BW, this parody is awesome. Thanks!
Also, it sounds just like KODJ FM in Salt Lake City which is interesting.
Also, it sounds just like KODJ FM in Salt Lake City which is interesting.
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SeattleObserver said:
I thought it was awesome too, in the heat of the radio conglomerazation and Clear Channel's smugness at the time. KJR-FM with the way they sounded NEEDED their butt kicked. If nothing else got through to them - THIS did.
Yuppie ideas from the '80s & '90s didn't work then. They STILL don't.
KJR-FM would now do better to try and better KBSG. If not, just change the damn format altogether to something less BORING. Ever since they let JJ Hemingway go - NOBODY I know has listened to KJR-FM ever since.
KJR-FM Version 1.0 sounded a LOT more authentic than the Clear Channel version.
Bongwater said:
WOW! Clear Channel RUINING a Oldies station? NAW! That can't happen!
Well, Actually...
Clear Channel/Boise took KTLB-FM "Kool/Oldies 104.3" and consulted it into the ground. After purchasing the station, they decided it would be a good idea to tweak a station that was #1, 12+ 6a-12a Sat-Sun..."This Boise playlist with Motown and Crazy Hippie Music will never work; Let's replace it with Salt Lake City's playlist and change all the station elements to give this Oldies station a little more class..."
Less than a year later, KTLB dropped out of the Top 5 stations. Two years later, KTLB Flipped to Country! That's the Clear Channel brain trust for you!
Yes, Don't let Clear Channel get a hold of your Oldies station. They will homogenize it. Make sure there's no Black artists or hippie music on the station and tell you that nothings changed.
Good "Oldies" isn't a "local" format anymore. It's a network playlist. It's a satellite service.
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nwoidaho said:
You used quotation marks in there. Who did you quote as saying that?
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That KJR parody is spot on hilarious. I remember being livid at the playlist on KJR being that they were still claiming to be a 60s and 70s station. It was especially infuriating coming off my favorite KJR FM years from 2000 to 2002 (I think) when they were playing the songs I mentioned in my earlier post.
It would be great if Clear Channel would buy Jack FM (KJAQ) from CBS and resurrect KYYX. Make KJR FM strictly 60s and 70s pop hits and have KYYX 96.5 be pop hits of the 80s and early 90s. I actually enjoy music from the 80s but aside from carryover artists like the over played Billy Joel it does not mix well with music from the 60s and 70s. The Point was a good station but perhaps a bit ahead of its time. Like KJR, KYYX is a station people identify with and remember fondly. There is a built in audience. I for one would alternate between the two stations but the 60s and 70s would get the lions share my listening time. Are the KYYX call letters currently in use?
It would be great if Clear Channel would buy Jack FM (KJAQ) from CBS and resurrect KYYX. Make KJR FM strictly 60s and 70s pop hits and have KYYX 96.5 be pop hits of the 80s and early 90s. I actually enjoy music from the 80s but aside from carryover artists like the over played Billy Joel it does not mix well with music from the 60s and 70s. The Point was a good station but perhaps a bit ahead of its time. Like KJR, KYYX is a station people identify with and remember fondly. There is a built in audience. I for one would alternate between the two stations but the 60s and 70s would get the lions share my listening time. Are the KYYX call letters currently in use?
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nwoidaho said:
Given you're quoting and paraphrasing a statement (say what?!) that was supposedly said 10 years ago, and how you got the call letters wrong (they were KLTB), it tells me the likelihood of the "quote" being either misquoted or flat-out wrong.
AQH said:
Yes, I missed the call letters. It WAS 10+ years ago. A lot has happened since I was 18 years old.
I only worked at the station for 2+ years so the semantics of the quote is all in interpretation. It's not an exact quote but was the exact action Clear Channel's programming department did when they purchased the 6 stations in Boise in 1998. They came into Boise and changed a #1 News/Talk station and the #1 Oldies station and turned them into garbage.
In all likelihood, I wasn't paying too much attention because I was busy packing up my stuff after being replaced by an automation system from Las Vegas.
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