KIKK-Houston Firings !
Barbara Sherrill
Middays , Davey Crockett and his side kick Cat from Drive Time. Lisa came
aboard KIKK about 5 years ago with her sidekick Little Joe from Seattle,
Washington. Dave and Harley were hired on at KIKK, quickly after 93 Q
released them from their contracts.
Little Joe will be replacing Davey in Drive Time and Rick Lovett from the
Wolf in Dallas will be replacing Lisa Dent. No one has been named yet, to
replace Harley on Middays.
The only one they kept is Leslie T Travis.... this is getting
interesting.... stay tune....
Barb
Balecox
interesting.... stay tune....<<<
Why? What is the story behind the firings?
P
Nshvlbrat
Bet it wasn't as good as when they had to carry Pam Ivy out kikkin', yellin',
and screamin' when they fired her!
No one can top Hudson and Harrigan (and Jim Bob) on KILT in Houston!
-Brat
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats,
for they are subtle and will piss on
your computer." --Bruce Graham
Barbara Sherrill
"Nshvlbrat" <nshv...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hmmm...fireworks poppin' at KIKK, huh?
> Bet it wasn't as good as when they had to carry Pam Ivy out kikkin',
yellin',
> and screamin' when they fired her!
>
> No one can top Hudson and Harrigan (and Jim Bob) on KILT in Houston!
> -Brat
>
Oh, by the way brat... Mac Hudson just got married to a gal named Beverly
just a few weeks ago.....
Now to Pam... she is doing the weather and traffic and some part time work
over at Sunny 99.1
Watch your email box... I have something to tell you .....
Barb
Barbara Sherrill
"Balecox" <bal...@aol.com> wrote in message
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From what is being said around the station the ratings suck.... but, from
what I am being told there is much more to the story... so it's now a hurry
up and wait...while I am prodding for answers.... looks like I am going have
to bribe someone with a Pie from the House of Pies... lol
Its going to be fun to watch and I am dying to know who they are going to
replace Harley with......
Barb
Country Boy
since they went alt.country, saw the station drop like a rock. From a 3.0
to a 1.6. It is the lowest rated English speaking radio station in Houston.
I bet a lot of big city stations that had considered taking a chance on
alt.country are having second thoughts right now.
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Erik
Damn, that's pretty bad....Hey Barb, keep me updated, k? I've been away from
the comp. for a few days, been outta town....I'm in Southeast Texas, getting
ready to move and go back to school....
Erik
"I like George Jones, Willie and Waylon, I think Kris and Merle are songwritin'
saviors"--Cory Morrow
"God bless Texas, Country Music, Rednecks, Aggies, Taco
Cabanas, and of course, Jim Bob Jumpback!"--Nshvlbrat
(the) Rooster
They also kept the music (and synchs), so it seems when I listened today.
Same stuff the old DJs were playing.
Stan
Kimwerner
After KIKK-FM Houston made a series of airstaff adjustments last week, Infinity
senior VP Bill Figenshu offered the station's advertisers a "money-back
guarantee" to allay fears that the station would leave the country format. In
a letter to clients, Figenshu wrote, "Please consider this letter as my
personal guarantee that 95-7 KIKK-FM will remain country throughout my
tenure...If 95-7 KIKK-FM changes format, I will pay each active advertiser on
the station $100,000.
My personal feelings...Infinity's Houston cluster PD Darren Davis screwed up
when he took the station to an alt. country format and the DJs have been paying
the price. The station was fine as it was before he started changing things.
They lost one of their best when JD left the station soon after Davis came
onboard as PD and I feel it was a huge mistake letting Lisa Dent go. She's got
a great reputation and lots of friends in the Houston area who were associated
with the station because of her.
Davis has even been trying to sway listeners from KIKK to KILT (sister station
and competing country station in Houston) like he's trying to make KIKK fail.
His last actions during the turnover at the station have convinced me to switch
stations....to KKBQ 92.9!!!!
Erik
>switch
>stations....to KKBQ 92.9!!!!
To each his own, but in my humble opinion, KKBQ is a joke, pure and simple.
