes
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - All Cried Out
OMD - If You Leave (!)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Soft Cell - Where Did Our Love Go?
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Corona - Rhythm of the Night
Force MDs - Tender Love
Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
Stars on 54 - If You Could Read my Mind
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Donna Summer - Heaven Knows
Shana - I Want You
Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You
Cher - Believe
KWS - Please Don't Go
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
and others....

So to hear those top 10 new songs, you have to sit through the likes of Donna Summer (three times in just a few hours), Abba, OMD and Duran Duran!, Gloria Gaynor, and Whitney Houston. That is not top 40 radio. The playlist is actually very AC/Hot ACish with rhythmic elements, and seems kind of scattered and unfocused...Abba and Duran Duran? It's a pretty bizarre mix and it probably leaves room for many people who just want to hear newer rhythmic hits to tune out as soon as Abba or Donna Summer come on the radio (pun intended) again.
 
That may be their top ten songs played but look at any hour of the day and you will get plenty of dusty top 40 music. Here is what they played at 10 am today:

No Scrubs
TLC

Calabria
Enur featuring Natasja

So Many Men, So Little Time
Miquel Brown

Lose My Breath
Destiny's Child

I Still Believe
Brenda K. Starr

Tattoo
Jordin Sparks

It's Not Right But It's Okay
Whitney Houston

Red Red Wine
Ub40

Sexy Back
Justin Timberlake

Here Comes The Hotstepper
Ini Kamoze
 
The list below seems nice for a city like Lima, Ohio, but not for a hip city like New York.
Plus, people have to sit through 1976/77/78 Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor to get to Rhianna and Alicia Keys. Enough 1978 already.
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1 No One
Alicia Keys

2 Clumsy
Fergie

3 The Way I Are
Timbaland f/Keri Hilson & D.O.E.

4 Tattoo
Jordin Sparks

5 APOLOGIZE
Timbaland/One Republic

6 Big Girls Don't Cry
Fergie

7 WAKE UP CALL
Maroon 5

8 HATE THAT I LOVE YOU
Rihanna / Ne-Yo

9 Don't Stop The Music
Rihanna

10 Love Like This
Natasha Bedingfield
 
well, the 'bizzare mix' features songs that all have one element in common;
they are or were still huge and popular hit records, which is what people turn the radio on for(the few people that still do turn the radio on, that is
 
That's what variety radio is for or classic hits. NYC wants and needs a cutting edge station that breaks in new dance music and leads the rest of the nation for whats hip. Just as it always had.
 
Can someone please post an hour playlist from Pulse?

Thanks!
 
Plain and simple... KTU has went to sh*t.

I think I almost choked on my own vomit the first time ever I heard Diane Pryor play Natasha Bedingfield's 'Unwritten'. I then thought aloud in disbelief, I didn't know KTU could get any lower.... after Vic's departure.

It's a trainwreck and Clear Channel should rot in hell for it. Chancellor resurrected the call letters for a reason. CC wants to change this to a soccer mom who can't let go of the 70's and 80's... Hun, you can still wear the spandex pants and keep your hair frizzy.. But let the music go, please! CC needs to retire WKTU's letters. They don't deserve them. They took something that was big, explosive, well-liked and energetic and turned it into 103-5 BEEGEE FM with horribly shaking asses on their tv spots.

The ONLY asset I see KTU having right now is Cindy Vero. She's got brains, beauty, a killer personality, and she knows her sh*t incl. traffic.

Try to pull her to Pulse 87 for an even bigger success. :)
 
I'm going to play "devils advocate" for one second here Myke :)

With all of the hype regarding the launch of Pulse 87, there is one thing here that has been overlooked. The fact is that for the FIRST time in New York radio history, dance music fans actually have a CHOICE! In Eastern Queens/Nassau County, they have THREE choices when you add Party 105 (at 101.5) into the mix.

That was the damming thing when we only had 'KTU. They had kept to the older music, did very little or little too late, to add new music. A lot of dance fans (such as myself) migrated over to satellite radio because of this. Now with Pulse 87 here, we DO have a choice! For those of us that WANT the new music, keep it on 87.7. And for those that want to hear the older material and the solidified pop currents without the edge, you have 'KTU. There's really no need to bash 'KTU anymore now because...what's the point, we have our OWN station! And with the campaign I am doing, we WILL get awareness for dance fans not really in the know to check out Pulse 87 and Party 105! Awareness will also happen "naturally" because once people realize what they have been missing for quite a while, you will have them educated. And that's really the bottom line....education.

BTW, visit our unofficial Pulse 87 Fan Board at http://pulse87.yuku.com
 
i gotta admit though tony, that it does sound very refreshing (thanks to pulse) to not have to hear the same set of maroon 5, gloria gaynor, earth wind & fire and natasha bedingfield every day!! :)
 
Did Pulse ink a deal w/ Arbitron? I haven't heard it confirmed yet. Even if they don't and the books show the big apples have been bitten, at least i'm sure we could strongly attribute that to pulse's presence.
 
If they're not measured by Arbitron..it's going to have to be a REAL SEXY SELL
..Money talks though..I'm sure the ink will be pouring if the $$ is right..

At this point, as dance fans- we're definitely satisfied with the product. The signal/TV issue is the only thing that could hold this baby back. There are a couple of things to think about:
If Pulse can't ink with Arbitron..with the advent of PPM, we may not be able to justify that Pulse had anything to do with the fluctuating shares...as that could be caused by PPM itself. Obviously, if Pulse is measured in PPM, and their share increases, well then we're okay. There are other measurement services available..but Mr. Advertiser now cares about EXPOSURE..and that's what PPM is going to measure. John Doe is not going to list Pulse in his diary if Pulse was playing in the Pizza Place, but PPM will count that. This is why Tony's campaign is critical! If pulse is playing all over...the PPM will reflect that. Let's hope for the best!!
 
regarding the star and bucwild show..
Do we know if Pulse/Mega is going to sell this nationally? That alone could be their bread and butter!!
 
Question though... would a TV signal being played on low power FM, carry a strong enough digital signal to be recorded by the ppm? Are they even subscribers to have the signal at all. I know its a digital signal in the air feed that is picked up by the meter... for example if you're not picking a station up good enough to trigger "stereo" sound on the radio, you probably wouldn't have enough station strength either to pick up the ppm station signal.
 
reggie said:
regarding the star and bucwild show..
Do we know if Pulse/Mega is going to sell this nationally? That alone could be their bread and butter!!
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Personally, I doubt it. Right now they're just focused on New York City.
 
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