Information about Kiss 100 London

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 TalkTalk TV. It is part of the Kiss Network, along with sister stations Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary) and Kiss 105-108 (East Anglia)

Kiss FM began in October 1985 as a pirate radio station, which broadcast across South London and subsequently across the whole city 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 McNamee (later its Managing Director till Dec 1997) and his friends; Tosca, Pyers Easton and George Power.

Kiss was 'owned' by Gordon Mac Who in 1986 sold share's to 10 of the DJs , including Tim Westwood, Jonathan More, Norman Jay Trevor Nelson and others. Gordon Mac Together with his team of DJ's and gang of Helpers 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.^[1]

On September 1, 1990 Kiss relaunched as a legal station, its studio and offices located on the Holloway Road, and was supported financially by EMAP. Its many past influential DJs include Paul 'Trouble' Anderson, Trevor Nelson, Judge Jules, Chris Philips, Dave Pearce, Sarah HB, Steve Jackson, Colin Dale, Norman Jay, Nick Power, Richie Rich, Coldcut, Tony De Vit, Jazzie B, Gilles Peterson, Pete Wardman and DJ Vibes.

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 and Steve Smart.

The weekday breakfast show is presented by Rickie Haywood Williams, Melvin O'Doom and Charlie Hedges, 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.^[2].

The Londoners were plucked from obscurity to front the Kiss 100 morning slot in a trial run in the summer of 2006. According to latest data, the duo had 776,000 listeners each week.^[3]. Overall the station now has 1.71 million listeners, and a 4.6 percent share, in the first three months of 2009.^[4]

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.

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.

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.

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. Another show, airing on Saturday nights from 10pm-11pm called 'The Bassline Mix', focusing predominantly on Bassline came to an end on November 1 2008. DJ EZ is a highly respected DJ in the UK garage scene and has released several garage compilation CDs entitled Pure Garage.

Logan Sama currently hosts the first dedicated Grime show on legal radio every Monday night between the hours of 12pm-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 its 3 year history.

Current DJs on Kiss 100 include
Armin Van Buuren
- A State of Trance

Shortee Blitz
- With MK

Carl Cox
- Global

DJ Hatcha & Crazy D
- Dubstep Show

Dangerous Minds
- Grime

David Rodigan
- Reggae

DJ Hype
- Drum and Bass
- Regular stand in Ray Keith

DJ Swerve
RNB hip hop

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
- Kiss Breakfast

Neev
- Weekday Lunchtimes, Saturday early hours and Sunday afternoon

Patrick Forge
- The Cosmic Jam - Soul Fusion

Simon Dale
- weekday drivetime

Sinden
- Eclectic

Steve Smart
- Friday Night Kiss, Saturday Night Kiss (formerly Floor Fillers) and Kisstory

Will Cozens
- Total Kiss and main holiday cover

Whilst EMAP took full control of Kiss 100 as early as 1992, a rebranding of Kiss 100 and the Kiss brand started to take place during 1998, resulting in a new logo being adopted in 1999. In order to bring Kiss 100 into line with EMAP's other radio operations, Mark Story (previously of Magic 105.4) was installed in January 1999 as the new Director of Music Programming. This led to criticism from both former presenters and listeners alike, concerned that Kiss 100 was losing its musical direction. At the same time, the Kiss studios and offices was moved from its original roots to EMAP's main premises in Central London.

One of Kiss 100's former legendary DJs, Steve Jackson, was sacked in December 1998, and this resulted in a high profile court case ^[5]. At the same time, a number of other founding DJs decided to quit the station in protest at the changes being implemented ^[6], whilst others were lured away by the increasingly dance-oriented BBC Radio 1. Many listeners equate Gordon Mac's final show on the 28th March 1998 and subsequent departure from the station, as the spiritual end of the original Kiss.

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 100 said it accepted the findings and apologised for any offence ^[2]

Emap introduced a major revamp of the Kiss brand on September 6 2006^[7]. 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.

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