New Radio Station 92.7 FM
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Aw Dayum...
Aw dayum.... , they play the same shit KMEL plays. Broadcasting from Oakland...
Here's davey D's write-up:
Move Over KMEL-Oakland Has A New Hip Hop Station
This past weekend, beleagured radio listeners in Oakland were treated to a welcome change on the urban radio landscape. Power 92-The New Beat of the Bay launched in grand fashion by playing 24 hours of 2Pac. They put it's Clear Channel competitors [KMEL and KLYD] on notice that their stranglehold on music would be broken. They sent a strong message to unhappy listeners in the Bay Area that they will finally have a choice on the commercial dial when it comes to hearing Hip Hop and R&B.
One can already hear the reaction to the new station. KMEL the current leading urban station in the market has started to really highlight local artists on its playlists. The deejays are now on air shouting out neighborhoods and different turfs throughout the Bay. You hear the big booming voice reminding people that KMEL has always been down for the community and local artists.
For folks who live in Oakland, they clearly understand that such changes did not come willingly. Over the past couple of years, there were protests, community meetings and oftentimes arrogant dismissal by KMEL management to community concerns about local airplay and community access. It wasn't until the heat got turned up and rumors of a new urban outet coming to town that the Clear Channel stations begain to embrace some of those initial demands and concerns. Nowadays you hear local artists at least once an hour on KMEL.. and on Sunday nights there's a two hour local artists show called 'On the Block'.
Reverend Jesse Jackson has a new talk show on the station which they proudly promote even though it comes on at 5am Sunday morning... The bottomline is that things are moving in some sort of forward direction.
With a new commercial station located smack dab in the middle of Oakland where you will find the Bay Area's most active and largest 'urban audience', it will be interesting to see how serious KMEL and it's new competitor Power 92 are in terms of courting them. From talking with people throughout Oakland, a new station in 'The Town' has been a long time coming. The big question is how will longtime Program Director Skip Dillard go about reaching that Oakland Hip Hop audience. Will he connect with Oakland icons like Dwayne Wiggins of Tony Toni one and his Jahva House which is located at the Alice Arts Center? Wiggins popular coffee shop provided a welcome home and provided a much needed platform for lots of Bay Area and Oakland artists who felt they had no access and weren't welcome at KMEL...
Will the new Power hook up with Chauncy Bailey and support his new TV outlet KBLK? Will they hook up with the deejays from KPOO- the nation's only
Black owned community radio station west of the Rockies? This was the station that served as major inspiration for the Bay's urban giants. Many of its deejays past and present like Marcus Clemmons, DJ Chill, Donald Lacey, DJ X-1, KK Baby and Harrison Chastang to name a few were never given a shot to be on these urban outlets that frequently bit from them.
Will they build with local urban record pools like The PROs, Ill Trendz and the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition?
How will they connect with the local churches and more importantly how will they connect to the over 2 dozen local Hip Hop organizations who are know throughout the country for their well heeled activism? That ranges from Hip Hop Congress who are are gearing up for their National Convention in St Louis to the Ella Baker Center [EBC] and Books Not Bars which have been leading the charge against corruption inside Juvenile Hall Facilities to the Bay Area Local Organizing Commitee for the Upcoming National Hip Hop Political Convention.
For many the field is wide open. Despite the new changes KMEL has finally implemented, there's still a general disastisfaction because these changes came after big fights, critical articles and the threat of boycotts.
Right now the new Power 92 is playing 10 thousand songs in a row and has not announced their on air line up. There are a number of community groups that are excited about the change, so much so that they are currently contacted local organizations and student groups throughout Oakland, as well as the neighboring colleges Laney, UC Berkeley, Mills and Contra Costa County to both welcome the new Power 92 and fnd out ways in which they help the station becomne better acclimated to Oakland and the East Bay.
Here's more info on the station as was written in an music industry trade...
SPANISH BROADCASTING SYSTEM has sold Top 40/Dance KPTI (92.7 PARTY)/SAN FRANCISCO to CHRIS DEVINE and BRUCE BUZIL's 3 POINT MEDIA for $30 million in a deal that includes an immediate LMA and is a reworked version of a deal originally reached in OCTOBER. The Dance format is no more at PARTY 92.7, and the station stunted since THURSDAY (4/15) with an all-TUPAC format before going Urban on SATURDAY (4/17) as "POWER 92-7 THE NEW BEAT OF THE BAY" under new PD SKIP DILLARD, formerly BILLBOARD/MONITOR Top 40/R&B Urban Editor, and longtime PD at INFINITY Urban WBLK/BUFFALO.
The station's new calls -- pending FCC approval -- will be KBTB. According to DILLARD, "We look forward to serving the BAY AREA's Hip-Hop Nation from our modest little apartment somewhere in OAKLAND." DILLARD also says he's looking for the hottest talent from CALI, and al points in between. Record labels can start sending him music immediately to KPTI, 1801 HARRISON STREET, OAKLAND CA, 94607. Talent should
send their packages to SKIP at the same address.
Aw dayum.... , they play the same shit KMEL plays. Broadcasting from Oakland...
