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CC Urban AC spin amounts

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What's up with this about Urban ACs having an unusually high amount of spins? From comparing station playlists for urban AC's in the south owned by Clear Channel, I noticed new R&B/Souls getting played more than 45 times in a given week (not sure if the syndicated show spins count), with some as high as 50+. I don't understand why grown folks radio in this arena have to play a new song every 2 hours (per yes.com and tunein.com). That sounds like something most mainstream urban/rhythmic/top 40 pop/CHR stations do (some replaying stuff LESS than an hour later), as most urban ac's average 30 spins at the most and 20 spins at the least for the lastest song on airplay. I don't know what happened but I thought the purpose of Urban AC's are to play a VARIETY of music from the past decades into today with few recurrents to get people thru their 9 to 5.

These stations spin the newest R&B Soul hit at least 50 times a week: WKSP Augusta, WAGH Columbus, WMXD Detroit (though in the Midwest), KJMS Memphis, WWMG Montgomery (which is the worst at 71 spins), WYLD New Orleans, WKSA (formerly WKUS) Norfolk, WSBY Salisbury (65 spins), WLVH Savannah and KMJM St. Louis (another Midwest market). I'm amazed WDAS and WVAZ haven't suffered this spin burn, but they're both heritage R&B stations anyway, besides the syndicated shows and the overnight I Heart Radio synced playlists. Can anyone give some insight and reasoning why this is the case.
 
Well WVAZ and WDAS use to run the same overnight playlist a few months ago with Rene Taylor VT. WVAZ now airs Keith Sweat overnights. I might be that WDAS and WVAZ have more local control vs the others which are syndicated. Those other markets which are smaller got hit harder with CC's cutbacks vs. Philly and Chicago. I honestly dont think none of them are live. WYLD in New Orleans is the worst of them all. I listen to KMJM online quite a bit and they have more of a Urban Contempary sound vs the cookie cutter Urban AC. Just my opinion
 
Clear Channel is doing their usual cheap skating with their urban formatted stations. This is so unfortunate because CC is the nation's single largest owner of urban formatted stations in a number of smaller markets. This is why so many people are unable enjoy urban radio these days. It is the same thing all the way down to the musical programming from region to region, and defeats the purpose of even maintaining a community-of-license if they don't even attempt to be local at all.
 
It really does suck. I had no idea its gotten this bad until I added the iheartradio app. Most of the Urban AC stations are running the same crap only a 3 or 5 minute delay. If their gonna do that then whats the point of streaming all those stations. Most of them run Steve Harvey at the same time. Tom Joyner is on WYLD and WGVN. Just to think when I was in Kansas City in 2005 and CBS radio sold its cluster I was hoping Clear Channel would pick them up. Im actually glad their not in Kansas City.
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
...the reason I love Radio One Atlanta, total opposite of Clear Channel!
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Lucky for Atlanta, Clear Channel has never tried to do urban there, let alone a rhythmic under the WiLD brand. Speaking of which, R1 does compete with CC in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Richmond. It did compete w/CC in LA, Boston and Augusta before exiting those markets.
 
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