OK! I just noticed what's going on here. JamZ is using "#1 hit music station" too! How is it posible that two stations get by with the same slogan?
LOOKING AT THINGS FROM A LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW:
Out of the two stations, who should rightfully and sensibly be allowed to use the "hit music" slogan? Lets think about this for a second, along with some of the facts I'm about to add. In Atlanta, 95.5 The Beat was Atlanta's #1 hit music station. They kept a rhythmic format, playing mainly hip hop and r&b, but also played "gotta get through this" by Daniel beddingfield and "heaven" by Dj Sammy along with tracks by Inoj, Ghost town DJ's, and Freak Nasty...etc. Now we have a rhythmic station here (101.5 JamZ) who has a true rhythmic format, along with Hollywood Hamilton's rhythm top 40 and they've been playing rhythmic hits such as hits by Katy Perry and other things that a rhythmic station should play. They touch a bit on top 40 music. Power 98.3, however, plays more urban hits. Which station do you think should be the hit music station?
If anything, Power is going to have to change to become a hit music station. JamZ is already at a format where they could use the slogan "#1 hit music station" because many rhythmic stations do that along with the top 40 stations. Unless Power decides to slowly change and add in other stuff as time goes along, it would only be sensible that they let go of the slogan. I'm sure Kiss is probably getting a kick out of this whole thing. This would only happen in Az. Makes just about as much sense as every station in Atlanta refusing to play Danity Kane. I noticed that Power was beginning to sound more like JamZ as time went on, but this is just too much. It really doesn't make any sense at all. If we need anything, it should be something the valley DOESN'T already have... If we're going to be all sitting here playing hits, then someone should also acknowledge the dance remixes of some of those hits in their mixshows. Rhythmic is where the hits should be, and I think 101.5 has already taken care of that. You go to Sirius/XM and they have RHYTHM R&B HITS. Appearantly, JamZ is where the hits belong, and Power should try something else instead.
That's like someone opening up a store called Mega Foods and I decide to show up and open a store called Mega Foods, but with a different aisle arrangement inside.
I've been posting on other sites and not not here, BUT with this going on, I finally had to say something. If you think this is a lot, you should've seen what I did on another site when 101.5 JamZ first popped up because I was excited for the dance music I thought they'd eventually add. It didn't work out as I hoped because although WiLD 94.9 in California played a lot of dance, they didn't completely carry that same format down here, THEN they got rid of the mixshows where the little dance and booty bass they did play was featured. I was disappointed, but always had a bit more respect for JamZ than Power because JamZ has the dance mixshow potential. They have the format, but are not willing to try it. I remember back when Kid & Ruben and the whole party crew introduced afterhourz to the valley back in 1997 and ever since 103.9 changed I was so pissed that I quit listening to that station to the point I forgot they existed until only recently I started back. Strawberry was kept, while Nessa is back on Wild 94.9 The Bay Area's Party Station. They themselves have changed a lot (by removing a lot of dance specialty mixshows) and giving some of their staff to JamZ.
Hip Hop is not dead, just like rock N Roll is not dead, but it will eventually not be the "Big thing" anymore, just like what happened in rock n roll. All the smart people who saw rock n roll was about to be topped by the next big thing jumped in on the classic rock stations first. Now, this is what's beginning to happen in hip hop. You'll have classic hip hop, and lite hip hop (just like lite rock). This is always what happens as people see the signs of evolution, and the only people who will survive will be the people who show they can evolve with the times. This is why Beyonce is doing alternative, Akon is doing a bit of euro dance/freestyle, and Kanye is.... well, just changing as well. Pitbull was always ahead of the game because his true passion is booty bass, house, latin house and freestyle along with rap. He didn't wait, he just went out there and started bringing back the use of faster beats early. He didn't wait around for everyone else to see that using faster beats today would and could work. He actually used uptempo beats before Missy and Timbaland tried it and had everyone else jumping on it to the point where dance music is back on urban radio today (congrats to Timbaland and missy changing the sound of music, twice).
Now with all this going on in music, it is effecting how stations want to label themselves because no one is sure what to call this sudden change in urban music. This is something different (similar to how when freestyle first popped up, they didn't call it freestyle, but Shannon, Corina, and Lisette Melendez...etc were all considered latin hip hop). HOWEVER, there's still no excuse for there to be TWO identical stations, no matter how confusing or unpredictable the music market may be. That just doesn't make sense. Even if we have a station that's the opposite of 98.7 The Peak - just like The Peak but playing playing the best of everything from the (70's) 80's 90's and today on more of the urban r&b/pop side of things, that would be great. I just believe that Power should stick with what they had or go to something else. As much as I would like a Party Station format, I'm not sure if there's any room for that anymore, but dance leaning top 40 is still possible if they do it correctly...and I guess that would be better than a Party Station that limits dance music to only mixshows, now that I've become tired of hip hop.
At least Power 106 Where HIP HOP Lives in California was sensible enough to keep their DJ's. Richard Humpty Vission is still part of their line up. So is Eman Echo and Virman. They seriously used to give Rockell, Jocelyn Enriquez, Lil Suzy, and Lina Santiago massive play and was amazing during the Holiday Mix weekends, back in the day. Now with dance coming back, they have an excuse to throw in some of those old records and mash up since they perfectly fit in. Much of the new generation of Dj's don't know what to do with the new dance style hits coming to radio today because it's all new to them.
Dance Music Making A Come Back Theory 2006:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...ken=D57B0526-10E2-4DB5-B4CFF9E1C95D048A952240
The Future Sound of Music...:
http://www.freestyleremix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12004
A lot of radio stations disagreed with me on those topic before Ne-yo, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg and others started using uptempo/dance beats and became successful with it.