Here's davey D's write-up:
Move Over KMEL-Oakland Has A New Hip Hop Station
This past weekend, beleagured radio listeners in Oakland were treated to a welcome change on the urban radio landscape. Power 92-The New Beat of the Bay launched in grand fashion by playing 24 hours of 2Pac. They put it's Clear Channel competitors [KMEL and KLYD] on notice that their stranglehold on music would be broken. They sent a strong message to unhappy listeners in the Bay Area that they will finally have a choice on the commercial dial when it comes to hearing Hip Hop and R&B.
One can already hear the reaction to the new station. KMEL the current leading urban station in the market has started to really highlight local artists on its playlists. The deejays are now on air shouting out neighborhoods and different turfs throughout the Bay. You hear the big booming voice reminding people that KMEL has always been down for the community and local artists.
For folks who live in Oakland, they clearly understand that such changes did not come willingly. Over the past couple of years, there were protests, community meetings and oftentimes arrogant dismissal by KMEL management to community concerns about local airplay and community access. It wasn't until the heat got turned up and rumors of a new urban outet coming to town that the Clear Channel stations begain to embrace some of those initial demands and concerns. Nowadays you hear local artists at least once an hour on KMEL.. and on Sunday nights there's a two hour local artists show called 'On the Block'.
Reverend Jesse Jackson has a new talk show on the station which they proudly promote even though it comes on at 5am Sunday morning... The bottomline is that things are moving in some sort of forward direction.
With a new commercial station located smack dab in the middle of Oakland where you will find the Bay Area's most active and largest 'urban audience', it will be interesting to see how serious KMEL and it's new competitor Power 92 are in terms of courting them. From talking with people throughout Oakland, a new station in 'The Town' has been a long time coming. The big question is how will longtime Program Director Skip Dillard go about reaching that Oakland Hip Hop audience. Will he connect with Oakland icons like Dwayne Wiggins of Tony Toni one and his Jahva House which is located at the Alice Arts Center? Wiggins popular coffee shop provided a welcome home and provided a much needed platform for lots of Bay Area and Oakland artists who felt they had no access and weren't welcome at KMEL...
Will the new Power hook up with Chauncy Bailey and support his new TV outlet KBLK? Will they hook up with the deejays from KPOO- the nation's only
Black owned community radio station west of the Rockies? This was the station that served as major inspiration for the Bay's urban giants. Many of its deejays past and present like Marcus Clemmons, DJ Chill, Donald Lacey, DJ X-1, KK Baby and Harrison Chastang to name a few were never given a shot to be on these urban outlets that frequently bit from them.
Will they build with local urban record pools like The PROs, Ill Trendz and the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition?
How will they connect with the local churches and more importantly how will they connect to the over 2 dozen local Hip Hop organizations who are know throughout the country for their well heeled activism? That ranges from Hip Hop Congress who are are gearing up for their National Convention in St Louis to the Ella Baker Center [EBC] and Books Not Bars which have been leading the charge against corruption inside Juvenile Hall Facilities to the Bay Area Local Organizing Commitee for the Upcoming National Hip Hop Political Convention.
For many the field is wide open. Despite the new changes KMEL has finally implemented, there's still a general disastisfaction because these changes came after big fights, critical articles and the threat of boycotts.
Right now the new Power 92 is playing 10 thousand songs in a row and has not announced their on air line up. There are a number of community groups that are excited about the change, so much so that they are currently contacted local organizations and student groups throughout Oakland, as well as the neighboring colleges Laney, UC Berkeley, Mills and Contra Costa County to both welcome the new Power 92 and fnd out ways in which they help the station becomne better acclimated to Oakland and the East Bay.
Here's more info on the station as was written in an music industry trade...
SPANISH BROADCASTING SYSTEM has sold Top 40/Dance KPTI (92.7 PARTY)/SAN FRANCISCO to CHRIS DEVINE and BRUCE BUZIL's 3 POINT MEDIA for $30 million in a deal that includes an immediate LMA and is a reworked version of a deal originally reached in OCTOBER. The Dance format is no more at PARTY 92.7, and the station stunted since THURSDAY (4/15) with an all-TUPAC format before going Urban on SATURDAY (4/17) as "POWER 92-7 THE NEW BEAT OF THE BAY" under new PD SKIP DILLARD, formerly BILLBOARD/MONITOR Top 40/R&B Urban Editor, and longtime PD at INFINITY Urban WBLK/BUFFALO.
The station's new calls -- pending FCC approval -- will be KBTB. According to DILLARD, "We look forward to serving the BAY AREA's Hip-Hop Nation from our modest little apartment somewhere in OAKLAND." DILLARD also says he's looking for the hottest talent from CALI, and al points in between. Record labels can start sending him music immediately to KPTI, 1801 HARRISON STREET, OAKLAND CA, 94607. Talent should
send their packages to SKIP at the same address.
but then they play christina aguilara and a bunch of songs that have been out of ratation at 949 and 106 for several months now. Its like they took the songs that were thrown away cause they were too played out and used those.
but at least this is only for a while. I assume once the 10000 songs are over, they will have a better playlist. but until then. I aint tuning in. Ill stick to knocking the quinn album
but at least this is only for a while. I assume once the 10000 songs are over, they will have a better playlist. but until then. I aint tuning in. Ill stick to knocking the quinn album
