* 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. How about the Detroit Rock wars from the late 70s till the mid 80s. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. WLS vs. WCFL Chicago Fatboy Slim is the stage name that he adopted as a DJ. He was not in Memphis long when Los Angeles came calling. I can say for the money Id take Bill Tanner or Keith Isley to this day and put them up againist todays top Programmers. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. "Sensual Sophis-ti-cat / The Player" was also released in 1996, while "Phuture 2000" was released in 1998 by Worldwide Ultimatum Records. KWST eventually evolved into KMGG, "Magic 106", playing upbeat adult contemporary music beginning in mid-1982. I have even forgotten how long that battle went with 96KX but it seems like a year or two, though we beat them the first time in our second book and never looked back. Then the mother ship landedY-100that killed the following WQAM, 96X and any other station that came on. Sasha released the "Global Underworld 009: San Francisco" while John Digweed released the "Global Underworld 006: Sidney." WCOZ vs. WBCN Boston "SONG NAME" what a wonderful name for a(n) GENRE song! We would crash each others remotes and concerts to sneak onstage to throw T-shirts, lobby for exclusives from the music labels to rub in each others faces. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7c0dd12edc443b89 K-. A mix from Power 106 sometime in the 90s. This producer/DJ is a freaking BEAST! Im late to this groundswell of nostalgia for the days of daily radio battles. I went to Milwaukee to work for Greg Ausham at QFM in Feb 87internal problems caused him to cross the street and SIX of us followed him to LZR in Nov 87 By 1981, though, the ratings had slipped and KWST had changed to a top 40 format, and fired all of their disc jockeys. Harris was there, and Glenn Beck & Tim Hattrick (and Jessica Hahn) were on mornings The station was #1 in every demo 12-54 in every daypart by the end of the first yearwith a 9.3 12+. [1] They first began at Power 106 in 1992 with their show creation, " Friday Nite Flavas ". [25], On April 15, 2019, J. Cruz, co-host DJ Lechero and Jeff "The Sports Dude" Garcia exited KPWR, with J. Cruz joining KRRL as their new afternoon host. 7) Country KILT vs. KIKK-FM Houston throughout the 80s At a time when Country was finding its place on FM with a very AC-like presentation, the Houston stations at least enlivened it with great voices and great competitive marketing. 1987-CBSFM vs WNBC-one LAST, DESPERATE attempt by 66 W-N-B-C to knock CBSFM off its perch by doing a Time Machine format on the weekends even with the likes of NY radio vet Carol Mason and ORIGINAL Record Pig Big Jay Sorensen and with some GREAT music, PD Dale Parsons and his crew were left at the gate, to wait the eventual passing of this GREAT station in 1987 You had ABX, RIF, Wheels, W4 and a few others jumped in. Sean, These were then followed in 1987 with "Pure EnergyDance Now",[4] in 1991 with "L.A.'s Hottest Music", in 1997 as "L.A.'s Party Station", in 2005 with "Where Hip-Hop Lives",[5] and most recently, "L.A.'s #1 for Hip-Hop" in 2017. But like Dan Vallie, Id like nothing better than to talk into the night at a hotel lobby coffee shop about the great radio battles.
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