WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!!
As I mentioned on yuku.com, we are officially mourning the end of Pulse 87. We finally had a station we felt was our own... a local station that advertised and supported LOCAL business, a station that knew and understood its community and what it NEEDED to hear.
I DO NOT support Party 105 playing its corney long island mix in Queens while advertising Suffolk county businesses. Pulse 87 even had a float in this year's Greek Independence Day parade, among other promotions at local mom & pop businesses. It was a local station for it's local listeners.
I actually looked forward to driving back towards Queens and picking up 87's week signal... I knew i was heading home.
The demographic is different in Queens than Suffolk, and the DJ that I heard on the radio today around 6 PM with DJ Surge that sounds like the TGIF waiter in the movie Office Space with the flair isn't going to cut it. SORRY.
As a local small business owner myself, I feel we have lost more than just another radio station, but a voice that reflected the community on the air amongst so many commercial stations.
And what's this about the Original Hot 97?
I had to look down and make sure I wasn't wearing Z Cavaricci's or that my jeans weren't rolled up!
Guys, its 2009 going on to 2010. The economy is bad and the general feel air is gloomy. WE NEED NEW, FRESH THINGS NOT A BLAST FROM THE PAST! I remember listening to Hot 103 when it became Hot 97.... LEAVE IT IN THE PAST!
ON BEHALF OF ALL THE LISTENERS IN ASTORIA AND THE BUSINESSES THAT INVESTED IN ADVERTISING AND SUPPORTING THE STATION, BRING PULSE 87.7 BACK AND REMOVE PARTY 105.1 FROM QUEENS AIRWAVES. SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS!
Tom S.
Astoria, NY
Tom S.
You wrote the same thing on the Unofficial Pulse 87 board on yuku, which I run. What are you trying to do here?
First off, I was hurt, just like the rest of the folks that loved Pulse 87 as well. As a matter of
I WAS IN THE STUDIO STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO ALEX SHVARTS WHEN HE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT (reread that if you need to, just for clarification.) and I was one of the names he mentioned on air. Pulse 87 had a great 20 month run. And I will echo what everyone said. IT WAS THE FINANCES of the company that killed Pulse, not Party taking it over (reread that too).
What you are NOT getting is the fact that, yes Party FM DOES NOT sound like Pulse. But then again, this is DAY ONE and things will eventually be tweaked. Understand this.....VIC LATINO is one of us, a local person. He also knows dance music (remember him on 'KTU?) If he feels that things have to be tweaked, to get to the advertisers and the new listeners of Party on 87.7, HE WIL DO SO. I have the utmost confidence in him. And if you want to get your business advertised on Party FM, you CAN (I believe they have an office somewhere in Queens?). I mean, it isn't as if the station is run out of Podunk, Iowa. If you want to get even more technical? Queens is physically on Long Island!
What you are doing is causing a riff and divide amongst the dance music community by your tirade, something that we cannot afford to do. I'm telling everyone this and I will tell it to you....
GIVE THINGS TIME! As far as the Original Hot 97 goes, it doesn't sound as if you've tuned in because that station is basically "Pulse" without the "British Betty" sweepers! And if I am not mistaken, Pulse did play its share of classic dance here and there too!
Mega Media, the company that ran Pulse, is out of the picture. Pulse IS NOT coming back. If you want your business to be heard on Party, talk to a sales rep there. If anything, you'll get MORE listeners tuned in since you'll also be tapping into Suffolk County as well.
Just stay the course, friend. I'm going to delete that Yuku post.
If you have any further concerns, talk to me. But I'm not going to let you or anyone RUIN things for the dance music community. I can't allow that. Do understand.
