From Castanet.....


                                               Liz McKinney jumps ship
by Kelly Hayes
Castenet.net
Sep 15, 2008

The Juice is tapping into the local talent pool.



The Juice (103.9) is one of two radio stations set to launch in Kelowna.

Programmer, Jason Mann, says the Juice has persuaded Liz McKinney of Power 104 to jump ship. She will anchor the Juice's morning show along with her sidekick named Moose.

His real name is Trevor Stoyko who is coming from Grand Prairie, Alberta.

McKinney says it was time for a change.

"I'm looking forward to a new challenge. It's an incredible opportunity, one that that I've never been involved with and that is the launching of a brand new station."

The Juice's morning show will be called McKinney and Moose on The Juice.

Power 104 Programming Director, Bob Mills, says McKinney will be missed.

"We wish her the very best."


The MD & PM drive will be handled by Jason Stone.

The Juice's Programming Director, Jason Mann, says having McKinney on board was a real coup.

"I've always been a big fan of Liz McKinney. She's quite a talent."

Mann is still working on a launch date for his new radio station.

The other Kelowna radio station, spearheaded by former Kelowna mayor Walter Gray, is also set to launch very soon.

The Juice website: http://www.1039thejuice.com/

http://www.castanet.net/

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I will definately miss her on Power but....Good luck to Liz!  

Whats the Juice's format?

Cool - I went to broadcasting college with Trevor Moose - he's gonna be great.

What a score to get Jason Stone - one of the hardest working, creative, fun and brightest up and comers - he'll do well as well...

I worked with this Moose feller at CKCK in Regina a million friggen years ago.  Still keep in touch, funny guy.  Good luck Trevor!

Quoted from kelowna sunshine

I will definately miss her on Power but....Good luck to Liz!  

Whats the Juice's format?

classic rock from what I've heard...

Quoted from kelowna sunshine

I will definately miss her on Power but....Good luck to Liz!  

Whats the Juice's format?

from the reports we've received, The Juice will play Classic Hits and covers the best of the 80s, 90, and now. Jason Mann was reported to have said the station is targeted specifically for men and women 25-54 years of age, however the format has been described to super serve those between 30-49 who grew to learn and love Top 40 and rock music of the 80's, but the format is kept 'fresh' with the inclusion of compatible music from the 90s and now.

..Good Luck To All Those Who Are Blue-eyed and Juic'd!  (yuck, sticky fingered.)

Whatever playing for 'Jack'?  Now it's for ''Jack's''.  (About to die, probably.)

WOO! Havent heard the tunes that Juice has been playing lately in years!! Love It!! Welcome Liz Im sure you'll do great at Juice.

Havent had any troubles in frequency issues and you should scoop Vinney too! LOLZ

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WOO! Havent heard the tunes that Juice has been playing lately in years!! Love It!!

Hey...you're welcome.  When I was MD at Sun-fm in Duncan, an insane amount of music that we were playing was from my own music collection.  And when Vista got a new station they would use hard drives from Duncan to load up the station with music.  We were all wav not mp3's so it made sense (many of the stations they took over were mp3...a battle I'm very proud to have won).  I'm only guessing that practise hasn't changed.  If you listen close enough (and if they are still using Duncan's stuff and why wouldn't they?) you may even hear a crackle and pop because some of the really rare cancon stuff came off some of my vinyl (cleaned up as best I could...)

I think it's kinda of cool to know that my music collection (and me only wanting wav and not mp3 for on-air) is still having an effect through out Vista.  So even if I'm no longer with the company...I'm still there in one way or another.

AC caught you on Crave today Zane. Good call on the music uploads all those long hours of stepping up the music rotation(library) files will be cranked (Juiced) in Kelowna. I can just imagine all the play on juiced lines coming to K-town. Looks like the two new stations will fight for top spot.  100% Freshly Squeezed.

Kelowna's Juice being the  wine, is not the first moniker to hit the air.  
They have one in the UK.

