Martin Mac said:Yes, Radio One is usually slow with new music. But right now, they are miles miles ahead of PGC in new music and more songs. So either KYS is stepping their game up, or PGC is REALLY REALLY behind. I think its the latter.
I know Big Tigger does a session every Wednesday where he invites listeners into the CBS offices and plays songs. There are usually about 6-10 people there on a good day. Then he plays clips of new Urban music, and based on the response, he either adds it, ups the spins on it, or drops it. However, our response dosen't always effect the future of the song.
With the response to the song "I Get Crazy by Nicki Minaj", PGC should have put that in power rotation, but of course, PGC ignored it and kept it below 15 spins. I also find it funny how when I went to one of the sessions, he skipped over all of the Rhythmic songs such as "Jay Sean - Do You Remember". So, as I can tell, PGC is clearly lost in musical direction. They either need to head for the female audience or the male audience. Right now, with Robin Thicke and Melanie Fiona in power rotation along with Ludacris and Drake, I have no clue what their trying to do.
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:Martin Mac said:Yes, Radio One is usually slow with new music. But right now, they are miles miles ahead of PGC in new music and more songs. So either KYS is stepping their game up, or PGC is REALLY REALLY behind. I think its the latter.
I know Big Tigger does a session every Wednesday where he invites listeners into the CBS offices and plays songs. There are usually about 6-10 people there on a good day. Then he plays clips of new Urban music, and based on the response, he either adds it, ups the spins on it, or drops it. However, our response dosen't always effect the future of the song.
With the response to the song "I Get Crazy by Nicki Minaj", PGC should have put that in power rotation, but of course, PGC ignored it and kept it below 15 spins. I also find it funny how when I went to one of the sessions, he skipped over all of the Rhythmic songs such as "Jay Sean - Do You Remember". So, as I can tell, PGC is clearly lost in musical direction. They either need to head for the female audience or the male audience. Right now, with Robin Thicke and Melanie Fiona in power rotation along with Ludacris and Drake, I have no clue what their trying to do.
When it comes to new hip-hop especially down south/ATL music, Radio One Atlanta(HOT 107.9) is on top of it. Now I will admit a lot of the new R&B music doesn't get early responses on HOT 107.9 since R&B sister station Majic 107.5 handles that. Question: Is PGC dayparting the music with R&B 10a-6p; 10p-2a and Hip-Hop 2p-10p;2a-6a??
urbanradio704 said:More power to Radio One then, looks like they creepin on the come up, best of luck to them. The only problem I have with R1 is they do nothing for the community. They play music all day and expect to profit off of it. CBS has always been involved in the community, and always spent money to make money. The listeners ultimately decide how successful a station will be, and if u don't do for the listener and it's only about your pocket, then u won't be successful, and R1 hasn't figured that out yet. Saving money and doing the bare minimum never made anybody rich or any business successful. That's what Bush did, and look at our economy now. I do love that R1 is a black owned company, and they've stayed true to who they are. We need to support black-owned businesses.
Radio One is AWFUL hear in Boston http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=162246.0urbanradio704 said:Radio One is not as bad as people make it out to be. While I think they need a lesson in economics, and how to be successful and expand, and not just get by, but u have to admire how they've been able to ride out the storm for this long. They went from one station, WOL in DC, which Cathy Hughes got in a divorce, where she was actually living for some time (at the station) when she fell on hard times, and expanded into twenty-some major markets, largest black-owned entertainment corporation, all these affiliates and subsidiaries and everything. And she's done all this staying true to herself (catering exclusively to urban audiences, not selling soul catering to white folk like other black corps), bringing gospel and black talk to fm (R1 pays more to put these formats on the air then they profit from them) and what most people don't realize is this was never done before Cathy Hughes, so while we can disagree on technicalities, u have to admire someone who was able to do and create all this
Radio One cut almost every job at 1090 . There is nothing local on 1090 ( Boston Black Voices has been silenced by Radio One ). 1090 was a great urban station when it was own by Nash ( Black local family ) . Almost every show was local. Radio One purchase 1090 and trash it. Radio One Trash this station so bad that I dont listen 1090 anymore. I wish Radio One would sell 1090 or just cut it off ( go dark ). Let Boston remember the good station 1090 that it was and not remember the trash what 1090 is now.urbanradio704 said:You can complain about the technicalities all day, but if Radio One wasn't there that's one less station for you to listen to, and 20 more black folk without jobs, and more black voices silenced.
Jobs in the community ? not really. Radio One move 1090 from Roxbury ( Boston Black Neighborhood ) to Quincy MA ( Suburb of Boston ). Not many ( if any ) employee went to Quincy from Roxbury. Yes Black folks still still have a voice but its on pirate radio ( Hot 87.7,96.5,99.7,100.3,Big city 101.3,106.1 Touch-FM,and so on ). Boston Pirate radio show alot love for community ( aka Boston Caribbean parade,Local artist and companies, Kite Fest, Rap and R&B concerts and so on ) that 1090 used too ( B4 R1 ). Thats why Boston Pirate radio is Big right now. Alot of Pirate radio employee's used to work at 1090. Just like any business, to make money you cant diss your customers. Just like L.A., Radio One purchase a good urban station ( 1090) and then trash it. Radio One is doing great things in ATL and DC but not in Boston or L.A. ( Thank god they are out of L.A. ).urbanradio704 said:The past is the past, it is what it is and you can't change that. But what I said is still true, there are local employees, maybe not on air, but it's still jobs in the community. Syndicated shows or local ones, black folk in Boston still have a voice. Radio is a business, you can't take it personal. You can disagree with some of what they are doing, but you can't say that it brings nothing to the community. At the end of the day it's about making money.
Are there still black folk working for Radio One ? Not many . Do black folk listen to 1090 ? Not much, 1090 ratings went from 2.5 ( B4 R1 ) to 0.1 ( with R1 ). There Black folks working at DC 101. Check the Boston board . Radio One has riun Boston legal urban radio statioon. Most ( or all ) Boston urban music fans has move on to Pirate radio. The best thing Radio One can do now is just sell 1090 or just cut this awful station off.urbanradio704 said:You haven't disputed or disproven my point. You're just talking in circles. Are there still black folk working for Radio One Boston? Yes. Do black folk listen to 1090? Yes. Do black folk have a chance to call in to station, through syndicated programs or not? Yes. Three things it's doing for the community right there. As I said, you can disagree with some technicalities, but to say it does nothing for the community is bull crap.
Six or less black folks will be Unemployed.. Boston Pirate stations are hiring . I live hear in the Boston area and we dont need a crappy radio station that does NOTHING FOR US .urbanradio704 said:All what you talking about is irrelevant. The point is THERE ARE black folk working for Radio One (majority of staff is black), who would be unemployed if Radio One went dark, how many is irrelevant. The point is THERE ARE black folk that listen to Radio One, and if it went dark they would have one less outlet to listen to, again the numbers are irrelevant. The point is black folk HAVE THE OPTION to call in, if they went dark they wouldn't have that option. If R1 went dark black folk would be unemployed and have one less outlet to interact with and listen to. I've said all this before on this post. You obviously need to go back to school and take a reading comprehension class, because this is elementary.