Kiss 100 London
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| Kiss 100 London | |
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| Broadcast area | Across the UK |
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| Frequency | 100.0 FM MHz (London Only) Sky Digital: 0178 Virgin Media (Ex NTL): 894 Freeview: 713 Tiscali TV: 616 Virgin TV (Ex Telewest): 933 (London Only) DAB Digital Radio: UPC Ireland: 925 |
| First air date | September 1, 1990 |
| Format | Contemporary R&B / Urban / Hip Hop / Electronic Dance |
| Audience share | 4.3% (March 2008, [1]) |
| Owner | Kiss Network, Bauer Radio |
| Website | www.Kiss100.com |
Kiss 100 is a radio station broadcasting to London on 100.0 MHz FM specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and dance music. It also broadcasts on digital radio in other parts of the UK on DAB and nationally on Freeview, Sky Digital and Tiscali TV. It is part of the Kiss Network, along with sister stations Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary) and Kiss 105-108 (East Anglia)
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[edit] History
Kiss FM began in October 1985 as a pirate station, which broadcast across London on 94FM. It attracted a huge following before finally acquiring a legitimate licence in 1990 - it was thought to have commanded in the region of 500,000 listeners even as a pirate station. It was first set up by Gordon Mac (later its Managing Director) and his friends; Tosca, Pyers Easton and George Power. Gordon Mac approached a successful London club promoter, Guy Wingate, to discuss ways of improving Kiss' profile and Wingate then launched the hugely successful Kiss nights at the Wag Club (which included the first ever Acid House party, an idea put forward by Kiss DJs Colin Faver and Danny Rampling). These nights gave the station a credibility boost and Wingate joined the Kiss team, followed shortly thereafter by Lindsay Wesker.
Kiss was 'owned' by shareholders that included many of the DJs themselves, including Tim Westwood, Jonathan More, Norman Jay and others. Together with Mac, Wesker and Wingate they took the station forward through a combination of grim determination and clever marketing and in 1988, the Department of Trade And Industry advertised the first new radio licence in London for many years. Kiss pitched hard but despite colossal public support, the licence was awarded to Jazz FM (now Smooth Radio). In the weekend that followed, the Kiss team roamed London building up an enormous petition that was delivered on the Monday morning to then Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd.
A short time thereafter, new licences were advertised and this time Kiss, and its loyal army of listeners, were rewarded.
On September 1st, 1990 Kiss relaunched as a legal station, its studio and offices located on the Holloway Road, and was supported financially by EMAP, who now control the station - and recently moved its studio to Central London. Its many past influential DJs include Trevor Nelson, Judge Jules, Dave Pearce, Sarah HB, Steve Jackson, Norman Jay, Craig Charles, DJ Richie Rich UK, Coldcut, Jazzie B, Gilles Peterson and Pete Wardman.
[edit] Kiss 100 Presenters
Kiss 100 presenters across the day include Rickie Haywood Williams and Melvin, Justin Wilkes, Neev and Australian born Simon Dale. Before the specialist output begins at 9pm, Jez Welham presents Evenings during the week, but Fridays are controlled by DJ EZ from 10pm - 12am the music at this time is mainly UK garage and the show is called "Destination Weekend". Weekends are very similar with added personality from James Merritt, Will Cozens, Steve Smart and the new urban and dance chart show, Fresh 40, hosted by Dynamite MC every Sunday 4pm-7pm, who also hosts the Smooth Grooves show on Kiss between 9pm and 11pm on Mondays.
[edit] Rickie and Melvin Breakfast Show
| The Rickie And Melvin Breakfast Show | |
| Genre | Music, Talk |
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| Running time | Monday - Friday 6.00am - 9.00am |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | Kiss 100 |
| Producers | Adam K |
| Recording studio | London |
| Air dates | 2007 to Present |
| Audio format | FM, DAB Digital radio, TV and Online |
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The weekday breakfast show is presented by Rickie Haywood Williams and Melvin Odoom, who took over the slot from Robin Banks in May 2007. He in turn replaced the previous long serving breakfast host Bam Bam (real name Peter Poulton) in April 2006, moving from the drivetime slot. Bam Bam left shortly after the station received a record fine from the industry regulator, Ofcom after a series of breaches of the broadcasting code.[1].
The show contains many regular features these include: "Charlie does" (When female presenter Charlie askes Rickie and Melvin a question which they have to answer truthfully) "The trainer game" (The studio's word association game) (the people in the studio go around and say a name of something in a particular topic until someone doesn't know or takes to long) "The 8:10 shoutout" (a one miniute segment of the show when listeners get the chance to shout anything they want live on air) and finally "Riddle me this" ( when the host that has won the previous round gets to ask the other a riddle. This continues until the next morning when the answer is revealed.)
