Competitors mix it up on the radio
Don @ IdahoRadioNews | August 30, 2009This doesn’t happen every day – Boise radio competitors mixing it up in the battlefield – er… airwaves. (No tridents anywhere to be found)
Sunday night on KRVB/94.9 The River’s “The Other Studio” – hosts Tim Johnston and Idaho Statesman Scene Editor Michael Deeds were joined by a surprise guest. A guest who works at another radio station. And no – this wasn’t an employee of KQXR or KJOT or KTHI. It was… KeKe Luv of KSAS/103.3 Kiss FM.
Say… what?
This week’s show focused on trying to identify “the song of summer.” Each year, Deeds writes a column that focuses on the song that has that certain… something. Past examples include Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s and the Beyonce/Jay Z Crazy in Love.
But this summer… that song has been elusive. Candidates, in the eyes of Johnstone and Deeds include Taylor Swift’s You Belong To Me, Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody and others.
Since that big summer song is usually driven by top 40 radio, they put KeKe on the air at KRVB to talk about his thoughts (he’s kindofabigdeal) . As I’ve said before, The Other Studio does things that are out of the ordinary and “break the rules” – which is what makes it great radio.
Here’s an IdahoRadioNews.com bonus… listen to the interview in MP3 format (recorded from my iPhone voice memo… so the quality isn’t perfect. And if you listen realllly closely, you might hear me folding laundry).
You stay classy Boise Idaho.
Now that’s the way to break your contract, make an appearance on the competitors airwaves.
Say Goodbye to Keke everybody. Peak might just can him for this.
They ID’ed him by name. It’s all over…unless he got permission…
Gawd…..every song Kiki has mentioned SUCKS!
I’m a fan of music, but can not embrace anything that the station in Boise plays. I think this interview says just a little bit about what people from Boise think about the radio. It’s lame. We have artists who sound alike each other, with the same beats, with the same riffs.
Until corporate throws some true power back to the disc jockeys we are never going to see anything like one town’s “summer song”. Kiki mentions national statistics on Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow….who the eff cares!! This is Boise. Frankly, I am sick of seeing kids with a lack of inspiration from any artist who has not reached over the air play. Why we are stuck with national statistics telling us what is hot enough to be played on our radio stations is a sell out by not really listening to our community.