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So why are you self promoting on a thread that has nothing to do with any Wyoming stations? This thread is for Denver Colorado stations.I'm biased but i think the best station for music is up in Laramie
Aw, c’mon. I thought that the remark injected a tiny bit of humor to what is a very arbitrary list of stations that does not take into account many people and groups that have significantly different taste and cultures.
Well I get that but its not a time where many people are in the mood for much humor based on whats been happening lately.
You do know who Westword’s target audience is, right?
For decades, print media have had the tendency to focus coverage of radio on the esoteric, meaning that stations with relatively small audiences garnered outsized attention. The Westword article at least has the virtue of including some mass-appeal formats as well as more niche-oriented stations. I would also have included KLVZ, but it seems sometimes like its target audience is 75+, which is not what Westword is going after.
Sure, there were no Spanish-language stations on the list. To be fair, to have had that would’ve required the author to be someone who was culturally attuned to Spanish-language audiences. I know that I wouldn’t be that person; even though I speak Spanish, I’m about as Anglo as it’s possible to be; consequently, there are nuances that I miss, not to mention that it’s very hard for me to distinguish genres other than (1) ranchera, (2) New Mexican, and (3) everything else. Likewise, for talk-oriented programming, there’s context that I totally miss. I would like to have more cultural fluency in this regard, and I think people who actually write these things for a living would like to do that, too. Lacking that fluency, the safest course is to avoid presuming knowledge and context that one doesn’t possess.
Actually, one of the Entravision stations was there with pundits for its musical variety.
As far as I know, there is only one "almost all ranchera" station in the U.S. and that is LA's KFWB owned by Lotus. Ranchera is typified by this sort of sound:
Everything else includes Spanish language rock, Latin AC, reggaetón (equivalent to hip-hop in appeal) and the country music of each nation or region. Cumbia and Vallenato from Colombia, Merengue and Bachata from the Dominican Republic, Salsa from Puerto Rico and so on. And there are subsets, too, with blends of different genres.
That is one that can be oversimplified and still be correct: sports talk and political talk. However, the only political talk that gets audiences tends to be ultra-conservative.
Interesting how they include almost every format of music stations except christian music. Including multiple top 40 stations that play pretty much the exact same music.From Westword ... reasonably accurate, generally free of the obsession with the esoteric that press coverage of radio formats often entails. (NB: I am not related to the author.)
The Twelve Best Radio Stations for Music in Denver
Denver's radio variety is the envy of cities across the country
I noticed that as well but, again, keep in mind whom Westword is trying to appeal with its articles. Think Lower Highlands, RiNo, City Park West, Cheesman Park, and not, to paint with an extremely wide brush, suburban female minivan drivers in the southern or western suburbs. Similarly, the need for that publication to appeal to a particular audience is probably why KLVZ wasn't mentioned (radio people should have a fairly easy time "getting" that, I should think)....
Other than KLVZ, Crawford has a far-right conservative talk station, which is a genre already congested in Denver, plus two gospel stations. It sounds like KLVZ is doing local sales, no agency business, and brokers some time as well, especially on the weekends.
From my listening, KQMT seems to be about 50-50 classic rock/classic alternative.