That 52 minutes of music is all fine and good, but I don't know why they'd
think I gave a damn how many more commercials KILT played than they did in the
last 24 weeks or whatever it was they say in their promo ads....one thing about
it, at least KILT doesn't play the same songs over and over. I remember a
couple of weeks ago, I was listening to KILT one night just before The
Tradition came on, and the deejay was inviting listeners to call in and tell
her what pissed 'em off, drove 'em crazy and stuff like that. She had several
listeners calling in to bitch about KKBQ and their constant bashing of KILT.
One listener called in and told her that he had the misfortune of having to
listen to KKBQ at work one day....and they played the same song (he didn't
mention the name of the song) 4 times in 6 hours! I'll take more commercials
and better variety ANY day over 52 minutes of music an hour and hearing the
same song 4 times in 6 hours.
Country Boy
"Kimwerner" <kimw...@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> My personal feelings...Infinity's Houston cluster PD Darren Davis screwed
up
> when he took the station to an alt. country format and the DJs have been
paying
> the price. The station was fine as it was before he started changing
things.
All he really had to do was copy KPLX in Dallas and he would have been fine.
But I think he was afraid of hurting KILT. But yes, the direction he went
was wrong, and his peers (particularly the PD in Atlanta) are all laughing
at him. It has killed any chances for Americana music on big time radio
stations.
Barbara Sherrill
Knowing what I know.... Bill Fingensu was behind the format change over at
KIKK.... as well as many other things that happen over at KIKK and KILT.
Darren is doing what Darren is told to do.... Bill Finginsu use to work at
93 Q before he went to New York.....
Barb
Barbara Sherrill
played her 5th call bashing KKBQ I would NEVER listen to her again.... Its a
bad judgment call to promote another radio station on your station.
Especially when that other station you are bashing is now sitting in the
10th position for the first time in several years. All you do when you
talk about another radio station on your air shift is giving them free
advertisting and you can lose listeners that way.... Dillion lost me for
sure...but not to listen to the Q.... I moved it over to the oldies station
when she is on the air and I am much more entertianed than what I am with
her. I listen to KILT because of the great music... I am happy and
entertianed ... plus, I don't have to hear about the Q and I don't usually
give them a second thought.... I know, that Dillion did lose other
listeners... several of them switched to 93 Q for the hell of it.... And
Kept it there unitl the Tradition came on.... That could of cost KILT
listeners...what if they liked what they heard on the Q ? Not a good
idea to bash another radio station on the air... its poor practice and very
unprofessional.
Barb
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Barbara Sherrill
station several times an hour ? Have fun over at the Q and count how many
times an hour that they mention KILT....
Barb
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Barbara Sherrill
personailites still have the freedom to do their shows without liner cards.
The personalities over at KIKK, do NOT have that freedom. Things haven't
been roses for KIKK in over 7 years. Their ratings went to the toliet when
Infinity sold the station to Westinghouse and they put Moby on from Atlanta.
The station never recovered from that and people do NOT trust KIKK any
longer. KILT is fine and is a very respectable radio station here in
Houston.
Barb
"Country Boy" <UDL...@prodigy.com> wrote in message
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Erik
>idea to bash another radio station on the air... its poor practice and very
>unprofessional.
Yeah, I totally agree, though I did find it interesting to hear what those KILT
listeners had to say about 93Q. But what I'd like to know is, why don't they
think the same thing over at 93Q? Why do the people in charge think it's so
cool to talk about KILT like that? I'm guessing they think that the attitude
that comes across in those promos will lure listeners, but as for me, I find
them very immature, as well as unprofessional. Sounds somewhat short-sighted as
well, if you ask me....they play all that music, but with that much music in an
hour, combined with their millimeter-long playlist, makes things very
repetitive over there. I guess they think the listeners won't care, but I
certainly do care. I don't want to hear the same 30-40 songs from the last 10
years over and over again. There was some great music that came out in the
years before 1990, a lot of which doesn't get played because country radio is
so concerned with the here and now. Don't get me wrong, I understand the need
to stay current and fresh with new music, but even new music played over and
over is gonna wear out, especially with the way they're doing things at 93Q.
Barbara Sherrill
One day last year... I was bored of listening to Rowdy, so I was scanning
stations. I was in the car... On KIKK they were playing a song I really
liked, so I kept it there and my intentions were to change the station and
get over to the oldies station as fast as possible....