Carl Hughes plays Juice in the UK!
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507042128
Juice FM - Liverpool's More Music Station. Music Radio for a Fun, Young Liverpool. Other online stations using the ORANGE flavor style like Vista. I would have gone red.

AC says get the right image for Juice, the station could go to the top. They need to create a character voice to make this juice concept fly. The branding must be real with a JUICE character. People in the area will get the connection. Otherwise you are just another FM. Should be interesting to see what they do with it. Can they pull it off?  Will  it be Kelowna's Flavor radio station? Or will it overflow with no zip?  


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Quoted from Karaoke On Wayward Son

Cool - I went to broadcasting college with Trevor Moose - he's gonna be great.

What a score to get Jason Stone - one of the hardest working, creative, fun and brightest up and comers - he'll do well as well...

Wow! No clue who you are but thank you for those kind words. .......... (*cough cough...... randy?...... yeah...... thanks man...... I'll get your $50 bucks to ya after payday...... haha)

"Freshly Squeezed"

Quoted from radiostoner

Wow! No clue who you are but thank you for those kind words. .......... (*cough cough...... randy?...... yeah...... thanks man...... I'll get your $50 bucks to ya after payday...... haha)

"Freshly Squeezed"

Hey $50 is $50 - right on, thx.

Remember back in the day when the challenge was to introduce new music to your audience? Nowadays, we just trod out the tried and true and call the packaging and the label imaginative. Once in a while, we do introduce a new song, but only after repeated video, tv or commercial exposure.

These are exciting days for radio indeed.

From The Juice Facebook group..

Thanks for supporting Kelowna's Brand New Radio Station.

103.9 The Juice is LIVE & on the air this morning (Sept 29)

Studio phone #: 250.980.1039

McKinney and Moose on The Juice!
Liz McKinney joins “Moose” (Trevor Stoyko)

Natalee Taylor is squeezing up mid days

Jay Stone is on your drive home from work.

The Juice plays a Classic Hits music format that encompasses the best of the 80s, 90s and now. Jason Mann Vista Radio's VP of Programming says, “the station is designed specifically for men and women 25-54 years of age. The format is really meant to super serve those aged 30-49 who grew up listening to Top 40 and rock music of the 80s but the format is kept ‘fresh’ by including compatible music from the 90s and 2000s.”

The Juice has launched

Further Information:

Jason Mann
Vice President, Programming
Vista Radio
250-212-2984
Jmann@vistaradio.ca
http://www.1039TheJuice.com


http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25929155889

It is a shame that yet another station has launched without recognizing the importance of having a website from day one!

Vista needs to get that higher on the priority list in their launch plans.  Look at the Free-FM site in GP.  Still don't have it right and it is well over a year.

With a company that size, they could easily crack a deal with a service if they are incapable of maintaing decent sites with internal people.  Isn't Kelowna the IT Slacker capital of Canada?  Tons of people writing code in their basements and working cheap.

Liz McKinney needs somebody to interact with to sound entertaining...long gone are The FOX solo shows. Her and John Michaels were the funniest duo in Kelowna ever...John owned the dialect in the show and out-witted her constantly...but they knit perfectly. (yes John knits!)  Not sure who this Moose dude is, but she can and will bury him if he doesn't get some balls early.

Quoted from GrannyTheRube

Liz McKinney needs somebody to interact with to sound entertaining...long gone are The FOX solo shows. Her and John Michaels were the funniest duo in Kelowna ever...John owned the dialect in the show and out-witted her constantly...but they knit perfectly. (yes John knits!)  Not sure who this Moose dude is, but she can and will bury him if he doesn't get some balls early.

ask him for an aircheck, i'm sure he'll hold his own.

Quoted from Sportfishing Enthusiast

ask him for an aircheck, i'm sure he'll hold his own.

Moosie will more than hold his own. No worries there. Doncha just lvoe the 'experts' here who don't know their ass from page 5? If you have no idea then STFU!

