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Dance stations in the US

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ronkaram

Since I listen to Fresh FM in Amsterdam, I haven't kept up on dance stations in the US. Whatever happened to Diva in New Orleans? I know the one in Baton Rouge changed formats some time ago, but I never heard what happened to the one in New Orleans.
 
I was checking out Arbitron... and is Energy 92.7 in San Fran an online only station? I don't see any call letters for 'em on their website, nor do I see a listing by webaddress or by their ownership for them in the latest San Fran ratings...
 
I checked at radio and records under ratings for San Francisco. They are pretty close to the bottom but they are in the ratings.
 
up in El Paso there's this station 104.3 HIT FM and they tend to play a bunch of dance music in regular rotation not just in the mix like iiO, Eric Prydz, and even a dance version of hinder's lips of an angel, I checked their website hitfmradio.com and they recently just had badboy bill perform and also armand van heldon at station events.. but the station is mainly a like a light hip hop station playing a bit of dance i guess a true rhythmic station
 
And everyone says Power 96 couldn't get away with that today :D If a station in El Paso can get away with it, a station in Miami sure as heck can!
 
WKIE in Chicago is back as a dance station at Night only. Starts Monday.

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Energy 92.7 SF is a poor excuse for a station..as cheap as it can be. I don't know why anyone would think they have great "imagining". Their idea of cutting edge imagining is having some lady with an Engliah accent read their liners. Their programming dept has been misguided for a long time, hence the numerous change overs. And they totally suck in promotions. I know they don't have the bucks of a CC or Emmis, but what they do is sad. Maybe that's why they're looking for yet another promotions director. Funny, since they just hired one last year.

What is sad is that a station like this can work in SF. SF would be happy to embrace it. But judging by its non-stop bottom-scratching of the ratings, it seems the public isn't ready to accept just any kind of mess people want to call "dance".
 
HitLiner said:
Energy 92.7 SF is a poor excuse for a station..as cheap as it can be. I don't know why anyone would think they have great "imagining". Their idea of cutting edge imagining is having some lady with an Engliah accent read their liners. Their programming dept has been misguided for a long time, hence the numerous change overs. And they totally suck in promotions. I know they don't have the bucks of a CC or Emmis, but what they do is sad. Maybe that's why they're looking for yet another promotions director. Funny, since they just hired one last year.

What is sad is that a station like this can work in SF. SF would be happy to embrace it. But judging by its non-stop bottom-scratching of the ratings, it seems the public isn't ready to accept just any kind of mess people want to call "dance".
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You know Something? You know alot about the station scene there it seems, but I will say this. From the outside looking in, that package is there. Im sure as you say "Cheap station" Im sure they are a small market based radio station, locally owned and operated (Not sure though but there's a reason for everything, right?) The programming at the station needs to incorportate some daytime listening dance, not as hard and heavy as a regular rotation item. With this, I think the ratings would climb. As far as Dj listeners are concerned, wicked new house and dance stuff they are playing, way before anyone else because the mighty embracing word is "import". So before you go and hack up their asses make sure you realise.. they're not playing the payola game like every other fricken top 40 station out there. As far as "the Engliah girl" where the heck have you been? Shes the most USED in CHR/Dance formats in North America. Im sure the trends will change in time and they might change the "Engliah girl". The top of the hour production is solid, no if ands or butts about it.
 
Sorry..SF's Energy is a pale companion of any other major market dance station. And remember..we're talking the SF market - not some station in Montana. If you can't step up the the level of your fellow market station, you deserve to be left in the dust, and that is evident by their lacking ratings. A confused playlist that can't decide what it wants to play to internal personnel problems (a new promotion director every year for the past three year?) is evident in the on-air product. What imagining are they doing? They can't even tell you - they can't decide if they're power..or dance energy..or whatever lable they can stral from another station. What is the listener suppose to think? And the English lady imagining is at many stations..man many station...so..what's new about that? Nothing. This station is trying to copy the style of other dance stations and, unfortunately, they are about 2-3 years behind the curve. A SF station should be a leader, not a copier.
 
I think their ratings problems have less to do with their promotions and more to do about the current marketability of dance music. When even Gay listeners are on the retro kick with all the dance classics, you know the state of current dance music is in shambles.
 
Nah, I think you're forgetting that KTU from day one when they returned in 96 were a very Retro leaning Dance station.
There's a lot of great current Dance music out there if you listen to XM's BPM, or to many of the Dance stations in Europe and Australia.
 
There may be some good current dance music, especially in Europe, but the American audience doesn't seem to interested in getting to know it. The vast majority of dance I hear out in most places is remixes of pop favorites and then the classics. So the state of dance radio is merely a product of the main stream lack of interest.
 
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