Today at 5PM is the 10th birthday of HOT 93.7. When Hartford finally got Hip-Hop in Crystal Clear FM Stereo instead of from 2 static filled AM stations. They've been mixing all day since 10AM and have been mixing in the greatest songs of the past 10 years. People are calling up and sharing their favorite memories of the station. Plus at 5PM they're gonna be playing the first 2 songs they played when the station launched. http://www.hot937.com/
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10 Years of Hip-Hop and R&B for HOT 93.7
- Thread starter MarcB
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And this is noteworthy, how??? Ten years of morons and their unlistenable, alleged songs. Total crap!!!!
progressivetalk said:
Agreed. Hip hop "culture" is the glorification of underachievement.
progressivetalk said:
I thought progressives were all for free exchange of ideas, no matter what they are?
Like their current format or not you've got to admit they finally found a winner. From 94-01 they were constantly changing/tweaking their format.
Started in Late 94? (I forgot exactly when they flipped from MIX 93.7) 93.7 The 70s Station - 70s Rock along with the Disco stuff.
Classic Hits 93.7 - 60s and 70s Rock
Early Spring'98 through Mid '99: 93-7 The Point - This was probably the worst one. They were playing Rock & Roll music from the Beginning through Today. (The beginning of Rock & Roll in the late 50s through the late 90s),
Mid-Late '99 through March 16, 2001: Dancin' Oldies Z-93.7 - Jammin' Oldies. READ: DISCO.
And strangely enough Nancy Barrow has been there for 13 years? (Maybe longer). Sebastian was doing Mornings and she became his sidekick. When they flipped to Dancin' Oldies Z-93.7 she was retained and Sebastian was booted from the air. (They still had to pay Sebastian as he was still under contract). They eventually brought in JD Houston as her co-host. And they continued doing mornings for a while even after the flip to HOT, before they let JD go and brought in Buck Collins.
Truthfully the flip from Z-93.7 to Hot 93.7 did not affect me. I have a diverse taste in music and liked both formats. At the time of the flip in 2001 I had wished that there was a way for them to have both stations.
Started in Late 94? (I forgot exactly when they flipped from MIX 93.7) 93.7 The 70s Station - 70s Rock along with the Disco stuff.
Classic Hits 93.7 - 60s and 70s Rock
Early Spring'98 through Mid '99: 93-7 The Point - This was probably the worst one. They were playing Rock & Roll music from the Beginning through Today. (The beginning of Rock & Roll in the late 50s through the late 90s),
Mid-Late '99 through March 16, 2001: Dancin' Oldies Z-93.7 - Jammin' Oldies. READ: DISCO.
And strangely enough Nancy Barrow has been there for 13 years? (Maybe longer). Sebastian was doing Mornings and she became his sidekick. When they flipped to Dancin' Oldies Z-93.7 she was retained and Sebastian was booted from the air. (They still had to pay Sebastian as he was still under contract). They eventually brought in JD Houston as her co-host. And they continued doing mornings for a while even after the flip to HOT, before they let JD go and brought in Buck Collins.
Truthfully the flip from Z-93.7 to Hot 93.7 did not affect me. I have a diverse taste in music and liked both formats. At the time of the flip in 2001 I had wished that there was a way for them to have both stations.
progressivetalk said:
It's very noteworthy when you have a station as successful as WZMX who obviously play what people want to hear, are involved in the community and have a staff and management that actually cares about their listeners. No, I don't work for them or CBS, I am making an observation based on listening to the station for the past year. Like the format or not, I'd say WZMX is a real gem in this market.
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Maybe in your opinion. I don't like hip hop, but I am not their audience. But I do applaud their success as Hot.
At the time of the switch, WTIC-FM 96.5 had the same Hot AC format they do today. WRCH-FM 100.5 was a bit more soft rock then they are now. WMRO-FM 104.1 was still on their first run as a modern station (WPHH-FM Power 104.1 was well after WZMX-FM's switch to Hot 93.7) and WKSS-FM 95.7 was Top 40 with an urban lean, due to the lack of the format at the time. Don't forget we also had WNEZ-AM 910 as Urban Contemporary Jamz 910 then as well. The format switch was the nail in the coffin for them, which was too bad, because I actually liked that station. They mixed in some adult urban contemporary at times, which made for a better music mix, in my opinion.
I'm not in the hip-hop demographic either. But what IS the top end of that demographic anyway? I would think hip-hop's appeal would wane dramatically once the listener reaches 25 or so, but if that were the case you'd think every market with a significant black population would have a rap-free r&b station like New Haven's WYBC-FM, wouldn't you? But many markets don't, and that includes Hartford, whose r&b fans have 93.7 or nothing, since 'YBC's signal doesn't make it much farther north than Berlin. Are hip-hop fans (black and white) actually staying loyal to Hot 93.7 into their 30s and 40s?
Yes, we progressives are for free speech and expression, but we also know crap when we hear and see it, and 93.7 is crap!!! (Facts are known to have a liberal bias).
CTListener said:
What difference does it make? Even if the target audience is teenagers and people in their 20's, there are always going to be listeners in this demographic. For every listener that turns 30 and moves on to some other station (if that's even the case), there is another listener turning 20 that may start listening to the station for the first time. But I agree, there should be an urban AC station leaning to the older demographic. I don't think CT has ever had an R&B station besides WYBC with their marginal signal.
WKND in Windsor does play some R&B mixed in with some other music and the Rev.Al Sharpton, but talk about your marginal signals. The station, even in the daytime (500 watts) can barely reach west of Hartford, and at night, 8 watts means that it can barely get its signal past the shadow of its transmitter. I don't know why a station that broadcasts at 8 watts would even expend the energy to stay on the air past dusk?? And to quote the late, great, Curt Hennig, "rap is crap"!!!
progressivetalk said:
What a great pro wrestling angle that was! WCW signed a rapper, Master P, and gave him a big push as a way to attract younger, hipper, more diverse fans to their wrestling product. Hennig, a "heel," countered with his "rap is crap" campaign. If management thought the fans, who already hated Hennig, would hate him even more and make Master P their hero, they were as wrong as wrong can be. WCW completely misread its fan base, and Hennig completely killed whatever buzz Master P had generated. One of the great "New Coke" marketing mistakes ever.
Back to radio...
CTListener said:
Not sure about 40's, but I would certainly say many well into their 30's still listen to hip hop. I'm 28 and white and still listen. While I'm outside of ZMX's signal, though listened to it when I was in college across the LI Sound (Stony Brook). I do think most in my age group and into the 30's probably prefer the sound of hip hop from a few years ago, rather than the current heavily southern influenced sound, but I think you would be surprised how many of those who grew up on hip hop in the 90's and early 2000's still listen.
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