#ThrowbackThursday - October 10th, 2002
Oct 10, 2013 ·
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A look back at the 20 most played songs on 96-5 Kiss FM in Cleveland on October 10th, 2002.
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Jeremy Andrews
10 years ago
The backup tape. My favorite. I would be so fascinated with that thing. First time I heard it was 9-22-02, station had just evolved from "KISS 103.5" to "103.5 KISS FM" The concert event with Fat Joe and Avril Lavigne was the Star Party. The 2001 Star Party apparently had Eve 6.
Anyway, during Club Kiss, the computer kept crashing that night, going to dead air, and the backup tape from September 2001 kept firing up. I had no idea what it was, but I was hooked. Happened later that night during Rick Dees. It just started up in the middle of a stopset and played for about 30min. It would finally happen usually the last Saturday/Sunday of the month during Club Kiss, around 2:30 in the morning.
In December of 2002, they put a new backup tape in. It started with Cam'Ron - Hey Ma, into Eve/Alicia Keys - Gangsta Lovin into No Doubt - Underneath It All. I figured it would be all over when they started that new mixshow in January of 2003 (To go after "The NEW Killer Bee") It didn't. 4th song on the backup tape was Eminem - Lose Yourself. Forgot what else was on there.
It went on a few times, until they changed it again sometime in the summer of 2003. All backup tapes after (they had about 3 others before finally getting rid of it) started with Eve - Gangsta Lovin', I guess the song was an "Attention, the computer crashed" warning to whoever might have been listening, no idea. The last one I heard fired up during Smash's shift sometime in 2004. Jessica Simpson - Take My Breath Away (Berlin Cover) was on there.
They have about 50 seconds of dead air every weekday morning at 2AM now when they switch from local to Premium Choice logs and the board goes from live to closed. Backup tape never fires up. I think 30 seconds was the maximum. When they moved from the Hancock to the current building, the backup tape would share the air with the studio, so you would often hear two things playing at the same time. The Hancock one was either Backup tape or NexGen.
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