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kkhh going bilingual????

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mrtexmex2007

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I noticed that hot 95.7 fm us somewhat going bilingual. Like wednesday I heard them saying buenos dias, good morning. And saturday I heard an announcement saying mas exitos. Which means more hits!!
 
That doesn't necessarily make them bilingual - they're just acknowledging H-Town's large Hispanic population, especially given the fact that many of Hot 95.7's 18-34 year old listeners are Hispanics. There have been CHRs all over the country who have on occasion ran some liners in Spanish since the early 90s.
 
You could add "Caliente Noventa Cinco-Siete" as one of those phrases being heard. In Fact, I just heard it yesterday.
 
Troy Goodwin said:
You could add "Caliente Noventa Cinco-Siete" as one of those phrases being heard. In Fact, I just heard it yesterday.
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When CBS owned the Austin cluster that's now part of Entercom, every now and then, you'd hear a "Mix Noventa y cuatro punto siete" drop on KAMX.
 
Hadn't heard it in awhile so I don't know if they still do it, but The Buzz used to have a jingle with Mexican music in the background. Noventa cuatro punto cinco, El Buzz.
 
CHRles said:
That doesn't necessarily make them bilingual - they're just acknowledging H-Town's large Hispanic population, especially given the fact that many of Hot 95.7's 18-34 year old listeners are Hispanics. There have been CHRs all over the country who have on occasion ran some liners in Spanish since the early 90s.
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In Miami, in the late 70's, Bill Tanner had a "Tanner en la Mañana" jingle he used in the Tanner in the Morning show on Y 100, and there were definitely some occasional tidbits of Spanish and, if I recall, an Hispanic character in the show... it's not "being bilingual" but just a way of telling area Hispanics that they are recognized and welcome to a show or station.
 
Recognize Asians how? Asia is the largest continent on the planet with dozens upon dozens of languages spoken throughout it. There's sixteen official languages in India, another dozen in China, there's Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Thai, Pinoy, Malay, and so on and so forth.
On top of that, Houston's Asian population isn't as large as the Hispanic one.
 
DavidEduardo said:
...it's not "being bilingual" but just a way of telling area Hispanics that they are recognized and welcome to a show or station.
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"Tina Delgado is alive, alive!"
 
CHRles said:
Recognize Asians how? Asia is the largest continent on the planet with dozens upon dozens of languages spoken throughout it. There's sixteen official languages in India, another dozen in China, there's Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Thai, Pinoy, Malay, and so on and so forth.
On top of that, Houston's Asian population isn't as large as the Hispanic one.
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Vietnamese. There's nearly as many folks with the last name of Nugyen and Dang as Gonzalez and Garza.
 
sdh483 said:
Vietnamese. There's nearly as many folks with the last name of Nugyen and Dang as Gonzalez and Garza.
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However, there are about 70,000 Vietnamese in the metro, and 1.5 million Hispanics.
 
aunti-terrestrial said:
Radio Saigon does a very good job of reaching its audience, as limited as their resources may be.
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As does Liberman's Radio Viet Nam in the LA metro. But the point was whether KHHH should do shout outs in Vietnamese, not whether there is a viable model for a limited signal in Vietnamese.
 
Actually, no, David, that was not my point at all. I was speaking to sdh483, and my point to him is that Radio Saigon gives the Vietnamese population of Houston a much better service than simply hoping for table scraps from KHHH.
 
aunti-terrestrial said:
Actually, no, David, that was not my point at all. I was speaking to sdh483, and my point to him is that Radio Saigon gives the Vietnamese population of Houston a much better service than simply hoping for table scraps from KHHH.
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Apples and oranges. The first case is actually serving a community, while the other is recognizing it.
 
Once again, David, I find that you are highly unqualified to tell me what I was trying to say.
 
Well the point here is that just becasue a station spits out a few spanish words doesn't mean it's bilingual. Nelly Fratado spat out some spanish gibberish on the VMAs, does that make MTV bilingual (not counting MTV spanish)?
 
sdh483 said:
Well the point here is that just becasue a station spits out a few spanish words doesn't mean it's bilingual. Nelly Fratado spat out some spanish gibberish on the VMAs, does that make MTV bilingual (not counting MTV spanish)?
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Nelly's parents are Portuguese, and she grew up speaking this as well as English, and Spanish is a second cousin to Portuguese... I'd agree that it does not make MTV bilingual... it just is an artist's recognition of their heritage... something that used not to be acceptabe.
 
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