boscy
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Post by boscy on Jan 24, 2018 18:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by djjamesanthony on Apr 6, 2018 17:33:06 GMT -5
Interesting article. I was working at WKTU in NYC when CC was bought out. First, our entire programming staff was replaced. Then our imaging director was fired and our formerly VERY "New York" sound was replaced with these bland production pieces that sounded like something you'd hear in the midwest. Then our new PD informed all of us mixshow DJ's that we would now only be allowed to program mixshows based on a list of "highly tested" songs. All of our core artists that made us a unique NYC dance station were instantly shut out. The entire playlist quickly became a majority overlap with Z100, the only difference being KTU relying more on recurrents, but even those became completely sanitized. Talk breaks were restricted to less than 10 seconds. This all happened in a matter of months. So i left and went to SXM, where I remain to this day :)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 17:47:09 GMT -5
Interesting article. I was working at WKTU in NYC when CC was bought out. First, our entire programming staff was replaced. Then our imaging director was fired and our formerly VERY "New York" sound was replaced with these bland production pieces that sounded like something you'd hear in the midwest. Then our new PD informed all of us mixshow DJ's that we would now only be allowed to program mixshows based on a list of "highly tested" songs. All of our core artists that made us a unique NYC dance station were instantly shut out. The entire playlist quickly became a majority overlap with Z100, the only difference being KTU relying more on recurrents, but even those became completely sanitized. Talk breaks were restricted to less than 10 seconds. This all happened in a matter of months. So i left and went to SXM, where I remain to this day :) Yes. KTU really sucked after the takeover. I ended up making my own “KTU” playlists.
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garrettlen
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Post by garrettlen on Apr 6, 2018 19:24:04 GMT -5
Clear Channel/I Heart Radio is of the Devil, glad to see it finally being vanquished.
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on Apr 7, 2018 23:18:41 GMT -5
Interesting article. I was working at WKTU in NYC when CC was bought out. First, our entire programming staff was replaced. Then our imaging director was fired and our formerly VERY "New York" sound was replaced with these bland production pieces that sounded like something you'd hear in the midwest. Then our new PD informed all of us mixshow DJ's that we would now only be allowed to program mixshows based on a list of "highly tested" songs. All of our core artists that made us a unique NYC dance station were instantly shut out. The entire playlist quickly became a majority overlap with Z100, the only difference being KTU relying more on recurrents, but even those became completely sanitized. Talk breaks were restricted to less than 10 seconds. This all happened in a matter of months. So i left and went to SXM, where I remain to this day :) When KTU did that whole "no repeat workday" thing, you knew things would never be the same again. I get the idea and concept of it, but in practice, it just doesn't work when they are literally playing the same songs from yesterday in a different order. Perhaps if they had to do something like that, it could have been a certain block of hours (some AC and Hot AC stations do that for a couple of hours).
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EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 9, 2018 6:57:04 GMT -5
I have songs that I still listen to that I might never have heard if not for WKTU:
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Post by bat1990 on Apr 10, 2018 8:28:38 GMT -5
Interested to see how this will all play out.
When was KTU acquired by Clear Channel? It's amazing how so many local, unique stations vanished in the mid-2000s
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EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 10, 2018 17:05:18 GMT -5
When was KTU acquired by Clear Channel? It's amazing how so many local, unique stations vanished in the mid-2000s WKTU started it's pop/dance/rhythmic format in 1996. The call letters WQHT, which are now on 97.1, were on 103.5 before it became Country WYNY and later WKTU. When 103.5 became WKTU, it was owned by Evergreen Media. articles.latimes.com/1997-02-19/business/fi-30114_1_radio-group is an article from February 19, 1997 about Evergreen Media and Chancellor Broadcasting merging. It does not mention Clear Channel, but it sounds like the merged stations became Clear Channel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 8:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 23, 2020 11:10:13 GMT -5
I read my post from April 10, 2018 before I read that it was by me. I want to add that I started listening in 1999, and WHTZ (Z100) and WKTU were Clear Channel by then.
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