No hot or rhythmic AC in Miami?

[icycool7227]

There is not hot or rythmic AC outlet in Miami. Has there ever been one? WFLC does not count either - that station is best known as a bright AC. The closest one is WRMF in West Palm Beach. Someone should try that format.

 

[SportsDotCom]

There is not hot or rythmic AC outlet in Miami. Has there ever been one? WFLC does not count either - that station is best known as a bright AC. The closest one is WRMF in West Palm Beach. Someone should try that format.

For a while I thought Power 96 WPOW-FM was considered rhythmic AC?

 

[Mid West Clubber]

no way....., Power 96 is a true cutting edge youth leaning Rhythmic CHR. I dont think Rhythmic AC would work in Miami, it seems like a DOA format, many of these stations are suffering low ratings and are adjusting their playlist now to either sound more CHR, Urban, or Hot AC...

A rhythmic AC in Miami would have to be heavy on freestyle and 80s and 90s Dance and R&B,,,, with no disco. I just dont see it happening. The old 103.5 was an early Rhythmic AC/Jammin Oldies hybrid and it didnt work either.

And you couldnt just program it as a current friendly Lite Rhythmic format like the Denver Rhythmic AC, because Power 96 and WEDR, WQHT, and Y-100 already would be playing all those songs. It would just dillute everyone's ratings and in turn cause a format flip somewhere.

On the other hand, since Miami doesnt have a Hot AC, I think a station like my 99.9 KVUU in Denver would work in Miami. Give it a listen sometime. http://www.kvuu.com/main.html

 

[sfradio]

no way....., Power 96 is a true cutting edge youth leaning Rhythmic CHR. I dont think Rhythmic AC would work in Miami, it seems like a DOA format, many of these stations are suffering low ratings and are adjusting their playlist now to either sound more CHR, Urban, or Hot AC...

A rhythmic AC in Miami would have to be heavy on freestyle and 80s and 90s Dance and R&B,,,, with no disco. I just dont see it happening. The old 103.5 was an early Rhythmic AC/Jammin Oldies hybrid and it didnt work either.

And you couldnt just program it as a current friendly Lite Rhythmic format like the Denver Rhythmic AC, because Power 96 and WEDR, WQHT, and Y-100 already would be playing all those songs. It would just dillute everyone's ratings and in turn cause a format flip somewhere.

On the other hand, since Miami doesnt have a Hot AC, I think a station like my 99.9 KVUU in Denver would work in Miami. Give it a listen sometime. http://www.kvuu.com/main.html

mega 103.5 was not doing that bad when they flipped it, it was like in the 3.2 area so a rhy. ac would work

 

[davideduardo]

mega 103.5 was not doing that bad when they flipped it, it was like in the 3.2 area so a rhy. ac would work

They went out with a 2.8, and the average for all of 2002 was a 2.9, good for about 18th in the maket 12+. In 25-54 it averaged around 14th. It's sales were declining at a time the market was growing.

One of the issues in Miami is that there IS a rhythmic AC, WMGE 94.9 already.

 

[Groove1670]

Mega had a very narrow playlist (250 songs or so). If it would of opened up to some pop crossover (Like WILV Love 100 chicago) the ratings would of been better. It played very little freestyle, and limited it core artists (KC, Miami Sound Machine,etc) It was programmed with a very "safe" national playlist and did not take the "local" market in mind. This seems to be the problem of most rhythmic AC's. Adding Akon and Kayne West to the list does not solve the problem, or playing Natasha Bedingfield & Nelly Furtado 50 times a day. Most of the more successful stations have opened up the playlist to 500-700 songs. Maybe someday someone will try again. Just my two cents

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

midwest that 99.9 is what y100 is here in miami and david he means english hot or rhythmic AC!

 

[davideduardo]

midwest that 99.9 is what y100 is here in miami and david he means english hot or rhythmic AC!

No, I mean there is a hot AC here, and it is WMGE 94.9, and since the market is over 50% Hispanic, that pretty much blocks the need for one in English serving a minority group of less than 30% of the market.

Can you work a bit on your syntax, sentence structure and capitalization, please? This post was at best ambiguous and at worst unfathomable.

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

david i know i need to capitalize first letters of names but as far as im concerned you dont apply to to that rule and yea i know mia is 50% hispainic as i see some of the hispanics so dont correct me ! yes i know univision and sbs has to cater to the market but why have two of the same garbage mix it up and be different! like yall at 98.3 are the same as 95.7 garbage and that might increase revenue and will be able to pay on that 11 billion instead of being delinquent on it

 

[davideduardo]

david i know i need to capitalize first letters of names but as far as im concerned you dont apply to to that rule and yea i know mia is 50% hispainic as i see some of the hispanics so dont correct me !

