For True Music Fans, FM Radio Sucks

[CTListener]

Actually, in Baltimore the rock station, WIYY, seems to do quite well at 5.4. A Classic rocker pulls a 4.2. But that's including the entire metro radio market.

I'm surprised rock radio does as well as it does nationwide. The music itself isn't as popular as it was two decades ago, but apparently it still has an audience.

Its fall from mainstream popularity didn't really get rolling until the '90s, so it's still in the comfort zone of many listeners (largely white and suburban) 40 and older.

 

[davideduardo]

Baltimore, as of the 2010 census, is over 63% Black. I have never met a Black person that listened to Heavy Metal and its associated genres.

The Baltimore radio market is 30.1% Black. Not 63%... that is the city of Baltimore.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Baltimore, as of the 2010 census, is over 63% Black. I have never met a Black person that listened to Heavy Metal and its associated genres.

And yet Jimi Hendrix invented heavy metal.

Living Colour is a band whose members are Black which is considered to be in that category.

 

[CTListener]

And yet Jimi Hendrix invented heavy metal.

Hendrix was, at his core, a blues guitarist. Blues is a purely African American genre.

 

[vchimpanzee]

No Bluegrass or Outlaw Country either, for the most part.

http://v6.player.abacast.net/1077 Try it late in the afternoon, if you are int eh East. i don't know what days of the week.

Most of the time the station plays your standard "real country".

 

[vchimpanzee]

I don't care if Heavy metal "was never a format".

I remember the satellite format Z-Rock. I don't know how many cities had it but Charlotte was one of them.