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OK, when WHTT Flipped Back in '86, did you tune into Kiss or Zou instead?

If memory serves me right:

Karen Blake
J.R.
Sean "Kid Valentine" (now at KIIS in L.A.)
Marc Clark

I think most of the regular staff was there during the initial flip then slowly left. All were gone by the time Pyramid completed their purchase of them.
 
Speaking of 80's CHR, anyone remember when the original WROR tried their hand at Top 40 back in the Spring-Summer of '83 but failed?
 
Retro said:
Speaking of 80's CHR, anyone remember when the original WROR tried their hand at Top 40 back in the Spring-Summer of '83 but failed?
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Yeah, got a couple airchecks of it somewhere. Didn't Mike Waite from JB-105 in Providence do afternoons during that time? Almost wanna say Gary Berkowitz (or someone from PRO-FM) was PD. As you said, it didn't last long...6 months maybe.
 
I do not remember who did afternoons, however I have an aircheck of Mighty Mike Osborne doing the all request Friday Night though.
 
KML-224 said:
Kiss 108 is a much better Top 40 station than sister-station Kiss 95.7 (WKSS-FM Hartford/Meriden) would ever hope to be here! Getting back to Boston, I've always liked WZOU-FM (WJMN-FM) 94.5 better. Maybe because their signal into Metro-West is better? That's the station I always had it on when riding with the family along I-495 heading towards Maine. Today, I honestly think WJMN-FM would be better if they'd cut down on the repetition. Other than that, love their station! :)
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Not to get off-topic, but Kiss 95.7 was incredible back in the day (late 80's-early 90's), and would have given Kiss 108 a run for its money. These days, WKSS is a shell no thanks to Clear Channel. I'm wondering if they've completely destroyed Kiss 108 too?
 
Who can forget...
- the WCOZ business cards that were also rolling papers?
- standing in line to purchase Paul McCartney tickets so we could give them away on the air?
- Dick Borel subsidizing a Cambridge condo for a certain unkempt, but, very funny afternoon talent on 'COZ?
- the programmer and morning guy who once told Karen Blake and me to "laugh at everything I say...no matter how funny it is, or, isn't"
- The same guy who demanded that I do a 5:00am newscast so he could catch himself up to date as he drove in each morning from New Hampshire...and had morning show meetings at 2:30pm because he could.

And...that's just for starters...
 
Garrett, Pat McKay was the Program Director when that playlist was out. I was there. If you search YOUTUBE fro "WZOU" there are some really bad commericals and videos from back then. :)

Jim
 
WOW, amazing playlist! I didn't know that ZOU played Charlie Sexton's Beats So Lonely? I thought that was only a WBCN song.
 
jimcutler said:
Garrett, Pat McKay was the Program Director when that playlist was out. I was there. If you search YOUTUBE fro "WZOU" there are some really bad commericals and videos from back then. :)

Jim
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Well, like I said, I didn't even realize 94.5 was Top 40 back then (pre-86), and if memory serves me, I got bored one day during the WHTT era, and tuned in to see what was on 94.5, and it sounded like a rock station, kinda really boring, and I switched back to WHTT. In fact, I'm not even sure I realized that WZOU was Top 40 until 1987, several months after WHTT was gone. My earliest memory of listening to them was when they were calling themselves "Z94." Like I said, very tight playlist. Some time late in 87, someone said to me "hey, they're calling themselves "Z-O-U" now!"

The funny thing is, (now that I think of it), when I went back to Boston on a visit in late Summer 1991, what was now "The Z Channel, W-'Z'-O-U" still had a tight playlist, but slightly more Hot AC than what I had remembered, (Madonna, After Seven, Seal, were the artists that seemed to get heavy-and tight-rotation), but now heavily formatted with KIIS FM-like elements, and nothing sounding like dead air. Kiss 108 however, was playing COMPLETELY different music than WZOU, a lot heavier on dance remixes, and lots of stuff that Q106 out in San Diego wasn't playing, at least not yet. Kiss 108 now sounded like a cross between an alternative station and a dance station, with some heritage CHR in there. It was really strange how far apart the two stations were, and yet, both were still CHR. Of course, that all changed a few months later, and ironically, now the two frequencies are completely reversed format wise, and yet joined at the hip behind the scenes!

Anyway, I have no doubt that if WZOU were to come back today, it could give both Mix 98-5 and Kiss, (both still great stations, by the way) a run for their money. Just my 2 Cents...
 
jimcutler said:
Garrett, Pat McKay was the Program Director when that playlist was out. I was there. If you search YOUTUBE fro "WZOU" there are some really bad commericals and videos from back then. :)

Jim
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I remember the ones with the Z cat which looked just like a cut out doll.
 
Cutler will attest that while I got there after Mckay, the stories about him lived on and on!
And not to sound too cocky, but I'd take the staff from Z-94 today (yeah, we're all old) and take on anybody in the city.
 
manwhore said:
Cutler will attest that while I got there after Mckay, the stories about him lived on and on!
And not to sound too cocky, but I'd take the staff from Z-94 today (yeah, we're all old) and take on anybody in the city.
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I think that's something the guys at 'BMX or Mike should think about (not to undercut the quality talent that is already on Mix 98-5 of course). But the old WZOU gang taking on Kiss today? Wow, that WOULD be something to watch!

Oh, and by the way, that trip back to Boston was in '90, not '91, but my point was still the same.
 
If memory serves me right, '90-'91 WZOU line-up

J.R.
Eric Anderson
Dallas Kincaid
Human Newman
Karan Blake
Artie The One Man Party
Marc Clark

Ok, not the exact line up, but it was something like that during that era.
 
As I can recall, once upon a time it was something like this...

1990
6-10 Scott McKenzie (now WOMX) & Ron Engelman (who I heard is very ill) News -Bill Rossi Traffic - Lucy Hill
10-2 Andrea Phillips (anyone know where she is?)
2-6 Human Numan (anyone know where he is?)
6-10 The Madam herself, Karen Blake

1991
6-10 - JR in the Morning, News - Trudi Z (Daniels), cohosts - Lisa "you Know who", Chris Zito, Johnny O (producer/sports), Mike "Hadji" Sully-van. Laters years brought in others like Laney Fischera, etc
10-2 - varied between Andrea, Sunny Joe
2-6 Human Numan
6-10 KB

Lucy Hill was a magnificent traffic reporter. Heard her filling in on WAAF a few years back, miss her.
 
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