Tag: radio

Pop Radio Once

Analogous
Radio OG

“So, who’s your favorite dj?” Pan, with the voice of god, asked. We were kids talking shop. Talking about pop radio history since when we started paying attention to it. I froze because Louie D. and Jude Rocha is kiss-ass obvious. It was 2002, Chico and Del just left RX, so that may be a spot that either of us would want to discuss with mostly innuendo and 3rd hand information. Besides, I was just 2 weeks in to the internship glamorously named “student jock”. My real answer was Hill-Billy Willy, the first name that came to mind; him with Rudolph Rivera and voice characters the Count, and Grover, shamelessly ripped-off Sesame Street by smile radio, 93.9 DWKC.

DWKC is a precursor of the mass-radio format prevalent today. Yet, the archaic format of KC would sound too “pa-class” with the current FM mass-radio genre, most of which would probably attribute their style with Martin D. of ABS-CBN’s DWRR. But today’s version try to outdo each other as a better incarnation/abomination that is Love Radio.

By luck or circumstance, WKC was able to liberally play Andrew E.’s