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Domino Rippy
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Anyone hearing any replacement names for the PD gig at Kearth?
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I would think, given his long-term association with CBS and major-market programming experience (Chicago) that they'd at least look at Dave Shakes, who's currently programming KOOL.
RicoGregg said:
"Mr. Gregg, Jim Pewter, Bob Hamilton, Phil Hall and Jay Coffey are in the lobby."
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Thomps2525
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Yeah, how 'bout those "playlist restrictions"? At various times in the 1960s we heard Happy Together, Oh Pretty Woman, Brown Eyed Girl and Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye eight times a day on KHJ. Now, in 2013, it seems as though we hear those same songs eight times a day on KRTH!
LARadioRewind said:
Ah, but Steve, in the 60s, you heard them TWELVE times a day on KHJ.
And it only seems like you hear them eight times in a month on KRTH.
The mind plays tricks....
oldies76 said:
The phrase was "it only seems". The average listener is hearing them once every three weeks, if that, and doesn't remember how long it was.
Meantime, back to the topic of the next KRTH PD.....
I suppose we could have the living KHJ PDs (Ron Jacobs, Paul Drew, Sean Conrad, Gerry Cagle, Charlie Van Dyke, John Sebastian and Chuck Martin) as dark horse candidates as well...
You'd never get Ron out of Hawaii and back to L.A., but I'd pay good American money to hear a Jacobs interpretation of 2013 KRTH.
Paul's supposedly not well enough.
Sean Conrad proved to be a very capable programmer after his six months at KHJ.
Gerry Cagle? I'd vote for him just to hear him put O'Bryan's "Gigolo", Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus" and Con Funk Shun's "Too Tight" in power rotation (those of you who heard KFRC in 1982 know what I'm talking about).
Van Dyke would make that sucker shine so bright. I'd love to hear it, but I don't think you'd get him out of Phoenix and his job as voiceover God for a PD gig in L.A.
Of the group, John Sebastian is the only currently active PD. I'd be amazed if he hasn't expressed interest.
And Chuck Martin didn't get near enough credit for how good he made that station sound right up to the end.
I'll throw in one more...John Rook (KQV, WLS, WCFL, KFI).
This has become fantasy football 1970-something, but what the heck.
Truth is, though, that while KRTH has blood ties to KHJ, today's 45-year old was 12 when KHJ went Country...and probably wasn't a listener leading up to that.
KRTH's present and future, to the extent that it involves 45-year olds that were in L.A. in their teens (a minority), rests more with people who listened to KIIS-FM than KHJ.
KRTH's present and future, to the extent that it involves 45-year olds that were in L.A. in their teens (a minority), rests more with people who listened to KIIS-FM than KHJ.
michael hagerty said:
I worked at KHJ under Chuck Martin in the final year before they went country and when I listen to Shotgun in the afternoon on KRTH it reminds me for all the world of KHJ. There are "blood ties," yes, but the KHJ sound is there too in a a big way.
Now I am not sure those old 93 KHJ PD's could adapt to today's programming: "What you do son, is you ask people questions, feed it all into that there computer, and it spits out a list of what goes on the air, based on a formula created by a guy who never worked at the same station for more than six months."
radio-darn said:
Amusing fantasy.
radio-darn said:
If that were true, there would have been no difference between Jay Coffey and Jhani Kaye.
michael hagerty said:
Last time I was in LA - during the Christmas holiday in 2011, I had K-Earth on in the car fairly constantly during the week I was there. Since it was LA and we had a lot of ground to cover (Santa Monica to the San Fernando Valley, to Southern Orange County, etc.), we probably listened about 3 hours a day.
In that time, I only heard one song repeat - Tambourine Man by the Byrds - 3 times. When I used to visit LA during the Mike Phillips and Jay Coffey eras, the 300 song repetition was constant and excruciating.
Maybe it gets monotonous if you live in LA and have KRTH playing all the time - probably any radio format would be. But from my viewpoint, there was a decent amount of variety, not to mention very decent DJs, who I believe are actually live, for the most part.
So don't complain - some of us in other markets have had nothing for years in the Classic Hits format but dull-as-dirt voice-tracked cookie-cutter stations with smaller play lists than K-Earth.
michael hagerty said:
Coffey and Kay... almost rhymes.
Chatting with another LA radio person, it came up that CBS has a programming genius on staff in Kevin Weatherly. It's quite conceivable that he might take overall responsibility for the other two FMs, assisted by a team-playing format specialist.
So, my money is on a restructuring.
Would anyone care to publish a list of the 20 most-played tunes at KRTH either so far this year or from last month?
I listen to the station intermittently, and thank goodness they don't play 'My Girl' or People Got to Be Free' 8 times a day, but I was curious as to how often they pound their power gold cuts?
I listen to the station intermittently, and thank goodness they don't play 'My Girl' or People Got to Be Free' 8 times a day, but I was curious as to how often they pound their power gold cuts?
Marv-L.A. said:
The top 25 most played songs get 8 to 10 weekly spins... about 17 to 21 hour separation.
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