WHYI-FM Miami 1978

This is both a scoped and unscoped aircheck of Kid Curry from 1978. He was my favorite jock at Y100. He had energy, related well to the targeted demographic, and was well, just plain fun. I've searched the web to find out what he's doing these days, and surprisingly, there's not much I found other than he went on to be the Program Director at WPOW-FM.

Before we get to the airchecks, here's a little background after Curry left Y100.

From Allbusiness.com:

Date: Friday, March 11, 2005

Kid Curry is approaching his 15th year at WPOW (Power 96), having risen to PD in 1996 after arriving in 1990 as a DJ. What's even more impressive is that since 1990, WPOW has changed its tune several times. "We've gone from freestyle to dance to hip-hop," Curry says. "We change to what our target is into."

He calls working with new talent one of the highlights of his career. "I get to program a legendary radio station with the best GM in the business [Greg Reed] and the most talented group of fresh radio people I've ever worked with," he says. "As of today, I only have one person on my on-air staff that has ever worked at a radio station. For all but him, it's their first radio job, so there are none of the ghosts of past PDs. They've only learned one style?ours."

Curry isn't concerned about satellite radio. "There's a billion radios out there in America," he says. "It's going to take some time for satellite to catch those kind of numbers. There's 4 million satellite subscribers, but there's about 275 million of us. And remember, content is king!"?

I've always wondered where Curry went, and this is the best I can do, from FMBQ:

August 15, 2006

Tom Calococci emerges as OM of Rhythmic/CHR WPOW (Power 96)/Miami. Calococci, most recently PD at KKBT/Los Angeles, fills the nearly year-long void left vacant when Kid Curry exited for health issues.

When you listen to these airchecks, you'll hear some background noise/music when Kid Curry is talking. Here's why: when you recorded something on a cassette tape that already had something on it, you sometimes heard the original recording in the background. That happened on this aircheck.

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