OMG...and here I though knowing your ass from page 4 would suffice...Who TFK it was page 5 all along. Well now,  how in the hell are all us page 4's supposed to get to sleep tonight ?

Maybe it would be best if they tried to out-shout each other. Apparently I'm the only one that didn't think it was a reasonable expectation that co-hosts compete against each other for attention.

I was naive enough to think they were on the same team.

Quoted from Rutiger

Remember back in the day when the challenge was to introduce new music to your audience? Nowadays, we just trod out the tried and true and call the packaging and the label imaginative. Once in a while, we do introduce a new song, but only after repeated video, tv or commercial exposure.

These are exciting days for radio indeed.

I love people who say things like this. It's the same as people who blame the labels for signing bands like Nickleback and claim there is some huge conspiracy that makes people buy bad music.

God what tripe!

If stations like this get huge ratings (Joe/Bob/Jack/EZ Rock) then obviously it's because people like it.

But let me guess, they only like it because corporate radio uses magical brain wave controllers to make people like it. Right?

Ug.

Quoted from CaptainAphid

I love people who say things like this. It's the same as people who blame the labels for signing bands like Nickleback and claim there is some huge conspiracy that makes people buy bad music.

God what tripe!

If stations like this get huge ratings (Joe/Bob/Jack/EZ Rock) then obviously it's because people like it.

But let me guess, they only like it because corporate radio uses magical brain wave controllers to make people like it. Right?

Ug.

Actually..... you have totally misunderstood my point, but thanks for trying to read my mind.. A mentalist, you are not.

For the benefit of Mr. Kreskin here, I'll try to clarify.

Whether or not people like Nickelback is irrelevant here. I am simply stating that the dinosaurs among us (and there are plenty) are quick to note how in the "good ole days" when radio was great, the jocks picked their music, corporate formats were non-existent, and the true artistic creativity and musical foresight of the jock and music director combined to define a station to its listeners. To be the one that played the new songs first, presented to an anticipating audience using wit and personality was the way we defined our place in the market (and the way we won ratings). Rotation and the right presentation combined to define not only radio, but significant moments in listeners' lives. This ideal made radio great and is now sadly missing.

Most of the new stations mentioned in these threads focus a majority (if not entirely) upon playing music that we know all the words to. There is no mystery, there is little new music being played, we are just re-living the past for the benefit of the demographic segment with the most money. The appeal to the listener is understandable, the appeal to the sales team is equally understandable... but as programmers, entertainers and faceless voices in the dark, the execution is little more than phoning it in. The state of radio has sunk to the point that we are applauding our own stagnation. In fact, many of us believe that there is no longer new music that is worthwhile to our listeners, so we will continue to pacify them with the same stuff we think they are looking for.. and we praise each other for it.

New music stations do still exist, and if done right, they thrive.. in my opinion.. I will say that again, a little louder... IN MY OPINION.. pandering to the baby boomers (which is exactly what classic hits formats are doing) will leave us with nothing to give us relevance for the future. This will be our swan-song and we are playing the violin as Rome burns.

Word on the street is, Moose is not happy with how things are going on the morning show and maybe looking for a return to the Peace area.

Quoted from smalmrket4life

Word on the street is, Moose is not happy with how things are going on the morning show and maybe looking for a return to the Peace area.

he's not listed as an announcer on the website anymore either...

Returning to Ontario. Heard it twice here in Peachland this week.

Just checked the website (no longer a splash page).  Mornings states Micheals and McKinney together again or something like that.  Stream is now active as well.