This is when KLDE was close to KIKK .... well, the dj was talking about how
KIKK was playing fewer commercials than KKBQ... okay, I was already
bored...so I decided to switch over to KKBQ to see if that statement was
true.... The first thing I heard was.... if you don't hear 6 songs in a row
you can win 5,000 dollars... Hey that sounded good to me.. LOL !
Well, I didn't stick around and made my way over to KLDE... and I started
thinking. How many listeners that was listening to KIKK did the same thing
and heard the exact same thing I heard. How many of the KIKK listeners went
back to KIKK or how many of them stayed to listen to win 5,000 dollars with
the Q. Do I need to tell you the laugh I got when I talked to my bud at
the station. Matter of fact, I can still hear him howling... lol
Its never a good idea to discuss another station on the air... for the fact,
that you can lose listeners. And none of them can afford that.
Barb
Never Falls
I like what the station plays. Maybe it's something that will build
with time and who knows, in a couple of years all his peer and you
might be sitting here calling him a genius. The old saying - you have
to spend money to make money.
Stan
Country Boy
> CB, FYI, Darren nor has Infenity changed anything over at KILT. The on
air
> personailites still have the freedom to do their shows without liner
cards.
That's because they're #1. If the situation was reversed, they'd be the
ones getting fired. I don't think I said that KILT had changed. They made
their changes a while ago.
What I was saying was if they had turned KIKK into a copy of KPLX, it would
have taken listeners away from KILT.
> The personalities over at KIKK, do NOT have that freedom. Things haven't
> been roses for KIKK in over 7 years. Their ratings went to the toliet when
> Infinity sold the station to Westinghouse and they put Moby on from
Atlanta.
Other way around. Infinity bought the station from Westinghouse.
> The station never recovered from that and people do NOT trust KIKK any
> longer. KILT is fine and is a very respectable radio station here in
> Houston.
>
I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying that there's nothing KIKK
can do to attract a country audience again in Houston? I read here all the
time people saying there are all these unserved audiences in country music
who want to hear their favorite songs on the radio. KIKK attempted to
satisfy one of those groups, and failed. I expect there are a lot more
people in Houston who are unhappy with both KILT and KKBQ. But I think
we've seen the last of a major market station messing around with Americana
music.
Never Falls
> I am going to tell you a true story ....
Usually you can immediately discount a story when it begins with that
intro.
So since you're supposedly 'in' with a station (and which one is
that?), you shouldn't be discussing other stations. ;-)
Stan
Barbara Sherrill
Williamson and bring in Dan Gallo, who was their production manager. They
brought Rowdy over from the KIKK morning show, when KIKK went Young
Country....Becuase Rowdy said he would up and leave all together....so when
Rowdy went from the morning drive to afternoon drive.... the listeners
followed...... and the most current is when they moved Leslie from KILT to
KIKK because her format fit better at the other station.... Before all of
these changes were made.... KILT was one of the top radio stations in the
city and still is....
You see what you don't understand is ....Houston is consider to be a very
unforgiving city.... and when KIKK fired everyone from the GM to the
Janitor... keeping only Danny and Lisa.... And went with Moby in the
Mornings. They lost their following and haven't regained it. KIKK, is a
dying horse and has been for over 7 years...... The best thing they can do
for that radio station...is change its call letters and format. Its losing
numbers and the audience everytime they try to tweak it....but, then
again.... Bill Figensu who ran an ailing 93 Q in the ground, has his reigns
on KILT and KIKK... He is leaving the station that is thriving alone...but
running the sick one more and more into the ground as he did 93Q.
The big mistake was to bring in a dj ( MOBY) that was run out of Houston
about a year earlier. For many many reasons and none of them were good.
Yep there has to be alot more people unhappy with KILT and KKBQ..... that is
why KILT is sitting at number 4 and KKBQ is sitting at number 10 in the
city.... because there are a lot more people unhappy with them then KIKK...
You don't live here and you don't know the history first hand... You didn't
live .. .see it or breathed it....
You will never realize the power KIKK once had in this city and I mean
power...... that is now down the toliet.....
Barb
Country Boy
> The only changes KILT has made in the past 10 years were, firing Bruce
> Williamson and bring in Dan Gallo, who was their production manager.
Didn't you post a whole bunch of changes KILT made in its programming a few
months ago? With more older music at night? Or was I dreaming?
