This is not about individual songs and artists. NYC has a huge and growing Black, Hispanic, Asian and Middle Eastern population where nearly nobody listens to any variety of alternative rock. Further, the mood of the whole market is rhythmic, and the rock “mood” of other decades past is just gone.
Correct. From late ‘93 to early ‘96 Z100 was basically an Alt. I think Billboard even moved them from the pop panel to the Alt panel in late ‘94 because of how dominant alternative rock was on the station. The 1995 countdown especially is wild if you look it up.
When KYW in a Philly first starting airing on FM they’d run spots saying they’ll always be on 1060 but you can also hear them on 103.9. I haven’t heard those spots in a while. Not a binding contract??
If what you said had any truth, “As It Was” by Harry Styles and “Bad Habit” by Steve Lacy should have been catastrophic flops and not the biggest hits of the year on either Z100 or nationwide. Yes they’re not “rock” (they’re both essentially modern new wave) but they are both rock-adjacent songs. I find it VERY hard to believe the only audiences for those songs were lily white.
Your pedantic "not an all-news station" bit is grating. WAQY in Springfield, MA, airs New England Patriots football. Would you say it's "not a classic rock station"? WCNL in Newport, NH, is on the Boston Red Sox baseball network. The rest of the time, you'll hear country music on it. "Not a country station"?
Just because the Mets fail but doesn't mean u gonna cut off the simulcast.
It failed because of poor execution and strong competition. WINS is only competing with its sister station.
And lose an FM home for the Yankees? Come on now.
theres also iHeart's WOR and BIN along with Bloomberg and WNYC
Relax...no reason to be dramatic. They’ll be fine.
What happened to the Italian Americans who created NYC and were the largest ethnic there and you cannot hear one Sfera Ebbasta, Ghali, Capo Plaza, Rocco Hunt, Clementino, Emis Killa, Lazza and to many more to mention...lol
There are exceptions to everything, of course, but historically there's been far, far less black affinity for rock (or country or classical) music than there's been white affinity for genres generally considered "black." The story of the white kid in suburbia hiding the transistor radio under the pillow to hear a distant R&B station at night in the '60s is a familiar one. Nobody talks about the black kid in the inner city doing the same thing to listen to distant pop or MOR or country station, not because there weren't any but because it was highly unusual back then. Black interest in those genres continues to be minimal to this day. White interest in "black music" continues to grow.
There are more people indigenous to the region than Asian and Middle Eastern populations. You do not abandon the indigenous population here to play Chinese or Middle Eastern pop or for Rhythmic which is already well represented.
Saying Country is racist because of one artist is ridiculous. By your metric the Urban formats are racist because they lack diversity.
It does not need to change nor does any of the Urban or Latino-Spanish language formats to make them more diverse. By your metric also these formats would be considered racist since they lack diversity.
