FUNKYTOWNBOSTON.COM

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

Hello, thank you for your time. If you like Classic Soul R&B, Disco, and Current Rhythm CHR music, I urge you to check out this site.


It used to be Star 93.7


Star 93.7 turned to Mike 93.7


Funkytown 93.7 is >>>>>>> 93.7 HD 2 Channel >>>>>>which is simular to how 93.7 used to be.
Anthony Pic is the Radio Announcer of Funkytown.



My idea, Entercom should change Mike FM to Funkytown 93.7 (also keep current Funkytown HD 2 station)
Boston needs this type of station. If anything, this is the cloest we can get, to getting Urban AC station.

I mean, not for nothing, but look, Anchorage, Alaska recently got a Rhythm AC station "Movin" Of all places


Boston desparatly NEEDS a Rhythm AC station.


Entercom should change Mike 93.7 to "Funkytown 93.7"


Your thoughts on this please?


Please, do not say bad things about us who like this music and format. I mean no harm to no one. I'm just voicing my thoughts.


Thank you for your time

 

[Eli Polonsky]

My idea, Entercom should change Mike FM to Funkytown 93.7 (also keep current Funkytown HD 2 station) Boston needs this type of station. If anything, this is the cloest we can get, to getting Urban AC station.

Your thoughts on this please?

Ratings for Mike-FM are actually pretty good. I don't remember for sure, but I think may be better than they ever got as "Star", and probably better billing for the numbers.

I'm sure that if they thought they could do better by replacing Mike-FM with "Star" (or "Funkytown") on the main channel, they would. Commercial radio is all about the bottom line.

 

[mistermicrophone]

Hello, thank you for your time. If you like Classic Soul R&B, Disco, and Current Rhythm CHR music, I urge you to check out this site.


It used to be Star 93.7


Star 93.7 turned to Mike 93.7


Funkytown 93.7 is >>>>>>> 93.7 HD 2 Channel >>>>>>which is simular to how 93.7 used to be.
Anthony Pic is the Radio Announcer of Funkytown.



My idea, Entercom should change Mike FM to Funkytown 93.7 (also keep current Funkytown HD 2 station)
Boston needs this type of station. If anything, this is the cloest we can get, to getting Urban AC station.

I mean, not for nothing, but look, Anchorage, Alaska recently got a Rhythm AC station "Movin" Of all places


Boston desparatly NEEDS a Rhythm AC station.


Entercom should change Mike 93.7 to "Funkytown 93.7"


Your thoughts on this please?


Please, do not say bad things about us who like this music and format. I mean no harm to no one. I'm just voicing my thoughts.


Thank you for your time

You claim to work for Entercom...tell them the next time you're on the clock. By the way, I don't think anyone has a problem with the format or those who listen to it...the problem is with the pirate stations. Those pirates could be playing metal music and it would still cause an outrage.

Also, why would keep 93.7 AND the HD2 channel the same?? Especially since Mike is doing pretty well...

 

[rapking]

93.7 We March Radio Personnel to the Unemployment line. Mike-FM ( and any Jack format ) is everything that wrong with radio today !!!

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

You claim to work for Entercom...

Where did he say he works for Entercom? Do you know something the rest of us don't know?

All I saw was that he likes the programming on Funkytown, and expressed an opinion about it.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

thank you @Eli Polonsky for your (good/honest) responce. Thank you. I just came up with this idea because I was looking at Ratings on Radio And Records website and saw that Rhythmatic AC stations and Rhythmatic stations has good ratings elswhere (including here-Jamn 945 is up there and doing ok)
It's just an idea
I don't mean to bust anyone bubble. It's only an idea. Nothing bad here

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

my other reason for this idea is because of the loss of 1090 WILD and 97.7 WILD, and the loss of Star 93.7

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

Here's a sample of what they play.

-Maria by TKA
-The Tide is High-By: Blondie
-Into The Night-By: Santana Featuring Chad Kroeger (I'm not crazy over this type of music)
-It Only Takes a Minute-By: Tavares
-Saturday Love-By: Alexander O'Neal
-You And I-By: Rick James
-Hot In Herre-By: Nelly
-Young Hearts Run Free-By: Candi Staton
Over the weekend I also heard "Double Dutch Bus"

This is what Boston and this part of Massachusetts needs, this is the type of radio station we all need here in this part of Massachusetts. There is a huge population (not only in Boston urban neighborhood) but all around this whole part of Massachusetts who like this music.
This is the type of station we all need here.

