K
KPLEXCOMPLEX
Guest
But first here is ___________with an announcement
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
Robert Bass said:txchipk said:
W&J were not doing mornings on KTKS when the station flipped to the Oasis format. I know this because I was PO that morning when I awoke to instrumental music rather than Zippo.
R
KTKS changed to KOAI in the fall of 1987. The above post talks about 1986 (I didn't gether you were trying to talk about KOAI's debut)...W&J were the morning show at KTKS in 1986. When they arrived, the replaced Zippo.
By May '87, KTKS was a mess. It effectively became a hot AC and by summer, it was an AC, though still claiming to the trades they were a top 40 station. I remember reading Billboard on the newsstand where the then-PD denying forcefully the station had not changed formats and was still a CHR. Not sure how a station mixing 70s AC oldies during the day and running a locally produced "Love Songs" 6-10PM show with material that would make Delilah sleepy could be considered a CHR, though... KEGL (my favorite CHR at this time during high school) mixed in a 70s tune periodically (miss those "Eagle free flights of back to back rock and roll hits"), but it was Boston, Foreigner, and Pink Floyd songs, not the Bee Gees/"How Deep Is Your Love." By August, they changed to the original jingle package and went back towards hot AC "the Fresh One 106.1 Kiss FM, the Rhythm of the '80s." A few months after that, it became KOAI. I'm not sure who served as morning drive host for those last couple of months...the jock line-up constantly changed at this point. I went off to A&M at that point...don't ever recall Zippo having returned, but I guess he could have been back for the final weeks of KTKS. It seems like after he was demoted to middays when W&J arrived, he left a short time later. I thought that's when he went to then-SMN for a morning drive on one of the satellite formats. The College Station dial was open at that time (only class A's on 92.1, 94.3, 98.3, and 104.9), so I could get KHYI, KEGL, and KTKS (or KIOC Beaumont) almost every morning and evening. I didn't recall hearing Zippo in mornings on KTKS at that point (I do remember finding they had flipped to KOAI that fall).
KTKS failed much like KZPS failed the year before...it just got squeezed out of the format. KAFM changed to KZPS "Z92.5, Your Power Station" (well, for a couple of days, KZPW and then KZPS...I remember them running little promos explaining that ZPS in KZPS stood for "Z92.5" and "Power Station") in Feb 1986. It started off as top 40, then sort of became like a hot AC, then the adding of "enerjazz" at night, then to AC/jazz at night. By October, it was classic hits/jazz at nights "Classic Hits 92.5 KZPS." It just seemed KAFM/KZPS couldn't figure out how to compete successfully against KEGL and KTKS and then later KHYI. It seemed to decide it would let the teens go to the other stations and focus on adults. But even then, the music mix kept changing, and, frankly, if you wanted to listen to an AC, you would have been listening to the far superior KVIL. In '87, with dance/urban heavy KHYI coming on strong and rock-leaning KEGL still the CHR leader, KTKS seemed to go the same route. It looks like they were OK with letting the teens go to KHYI and KEGL, but for the adults left, they kept shifting the music too rapidly. During the final 6 months, it ranged from a hot AC to a borderline soft AC. Same thing...who wanted this AC when you others including KVIL?
txchipk said:Robert Bass said:txchipk said:
W&J were not doing mornings on KTKS when the station flipped to the Oasis format. I know this because I was PO that morning when I awoke to instrumental music rather than Zippo.
R
KTKS changed to KOAI in the fall of 1987. The above post talks about 1986 (I didn't gether you were trying to talk about KOAI's debut)...W&J were the morning show at KTKS in 1986. When they arrived, the replaced Zippo.
That is not how I remember it. I remember Zippo was still doing mornings up until the station flipped to KOAI.
R
Robert Bass said:txchipk said:Robert Bass said:txchipk said:
W&J were not doing mornings on KTKS when the station flipped to the Oasis format. I know this because I was PO that morning when I awoke to instrumental music rather than Zippo.
R
KTKS changed to KOAI in the fall of 1987. The above post talks about 1986 (I didn't gether you were trying to talk about KOAI's debut)...W&J were the morning show at KTKS in 1986. When they arrived, the replaced Zippo.
