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Pulse is dying

instigator said:
Tony don't discourage Nick he's the only person that sounds remotely like you on the board. you guys have been the official cheerleaders for Pulse forever. Maybe you guys could wear signs at the Dj expo that say "Will work for Pulse" or you guys could forget to shave for a day or two wear some old clothes and sit in front of an open guitar case that is labeled pulse...Seriously guys alot of us love dance music..there are alternatives..Pulse was great but its over. Try BPM or Z889 or one of the many internet stations.
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Nick's reply to you instigator, regarding me, indicated that he understood what I said. It wasn't to discourage, but to put some reality into what's going on here.

I was merely trying to point out, albeit in a "forceful" manner, that we have to get out of the thinking that Mega Media is going to "save the day" when it can't. And I wouldn't be doing my "job" if I didn't try to look a couple of steps ahead here for our music instead of harping on Mega Media keeping Pulse 87 alive. Do I want Pulse 87 to remain on the air? Of course I do. However, it's going to take money...money that can only come from an investor that believes in the Pulse product. And since I'm not hearing any names on that......I have to think about what we, as a community, have to do next in a "post-Pulse 87" world here.

The last time we dealt with not having a terrestrial FM station for our format was in 2006 when 'KTU tweaked their format. Internet streams WERE around back then but it was still a burgeoning technology that was pretty much an online thing only. Satellite radio was around as well. Which certainly was a better situation than in 1994, the FIRST time we dealt with this once the coalition started after the loss of Hot 97 to hip-hop, when the Internet was still a new thing that took a weird sound to connect into, with slow speeds. When people talked about "the web", it was strictly about spiders! :), People still went to record stores to listen and purchase CD's. This time around, Internet streams are becoming more "mainstream" as apps are being made for iPhones as well as other smartphones taking streams in. You have iTunes and other services whereas you can check out what is being offered. Basically speaking, the day we lose Pulse it's not as if the world had ended. It's just a little "bump on the road", but we've dealt with this before and this time around, you can go MANY different places to take in dance music.

Though terrestrial radio still matters for something, which is why we'll go at it again to convince that a dance station in the localized Pulse brand, can work because, as Nick stated...as I feel, localism is relevant.

To CHRles, maybe the rules have changed since the DTV signals no longer transmit Channel 6 on 87.7, I don't know...but that may be an FCC thing since they still are a "tv station" in all accounts. It would be nice, but I don't know. As it is, people that couldn't catch the station in the parts of NJ that had WPVI from Philly can now tune in to Pulse.
 
I have a friend who is a dance music geek, but her says WHO cares if ota radio plays it or not. He has the too cool for Fm radio attitude,, he listens to all the major net stations, and plus he plays his mp3 player or Iphone to get dance in his car... that maybe fine in our area, but what about the high cost, and the dead zones.,... Everyone in America deserves access to great stations like E-98,,,IPR........ 1.fm..... So many more..... Pirates that stream Etc.... I have warned him that net stations cant support quality music at this time on their own,, without Fm... labels will sign anyone who can produce a 4x4 beat...... We need quality chr/rhythmic crossovers.. It also bothers me that he says pitbull, Lmfao,, ETc are not dance, but rap that used dance samples... this is not helping us.......... is it Tony... We need these electro hip hop tracks to bridge the gap.... I love dance and always will, even if every Fm in U.S goes dark... we still have Khnc seattle,,, z88.9, and wmph 91.7..... Us net savy will never lose acces to dance, but the teens and tweens need exposure to it before they become little gangstars......
 
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