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The Best Broadcasting in the History of Marconi's Invention

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DOB

From the title there is little doubt that I'm talking about KZZP from 1985 through 1990. So innovative, if that station was on today half its powers and subpowers wouldn't even be on the top 40 chart because they were always 6 months ahead in the future. In fact you many great songs from the 80s that changed the sound of music and modified tastes on a worldwide level might have never happened without this legendary radio station taking chances.

Think I'm over selling right? I'm under selling, truth be told. We are talking about a radio station that played "Push it" by Salt N Pepa before a single Urban radio station in the country touched it. A station that correctly played the smash hit all the idiots wifted on "Say its gonna rain" by Will to Power, "Talk to me" by Chico Debarge, and yes this radio station was playing "White Lines" by Grand Masterflash in the middle of the day 1985! and Ice T "Colors" in 1988! They were on to the gangster rap stage before the urban stations even had a clue about it.

The purpose of my post beyond educating what anyone who loves radio would want to know, is if there are any airchecks from this amazing time of this legendary station available that anyone here in aware of. Please posts links or PM me a way of getting them. Thanks for your time!
 
DOB said:
Think I'm over selling right? I'm under selling, truth be told. We are talking about a radio station that played "Push it" by Salt N Pepa before a single Urban radio station in the country touched it. A station that correctly played the smash hit all the idiots wifted on "Say its gonna rain" by Will to Power, "Talk to me" by Chico Debarge, and yes this radio station was playing "White Lines" by Grand Masterflash in the middle of the day 1985! and Ice T "Colors" in 1988! They were on to the gangster rap stage before the urban stations even had a clue about it.

The purpose of my post beyond educating what anyone who loves radio would want to know, is if there are any airchecks from this amazing time of this legendary station available that anyone here in aware of. Please posts links or PM me a way of getting them. Thanks for your time!
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We're also talking about the station also played Starship's "We Built This City" -- universally recognized as the worst song of the 1980's. I don't even think KOPA played "We Built This City" as much as KZZP, did they?
 
indieradioguy said:
We're also talking about the station also played Starship's "We Built This City" -- universally recognized as the worst song of the 1980's. I don't even think KOPA played "We Built This City" as much as KZZP, did they?
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Maybe KZZP had a Les Garland connection? He did the voice over on this generally annoying Bernie Taupin song.
 
indieradioguy said:
We're also talking about the station also played Jefferson Sellout's "We Built This City" -- universally recognized as the worst song of the 1980's. I don't even think KOPA played "We Built This City" as much as KZZP, did they?
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Fixed. :D
 
DOB said:
From the title there is little doubt that I'm talking about KZZP from 1985 through 1990.
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Here's some on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/kzzp

But if you're including 1990 in that statement, then you're including the More Music Variety fiasco when they tried to become WNCI-West. 10.2 became 2.9 became 2.2. <flush>

KZZP did a lot of things right in the mid-1980's when pop music was at its peak, but they lost their way as the music cycle went through the extremes and into the doldrums.
 
johndavis said:
Here's some on Soundcloud:

But if you're including 1990 in that statement, then you're including the More Music Variety fiasco when they tried to become WNCI-West. 10.2 became 2.9 became 2.2. <flush>
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Variety 104~Seven with The Hooner & Connie Colla in AMD. Nationwide may have been on your side, but not the listeners. That was disastrous, but through all the format iterations the call letters remain the same (but used only once an hour). The Nurse and I always wondered why they didn't use the sound of a zipper along with the KZZP calls...kinda like what KSLX did with the crossing swords for the "X". Imagine the imaging liners with a zipper sfx. YIKES & OUCH!
 
DrAkbar said:
Variety 104~Seven with The Hooner & Connie Colla in AMD. Nationwide may have been on your side, but not the listeners. That was disastrous, but through all the format iterations the call letters remain the same (but used only once an hour). The Nurse and I always wondered why they didn't use the sound of a zipper along with the KZZP calls...kinda like what KSLX did with the crossing swords for the "X". Imagine the imaging liners with a zipper sfx. YIKES & OUCH!
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The calls were KVRY from the first playing of Roll With It through the first few months of the "new" KZZP when they were returned where they belong. Some station in Nebraska filed for them and got paid to give them back.

I don't think the "Kiss FM" brand took off across the country like Clear Channel had hoped, but rebranding it now would be needless expense for no gain.

But in the final year as KZZP, Nationwide was convinced they could turn the station into the WNCI of the Southwest with Dave Ryan in the morning, so while Y-95 and Power were playing Me So Horny, KZZP was running sweeps saying "no rap and no hard rock, just your number one hit music" into Phil Collins and Peter Cetera. That's how you shed about 8 points in one book. Congratulations! You got the teens and 18-24's to stop listening. The only problem was the 25-54's had no reason to leave K-Lite and KE...Z (or Mix, or Sunny) so 104.7 had nobody left. Michael Bolton was found on 4 radio stations. KVRY made it the 5th. It was a dark time for music radio.
 
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