I said it was only a matter of time

[Jeffrey]

aaahhh such doom and gloom on these boards. I for one think Pulse is the most innovative station of it's time on a crowded fm band.
Regardless of format preference you can't negate that Mega Media isn't innovative in it's way it got a station on the air in New York and for the format it is, still considered a niche one in the US.
I for one have always said I give them lots of credit for thinking outside of the box which in our culture always seems to get slammed.
What's wrong with doing what they're doing? Seems like people are just waiting to see them fail.

 

[nd2023]

By the time 2012 comes, Pulse may not need the 87.7 signal if portable Internet radio becomes common. The iPhone is the first step.

 

[Dancerev889]

By the time 2012 comes, Pulse may not need the 87.7 signal if portable Internet radio becomes common. The iPhone is the first step.

Iphone wasnt the first step. Almost any smart phone can stream radio stations. We are starting a major campaign to promote it

 

[TonySantiago]

Iphone wasnt the first step. Almost any smart phone can stream radio stations. We are starting a major campaign to promote it

I can definitely vouch for that and Brett is my witness to it as I was tuning in to C89.5 and Energy 92.7 during the DJ Expo. Get a USB to a male headphone jack (or a female jack and connect your cassette adapter or if your car has an iPod plug, a two way male headphone jack) along with an unlimited plan and you're tuning in your car! Kinda cool going around town listening to Amsterdam!

 

[radioguybroadcasting]

Iphone wasnt the first step. Almost any smart phone can stream radio stations. We are starting a major campaign to promote it

I can definitely vouch for that and Brett is my witness to it as I was tuning in to C89.5 and Energy 92.7 during the DJ Expo. Get a USB to a male headphone jack (or a female jack and connect your cassette adapter or if your car has an iPod plug, a two way male headphone jack) along with an unlimited plan and you're tuning in your car! Kinda cool going around town listening to Amsterdam!

Cool, but no wireless broadband plan from a cell carrier is truly unlimited.. they claim so, but that's not true.

 

[MarcR]

Speaking of doom and gloom, I had mistakingly said that 700,000 jobs had been lost thus far this year. The actual number of jobs lost so far is 1.2 million. Either way, I still doubt that many people are in the mood to dance in such bleak times.

 

[mcmannors]

Which is ironic since every single time a Pulse jock opened his/her mic, they plugged that show.

It was part of the script that the personalities HAD to read. The day I visited the studio, there was a piece of paper stuck up on the wall that was in direct view of the mic from the board that stated "Pulse 87, Home of the Star and Buc Wild Morning Show".

I understand that.

I was pointing out how ironic it was that they got rid of the show after only a few months after plugging the living hell out of it every few minutes.

 

[neo11]

Speaking of doom and gloom, I had mistakingly said that 700,000 jobs had been lost thus far this year. The actual number of jobs lost so far is 1.2 million. Either way, I still doubt that many people are in the mood to dance in such bleak times.

Why do you keep saying this? Many times, bleak times are absolutely the time where people seek an "escape" from their worries. Look at how Americans flocked to the movies in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. There's really no reason to believe that people suddenly won't listen to dance music (or upbeat pop music or any other upbeat music for that matter) just because the economic situation has gotten worse, and that's an extremely silly reason to believe that Pulse will fail. Might as well pull Z100 and KTU and Hot 97 off the air as well, with that logic.

 

[TonySantiago]

Which is ironic since every single time a Pulse jock opened his/her mic, they plugged that show.

It was part of the script that the personalities HAD to read. The day I visited the studio, there was a piece of paper stuck up on the wall that was in direct view of the mic from the board that stated "Pulse 87, Home of the Star and Buc Wild Morning Show".

I understand that.

I was pointing out how ironic it was that they got rid of the show after only a few months after plugging the living hell out of it every few minutes.

Gotcha!

 

[d21ofnj]

Speaking of doom and gloom, I had mistakingly said that 700,000 jobs had been lost thus far this year. The actual number of jobs lost so far is 1.2 million. Either way, I still doubt that many people are in the mood to dance in such bleak times.

Why do you keep saying this? Many times, bleak times are absolutely the time where people seek an "escape" from their worries. Look at how Americans flocked to the movies in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. There's really no reason to believe that people suddenly won't listen to dance music (or upbeat pop music or any other upbeat music for that matter) just because the economic situation has gotten worse, and that's an extremely silly reason to believe that Pulse will fail. Might as well pull Z100 and KTU and Hot 97 off the air as well, with that logic.

or have Party 105 flip to channelcast again

 

[qtpieislit]

From the 87 web site, biography Quote:

....Not Jewelz--for Ms. Lopez, life has always been a no-holes-barred....