Whatever.

yes i know univision and sbs has to cater to the market but why have two of the same garbage mix it up and be different! like yall at 98.3 are the same as 95.7 garbage and that might increase revenue

98.3 has been some form of rhythmic / Tropical / CHR for the last decade and a half. Since the rhythmic genres go through wild stages of maetamorphosis on occasion, the sound of the format changes over time, but it's essentially the same audience base all the time.

If you consider salsa and the various "popical" forms like Carlos Vives and Juenes to be "garbage" then it is very inappropriate for you to be posting to this thread; if you are looking for a station to satisfy your own tastes that is different but don't call music many, many millions lve "garbage" just because you do not like itl

and will be able to pay on that 11 billion instead of being delinquent on it

We have been here before... with increasing cash flow, there is no issue.

And... your immitation of e. e. cummings does not make the grade.

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

so what you are saying is that a company doesnt have to pay off their debt but yet your company probably wouldnt hire a person in debt because they are delinquent and plus i know there wouldnt be any communications companies if debt was an issue..... just shows that radio in general is garbage whatever the format playing the same old songs over and over until it time to have the new track and I know you have to sit on the comp and promote your company and to be completely honest MEGA SUCKS IT DID WHEN IT DEBUTED THE REGGAETON THAT WAS GONNA BE AROUND FOREVER AND THEN IT FLIPPED BEACAUSE NOBODY WANTED IT AND I REMEMBER LA KALLE WAS SUPPOSED TO THE NEW HIP STATION AND IT FLOPPED LIKE A COW WITH MAD COWS DISEASE AND EXECS PUT FORSEE THEY WILL LIKE THEMSELVES LISTENING TO. BY THE WAY ON THE NATIONAL SYNDICATION DEAL WITH ENRIQUE Y JOE YOU SHOULD OF DEBUTED THE SHOW ALL OVER THE NATION NOT JUST MIAMI AND SAN JOSE BUT HEY YOURE THE GENIUS WITH A COMPANY IN DEBT 11 BILLION DOLLARS AND WONT PAY ANYTHING ON IT (IN REAL AMERICA THATS WHAT WE CALL FORECLOSURE) BUT I GUESS YALL ARE EXEMPT BY PAY THE RIGHT POLITICIAN

 

[strangelove]

School is in!

so (Capitalization, please revise) what you are saying is that a company doesnt (Punctuation, please revise "doesn't") have to pay off their debt but yet your company probably wouldnt (Punctuation, please revise "wouldn't") hire a person in debt because they are delinquent and plus i know there wouldnt (Punctuation, please revise "wouldn't") be any communications companies if debt was ("were") an issue..... (["That"] just shows that radio in general is garbage whatever "no matter" the format";" playing the same old songs over and over until it "it's" time to have the new track (Syntax, please revise) and I know ("that") you have to sit on the comp and promote your company and to be completely honest MEGA SUCKS IT DID WHEN IT DEBUTED THE REGGAETON THAT WAS GONNA BE AROUND FOREVER AND THEN IT FLIPPED BEACAUSE "because, revise spelling" NOBODY WANTED IT AND I REMEMBER LA KALLE WAS SUPPOSED TO THE NEW HIP STATION AND IT FLOPPED LIKE A COW WITH MAD COWS "Cow" DISEASE AND EXECS PUT FORSEE THEY WILL LIKE THEMSELVES LISTENING TO (Revise capitalization, syntax, run on sentence.) BY THE WAY ON THE NATIONAL SYNDICATION DEAL WITH ENRIQUE Y JOE YOU SHOULD OF DEBUTED THE SHOW ALL OVER THE NATION NOT JUST MIAMI AND SAN JOSE BUT HEY YOURE ("You're") THE GENIUS WITH A COMPANY IN DEBT 11 BILLION DOLLARS AND WONT PAY ANYTHING ON IT (IN REAL AMERICA THATS WHAT WE CALL FORECLOSURE) BUT I GUESS YALL "You" ARE EXEMPT BY PAY "paying" THE RIGHT POLITICIAN.

Overall this is pretty sloppy. Keep this up and you'll find yourself in summer school!

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

strange like youre perfect,it seems like you have to protect david thats how i see it.

 

[davideduardo]

strange like youre perfect,it seems like you have to protect david thats how i see it.

No matter who you are nor how little you know about radio, the ability to express yourself in a literate and cogent manner is important to you today and in the future. Your inability to write clear and concise English is ever so evident.

Here are just a couple of things you mangled:

1. Nearly all companies have debt. In business, it is vastly better to borrow someone else's money to take an opportunity today rather than saving for a future expansion that may never come around again.

2. CHR stations go with the currently popular styles and artists and genres. In the Caribbean, Spanish CHR's like Univision's WKAQ-FM in Puerto Rico (in format since 1968) will have vastly different genre and style mixes from year to year. Whether is is reggaetón or salsa gorda or merengue bomba or popical sounds, the mix will always be changing because CHR is, by definition, whatever is popular now.

