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Any format flips on the horizon for LA?

TomásEstefan said:
The magic of radio is its immediacy, and it's free. No sub required just have some spare batteries!
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Which would be an argument if no one had a phone or service, but everyone does. And those phones don’t need batteries—-they get charged every day.

The immediacy is fine, but you listen on someone else’s schedule. Only one thing comes out of a radio frequency at a time. On the device I carry everywhere with me, I have access to every podcast, every streaming station, and my entire album collection. I can select what I want, when I want.
 
DavidEduardo said:
There are two factors here... at least!

First, second generation and later Hispanics don't get formal Spanish in school. So they tend to speak... if they do at all... Spanish with family and friends but not at work, particularly if they have an "anglo" employer.

Second, assimilation by those born here means they pick up on the music and lifestyle of the USA, not of Mexico or Honduras or Cuba. Kids like to be part of a group that makes them feel good, and that usually means speaking English and "being American".

In some places like San Antonio and Albuquerque and Fresno we have things like the Tejano culture in parts of Texas... a blend of some things Mexican and some American but very distinct.

But there are still inner cities in large markets where an immigrant and their family can get by very nicely only speaking Spanish with just enough English to get through school. Those communities tend to be the ones we jokingly say "you need a passport to go into" because they are so culturally different from the typical middle class neighborhood of the same metro areas.

A few take advantage of it. One of my daughters is a lawyer and does visa work for multi-national companies that need visas and work papers for employees and contribuitors to come to the US or to go and manage a division in another country. She has law degrees in four countries and can write lawyer-talk in 6 languages: that gives here a big advantage over the lawyer from someplace in the Midwest who only does English and thinks the "problem with France is that there are too many people who don't speak English".
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It's always amusing at how so many Americans are confounded by "foreigners" who don't speak English or don't know it well. Ask average Americans how many languages they speak, and they don't get embarrassed, instead they get offended by the question. They effectively think English is all there is. There seems to be little true appreciation of other cultures.
 
michael hagerty said:
Which would be an argument if no one had a phone or service, but everyone does. And those phones don’t need batteries—-they get charged every day.

The immediacy is fine, but you listen on someone else’s schedule. Only one thing comes out of a radio frequency at a time. On the device I carry everywhere with me, I have access to every podcast, every streaming station, and my entire album collection. I can select what I want, when I want.
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I generally agree, but I stll think its a great back up in an emergency...
 
TomásEstefan said:
It's always amusing at how so many Americans are confounded by "foreigners" who don't speak English or don't know it well. Ask average Americans how many languages they speak, and they don't get embarrassed, instead they get offended by the question. They effectively think English is all there is. There seems to be little true appreciation of other cultures.
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My favorite "joke-with-a-lesson":

A: What do you call a person who speaks many languages?
B: A polyglot.
A: And what do you call a person who speaks two languages?
B: Bilingual
A: What is a person called who just speaks one language?
B: An American.
 
michael hagerty said:
Which would be an argument if no one had a phone or service, but everyone does. And those phones don’t need batteries—-they get charged every day.
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In Puerto Rico, we discovered after the hurricane that phones need access to electricity to be recharged every day. When nearly 4 million people have no electricity for weeks and months, you have over 2 million expensive paperweights.

On the other hand, a couple of radio stations stayed on the air all through the hurricane and the recovery period and people still had radios and could buy batteries.
michael hagerty said:
The immediacy is fine, but you listen on someone else’s schedule. Only one thing comes out of a radio frequency at a time. On the device I carry everywhere with me, I have access to every podcast, every streaming station, and my entire album collection. I can select what I want, when I want.
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Yet in the fire zone in northern California or after a hurricane or whenever power is interrupted for long periods, I feel for the 30% of homes that have no traditional battery radio as they have no communication with the outside world at all.
 
DavidEduardo said:
In Puerto Rico, we discovered after the hurricane that phones need access to electricity to be recharged every day. When nearly 4 million people have no electricity for weeks and months, you have over 2 million expensive paperweights.

On the other hand, a couple of radio stations stayed on the air all through the hurricane and the recovery period and people still had radios and could buy batteries.

Yet in the fire zone in northern California or after a hurricane or whenever power is interrupted for long periods, I feel for the 30% of homes that have no traditional battery radio as they have no communication with the outside world at all.
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We’re worse prepared for natural disasters than ever before due to our reliance on a device that a) needs to be charged in order to work and b) the idea of having service during disasters is slim to none. I saw it personally during hurricanes/tornadoes in Louisiana. Radio’s past inability and refusal to market to younger audiences because “they don’t pay the bills” is the reason why not many think of picking up an am/fm radio anymore. In my opinion, radio is now playing catch up. I just can’t understand why monetizing station’s audio streams is such an act of God
 
DavidEduardo said:
In Puerto Rico, we discovered after the hurricane that phones need access to electricity to be recharged every day. When nearly 4 million people have no electricity for weeks and months, you have over 2 million expensive paperweights.