 

[mistermicrophone]

You claim to work for Entercom...

Where did he say he works for Entercom? Do you know something the rest of us don't know?

All I saw was that he likes the programming on Funkytown, and expressed an opinion about it.

A few weeks ago in another post he claimed to be a board-op for Entercom.

By the way Lauro...you didn't answer my question. Why would you keep 93.7 & the HD2 channel the same, both Funkytown?

Not to "bust your bubble", as you put it, do you wonder why Star 93.7, WILD 1090/97.7 are no longer around? They weren't generating enough business to remain on the air. You claim a lot of people love the music...maybe if those people patronized the advertisers on Star/Wild, they'd still be on the air!!

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

put it on both 93.7 and 93.7 HD 2-make it easy for everyone


You :-\ all got some :-\ problems :-\ here


All I do is post something positive here and you all make a war about everything. You all need to go to the
Fourth Floor!!!!!! :-\


All I do is put someing positive and you all cause more problems. I'm not looking for troubles

 

[rapking]

You claim to work for Entercom...

Where did he say he works for Entercom? Do you know something the rest of us don't know?

All I saw was that he likes the programming on Funkytown, and expressed an opinion about it.

A few weeks ago in another post he claimed to be a board-op for Entercom.

By the way Lauro...you didn't answer my question. Why would you keep 93.7 & the HD2 channel the same, both Funkytown?

Not to "bust your bubble", as you put it, do you wonder why Star 93.7, WILD 1090/97.7 are no longer around? They weren't generating enough business to remain on the air. You claim a lot of people love the music...maybe if those people patronized the advertisers on Star/Wild, they'd still be on the air!!

97.7/1090 Awful Ownership killed it ( Radio One Sucks )

 

[Eli Polonsky]

put it on both 93.7 and 93.7 HD 2-make it easy for everyone

It doesn't make sense to have the same programming on the analog/HD-1 and the HD-2.

Anyone with an HD radio who can get the HD-1 can also get the HD-2 and vice-versa. The HD-1 is automatically an HD rebroadcast of the analog 93.7. The HD-2 is for different specialty programming. Why waste the second HD signal with the same programming as the HD-1 and the analog?

 

[mistermicrophone]

put it on both 93.7 and 93.7 HD 2-make it easy for everyone

It doesn't make sense to have the same programming on the analog/HD-1 and the HD-2.

Anyone with an HD radio who can get the HD-1 can also get the HD-2 and vice-versa. The HD-1 is automatically an HD rebroadcast of the analog 93.7. The HD-2 is for different specialty programming. Why waste the second HD signal with the same programming as the HD-1 and the analog?

Yeah, my point exactly.

By the way, Lauro...no one is starting a war over your posts. It is a forum to debate and discuss radio. Nothing I posted was an attack on you (ok, maybe the "why don't address it with you boss entercom" was slightly sarcastic)...I was just asking a simple question as your reasoning made no sense.

This place would be kind of boring if someone started a thread and everyone responded by saying "yeah, you're right."

 

[Keith321]

97.7/1090 Awful Ownership killed it ( Radio One Sucks )

Only the largest most successful black and urban radio broadcasters in the US.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

97.7/1090 Awful Ownership killed it ( Radio One Sucks )

Only the largest most successful black and urban radio broadcasters in the US.

That's why I don't understand why they blew it so badly here on 97.7 in Boston. Did they simply not evaluate the local market competition, and realize that it was useless to play Hip-Hop and try to compete with Jam'n?

Didn't they realize that there was no other ADULT urban station here, and that playing Hip-Hop for a few hours at every evening drive time simply turned off what adult urban listeners they attracted during the day at a peak time, and could not possibly lure many younger listeners away from Jam'n?

I realize that Radio One got an offer they couldn't refuse ($30m) from Entercom, and it probably wouldn't have mattered if 97.7 was better programmed and somewhat more successful, it would have been sold for that big jackpot anyway... but, the way 97.7 was programmed makes me wonder if they were simply going with generic programming ideas that may have worked for them in other cities where they may have had the ONLY urban station, without accounting for what kind of competition they were up against in this market, and what listener demand existed in this market for them to take advantage of.

