KEEP PARTY 105 IN LONG ISLAND!!! BRING BACK PULSE 87!!!

[JohnParker]

I think Nikki does a good job at nights. And would see no reason to replace her.

Also NYC stations reach into Long Island so I don't get the point that the station should be broken in half to serve NYC and then Long Island. It doesn't matter where your based. People either like the station or they don't. If you want to get technical, how many other stations are licensed out of Long Island that are "NYC" Stations? I'm sure there are others. Isn't KTU still out of "Lake Success"?

For those longing for the days of Pulse, it's gone. It's not coming back unless they can convince someone to give up a station. And with the way some of these other stations are run I'd imagine that it could happen. But the fact remains that there is a bias against Dance Music in this country and unless there is some massive ground swell, and not 10 people bitching on a message board, nothing is going to change. Party has never said that they will be anything but Party. They play Dance, they play Hip Hop and they play Pop hits. It's what they do.

jp

 

[Wildstyle K]

I feel your pain. Party is no comparison to Pulse but it's no KTU either. They lean much more on current dance than KTU. To me KTU seems to have become more of a rhythmic CHR in competition with NOW.

I'd say, even without living there, that KTU is Rhythmic AC.

 

[TonySantiago]

I would like to retract my post from yesterday!
I have been listening to PARTY since 10am this morning and have heard "maybe" a handful of current dance songs.

What is going on? They are getting worse rather than better.

There is a "pattern" that I've noticed. Party seems to be more "dance intensive" from around the time DJ Serg is up till around midnight on Nikki's show. They do play dance during the dayparts but you tend to hear hip-hop and r&b around that time

 

[TonySantiago]

Aiboss1 and DesiArnez6 ARE THE VOICE OF REASON from now on!
Rumba and Pulse were my FAVORITES
Tony Santiago keeps sippin on the Kool-Aid this time around with this takeover.

Tell you what, when all is said and done about things, I'll remember the Kool-Aid response, as I'm sipping on a mojito somewhere looking back at all of this

 

[davideduardo]

That's because everything is automated.

Saying it is "automated" is usually an exaggeration. Audio is stored on a hard drive, instead of on tape or vinyl. Most digital storage options have the ability to follow a playlist or to "drag and drop" songs, or to go to the board and insert mixes done live or even a club remote, to name a couple of choices. At the same time, it can be progammed to be an expensive WinAmp and run a playlist. It's all up to the PD and the budget on hand.

Upper Management dictates what gets put into the machine and run over the airwaves

As the FCC requires them to do... and always has.

Gone are the days when the DJ pops into the studio and plays the tunes on the turntables.

That was gone, for the most part, in the early 60's when not just commercials but music went onto carts.

Even in the 80s, the PD had the DJs pop in those cartilages containing the songs mandated by mgmt, in the order that they want, into a giant machine that performs that task.

Carts generally were inserted into a cart machine, about the size of a toaster, and played manually. Some cart machines combined several decks in one. And there were systems for automation that could hold dozens.

Carts were the mainstay through the 90's, when most stations transitioned to digital solutions on hard disks. Those systems can do anything from making a fully live show more agile to total automation.

Today, stuff like that is computerized. Basically the "jock" now comes in and occasionally says something about what songs are coming next but he/she no longer puts the songs on. Someone else does that task.

Whether played manually from 45's, carts or sequenced in "live assist" mode on a digital system, jocks have been following playlists from the 50's. Stations that did not follow playlists were almost always beaten by those that did.

Even most mix shows are subject to station control of the songs, artists and flavor of the mixes.

 

[Jeffrey]

I feel your pain. Party is no comparison to Pulse but it's no KTU either. They lean much more on current dance than KTU. To me KTU seems to have become more of a rhythmic CHR in competition with NOW.

I'd say, even without living there, that KTU is Rhythmic AC.

I think if you look at yes.com you will agree it is rhythmic CHR intensive. They are classified as rhythmic AC though but they've tweaked since then.

 

[YEKIMI]

Gone are the days when the DJ pops into the studio and plays the tunes on the turntables.
That was gone, for the most part, in the early 60's when not just commercials but music went onto carts.

Up until 1985 when the station I worked at was sold we used turntables and records because the sound was far superior to carts. Only thing we had on carts were the commercials and PSAs. Most of the other stations I worked at had music on carts and when those darn new-fangled CDs came out no one trusted them. One sales demo, the CD started skipping all over the track and the next one just got stuck and was "stuttering" the same section over and over....needless to say, no sale was made that day. I think that's where the idea for record scratching must have come from!