3. Listeners to nearly every format aimed at listeners over 25 to 30 want to hear mostly familiar songs they know, not new music. New music has a different function in every format, but playing "the same" hit songs over and over is precisely what most listeners come to the radio for. Anyone with over 15 minutes experience in radio knows this.

4. Reggaetón is still around, just not as invasively as before. It's been with us since around 1988, so we are in it's 21st year. The Top 40 on Hits FM in Chile has 15 reggaetón songs on it... as does the list of Los 40 Principales in Colombia. It's alive and well.

5. What "national syndication deal" with Enrique and Joe? They are primarily the local morning show for WRTO in Miami. No syndication deal breaks "nationally" anyway... Rush started out on a mere handful of stations, in fact.

6. I did not know that Enrique and Joe were on in San Jose. I thought Luis Jiménez was on La Kalle in San Francisco (two station simulcast since San Jose is just a part of San Francisco, anyway).

7. Politicians are not part of the system whereby banks lend companies money. And loans are not in default unless they do not pay. Your economic theories are so whacked that I don't even know how to explain things to you since you lack the most bare understanding of money and finance.

 

[top4odj]

Rhythmic AC in Miami? Let somebody reincarnate Rhythm 98. The little station that was a monster. It's been gone for quite a number of years and people still talk about it.

 

[radiosanchez]

Here's the 'simple logic' I don't understand. Destroy me if you like. On the page for the consultants of the "Movin" format, it's explained, and I adhere to it, as well.

Young listeners of the 'early years' of Power 96 (let's say 1986-90, for the sake of this argument) are adults now. We could even count listeners of the 'forerunners' of Power, Hot 105 (1985), and stations that 'dabbled' in "Miami Music", like "I-95" (81-86), and WCJX (85-86).

While WMGE could be considered to fill that void (for speakers of Spanish as a first language, which btw I'll say weren't here back then), what are these now-adults-then-youngsters listening to?? Isn't there enough of an audience to create a station to satisfy their tastes?? Or is WFLC's filled-with-so-un-Miami-like-groups-like-Chilliwack "80s Weekends" enough to satisfy them?

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

DAVID ALL YOU TALK IS VIVA EL OR LA UNIVISION AND SPANISH MUSIC ,I KNOW ITS YOUR LIFE BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO PUT IT IN EVERY FREAKING CONVERSATION! THE NATIONAL SYNDICATION DEAL WAS REPORTED IN THE MIAMI HERALD AND SAID THATS WHY ENRIQUE y JOE SIGNED THE DEAL.... PLUS THE STARS OF THE SHOW DIDNT REFUTE THE REPORT!

 

[davideduardo]

DAVID ALL YOU TALK IS VIVA EL OR LA UNIVISION AND SPANISH MUSIC

That sentence makes no sense at all. What does "Viva el" mean? "La Univisión" is not even correct Spanish.

I have worked in Spanish language radio for 45 years, so it would be natural I speak of the stations and the music I deal with. Unfortunately, you are totally unarmed to discuss this area of broadcasting and it surprises me that you dismiss it rather than admitting you know somewhat less than nothing about the only area of radio that is growing so that you can learn about it.

KNOW ITS YOUR LIFE BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO PUT IT IN EVERY FREAKING CONVERSATION!

Miami is over 50% Hispanic. There is no way to discuss Miami radio wihout considering Hispanics and Blacks, who are 70% of the market.

THE NATIONAL SYNDICATION DEAL WAS REPORTED IN THE MIAMI HERALD AND SAID THATS WHY ENRIQUE y JOE SIGNED THE DEAL.... PLUS THE STARS OF THE SHOW DIDNT REFUTE THE REPORT!

As you have shown yourself quite capable of doning, you misread the report (I draw your attention again to the post of a few moments ago where you related WKAT going religious to an FM changing format... two 100% certified unrelated things) because syndication only takes place when a station in another market wants such a show. Univision has no other stations in Caribbean based markets, so draw your own conclusions.

 

[IRISHBLAZE]

ok mr spanish besides the spanish people who are black what exactly does the spanish radio have to do with them? and as far as i can see on this website youve have been 100% geared towards spanish and last time i checked jamaican hatians and bahamians dont speak spanish...... i know what i read ok david eduardo i think the board guy should suspend you for 3 months because its like you have it out for me for some reason....... WKAT AND 89.7 ARE RELATED FOR THE FACT OF SALEM knew that 89.7 was going classical

 

[pbf1]

i know what i read ok david eduardo i think the board guy should suspend you for 3 months because its like you have it out for me for some reason.......

Paranoid? Looks to me like David is simply pointing out facts; perhaps they're just not to your liking.