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Matty & The Globe

At the time of his 25th anniversary on Kiss, his producers contacted the Globe to do an article. Supposedly the Globe just dismissed them and had no interest in doing an article on them. And apparently, the Globe has never really given any coverage to Matty despite his consistent #1 ratings...
BoredModerator said:
Anyone know what this "off the air" feud is that he keeps referring to?
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ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
What Manchester station airs Matty??
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It's Portsmouth (well York, ME) where he's on 95.3 WSKX, a complete simulcast of Kiss 108. They also got the frequency of the Providence station wrong, it's 93.3, not 93.9.
 
I noticed those two mistakes as well. Also, love how Johnny Diaz thinks that disco was "in bloom" in 1981!?!? As far as the former two mistakes, do they fact check anything over there at the Globe?

jlehmann said:
ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
What Manchester station airs Matty??
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It's Portsmouth (well York, ME) where he's on 95.3 WSKX, a complete simulcast of Kiss 108. They also got the frequency of the Providence station wrong, it's 93.3, not 93.9.
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"in bloom" in 1981
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In its last days, though actually over. Maybe he meant to say MTV was blooming in '81.
 
That's what I thought they meant, I listened to WSKX when I was home last summer... no shock they got the markets wrong, newspapers get lots of facts wrong in articles about radio stations I've noticed, regardless of the publication.
 
MikeyBos said:
Also, love how Johnny Diaz thinks that disco was "in bloom" in 1981!?!?
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Are you kidding me? I'm guessing that Diaz was born AFTER heavy metal giant WCOZ (now gangsta rap WJMN) went off the air in 1984 (1983 as a metal station). For those of us with Alzheimer's, WCOZ achieved a peak 12.6 rating in the Summer of 1981, and a bunch of stations (BCN and Kiss included) suddenly went all-heavy metal and/or added substantial amounts of the genre at the beginning of 1981. Remember when Uncle Dale passed off Back In Black, Won't Get Fooled Again and Stairway To Heaven as "great disco songs?" BZ (which was suffering a bit) and HDH (which wasn't used to not being #1) were both playing a lot of REO, Styx, AC/DC, Pat Benatar and Van Halen in the first half of the year. RKO yo-yoed quite a bit between AOR and MOR until a) landing Celtics broadcasts in June (which should have been a clue) and b) dropping music altogether for talk on September 30, 1981.

And disco was seriously in bloom? Please! Not until "Thriller" did disco rise from the dead (a la the video), and it was toned down and modified quite a bit by 1983.
 
Steve N. said:
MikeyBos said:
Also, love how Johnny Diaz thinks that disco was "in bloom" in 1981!?!?
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Are you kidding me? I'm guessing that Diaz was born AFTER heavy metal giant WCOZ (now gangsta rap WJMN) went off the air in 1984 (1983 as a metal station). For those of us with Alzheimer's, WCOZ achieved a peak 12.6 rating in the Summer of 1981, and a bunch of stations (BCN and Kiss included) suddenly went all-heavy metal and/or added substantial amounts of the genre at the beginning of 1981. Remember when Uncle Dale passed off Back In Black, Won't Get Fooled Again and Stairway To Heaven as "great disco songs?" BZ (which was suffering a bit) and HDH (which wasn't used to not being #1) were both playing a lot of REO, Styx, AC/DC, Pat Benatar and Van Halen in the first half of the year. RKO yo-yoed quite a bit between AOR and MOR until a) landing Celtics broadcasts in June (which should have been a clue) and b) dropping music altogether for talk on September 30, 1981.

And disco was seriously in bloom? Please! Not until "Thriller" did disco rise from the dead (a la the video), and it was toned down and modified quite a bit by 1983.
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Remember when REO Speedwagon performed "Can't Fight This Feeling" on MTV's Headbanger's Ball? ::)

Didn't think so.
 
Steve N. said:
BZ (which was suffering a bit) and HDH (which wasn't used to not being #1) were both playing a lot of REO, Styx, AC/DC, Pat Benatar and Van Halen in the first half of the year.
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Yeah, I agree...'BZ and 'HDH became a real turnoff when they started mixing in AC/DC and Van Halen (and don't forget when Carl Desuze used to throw in one of The Dead Kennedy's big Top 10 Hits during his Lunchtime Cafe Special, when he was over at WWEL). LOL!!! ::) P=) ;D P=) :D

Seriously, please, Please, PLEASE, can I have a little of whatever it is you are smoking?!? P=)

BTW, 'XKS was never a mainstream top-40, since it morphed from disco it has always been an electro-pop, dance oriented CHR.

The last decent "full service top-40" (dayparted and wide ranging, with a decent amount of 10-20 year oldies mixed in, not just the current hits, with an oldie being 9-15 MONTHs——i.e., CHR, like 'HTT and 'ZOU were) was 'ROR (98.5), back in the mid-early 80's, when "Tyler", Mike Waite, Jim Roberts and Gary Berkowitz were behind the mic.
 
Steve N. said:
(now gangsta rap WJMN)
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LOL! "Gangsta Rap"? Try Rhythmic Top 40! BIG difference. Tune in and see for yourself, most of their playlist consists of crossover crap now. Thank god for this new pirate or else I'd be going outta my mind.
 
radiorama1 said:
Remember when REO Speedwagon performed "Can't Fight This Feeling" on MTV's Headbanger's Ball? ::)

Didn't think so.
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IIRC, REO and Pat Benatar were both on a par with Ozzy, VH AND AC/DC, not to mention the Stones, Aero, the 1st 2 Boston LPs, Foreigner and Journey. Not sure when/if Journey and/or Foreigner lost their hard rock cred, but I can tell you when Benatar and REO lost theirs: Love Is A Battlefield (Benatar, late 1983) and Can't Fight This Feeling (REO, late 1984). Some say for REO when they hit the pop charts with Keep On Lovin' You (late 1980) in the first place, but IMHO if that was the case REO never would've had the #1 LP of 1981 - a chart which was dominated by hard rock groups that year (Rick James' "Street Songs" was the only non-rock LP to do well in 1981).

Fact: In 1980, the only rock Kiss (part-time) and BCN (full-time) played was alternative rock (then called "new wave"). In 1981, after COZ zoomed from #12 to #1 in the bare minimum 3 months, both were playing big-time legit arena rock, and to me arena rock = heavy metal (no difference IMHO), and neither played much (if any) alt-rock at all (COZ clearly burned EVERYONE).
 
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