Wow! How revealing. Totally unnecessary, but non the less, revealing. Perhaaps TMI.

 

[SyntaxError]

Wow! How revealing. Totally unnecessary, but non the less, revealing. Perhaaps TMI.

I don't follow the revelation....

 

[MarcR]

Speaking of doom and gloom, I had mistakingly said that 700,000 jobs had been lost thus far this year. The actual number of jobs lost so far is 1.2 million. Either way, I still doubt that many people are in the mood to dance in such bleak times.

Why do you keep saying this? Many times, bleak times are absolutely the time where people seek an "escape" from their worries. Look at how Americans flocked to the movies in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. There's really no reason to believe that people suddenly won't listen to dance music (or upbeat pop music or any other upbeat music for that matter) just because the economic situation has gotten worse, and that's an extremely silly reason to believe that Pulse will fail. Might as well pull Z100 and KTU and Hot 97 off the air as well, with that logic.

I have a theory (which I can't quite substantiate as yet with hard data) that Rock music performs better (in sales and listenership) than other genres of music in difficult times, especially if the populace is in a really pissed-off mood. Some commentators had opined 16 or so years ago that the ascendance of Grunge music was, in part, the result of the anger of Generation Xers at the excesses of the Reagan years. It'll be curious how younger people of today will react musically when the reality of the catastrophic Bush years really sinks in.

 

[MarcR]

Edit: I meant the "repercussions" of the catastrophic Bush years, not reality.

 

[neo11]

Disco music blossomed during the mid-late 70's, at a dire economic time for the country (stagflation, OPEC oil crisis, etc.). So I really don't agree with your theory.

 

[TonySantiago]

The one thing I DO see being affected negatively, regarding dance music, are the clubs.

Clubs STILL pack everyone in, but I see a lot less VIP tables/bottle service being used. While I always thought it was insane, personally, to pay $250 for a bottle of Skyy ??? there were those that did and more of them doing that not too long before the economy fell. I see about less than half of the usual tables. People also aren't running up to the bar as much, perhaps going for one or two drinks as opposed to more.

It doesn't affect dance music in itself, but there is where I see the negatives, NOT on Pulse 87 in their programming.

 

[nd2023]

Oh man. Mega Media's stock price is hovering around 0.001 dollars per share. That's 10 shares of MMDA for a penny! Can it go any lower?

 

[optimum]

You need to change the name from Pulse 87 to FAIL 87...

I said this before they were on the air, Tony Santiago knows this and it's failure are many.

But when the ship is sinking the captain is the one you blame, and rightfully so...

..JS perhaps ????...another thing is that I said this many many times as well from the
beginning and that when you prepare for a road trip you have a full tank of gas, Pulse started on "1/4 tank"..with
that as stated it is only a matter of time.

As far as the music selection...um please ??? total abortion, and that is being nice

The station has no soul and especially no budget... on top of all the "other problems"

Obviously being at the helm yes JS may and should bare some responsibility, but think about it I'm sure he has very little to do with the finances of the station. Could the station sound better musically? Probably, but ratings are showing that it's not bad. Finances are the major problem, everything from marketing to mediocre air talent.

I don't want to point out certain jocks but Pulse has some jocks would not be adequate jocks on a college station. No money = mediocre jocks. Mediocre jocks eventually = poor ratings (no matter how good the music may be). So it all comes down to $

So JS may have some fault but if he can't buy the tools to make a house a shed will have to do. But no matter how much you try to make it a home, it will never be a house.

 

[neo11]

I'm not disagreeing, but who, specifically, do you have in mind when you talk about mediocre jocks at Pulse?

 

[Mixmaster Tony Rocca]

Disco music blossomed during the mid-late 70's, at a dire economic time for the country (stagflation, OPEC oil crisis, etc.). So I really don't agree with your theory.

Completely different time periods...the 70's NYC clubs was a safe haven for doing dope..that is one of the MAIN reasons they flourished and the music was, especially here in NYC, catered to the NYC sound so to speak. Remember EVERYTHING dance originated mainly from NYC then spread outward.

If there was such a crackdown on dope like today back then, well...disco might have taken another path perhaps.