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The other station was WKKT "The Kat!" They seemed to be a forerunner of.HOT AC, if you can even believe that? No DJ's, no hard rock type of stuff either. I guess you could call sleepy CHR, if that.makes any sense at all?
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Remembering Hit Radio 103, WHTT
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Yes, it was called "Hot Hit Video."
I still remember the jingle for the morning show, before the station became Jamin. "Get your head out of bed..." Wasn't it JR in the Morning?
Yes, and I remember their Program Director wasn't too happy with him being at the helm. The owner of WZOU said that he was fully committed to J.R.! As a result, he left, and then the truth being stranger than fiction, Sunny Joe White was upped from one the on-air talent, to being the new Program manager instead!
The Hot Hits was as much a licensed brand as a format. The format was easy to copy, if one wanted to.
"Jack" included all the production, writing, even elements of outdoor or TV campaigns and participation and guidance in the testing of music and playlist structuring, rotation, etc. In the larger markets, it was a consulting service plus a brand plus imaging. In the smaller markets, it was a packaged format.
Opie and Anthony discussed that when they went to WAAF, the PD was on his to (I think) WAXQ. It was back in their WNEW days when they were celebrating the firing of Dave Douglas.
Now if my memory serves me right (and truthfully, my mind can get blurred as to exactly when who was around at the time), it was Steve Perun, who was programming it at the time.
After he left, it was Sunny Joe White for a season.But with him restructuring the format, sounding just like that old and familiar sound that Sunny Joe White was well know for.
The general Public, in essence said with turning preset to Kiss 108 instead. It was clear that both stations were fighting over the 2.0 share, which favored much more straight forward Top 40, and not the very close to the dance/Rhythmic that we all know of today.
After Sunny Joe White, had left, I believe that they placed a consultant, by the name of Bob Colby to attempt to keep a consistency back to WZOU.
They hired this new PM Drive announcer. Then at one point, the other airstaff were mentiong on the air, mind you, that this new PM Drive guy did not like of the songs that they were playing. Go figure!
Oh, do you remember an air talent Kid Valentine? I knew he was going places! Now he out of L.A. syndicated, and one of highest paid air talent out there!
KITS was not a CBS O&O at that time of their Hot Hits launch (early '83). I'm pretty sure they were owned by Entercom back then. In the early 80s, CBS owned 97.3, which was KCBS-FM for several years in the 70s and early 80s. Then 97.3 went AOR in early '82 as KRQR, so they weren't a candidate to switch to Hot Hits. I also seem to remember KIIS in L.A. pre-emptively licensing the "Hot Hits" brand for itself, which meant that KKHR couldn't use the phrase when it went CHR in '83, so I believe they used "Hitradio" as a substitute. The formatics may have been similar, but it wasn't a true "Hot Hits"-branded format.
I don't remember that one.
He was the evening announcer at WZOU. Just before that, he used to be the evening man at WWKX, out of Providence as well.
When 100.7 was playing contemporary music in early 1985, it was known as "WKKT, Boston's Kat". A decade earlier, 100.7 had an automated country-rock (UGH!) format as WTTK. And, of course, 96.9 was WTKK; the WTKK call sign now belongs to iHeart in one of the Carolinas.
The Kat had live DJs.
Ok, however I do not remember hearing any of them at all, except for near the end, where they had radio announcers talking as if they were consultants.
How must that have sounded? Something like this?:
"Kat 100.7! Good morning, largely suburban Boston females ages 25 to 44! Coming up this hour, scientifically programmed adult contemporary music from Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Madonna -- one of THREE female artists you'll hear between now and 8, none consecutively, of course -- and Hall and Oates! Now, here's Phil Collins singing a pleasant song our intensive testing indicates that over 90 percent of you want to hear at least four times a day, 'One More Night,' on Boston's Kat, 100.7!"
They would have a voice over guy saying "you called us, and you said that you like hearing the lighter songs."
WOW, if someone could find an aircheck for WKKT!
I think Kid/Sean Valentine made a stop at Dallas' Kiss between working at Jamn and L.A.
Yes, he surely did! For whatever research, things did not seem to be all that great for him after Jam'n was launched. At least that was .my perception of things anyway.
I remember him in the waning days of WZOU. He was high energy and upbeat. Once Jamn launched, he seemed muted.
Yeah. I remember back in the day, Matt Siegal talking in an interview with a local newspaper. He said "There isn't great new talent up and coming on the radio anymore!"
After reading that, it did not take more than half second to think " What about Valentine?" The funny thing is, that Valentine is perhaps lthe highest paid radio announcer in the red Country now! Or at least that was what I read anyway.
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