Done. What a fun battle. During its years as KBMS and KWST, its format had been beautiful music prior to its flip to a progressive rock format on January 1, 1975. In retrospect, this intense battlefield mood, probably created an exaggerated expectations of our efforts. David Russell Lee's discography includes works such as the "Universe of Love," released in 1993, and "Get Down Tonight," released in 1997. Z100 responded immediately, going for its oh wow records and becoming The New Sound of Z100. Neither bucked CHRs decline for long. An engineers strike at RKO was overcome by the NOW crowd. To me, they represent a key element in building teams to achieve goals: Beating a clear, worthy opponent. 13" in 1996, and "Cream Separates" in 1997. fuzzy fantabulous & dj ray in the afternoons. Just so it doesnt go unmentioned, the Grand Daddy Of Them All, Americas original Top 40 station 660/KOWH & the great 1290/KOIL in Omaha in the fifties. DJ E-Man | Top 40/R 10 Questions | Top 40 R&B Music - All Access Many battles happened that shaped many programmers including me. If you have any questions about Edison, our services, custom research or just have a consumer research problem to solve, we're here to help. Now, THAT was a classic urban radio warfare. The sale reunited KPWR with the 93.9 frequency under common ownership for the first time since 2012. I was apart of three radio battles. We used to drive up to Detroit on Fridays just to hear the battle. And B97 New Orleans which debuted number one in its first book, immediately beating all stations in the market and remained in that position for years. * WROR Boston v. Kiss 108, 1983: WRORs Kiss off campaign [chose] to completely ignore WHTT, which beat both for a couple of books, if I remember correctly. after about the late s[ring of 1981 the battle of wbls and then upstart wxlo 99 took a major turn into wxlos favor, and that was because by the mid spring of 81 barry mayo was able to get shep pettibone to join wxlo on the condition that shep would be gven credit for his mixes and give shep the exposure that frankie crocker didnt give him on wbls, by the late spring of 1981 the mixes heard on wbls like empress dyin to be dancin, all of a sudden shifted to being heard on wxlo, some had the call letters of wbls taken out of them, but the term mastermix. appeared on them, that was a term barry mayo told shep he should use on his mixes, the rest is history, by 1982 wxlo was already changed to kiss fm and by that time the younger nyc youth shifted to kiss forcing niecey colon MD over at wbls to take input from her 14 year old daughter to bring a young man to wbls who was doing late night time leased radio, by the name of mr magic, kiss had already began incorporating hip hop into its playlistbut still throughout the decade of the 80s wbls could not get kiss off its back. But Im still interested in hearing your thoughts on all eras. How about the Detroit Rock wars from the late 70s till the mid 80s. The 20th anniversary of the launching of the Power Pig is this September. He also came second in the world's Top 100 DJs list in 1997 and rose to become the number one DJ in 1998 and 1999. He also took home the Breakthrough Video Award, the Best Direction award, and the Best Choreography awards. (I cant remember whether I actually heard Grand Funk and the K.L.F. SeanWhat a great article. WFLZ vs. Q105 is definitely the most top of mind radio battle. He's the house DJ's favourite house producer and recent remixes from Honey Dijon and an incoming Josh Wink remix both attest to that. My favorite CHR battle unfolded over the entire decade of the 80s in Rochester, starting with heritage WBBF(AM) which had become Hot AC, vs. CHR WHFM. Decades later, world-renowned DJs continue to create seamless and extended mixes that are out of this world. Manage Settings After 32 years of ownership, Emmis announced on May 9, 2017 that it sold KPWR to The Meruelo Group for $82.75 million. KEGL, KAFM,and KTKS from 84-86 and then KHYI(Y-95) coming in to join the battle in 87. KMET vs. KLOS Los Angeles Thanks for the stroll. Required fields are marked *. That has happened in many markets, like we did with B94 in Pittsburgh which you mentioned. The melody is the tune or pitch of your lyrics when you sing. 414 subscribers PowerTools returns to Power 106 after being off air for short period of time in the 90s (circa 1993). There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. WMET (Metromedia) vs. WLUP (Heftel) Chicago. Fatboy Slim is the stage name that he adopted as a DJ. Your email address will not be published. That was great radio! It was fun, but a very intense battle. The program served as a launching pad for both co-host/sidekicks Tattoo, who left the station in 2010,[21] and Luscious Liz known as Liz Hernandez, who departed on August 22, 2011 to pursue a television career with E! There was KRBE, a 70s high-energy holdover under Clay Gish where the band Kiss was still a core artist. WPGC vs Q107 llate 70s -early 80s Harris was there, and Glenn Beck & Tim Hattrick (and Jessica Hahn) were on mornings Track List: 1. Detroit actually had a three-way CHR war going during 1988-89 you had WHYT, WDFX, and WCZY/All Hits Z95.5, which was oriented more toward adults with a more conservative playlist and Dick Purtan in the mornings. Jeff Hedges, who was at Washingtons WWDC-FM in the 80s, told me years later how much he missed rising each morning and monitoring our station (WCXR) to see what new promotional or programming element we had changed overnight. To make a long story short, WMMR moved from 3 share (12+) to an 11 share (again, 12+) leaving the other two stations with crumbs. Great column! I'm very satisfied! Man I love this stuff.way to start a great debate Sean Scott Shannon returned to New York, dug in the crates and filled Mojo with Jack-like segues between lost '70s and '80s titles and today's reaction records. In between there was WLBSfirst a WBLS clone and then an Urban/Alternative hybrid! Sean, did you mean WIOQ and WEGX (Eagle 106)? (The war finally ended when WDFX went more adult and, as I remember, decided to let WHYT have Your Mamas On Crack Rock by Disco Rick & the Dogs to itself.). * WZOU vs.WXKS (Kiss 108) Boston in the late 80s/early 90s as Steve Rivers and Sunny Joe White traded places; Norman Cook adopted his stage name Fatboy Slim in 1996 and released the albums "Better Living Through Chemistry" in 1996 and "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" in 1998. A third of the US population are paying $120 a year on music streaming. ft: DJ Quik Zapp Mc Breed Ice Cube SWV. euretrodance90radiomixes | Mixcloud "On The Floor at the Boutique" was also released in August 1998 by Skint Records. SBS switched formats anyway, and Emmis filed a lawsuit to force SBS to either drop the format switch or find a new transmitter. Hope this brings back some good memories for everyone that tuned in daily like I did back then! WSIX vs. WSM-FM (1991 96) The stations were locked into the top 2 spots, each with double-digit shares for 17 consecutive books. And, of course 2000 2006 Mega Battle XM Sat vs. Sirius 80s PD You remember things about it that I dont until you mention them to me. When you look back at the Top 40 History Books, the HBQ/MPS battle lasted almost 20 years dating back to the 50s. IIRC, Kent Burkhart was the PMD jock at KOWH, so he can back me up on the premise that the Battle Over Omaha was the very first Radio Battle in format radioany format, any market. The discography of Carl Cox in the 1990s consisted of two audio albums and nine singles. It was Atkins musically aggressive tenure that prompted then Q93 consultant Jerry Clifton to remark that while anybody could tighten the list, very few people could expand it and find 50 records that deserved to be on the air. If anybody wants to trade, let me know Wamo was the heritage Urban (until Summer 2009) with then 72 THousand watts at 105.9 FM. Power 106 Los Angeles | KPWR-FM I enjoyed every moment of grief we gave Elroy! In 1998, he dropped a position which he maintained in the following year 1999. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. doja cat)SZA 8:32 ambrown bag morningsPOWER 106 8:30 amlate at nightRODDY RICCH 8:25 ambrown bag morningsPOWER 106 Concert Calendar No events are currently scheduled. At the time of KPWR's launch, it broadcast what it announced as "72,000 Watts of Music PowerLess Talk" (mentioned in on-air station identifications by Chuck Riley and Deborah Rath), a reference to its then-actual effective radiated power (ERP) of 72kW, allowing its signal to be heard in San Diego, Kern, and Santa Barbara counties). There were three at the time: Pollack consulted WYSP, WIOQ with Alex Demers, and the mighty 99.3 WMMR where we had an all-star cast which also included consultants Lee Abrams, George Harris and Ted Bolton.