I could see the idea of urban AC in the daytime and Hip-Hop in the early evening working well in some other markets where they may have had the ONLY urban station. Program to the adults for their workday, and then for the kids when they're out of school in the evenings (then back to soft urban AC late at night when the kids are asleep). It would make sense... but NOT in this market where there's a powerful Rhythmic CHR/Hip-Hop station and NO other adult urban station.

I've seen other stations falter when out-of-town companies, consultants, freshly imported PD's, etc... try to make generic programming decisions that would make sense in most cases, but that ended up failing in this market because they failed to evaluate our particular local format competition and to evaluate locally which audiences are being served here, and which aren't. Radio One didn't do the necessary work to properly and optimally tailor 97.7 to this particular market's competition and demand in an urban format.

It's all water that went under the bridge years ago by this time, what happened to 97.7 no longer matters, but let's just hope that if there is ever another legitimate urban AC here, that it's programmed by people who know the local particulars of this market. It didn't sound like Radio One did.

 

[rapking]

97.7/1090 Awful Ownership killed it ( Radio One Sucks )

Only the largest most successful black and urban radio broadcasters in the US.

Radio One station are only good in D.C.,Baltimore and Atlanta. That it . Radio One suck here and L.A( sold),MN(sold),Ohio,NC and so on.

 

[rapking]

97.7/1090 Awful Ownership killed it ( Radio One Sucks )

Only the largest most successful black and urban radio broadcasters in the US.

That's why I don't understand why they blew it so badly here on 97.7 in Boston. Did they simply not evaluate the local market competition, and realize that it was useless to play Hip-Hop and try to compete with Jam'n?

Didn't they realize that there was no other ADULT urban station here, and that playing Hip-Hop for a few hours at every evening drive time simply turned off what adult urban listeners they attracted during the day at a peak time, and could not possibly lure many younger listeners away from Jam'n?

I realize that Radio One got an offer they couldn't refuse ($30m) from Entercom, and it probably wouldn't have mattered if 97.7 was better programmed and somewhat more successful, it would have been sold for that big jackpot anyway... but, the way 97.7 was programmed makes me wonder if they were simply going with generic programming ideas that may have worked for them in other cities where they may have had the ONLY urban station, without accounting for what kind of competition they were up against in this market, and what listener demand existed in this market for them to take advantage of.

I could see the idea of urban AC in the daytime and Hip-Hop in the early evening working well in some other markets where they may have had the ONLY urban station. Program to the adults for their workday, and then for the kids when they're out of school in the evenings (then back to soft urban AC late at night when the kids are asleep). It would make sense... but NOT in this market where there's a powerful Rhythmic CHR/Hip-Hop station and NO other adult urban station.

I've seen other stations falter when out-of-town companies, consultants, freshly imported PD's, etc... try to make generic programming decisions that would make sense in most cases, but that ended up failing in this market because they failed to evaluate our particular local format competition and to evaluate locally which audiences are being served here, and which aren't. Radio One didn't do the necessary work to properly and optimally tailor 97.7 to this particular market's competition and demand in an urban format.

It's all water that went under the bridge years ago by this time, what happened to 97.7 no longer matters, but let's just hope that if there is ever another legitimate urban AC here, that it's programmed by people who know the local particulars of this market. It didn't sound like Radio One did.

Radio One should had kept The Nash ownership Formula . Nash Ownership( Local Ownership ) Knew this market very well, Radio One didnt know crap about Boston .

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

@Mistermicrophone, sorry if I also seemed to harsh, i just felt like everyone was just starting a war with me.
sorry for the misunderstanding

Yes, I understand this is a public posting website

 

[johnster]

Radio One should had kept The Nash ownership Formula . Nash Ownership( Local Ownership ) Knew this market very well, Radio One didn't know crap about Boston .
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Radio One did just exactly what they should have done. What all public corporations are supposed to do. Serve there stockholders. To not take a 30 million dollar offer would have been almost criminal. It would have taken them years to make that much money with that signal. They are black owned and operated but that doesn't change their mission. It is to serve the their stockholders not urban Boston. Nash had less pressure they just had to make enough money that they where happy. And they did that for a long time. But eventually they decided to cash in and that is certainly their prerogative. They sold out to a public corporation and did very well. No criminals here just business people in America.

 

[rapking]

More reason why I hate the Act of 96. Big Companies come in, and trash a good station and then sell it( and who cares about the people, whom listen to that station).