That is not how I remember it. I remember Zippo was still doing mornings up until the station flipped to KOAI.
R
Rather than memory, how about airchecks? In my collection: Zippo in mornings on KTKS in 1985; W&J on their previous New Orleans home, WQUE, 12/85; KTKS scoped 1986 aircheck of Zippo middays followed by Humble Billy Hayes featuring a promo for Walton & Johnson.
Or a web search shows W&J's current site has a bio that shows them coming to KTKS in 1986 -- http://www.waltonandjohnson.com/main/handbook. W&J were briefly successful since at the same time, Sevens & Pruett left KEGL. KEGL replaced them with a morning show -- Robins/Kinney/Cowan -- that bombed and was gone in 6 months. KEGL then replaced them with Moby, from KLOL Houston.
I believe Zippo only worked there 1984-1986. KTKS did not become KOAI until 10/1987.
K
KPLEXCOMPLEX
Guest
Looking back Robert is correct on this one. Zippo used to come in at a certain Restaurant/club in Addison in 1986-1987 and he was doing mornings for KTKS in '87. An aircheck is an aircheck capturing a moment in time,not the duration.
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
As I wrote in my original follow-up post, I don't recall who was doing mornings in the final weeks of KTKS in the fall of '87; the station was going through jocks and line-ups left and right. The original post I replied to stated Zippo replaced W&J in 1986. I was pointing out that was wrong. Robert's reply was that Zippo was there when KTKS flipped...again, all fine and well, but KTKS flipped in October 1987, not in 1986. Both my posts were correcting incorrect info.
Zippo was the original morning DJ when KTKS debuted in 1984. W&J replaced him in early 1986 (2/1986?); he was moved to middays and only stayed at KTKS there after that briefly. So, in 1986, he did not replace W&J.
Don "Big Dog" Crockett ended up doing mornings (from PM drive) on KTKS after W&J (at least he was as of late August 1987 when I went off to A&M). So, if KTKS re-hired Zippo for mornings, he only was there for about 5 weeks before KTKS finally died and KOAI was born (and thus didn't replace W&J since they were long gone, so that's still a falsehood in any year KTKS was around). Again, as I pointed out in my original follow-up, I don't recall the final few weeks (September-October 1987) of KTKS. If he was there, it was just as filler until the new format came along.
BTW, I'm not knocking him...I used to listen to his show when I was in high school...flipping between KEGL and KTKS at the time; I'm just pointing out the correct sequence of events here...
K
KPLEXCOMPLEX
Guest
It's okay. There's no need for a lengthy debate/explanation. I was merely saying Robert was right. That is all
It is indeed fact that Zippo was doing mornings on KISS when the flip to KOAI occured. The reason I know this is because when I awoke the morning it had changed to KOAI, I was thinking my radio had been tuned to another station. After rotating the tuner knob, I realized it was still on 106.1. In my mind I was going "What the heck happened to Zippo???".
This incident is what finally got me listening to KEOM in the mornings, since I was working as a student DJ at the time.
This incident is what finally got me listening to KEOM in the mornings, since I was working as a student DJ at the time.
So the question is left hanging still... Will Zippo be on KLUV on Saturdays?
R
R
T
TheLaffer
Guest
Robert Bass said:
That's what some people at abc radio network were saying. Who knows.
B
bleonard47
Guest
Mike....Jim used to have parties at his house where we could watch movies in his theater (yes, it did have actual theater seats). We did that often. He's quite a film buff. I don't think there's a movie (real acetate on big ole' reels) that he doesn't have a copy of.
If you google Jim Zippo, it will pull up a site that has pictures of his home theater. Very impressive!
I wonder how he got actual film copies of the movies in his collection? I didn't realize they were available to the general public. ???
R
I wonder how he got actual film copies of the movies in his collection? I didn't realize they were available to the general public. ???
R
B
bleonard47
Guest
Yes, he does, in fact have quite a few original copies. He has been involved with film buff,s traders and collectors for years.
- Status