Hello this is Moose...
I was not unhappy nor was I coming back to the Peace country..
I am not going back to Ontario
I wanna take this time to thank everyone who listened to McKinney and Moose on 103.9 FM the Juice and will continue to listen to "Micheals and McKinney" along with the other great on air staff that is on the Juice...These are a very talented bunch of people...dedicated, hard working professionals. The sales, creative, and admit staff are some of the best people i have ever worked with and happy to call a friend. I also want to thank Jason Mann who is not only a great radio man, but a caring and honest man who gave me this opportunity to fulfil a goal to make it to the beautiful Ok. The many people at Vista radio are an incredible bunch and I hope to work with you again...Sometimes things don't work out the way one plans but I did the best I could, and hope to be back on the air real soon...Thank you again and God Bless!

Moosie    

Quoted from Airchecker

Kelowna's Juice being the  wine, is not the first moniker to hit the air.  They have one in the UK.

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Hey AC..... and everyone else..... wow...... surprised nobody else picked up on this, but does that frequency seem off to you?!?!? 107.6.... ANYTHING point 6?!?!?!?! wtf?!?!?!  a kHz measurment in an even number... thats messed up! LOL, clearly UK and not Canadian....

And as for the words just spoken by moosie.... I'll say it. Well put my friend. Very professional, and it was an absolute pleasure getting to know you.

Cheers my friend.

Who is the G.M.?

Why was the "Moose" fired after 5 weeks? The grass is not always greener on the otherside.

Who knows, but then again, Moose took a transfer within the same company, it's not like he was jumping ship to get from GP to K-Town.

I believe Jason Mann is the day to day head of operations for the Kelowna station.

Fired? Who says he was fired? Could've been 3 months probation means exactly THAT. It's not always the employer who gets to make the big decision. Maybe things just didn't work out. Maybe the guy was brought over here to help launch a morning show. Or, maybe there's a better fit inside the company somewhere. Gawd, Gotta love inside.....er....gossip.

Quoted from McWages

Fired? Who says he was fired? Could've been 3 months probation means exactly THAT. It's not always the employer who gets to make the big decision. Maybe things just didn't work out. Maybe the guy was brought over here to help launch a morning show. Or, maybe there's a better fit inside the company somewhere. Gawd, Gotta love inside.....er....gossip.

Or maybe you don't know your ass from page 1.

Oops, my bad. I didn't know the story made page 1.  And my ass and I have never really met face to face. Must be quite an enlightening experience.

Quoted from newstalker

Moosie will more than hold his own. No worries there. Doncha just lvoe the 'experts' here who don't know their ass from page 5? If you have no idea then STFU!

Wow, good call.  

holding my own....place joke here_________________________. lol

All seriousness...i want to say thanks to all the great people that are in this Biz and the world we call radio...They know who they are...If you don't and want to see if your on this list...call me...hahaha!
Happy Halloween

WOW two posts in one day...gotta get out more!! take care everyone!

Listening to the Cut Loose Moose you'd almost think he was given either a huge 'buh bye' cheque...or he's got some damn fine meds happening.  ok boys and girls it's time for a visual cartoon. Picture a pair of moose antlers on a man going across the parking lot to a car and Jason Mann sitting in his office looking out the window...and above in a thinking balloon is..."there, but for the grace of daddy go I"
Moose you sound like you've really got your shat together....you'll land on your hooves. Now Princess liz is John's problem.

Train wreck. The self destructing kind.

Moose has his own flair... that obviously didn't click with McKinney.  He's more than sidekick material... he IS the show, wherever the show may be...  I guess it just didn't work for them as a team because they are both large personalities, and obviously have their own very different styles.

I would tune to any station to hear the slightly irreverant, yet hilarious styles of moosie in the morning!

Good luck in what I know is going to be a great future for you, Moose!

listening to the cut loose moose... it makes me wonder if that's the cut loose moose. or someone else using his name.

It doesn't sound like the moose I know - and I know the real moose.

Boy Bigtalker...I thought I knew the real Moose..ok...hmmmmm...hahaha

Hey is Kenya Anderson working there?

Quoted from Digicart

Hey is Kenya Anderson working there?

She is! I'm very happy to have her doing news in the afternoon drive with me... She's quite talented...