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SBS Buys KROI for $7.5 million
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Especially when you consider that the Grupo Frontera original exists and very much fits the format!
Isn’t that what the HD2 station is going to do? Play a little of everything?
La Privada KLAX-HD2
That's what they're supposed to eventually roll-out in SF, Chicago, and Houston as a subchannel. It's a corridos format that is widely popular with younger Mexican Americans.
HD2 is supposed to be Belicos and Tumbados only. Wouldn't say that's "a little bit of everything."
How much exposure does that particular genre already have on existing stations here in Houston? Is there enough of a gap for it to be used as a primary format somewhere? Option for KFNC if the flip rumors are true?
This more about "how much of that will the other stations add to block the new station?"
This new format: let's call it Spanish hip hop) can be popular but that doesn't translate to sales on the radio since it stirs young) I don't think anyone will do or add more of it to keep this HD station from coming to the Market. We play enough of it but mostly the top 3-5 artists in that genre.
Spanish hip hop is a better description of Reggaetón than the Bélicos/Tumbados format put on in Los Angeles. I've seen David come up with the name "Mexitón."
I really doubt Univision and Audacy are quaking in their boots at the idea of La Privada launching on KROI-HD2. If HD Radio was wide spread, I'd understand their concern. But it's not.
I don't think we have to overthink this. The overall movement already has a name; "Corridos Bélicos".
I personally think Urban Regional Mexican (or grupero urbano in Mexico) is more fitting given that all the acts aren't technically corridos. I get the reference to Mexitón being both "Mexican" and "Reggaeton", but the overall reggaeton influence seems negligible IMO.
Yup.
HD Radio is an afterthought to Apple Carplay, Android Auto, Bluetooth connectivity, and even Satellite Radio. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice feature to have for radio and technology junkies. But I think modern listening habits are not being kind to the technology's adaptation and future.
La Privada will be a nice alternative for the few that will get to know it. But eventually I think SBS will push their La Música platform as the home for these experimental formats instead of their IBOC digital channels.
The problem is that this music has a heritage going back to the Revolution (1910's) and is anything but "urban". It's roots and its derivatives are the country music of Mexico, not the city music.
As to specific songs and artists, we always get into the equivalent of whether Shaboozey and Jelly Roll are really, truly, country. Same happens when regional Mexican programmers have to deal with "bélicos" and the related artists.
The thing is that Mexican country music itself keeps encroaching into the city. It's not like Sinaloa doesn't have major cities. And while in the past Guadalajara gave us acts like Maná and Belanova, it also gave us Peso Pluma.
But we cannot deny that the Belico subgenre borrows a lot from Urban movements. If earlier Reggaeton formats were called "Hurban", then why can't Regional Mexican borrow the Urban label?
The vast majority of the artists within this subgenre (as well as listeners) are practically city people. Furthermore, the "Urban" label shouldn't be taken in a literal sense. It's a style of music, not a description of your upbringing. You don't have to be a poor peasant from rural Nuevo Leon to create or listen to this genre, just like you don't have to be born in a city to become an Urban artist.
Peso Pluma, arguably the biggest artist to come out of this movement, came from a major Mexican urban area and migrated to another major American urban area. He probably has more in common with modern day rappers than he does with a Zapatista farmer from Chiapas.
Interestingly enough, the country category of Tractor Rap is similarly influenced by Urban rap.
I don't know who called the reggaetón format "hurban" and I never heard that term used. The format originated at WOLA (FM) in Río Piedras, PR, in the later 1980's and was always referred to that way from its beginning.
Same, to a great extent, with country music in English. The origins of norteña and banda music in México were certainly rural... the tuba and the accordion were brought into the mining camps by Germans long ago!
And that is why, like country, the so-called regional Mexican genres come originally out of the farms and mines and ranches of rural Mexico.
It's not about each artist's origins. If it were, we'd get into a discussion of "how country was Taylor" when she started... or Keith Urban... or Mary Chapin Carpenter.
And is not that the history of music going back centuries? Little Richard does not match Buddy Holly, either, but each added a flavor to rock 'n' roll.
Yet there are barrios of Guadalajara that are more "rural" in flavor than Tepatitlán... a town about 40 miles away to the northeast (Yeah, I have family from Tepa!).
Thanks to some Houston to Baton Rouge skip, I was able to check out the sound of 92.1. Not bad at all, and the PPM "buzz-saw" was where it should be: hidden well-behind the music. Only thing I noticed was the analog-RDS was just displaying KROI-FM, versus song-titles or even just the La Ley slogan. Oh well, I suspect there'll be a lawyer's ad on the RDS soon-enough, hah.
Their RT says Llego La Ley
The unusually warm weather today has caused tropo to kick up along the Gulf Coast. This morning I was treated to some international reception, hearing decent signals from XHAVO Club Digital 101.5 as well as XHVTH La Comadre 107.1 out of the Mexico side of the LRGV.
There's a whole Wikipedia page about it.
Hurban - Wikipedia
The term was widely used in Houston after the launch of Mega 101.
Not all. "Cumbias" have been widely categorized to fall under the Regional Mexican/Grupero umbrella and I wouldn't consider the history and modern use of it to be strictly rural. IMO, Mexican Cumbias have mostly brewed in the urban slums of Mexico City and Monterrey.
If Regional Mexican was able to borrow from the Germans and incorporate the tuba and accordion, why are we gatekeeping Urban movements from influencing a new subgenre of Regional Mexican?
Furthermore, the literal names of genres are a formality, not a rule. Urban music isn't exclusively for city duellers and Regional Mexican isn't exclusively for Mexican farmers or ranchera. The names have been informal misnomers from the very beginning.
I caught 107.1 as well over in Bryan, TX. KLTN, despite being forced into a small tower, was also coming in strong.