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KMML 96.9 Kiss FM

Is Amarillo's Kiss jockless?

Remember... KAKS FM, Canyon-Amarillo. Amarillo's HOT FM... 108 KISS FM??? It was fun way back in the day.

So was KZRK Canyon-Amarillo. Pure Rock. 107.9 Z-Rock.
 
Thanks RG! That was the first station I was ever on... good times. I'd love to hear your aircheck if you have one in mp3... and when you get around to it! ;D
 
No, Kiss Fm has had on-air personalities since January.
Kiss at Work with Angel D is on mon-sat 10a-2p
Afternoons with Dallas Chambers mon-sat 2p-6p
Hacker Radio with Tommy the Hacker and Nadine Diaz is on weeknights 6-11, and the Hacker is usually on solo saturday nights. Also, weekdays at 5p Kiss airs the 5 o'clock bombucha where Dallas is the emcee and Tommy plays requested songs in a mix on his turntables.
This past sunday, Kiss premiered DM Live at 9p with the legendary Dawson McAllister.
Online streaming, as well as podcasting, should be up and going soon.
 
I was flown out to amarillo to get a gig, and the GM that flew me in was on his way out...The PD wanted nothing to do with me after that...It bothers me that this cluster the one with the classic country station and the Hip Hop cluster across the street both treated me so poorly...

I have worked in Washington DC, and San Antonio, and Corpus, and Baltimore, and I know I have the chops...

What gives with Amarillo? I just wanted to be on the air again.

They tried to treat me like some college kid. The response I got was mostly...what do you want in amarillo?

I wanted to KICK BUTT that's all.

what do you guys think...female PD at one cluste has been there a while and the guy at the other cluster was born there and worked his way up...

I would go there today if they paid me enough to live on...my wife is a teacher.
 
Hey Throwdown,

It's been my experience, generally speaking, that you have much bigger ego's to contend with in the smaller markets. I've been in small markets like that and I've been in big markets where everyone actually did their job and helped you do yours if you needed that help and all were nice to each other and open to ideas.
 
I'll second that! BVG is absolutely correct, and I had the similar experieces to Throwdown. Throwdown, please send me a private messge to my username, I'd be happy to share!
 
All Amarillo operations do have one thing in common. They know how to chase real talent out of the market. Most of the air talent there have worked in one market. Amarillo. Yes there are a couple who ventured away for a few weeks...but for most of the market, getting a job outside of Amarillo would be impossible. I know several major talents who have family there that would love to go back regardless of the bad pay and can't get an interview due to blown up, and undeserved ego's. What happend to J. Mike, Charlie and Granny. Ron Chase. W.J. Fairchild, Dugg Collins, Jay GLass, even Cory Mitchell... Radio was great there at one time.
 
Name calling will get you nowhere buddy.

Looks like somebody from Amarillo finally woke up. Speak to us. Tell us how it is.
 
blaster69 said:
Name calling will get you nowhere buddy.

Looks like somebody from Amarillo finally woke up. Speak to us. Tell us how it is.
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No...somebody from Plainview finally woke up ;)
 
Now we hand it off to our resident smaller market expert...Big Voice Guy.... BVG... are there any stations left in Plainview? I know they sell Beer there now.... that would be a reason to stay there.
 
blaster69 said:
Name calling will get you nowhere buddy.

Looks like somebody from Amarillo finally woke up. Speak to us. Tell us how it is.
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Amarillo's my hometown. I have to agree with pretty much everything blaster69 said. Amarillo radio is nowhere near what it once was. Despite the size, it was vibrant and a springboard for bigger and better things. All the people blaster named started out in Amarillo, and many came through on their way up. Blair Garner of After Midnite fame did his first airshifts on Q107 KHBQ then went to Z-93 KQIZ before KHFI Austin and KIIS LA among other places.

Is the sad state of Amarillo radio necessarily the fault of the veterans in the market? The stations in the GAP cluster languished under bad corporate ownership for a long time. The market is pretty incestuous though, and some of the people running things are just assholes that are paranoid of anyone with talent.

It's amazing how many people that got the boot in Amarillo are wildly successful in much bigger markets. Getting booted out of Amarillo radio is without a doubt the best thing that ever happened to me. I really ought to send Tim Butler a thank you gift or something. Without that jerk firing me, I probably would have stayed where it was comfy and might never have landed in market #6.
 
You are right... it is not the fault of the market veterans or any "one" problem that we all deal with no matter where we are. Amarillo Radio, I think, was prostituted out, and given away so much in previous decades, that getting good spot rates is next to impossible. Depressed market equals low pay for everybody. Keeping good sales folks to stick around longer than 90 days was impossible. Amarillo will always have potential to be a great market again, but there needs to be a changing of the guards.
 
Lets see...Hmmm KVOP? Is it still around? er the legendary 1090 KKYN, I think they're all talk now. Not real sure B69. Next time I roll through Plainview to buy beer, I'll have to scan the dial. Tell you what though, I had a lot of fun in that building on North Quincy...that was back when the competition was actually on Edgemere. I thought I was in high cotton brother!
 
Thanks...guys...

I am producing a nationally syndicated talk-format program.

I script, Voice, and produce the piecework...

I edit the content and polish it up.

12 programs a week plus the piece work. I am getting paid enough to live on and will never be blown out for format changes etc...

Miss being on the air.

I remember someone showing me around and asking me if it would bother me that a person in management was GAY.

I responded, not my business. I am here to do a job.

That was the only wierd thing. In truth the only reasons for my not landing a gig there would seem to be.

1. A fear I would not stay long enough to make it worth hiring me or

2. As mentioned by others here...a fear I would move up and take someone else's job.

I stayed at this wierd little hotel...seemed very TEXAN and very popular there. I have been on the air in market #9

and in Big Spring...sometimes Big spring was way more fun...I really am most perturbed by the female PD in that market because she acted all excited about the prospect and never even sent me a kiss off email or anything!

I thought the market was pretty nice. It reminded of San Angelo where I have been offered a gig 3X but the pay was just not enough for my fam and me to live on.

How do I respond to your personal email?

Throwdown!
 
well, the station in question just picked up Indicator status with R & R. Personally I don't think that R & R will be around much longer, but it obviously still means something to the few labels still lurking around. Good job Marshall. Looking forward to a trip to the big "A" to catch up.
 
RadioGooRoo said:
I really ought to send Tim Butler a thank you gift or something. Without that jerk firing me, I probably would have stayed where it was comfy and might never have landed in market #6.
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Tim Butler.... now there's a name I haven't thought about in many years. LOL!

Maybe we should start a "Shown The Door By Tim Butler" support group!

We can get together and celebrate the better things that happened afterward.

Michael
 
I worked in Amarillo in the late eighties (under Dan Gorman at KQIZ) and given the right opportunity to come back to town would do so in a minute.
 
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