This question may lean more on NYC but there are other markets that can fall under this.
Right now, the EDM revolution is going strong. DJ's/Producers have started to become "household names" and are achieving "rock star" status. The music that they play (mainly in events such as Electric Daisy, Electric Zoo, Ultra) has been on the progressive side (house, trance, electro, dubstep) and have been drawing enormous crowds.
Rewinding to 2008 when Pulse 87 launched, dance music (in terms of the currents) had returned to the radio in a more "outer borough" approach (as in club oriented outside of the underground Manhattan scene) with a throwback to older sounds (freestyle standing out).
A lot has certainly happened within that short period of time in our music that we've never imagined for the better
. My big question.....and this is hypothetical, but if New York City came back with a dance station tomorrow, does it NEED to take advantage of what is going on with EDM, thereby keeping the station strictly CURRENT based (along with the commercial aspect of dance...aka: Rihanna/Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Pitbull, Flo Rida)...similar to a DriveFX in the Hudson Valley. Or does it have to stay mainly commercial/outer borough and have the smattering of classic freestyle in there like Pulse did.
Yes, I know what some of you are going to say.....whatever the market dictates. I get that. But this is a first in that sense where you have two different presentations that have strong ratings potential but only one of them has to be the format.
So, if that happens and I know a lot of you here are NOT dance fans (for those that aren't, I respectfully ask that you refrain from answering), then what do you feel is the direction such a station should go?
I would have asked this question under "Dance" but being a New York question, I have placed it here.
Right now, the EDM revolution is going strong. DJ's/Producers have started to become "household names" and are achieving "rock star" status. The music that they play (mainly in events such as Electric Daisy, Electric Zoo, Ultra) has been on the progressive side (house, trance, electro, dubstep) and have been drawing enormous crowds.
Rewinding to 2008 when Pulse 87 launched, dance music (in terms of the currents) had returned to the radio in a more "outer borough" approach (as in club oriented outside of the underground Manhattan scene) with a throwback to older sounds (freestyle standing out).
A lot has certainly happened within that short period of time in our music that we've never imagined for the better
. My big question.....and this is hypothetical, but if New York City came back with a dance station tomorrow, does it NEED to take advantage of what is going on with EDM, thereby keeping the station strictly CURRENT based (along with the commercial aspect of dance...aka: Rihanna/Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Pitbull, Flo Rida)...similar to a DriveFX in the Hudson Valley. Or does it have to stay mainly commercial/outer borough and have the smattering of classic freestyle in there like Pulse did.Yes, I know what some of you are going to say.....whatever the market dictates. I get that. But this is a first in that sense where you have two different presentations that have strong ratings potential but only one of them has to be the format.
So, if that happens and I know a lot of you here are NOT dance fans (for those that aren't, I respectfully ask that you refrain from answering), then what do you feel is the direction such a station should go?
I would have asked this question under "Dance" but being a New York question, I have placed it here.