This isn't Washington DC. You could put 100 Phonecians in a room and ask them who is Jill Scott and 95 of them might think she is a reporter on channel 3.
If there's anything I learned working for the AAA version of the Zone, and the first few years of KYOT, people don't listen to the radio to be led on a musical adventure. If you don't play what people know, they will turn it off because they think you're playing "weird" music. The more you step away from what the audience knows, they'll turn it off, not up. Even if it's good for them, they're all grown up and you can't make them eat their vegetables.
Meanwhile, according to yes.com, a recent set on KYOT had Warren Hill into Prince's I Would Die 4 U into Michael McDonald's I Keep Forgettin'... just because you know the songs, does it make them the right songs?
John,
How did people get familiar with those songs?? Back in the day they were played on KUKQ in the 80's that's how...How do most people get familiar with these songs? ...They get played on the radio. I am a black AZ native, & during the 80's KUKQ played a urban AZ todays current hits & old school with about a 2% black population. Today there is a 4% black population, but my point is that alot of different people listened back then and that is how they got familiar with those songs. Next, the 1990's decade was the big decade for R&B & Mega is still focused on the 70's & 80's ...I think it's time to for a station like Mega & KYOT to realize that people in the 25-49 age group now consider the 80's-90's to be their primary old school period if they wanna hold to the old school format. Anyway's, I really like Hamps idea.
The way you talk about Jill Scott/D.C. who sells many records reminds me of the ideas they had back in the 50's & 60's when they thought they had to use Elvis to make the songs written by black artist hits...LOL Have you considered that maybe they may like a Jill Scott as well as the format?... just like they liked prince back in the day.
If there's anything I learned working for the AAA version of the Zone, and the first few years of KYOT, people don't listen to the radio to be led on a musical adventure. If you don't play what people know, they will turn it off because they think you're playing "weird" music. The more you step away from what the audience knows, they'll turn it off, not up. Even if it's good for them, they're all grown up and you can't make them eat their vegetables.
Meanwhile, according to yes.com, a recent set on KYOT had Warren Hill into Prince's I Would Die 4 U into Michael McDonald's I Keep Forgettin'... just because you know the songs, does it make them the right songs?
John,
How did people get familiar with those songs?? Back in the day they were played on KUKQ in the 80's that's how...How do most people get familiar with these songs? ...They get played on the radio. I am a black AZ native, & during the 80's KUKQ played a urban AZ todays current hits & old school with about a 2% black population. Today there is a 4% black population, but my point is that alot of different people listened back then and that is how they got familiar with those songs. Next, the 1990's decade was the big decade for R&B & Mega is still focused on the 70's & 80's ...I think it's time to for a station like Mega & KYOT to realize that people in the 25-49 age group now consider the 80's-90's to be their primary old school period if they wanna hold to the old school format. Anyway's, I really like Hamps idea.
The way you talk about Jill Scott/D.C. who sells many records reminds me of the ideas they had back in the 50's & 60's when they thought they had to use Elvis to make the songs written by black artist hits...LOL Have you considered that maybe they may like a Jill Scott as well as the format?... just like they liked prince back in the day.