On the other hand, a couple of radio stations stayed on the air all through the hurricane and the recovery period and people still had radios and could buy batteries.

Yet in the fire zone in northern California or after a hurricane or whenever power is interrupted for long periods, I feel for the 30% of homes that have no traditional battery radio as they have no communication with the outside world at all.
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My comment to Tomas was in response to his response to Loverofradio which didn’t mention emergency use. Of course, in those instances, you’re correct, David.
 
michael hagerty said:
Which would be an argument if no one had a phone or service, but everyone does. And those phones don’t need batteries—-they get charged every day.

The immediacy is fine, but you listen on someone else’s schedule. Only one thing comes out of a radio frequency at a time. On the device I carry everywhere with me, I have access to every podcast, every streaming station, and my entire album collection. I can select what I want, when I want.
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Absolutely correct and I say that as a life long radio fan. But what Mike says is 100 percent accurate and applies to me as well
 
DavidEduardo said:
In fact, iHeart has the top billers in the market, KIIS, KBIG, KFI and KOST and then the 10th, 11th and 12th highest billers with KYSR, KLAC and KRRL. So they have 7 of the top 12 and 37% of all market revenue.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
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Yes KIIS-FM is the top revenue station in Los Angeles and in some years head to head against WTOP-FM Washington DC for top revenue in the USA. Note some of this is how the KIIS-FM brand is used for other iHeartRadio CHR's and hot AC's around the USA. Also Iheart Music festivals that head to Los Angeles would be under the KIIS-FM music festival name.
 
michael hagerty said:
My comment to Tomas was in response to his response to Loverofradio which didn’t mention emergency use. Of course, in those instances, you’re correct, David.
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Indeed, several years ago during Summer we had a major power failure in our general area for hours...absolutely nothing worked including our mobile phones.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Indeed, several years ago during Summer we had a major power failure in our general area for hours...absolutely nothing worked including our mobile phones.
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And in the Northridge quake, early in the 90's and about a half-decade from the introduction of cellular phones, the system stopped working due to battery backups not lasting more than a brief period, excess demand that overloaded the system, and actual damage to some cells.
 
There has to be something to be said for our beloved Radio. A 5 to 10 year old computer near obsolete. A ten year old mobile probably obsolete. Without a converter a 20 year old TV, obsolete. But go to an antique or junk store, find a circa 1930s radio, chances are if it powers up: Voila! It's Radio!

I could go on: a random length of wire and a coil of wire, with a germanium diode and a set of old school crystal earphones all hooked up properly: Radio!

It doesn't get simpler. Thats why it's always been magic!
 
TheBigA said:
I think you're right, and explains why iHeart moved the syndicated talk to KEIB and focused KFI as a local station with unique hosts who are more entertainers than ideologues. To their credit, they made that move over ten years ago, and it's really paid off for them.

In another thread, I compared the topics of today's conservative talk radio hosts to the narrow playlists of CHR radio. But in point of fact, the list of permissible topics is even smaller.
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It's still about "playing the hits". The hits are "the election was stolen", "the select Commitee is a joke and whatabout BLM?" "teachers are grooming kids to be gay", etc
 
gr8oldies said:
It's still about "playing the hits". The hits are "the election was stolen", "the select Commitee is a joke and whatabout BLM?" "teachers are grooming kids to be gay", etc
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Don't forget the other one "There is Woke People/Corporations". Whenever Trump related pundits and politicians say that it's usually because some of the whistleblowers are going after these pundits connected to Trump in their roles in spewing 2020 election conspiracies or hyping up the Desantis Campaign for Governor against Disney and the Textbook companies.
 
KRTH 101.1 FM continue to consider how much of the Late 1990's and Early 2000's to insert? Sure it's change of playlist but at the same time the playlist had to reflect what KIIS-FM was before Rick Dees was removed for demographics reasons and the Era of Ryan Seacrest started.
 
TomásEstefan said:
There has to be something to be said for our beloved Radio. A 5 to 10 year old computer near obsolete. A ten year old mobile probably obsolete. Without a converter a 20 year old TV, obsolete. But go to an antique or junk store, find a circa 1930s radio, chances are if it powers up: Voila! It's Radio!

I could go on: a random length of wire and a coil of wire, with a germanium diode and a set of old school crystal earphones all hooked up properly: Radio!

It doesn't get simpler. Thats why it's always been magic!
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^ Truer words have never been spoken.

Think about how quickly a radio turns on. Basically instantaneous; in other words, zero buffering. Compare that to any other device.

It's a magical medium, and it will continue to be.
 
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