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HOT 106 MORNING SHOW

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Moonstruck

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Has anyone listened to Big Boy enough to decide the show is really offensive for a station with a lot of teens listening? I heard one of their prank calls this week with Big Boy talking about staying at someone's home and asking if he could smoke weed. I'm surprised Citadel with their squeaky clean attitude towards things even considered this show. I realize you hear bits and jokes about booze and dope on HJY but HJY is speaking to an audience that's a lot older and not likely to be swayed by what they hear on the radio. In Hot's case it's different. I wonder if they get any complaints. And ironically last week I saw something on Hot's website where you could win a drug testing kit. Hello? Would anyone listening to the station even want one in the house?
 
Tessa and Baby J was a much better show but probably too old school for Hot even though they were playing today's hits. Ironically after the morning show until you get to the night show the station's approach is just straight CHR type delivery so I don't think that morning show fits at all.
 
i think the morning show sucks and hes awful they should flip that station all together to something else instead of that evil music hopefully they get rid of him soon
 
Do you forget that Hot 106 was the home of Howard Stern for 6 years? A lot worse was discussed than smoking a little weed.
 
People listening to Stern know what to expect. As far as DePetro I doubt he's calling people asking if he can smoke weed at their house. The "Neighborhood" is a whole different ballgame and an example of everything that is wrong with hip hop culture which is made worse by the fact that the format appeals to younger people. And also, hip hop is not a black format but the morning show takes that approach.
 
Moonstruck said:
hip hop is not a black format but the morning show takes that approach.
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I disagree. I think Hip Hop is a very black format. Definitely ethnic. Black, hispanic, latino. If Hip Hop isn't a black format than I don't know what is.
 
you have got to be kidding me. Hip Hop is a black format? What decade do you live in? Top 40 is pretty much Hip Hop.
 
Telefunken said:
you have got to be kidding me. Hip Hop is a black format? What decade do you live in? Top 40 is pretty much Hip Hop.
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So again I ask...... What is a black format? Moonstruck said that The morning show takes the approach of a black format. I want to know what that is. I'm still saying that Hip Hop is a black format. As a matter of fact I just typed Hip Hop into google. Right on the first page I got back this result:

Hip hop is a cultural movement that developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among Black Americans and Latino Americans

There you go. Now you've got more people to disagree with.
 
I think the bottom line is that hip hop & r&b don't appeal to any one color. Playing the music itself doesn't mean you're going for an audience of color any more than B101 used to kiss its white audience goodbye on Motown mondays.
 
Runrigger said:
I think the bottom line is that hip hop & r&b don't appeal to any one color. Playing the music itself doesn't mean you're going for an audience of color any more than B101 used to kiss its white audience goodbye on Motown mondays.
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Exactly. Obviously 99.9% of hip hop artists are black but that doesn't mean the appeal of their music is. We have no urban AC station in Providence. The market probably isn't there for it since the music would be unfamiliar and it would take too long to build up a loyal audience base, but that wouldn't attract only a black audience either. The best urban stations sound like CHR stations which is what Hot sounds like middays and afternoons. If Citadel decided to hire a local morning team for Hot you can bet it would not sound like Big Boy's Neighborhood. A lot of hip hop/r&b artists have come to realize they have to branch out too if they want to be well known outside that format, hence Beyonce and a lot of others working their way into movies. A black station would be one that's firmly entrenched in the black community, would deal with specific issues on the air, etc. Hip hop stations play the music. That's all.

But Skynet may have hit upon the next craze in radio: programming by googling.
 
Moonstruck said:
People listening to Stern know what to expect. As far as DePetro I doubt he's calling people asking if he can smoke weed at their house. The "Neighborhood" is a whole different ballgame and an example of everything that is wrong with hip hop culture which is made worse by the fact that the format appeals to younger people. And also, hip hop is not a black format but the morning show takes that approach.
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While the format "appeals" to younger people, the target demo is 18 - 34. An 18 year old is an adult and can make adult decisions. If parents are worried about their kids listening, take responsibility for your child and don't let them...but in today's society, it's a lot easier to blame radio, TV and movies, but I digress.

Outside of Radio Disney and family friendly AC's, not many formats/stations specifically target people under 18, especially in a market the size of Providence. That doesn't mean there isn't the occasional promotion on a station like PRO-FM that targets high schoolers, but those things are the exception to the rule.
 
mistermicrophone said:
If parents are worried about their kids listening, take responsibility for your child and don't let them.
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Wow... talk about the impossible. Unless you have your kid locked in a cell 24/7, there is no way to keep them from listening to the radio.... and they are going to listen to whatever they damn well please. That's just reality.
 
Skynet74 said:
mistermicrophone said:
If parents are worried about their kids listening, take responsibility for your child and don't let them.
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Wow... talk about the impossible. Unless you have your kid locked in a cell 24/7, there is no way to keep them from listening to the radio.... and they are going to listen to whatever they damn well please. That's just reality.
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Someone on the other board, I think it was Pittsburgh, noted that just because the hip hop station was going away, doesn't mean the kids would stop listening to rap. They were just going to listen to it UNCENSORED on their iPods now. They are going to listen to it, no matter what.
 
FrankK80 said:
Someone on the other board, I think it was Pittsburgh, noted that just because the hip hop station was going away, doesn't mean the kids would stop listening to rap. They were just going to listen to it UNCENSORED on their iPods now. They are going to listen to it, no matter what.
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I agree with the Poster in Pittsburgh. It's so true!
 
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