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Adios to oldies in Charlotte, NC

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vchimpanzee

The good news is the owner is keeping standards on one AM that can't be heard in Charlotte after about 4 in the afternoon this time of year.

And adding it on another station that can't be heard at night, to provide bwetter coverage.

One of two regional Mexican stations needed a better signal. The one taking over the oldies station will go Tropical. Very logical. The yunbger your listeners, the more logical it is to have a weak signal.

Asheville, NC also lost a daytime true oldies station (not the satellite format). The one they still have is 70s-leaning "classic hits". And they don't even have standards despite a lot of retirees, but a watered-down soft oldies/AC format on a weak AM signal that can't be heard at night.
 
vchimpanzee said:
One of two regional Mexican stations needed a better signal. The one taking over the oldies station will go Tropical. Very logical. The yunbger your listeners, the more logical it is to have a weak signal.
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Tropical (Caribbean) is a 35+ format.
 
was the last song "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte?? once classic hits and classic rock formats are done,what's next? gonna get strange a few years down the road.Maybe David can chime back in.ALL 90"S?
 
DavidEduardo said:
vchimpanzee said:
One of two regional Mexican stations needed a better signal. The one taking over the oldies station will go Tropical. Very logical. The yunbger your listeners, the more logical it is to have a weak signal.
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Tropical (Caribbean) is a 35+ format.
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Really? I thought it was like top 40.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Tropical (Caribbean) is a 35+ format.
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Really? I thought it was like top 40.
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Tropical in the East means salsa and merengue. That music has little appeal, other than at clubs and dances, with the under-35 demos. In fact, in Puerto Rico, there is no current based salsa / tropical station as the production of the music has slowed so much that there are only a few releases a month. The RIAA even eliminated "Merengue" as a category in the Latin Grammys because there is so little new music.

Occasionally a salsa or merengue tune will be a CHR hit, but Latin American CHR generally sounds just like US CHR... pop, light alternative, light rock, rhythmic (reggaetón) and usually a lot of US hits in English, too.
 
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