brucekellyradio@gmail.com. You forgot about the CHR battle in San Francisco between KYLD(WiLD 94-9) and KZQZ(Z95.7) in the late 1990s-early 2000s. However, after almost a year in the format, KMVN shifted directions to Rhythmic Oldies. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. Power Dos left the air in 2008 due to a lack of interest. This mix of music became known as crossover (later called rhythmic top 40), due to the way in which dance and urban music were presented to an audience that liked pop, and vice versa. If were delving into the 70s heres a few other notable battles: LA: KHJ vs. KRLA (and later KTNQ), San Diego: KDB vs. KCBQ, San Francisco: KFRC vs. KYA, San Antonio: KONO vs. KTSA, Boston: WRKO vs. WMEX, Pittsburgh: 13Q vs. KQV, Miami: WFUN vs WQAM, Canton: Q-10 vs WINW, Buffalo: WYSL vs. WKBW (truly David vs. Goliath), New Haven: WAVZ vs. WNHC, and Seattle: KJR vs. KOL. Another great Urban radio war was the 4 way Urban battle in Charleston back in the early 90s! But fun! Power 106 Archives - Page 2 of 14 - DJcity News The two DJs specialized in the genres of Progressive house, deep house, and techno. Some of my favorites include: * KKBQ (93Q), KRBE, and KNRJ (Energy 96.5) in the late 80s when Houston became an Alternative hotbed and stations were battling to be first with the new Depeche Mode record (or even the new song by Celebrate The Nun); 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. * WXKS (Kiss 108) vs. WZOU Boston, also late 80s/early 90s; WPLJ vs. Z100 New York Scott Shannon returned to New York, dug in the crates and filled Mojo with Jack-like segues between lost 70s and 80s titles and todays reaction records. 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. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. See you in the hotel lobby. Power faces new challenges from KIBB and Groove Radio, decides to drop dance, dropping the Power Workout also becomes the station where Hip Hop Lives.
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