LA Gets New Station Playing 25 Years Of Hip-Hop
Sept 20, 2004 17:01:04 GMT -5
Post by EvanJ on Sept 20, 2004 17:01:04 GMT -5
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Monday, Sept. 20, 2004
Styles Media Returns 'K-Day' To L.A.
Styles Media officially assumed control of KZAB/Los Angeles and simulcast partner KZBA/Riverside at noon today, flipping KZAB from Tropical to a hip-hop format that encompasses the genre's 25-year history as "93.5 K-DAY." A two-minute documentary featuring Rick Party, who has signed on as the station voice, kicked off the format. "This isn't just a brand-new radio station," Party said. "This is a living history of hip-hop." The station's inaugural hour featured songs from such artists as NWA, LL Cool J, 2PAC, DJ Quik, 50 Cent, Lil' Flip and Snoop Doggy Dogg. "How many times can you get to do this?" Styles Media Managing Member Don McCoy told R&R. "There's no market like this. My whole life has been a 'get ready' for this moment." Styles Media Chief Programming Officer Anthony Acampora is overseeing the station's launch. The original KDAY was one of the nation's first stations to embrace hip-hop, airing at 1580 kHz from the early 1980s until its 1991 sign-off. KZBA is temporarily dark and that station's new format is set to debut soon.
On radio-info it was posted that the call letters KDAY-FM are taken.
Monday, Sept. 20, 2004
Styles Media Returns 'K-Day' To L.A.
Styles Media officially assumed control of KZAB/Los Angeles and simulcast partner KZBA/Riverside at noon today, flipping KZAB from Tropical to a hip-hop format that encompasses the genre's 25-year history as "93.5 K-DAY." A two-minute documentary featuring Rick Party, who has signed on as the station voice, kicked off the format. "This isn't just a brand-new radio station," Party said. "This is a living history of hip-hop." The station's inaugural hour featured songs from such artists as NWA, LL Cool J, 2PAC, DJ Quik, 50 Cent, Lil' Flip and Snoop Doggy Dogg. "How many times can you get to do this?" Styles Media Managing Member Don McCoy told R&R. "There's no market like this. My whole life has been a 'get ready' for this moment." Styles Media Chief Programming Officer Anthony Acampora is overseeing the station's launch. The original KDAY was one of the nation's first stations to embrace hip-hop, airing at 1580 kHz from the early 1980s until its 1991 sign-off. KZBA is temporarily dark and that station's new format is set to debut soon.
On radio-info it was posted that the call letters KDAY-FM are taken.