Re: First Jock/First Remote on Star 93.7

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

Are you sure that it was a real remote and not a tape of an older show or a
show done to sound like a remote?

Brian

At 11:15 AM 4/4/99 -0400, Mark wrote:
>Last night(4/3) Star 93.7 had it's first live jock appear.Just after 8PM I
>went to a Kentucky Fried Chicken shop in Lowell to get some supper for
>myself and a friend.In the car I tuned into 93.7,curious to find out if
>Vinnie Perruzzi and his Saturday Night show had been dumped.The answer is
>NO: "The Saturday Night Dance Party"(gee,doesn't that title sound
>familiar???) was on,Vinnie live on location at a club called "The
>Rack"(unsure where this club is,location not given the few times that I
>heard Vinnie talk between songs).Musically same as Star's format,he played
>Backstreet Boys,Dazz Bazd,Spinners,Weather Girls,Madonna,etc.Friday's
>Boston Herald had indicated that the entire Eagle staff had been let
>go.Vinnie was part of the Eagle's staff,so a slight error for the
>Herald(unless Entercom stated that in info supplied to the paper)
>When I went insidethe KFC shop to order my food,Star 93.7 was playing on
>the radio behind the serving counter.The 3 female clerks,I'd say they were
>17-20 years old,were singing along to "Let It Whip" by the Dazz Band.I
>asked one of the young ladies if she liked that song,she said yes.Another
>of the clerks asked her "where did this station come from,I never heard it
>before",the clerk I had spoken too said "it used to be some rock station
>till last week I think." She went on to state "It plays more old school
>than Jammin 94.5". IMHO,it sounds to me,as someone(can't remember who at
>the moment) had posted earlier,that they may take some lower end numbers
>off Jammin 94.5 and Kiss 108.And as Donna Halper had posted, she had gone
>into a coffee shop and heard Star 93.7 playing there,no TV spots or any
>promotion of the new format.Iwould think that Vinnie's remote last night at
>this club probably exposed many more people(a few hundred anyway,depending
>on club's capacity).One wonders those who went there last night for a fun
>evening out may have tried 93.7 on the radio on the way home from the club.
>Mark Watson

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