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KNZR 1560 Changes Format

brettbutlerisok said:
It does seem, to me anyway like the Spanish music stations let the jocks talk way more that English language music stations. Shows like Piolín are very popular!
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Those are talk shows, not really music shows.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Many, many Americans love British and Australian dialects !
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But the differences between colloquial Spanish from various countries are vastly greater than the comparison you make, with words having entirely different meanings in some cases. "Bus" in Puerto Rico is "Baby" in Ecuador.
 
Gregg. said:
It is interesting how, outside Miami, Spanish-language spoken word stations don't work. Even 50,000 watt KTNQ is tied for #40 in Los Angeles. (I assume a lot of it is brokered talk.) When Univision tried a talk network, that failed.
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At one time, in the later 90's, KTNQ was occasionally tied with KFI in 25-54 with its purely local talk format. But it was expensive to do and could not be sustained when the original programming team departed.
Gregg. said:
ESPN's Spanish-language sports network lasted from 2005 to 2019. Yes, it's been replaced by TUDN Deportes Radio but who knows how that is doing? I don't see any of its stations above a zero-point-something in local ratings. You'd think young men from Mexico and Central America who are soccer fanatics would tune in. But KWKW Los Angeles is, like KTNQ, tied for #40.
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There is no "Mexican" team. Every soccer fan has their home team the follow; just as people in Minneapolis don't want to hear Yankees play by play, each group from each part of Mexico follows different teams. And a Guatemalan does not follow any Mexican team at all.
Gregg. said:
Is it that most Spanish-speakers in the U.S. are young? Talk doesn't seem to appeal to most folks under 40 or 50. Or as David says, you only want to hear people with your own accent and dialect? How much talk radio or sports radio would you listen to if the hosts were mostly British and Australian?

But music is international. We listen to The Beatles, The Stones, Elton John and Rod Stewart. When the words are sung, the accents don't matter.
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brettbutlerisok said:
That's my point! Spoken word can work in Spanish even if an all talk format doesn't.
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What is the difference between "talk" and "spoken word"?

All talk in Spanish, outside of a few exceptions in Miami and LA, has never worked anywhere
 
It's Tuesday afternoon (9/26), I just tuned into 1560 KNZR and Sean Hannity is still blowin' it out. So about that format change???
Does anybody know exactly when?
 
DavidEduardo said:
Then he has to do it in English. Only.
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I was going to mention that. Wouldn't conservative Latinos be on board with the Republican policy that English should be the only language spoken in the U.S.?

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Republicans See English as the "Official Language"

The platform for the Republican National Convention, which opened this week in St. Paul, Minn., considers English to be the "official language" of this country. But apparently an earlier draft of the platform used softer language, stating that English is the "common" and "accepted" language,…
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Weiserguy said:
Maybe they took the day off for Yom Kippur, which pushed their launch date a bit. o_O
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TomásEstefan said:
It's Tuesday afternoon (9/26), I just tuned into 1560 KNZR and Sean Hannity is still blowin' it out. So about that format change???
Does anybody know exactly when?
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pushed the launch back? uh no, it launched, came and went.. i heard them up here nightly when running spanish and its been english again for like 2 weeks.
 
MarioMania said:
I guess Spanish didn't work
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It takes many months... even a year to tell if a format works. You can not tell in a few days or weeks.
 
BTW, I was being facetious. (Or at least trying to be, and obviously not succeeding. Nobody's delaying the launch of a Spanish talk format for a Jewish religious holiday.)
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
@TomásEstefan @DavidEduardo
They DID.. i heard the spanish for several weeks on KNZR-AM, and i guess they ditched it already.

Im guessing they got some serious uproar from the conservative ultra maga types who used to listen to 1560
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Are you sure you weren't hearing something else? What you're describing seems highly irregular.
 
Weiserguy said:
BTW, I was being facetious. (Or at least trying to be, and obviously not succeeding. Nobody's delaying the launch of a Spanish talk format for a Jewish religious holiday.)
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OK, I can't resist: Maybe they're creating a format for the Ladino-speaking community?
 
Mark Roberts said:
Are you sure you weren't hearing something else? What you're describing seems highly irregular.
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Positive of what I heard. KNZR is a regular here.
 
Mark Roberts said:
OK, I can't resist: Maybe they're creating a format for the Ladino-speaking community?
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They did. As mentioned in the first post, it’s an effort to do right-wing talk aimed at a broad base of Hispanic voters. David pointed out why it wouldn’t work. Still, it appears KNZR gave it two months or less and pulled the plug. It’s over.
 
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