The show also features Adam K (producer) and Charlie, and Sakah Al Makidy reading the news.
The Londoners Rickie Haywood Williams and Melvin were plucked from obscurity to front the Kiss FM morning slot in a trial run in the summer of 2006. According to latest data, the duo had 688,001 listeners in the three months to June - up 105,000 from predecessor Robin Banks.[2].
[edit] Key DJs
[edit] Patrick Forge
Patrick Forge currently hosts a two hour show on Sunday nights from 0100-0300. He plays Soul Fusion, Jazz and associated forms, along with more modern records with underground jazzy, soulful sounds. He is one of the longest serving hosts of a show on the station, as he joined near the time Kiss turned from a pirate radio station into a commercial operator.
[edit] John Digweed
John Digweed currently hosts a two hour long show on Saturday featuring progressive house and trance. The first hour consists of a set by John himself, either mixed live or recorded from one of his past gigs. The second hour is a guest mix by a different artist each week. Guests on the show often include other world-famous DJs and new talents, such as Sasha, Sander Kleinenberg, Desyn Masiello, and James Zabiela.
[edit] DJ Hype
DJ Hype currently hosts a two hour drum and bass show every Wednesday from 2300 GMT. The show features the latest promo releases and also interviews and guest mixes.
[edit] DJ EZ
DJ EZ currently hosts a two hour UK garage show every Friday night from 10pm called 'Destination Weekend', including current and classic tracks from the UKG scene. He has another show on Saturday nights from 10pm-11pm called 'The Bassline Mix', focusing predominantly on Bassline. DJ EZ is a highly respected DJ in the UK garage scene and has released several garage compilation CDs entitled Pure Garage.
[edit] Logan Sama
Logan Sama currently hosts the first dedicated Grime show on legal radio every Monday night between the hours of 11pm-1am. Acting as a platform for some of the most exciting British underground MCing talent, the show has seen artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Kano, Wiley, lethal B and Roll Deep all make several appearances. As a vital source of new music from the British grime scene, the show has regularly pulled in a large and dedicated listenership over it's 3 year history.
[edit] Current DJ's
Current DJ's on Kiss 100 include
Armin Van Buuren
- A State of Trance
Big Ted
- With Shortee Blitz
Carl Cox
- Global
Crazy D
- Dubstep Show
Dangerous Minds
- Grime
David Rodigan
- Reggae
Dynamite MC
- The Fresh 40 Chart
DJ EZ
- Garage
DJ Hype
- Drum and Bass
DJ Swerve
RNB hip hop and Sunday selecta
James Merritt
- Saturday Breakfast
Jay Cunning
- Breakbeat Show
Jez Welham
- Evening show
Joe Ransom
Broken Beats
John Digweed
- Progressive House
Justin Wilkes
- Weekday Mornings and The Rehab
Logan Sama
- Grime
Loose Cannons
- Eclectic
Manny Norte
- Power Mix
Martin Archer
- Weekday early hours and Sunday breakfast
Melvin and Rickie
- Breakfast
MK
- Hip Hop
Neev
- Weekday Lunchtimes, Saturday early hours and Sunday afternoon
Patrick Forge
- The Cosmic Jam - Soul Fusion
Shortee Blitz
with Big Ted
Simon Dale
- weekday drivetime
Sinden
- Eclectic
Steve Smart
- Friday Night Kiss and Kisstory
Will Cozens
- Total Kiss and main holiday cover
[edit] Ofcom record fine
In June 2006, Kiss 100 was fined a record fee for any UK commercial radio station of £175,000 by media regulator Ofcom. Ofcom punished Kiss 100 for "numerous and serious breaches" of broadcasting codes after receiving 10 complaints from April to November 2005. They involved prank calls on the Bam Bam breakfast show where consent was not sought from the "victims" and inappropriate material aired when children were likely to be listening. Kiss FM said it accepted the findings and apologised for any offence [1]
[edit] September 2006 relaunch
Emap introduced a major revamp of the Kiss brand on September 6th 2006. This included a new logo designed by ODD, a renewed focus on dance music, more specialist shows and a new website for all 3 Kiss stations at totalkiss.com replacing the previous website at kiss100.com.
The relaunch was implemented simultaneously with the rebranding of Kiss 100's sister dance stations, Vibe 101 and Vibe 105-108 as Kiss 101 and Kiss 105-108 respectively.
The changes at Kiss 100 are being introduced in an attempt to address falling listener figures in recent years in order to ensure that the station remains competitive in the highly-contested London market.
[edit] Notes
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Kiss 100
- Kiss 100 Live Stream & Radio Player
- Kiss 100 MySpace page
- Kiss 100 Bebo page
- History of Kiss 100 and its involvement with the UK group Jamiroquai
- Kiss TV
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