mannyworks00 said:
CHRles said:
**** house? You mean circuit anthems? Why would a station want to rely on that???? About 60 percent of Energy 92.7 San Francisco's listeners are gay yet that station doesnt lean on circuit anthems.
I'm honestly surprised Energy Arizona lasted so long with its awful signal. Now that the signal is about to become more competitive is when the station should really give the Dance format a chance. It doesnt have to be pure Dance, but rather something along the lines of Z-103.5 Toronto or Slam FM Holland.
I agree a station should never depend on one sub genre of dance music BUT Why would a "dance" station want to exclude Circuit Anthems??? ??? I heard a joke on T.V the other day;
"Gay people practically invented Dance music"
. I Don't believe that completely but it is the case (in my view) that it is the Gay-consumer-Machine that keeps it in business today. Just like the majority of Soccer moms and young people keep Rhythmic radio on air and Straight older White males keep talk radio on air. It's common sense isn't it? The only reason for the Disco backlash was it's association with gay people -- why regress to Steve Dahls time? Now I am not accusing you of anything Charles, my point was about an anonymous person a while back that suggested for Energy Arizona to stop playing "****-house". It is my assumption that EAZ's biggest mistake was doing just that and by that I simply mean they should have given Gay people JUST like straight people and who ever else they target the same amount of Focus, but they did not. Actually they didn't target the Latino community as I had suggested them to do either but that's another story........When stations "micro-target" as I like to call it....it helps them pull ratings...when they pull ratings they pull advertisers..when they pull money they can buy bigger signals..and when the stations get more coverage... different types of people start trickling in and before you know it. You have a mainstream station with a mainstream genre with no labels and no specific associations....just good dance music
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I was rather "miffed" at that "**** house" remark someone gave. Pure ignorance all around.
Gays have made MAJOR contributions to dance music that straight people, such as myself, can totally appreciate! But guess what, gays also like ROCK, HIP-HOP, R&B, JAZZ, CLASSICAL, HEAVY METAL, COUNTRY. Yet it was just easier to attack "dance music" because it was the big rage during the late 70's and gays, prior to the disco revolution, could ONLY be truly themselves at the "illegal" dance clubs whereas one would take a lookout and if a cop came, the dance floor would become "straight" so as to play things off.
I've heard Energy over the Internet and did like it! Though I do see your point Manny in that they could have done more to cover the Latino crowd there. In NYC history, you could NEVER get away with a dance station without hitting up that crowd.
And regarding Steve Dahl, I did read his history of why he did the "Disco Sucks" thing (briefly: fired from a rock station that turned Disco). And
I WANT on his radio show one of these days. No attack, no bash....just so as he can see where dance music fans are right now and that this time if anyone was ever going to do another thing like that again, there would be staunch opposition awaiting those that would try it.
Though, my other understanding was that people did apologize for it. Even Michael Veeck, son of the owner of the Chicago White Sox baseball team apologized to Harry Casey (K.C.).