> You see what you don't understand is ....Houston is consider to be a very
> unforgiving city.
That's one way to describe it. I don't think the general public is as into
the individual personalities as you.
> You don't live here and you don't know the history first hand... You
didn't
> live .. .see it or breathed it....
>
> You will never realize the power KIKK once had in this city and I mean
> power...... that is now down the toliet.....
>
And the minute they do something that a big chunk of people want, all those
bad memories will be erased. It happens everywhere. Consider how far down
KPLX went in the late 90s. I read dozens of articles about how that
station was going to change formats. They brought in a PD from a rock
station in Atlanta, and everyone said it was changing formats. Now it's the
#1 station in Dallas. And it's still country.
Barbara Sherrill
back to the traditional stuff at night and move the Texas Country... even
when they were playing Texas Country ...they still had the traditional stuff
thrown in there...so not much of a change. They had the 70's at 7 ...the
80's at 8 and the Texas Revolution which sounded like the Tradtion ... with
Texas artist thrown in there... Now its strictly the traditon .... not much
of a change....
You would be surprised on how well Houstonians know who is who on the radio
here.... But, its also amazing who I know ! and How I know alot of
things...that I don't post publicly...
CB...they have been trying to save that station since it sank to the bottom
and its like the Titantic...its not budging..... The only way to save it ...
is to change its call letters and its format.... You don't have a clue to
what KIKK use to be to Houston..... and KIKK is just stuck in the darn
sand... not going anywhere......
Barb
Country Boy
>
>You don't have a clue to
> what KIKK use to be to Houston..... and KIKK is just stuck in the darn
> sand... not going anywhere......
>
>
>
Actually, I do. That's why I gave the example of KPLX in Dallas, and what
they've done there to go from last to first. It can happen anywhere. Even
Houston.
Barbara Sherrill
really have a clue how unforgiving this city really is..... There are still
some really pissed off people over the firing of Pam Ivey the first time
around.... and I am not one of them.... So, take it from someone that has
been on the inside and still is in a way... KIKK is done...stick a fork in
her and let her die gracefully ..... Things have changed here ...
Barb
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Never Falls
> Honey KIKK use to be HOUSTON.... not only first but HOUSTON...
If it ever was (I certainly never thought KIKK represent (the entirty
of) Houston), it still is. I mean, I think of Houston as "Space
City". :-)
Remember Love Street? 13th Floor Elevators? Moving Sidewalks?
Kimwerner
>times an hour that they mention KILT....
Thanks, I will. The fact that their advertising mentions KILT doesn't bother
me in the least. What bothers me is how rude I've seen Rowdy Yates be to
people and the lame comedy called the Hudson and Harrigan show. The biggest
reason I won't listen to KILT or KIKK anymore is Mr. Davis. See, you aren't
the only one with an inside track here in Houston.
Barbara Sherrill
like someone that got the axe from Darren.... Or someone that couldn't talk
Rowdy or Darren into free concert tickets.
Barb
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Kimwerner
>like someone that got the axe from Darren.... Or someone that couldn't talk
>Rowdy or Darren into free concert tickets.
You would be wrong on both of these assumptions. I've never worked for a radio
station or Darren Davis in any way and can proudly say I've never tried to get
anything free, or anything period, from either of them.
Why you've decided to try and attack me personally is beyond my understanding
so I will refrain from posting my opinion on the subject any further...which
seems to be ok for you to do but not others.
Barbara Sherrill
You need to keep in mind who is really calling the shots if you do have the
inside track then you would know that Darren and John are not calling the
shots up there...they are doing what they are told to do by someone else....
have you figured that out ? You are the one that fired that shot when you
attacked the station and saying you will not listen because they fired Lisa
Dent.... by the way did you know the ratings at KIKK has not improved in 5
years. That is the length of time that Lisa has been there.... Lisa is a
sweetheart of a person and did a lot of the community, but her ratings were
not enough to keep her job .... buisness is buisness and they must do what
they have to in order to survive.
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Never Falls
Even better - do you remember the 'Pigs vs. the Hippies' softball
games (as a community service/reachout program, some HPD officers
volunteerally played some games with hippies that came out to play
against them (I went to one (as a fan (of the Hippies)/obvserver), lot
of fun!)
Stan