Kiss plays contemporary hits with an urban and dance music lean during the day, with more specialist shows in the evening. 199.4k Followers, 713 Following, 9,283 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from KISS FM UK (@kissfmuk) The station started out as Kiss FM - a 1980s pirate radio station that was to become the UKs first legal radio station specialising in black and dance music. KISSTORY. As a result, Wingate launched the very successful Kiss nights at the Wag Club (which included the first ever UK acid house party – an idea put forward by Colin Faver and Danny Rampling), both DJs on the station. This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 11:08. The group was later sold to Chrysalis Radio, and by September 1997 both stations became part of the Galaxy Radio network. [11] This included a new logo designed by oddlondon, a renewed focus on dance music, more specialist shows and a new website for all 3 Kiss stations replacing the previous website. Me & U by Cassie. The Beat Of The UK. It was eventually bought by EMAP and became Kiss 101 in September 2006 and part of the Kiss network.
[2] Gordon Mac approached a successful London club promoter, Guy Wingate, to discuss ways of improving the Kiss FM profile. It broadcasts nationally to the UK on DAB Digital Radio, as well as on FM in London, Bristol and the Severn Estuary, and East Anglia. They involved prank calls on the Bam Bam breakfast show where consent was not sought from the "victims" and controversial material aired when children were likely to be listening. Kiss is a British National Digital radio station owned & operated by Bauer as part of the Kiss Network. The biggest tracks and freshest new music. Ofcom punished Kiss 100 for "numerous and serious breaches" of broadcasting codes after receiving 10 complaints from April to November 2005. These nights increased the station's credibility with its target audience and Wingate joined the Kiss team, followed shortly thereafter by Lindsay Wesker. [1], The station developed a cult and committed following across Greater London, with figures in the press at the time stating that the station commanded some 500,000 listeners while operating as an unlicensed pirate station, and an Evening Standard readers poll in 1987 put Kiss second behind Capital Radio. The Beat Of The UK. In February 1997, it expanded into Yorkshire launching Kiss 105.
[1] This was in response to the UK Government and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announcement that 20 new incremental radio licenses would be advertised including one for London. [3] Kiss re-prepared their application but this time would gain the backing and majority investment of media group EMAP. [8], In July 1999, The Independent reported: "In preparation for the new ad campaign, the biggest in the station's history, EMAP has spent 12 months changing the output of the station.
In the words of Mr Cox [EMAP marketing director], the music on the station has been "smoothed out".