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Believe me DJ Perry, you are definitely NOT the only one pissed. Let's also add "The Move", "The System" and "Chrome" on XM's side as well.
You now have NO dedicated classic dance outlet since "The Strobe" and "Chrome" are both gone (they're telling people to go to 70's on 7 and 80's on 8) and that has fans of that music in a frenzy. We're kinda lucky in New York City that there are 3 area stations that do classics, but for that poor person outside of the region, they now have nothing.
Boombox had a core audience for those that liked the mashup/electronica side of dance. While "The Move" hadn't been on XM receivers for a bit, there was still an audience that loved the deep house music, to which "Area", while a great station in itself, doesn't touch as much on deep house in the way that "The Move" presented itself.
BPM replaced "The Beat" so to speak but even there you have an argument since "The Beat" was for the casual, non-core, pop-remix fan versus BPM, while fine for core fans, could come off as rather "intimidating" for those used to "The Beat. And yeah, I'm noticing BPM to be somewhat "watered", though still a good station.
Though I am not much of a hip-hop fan, I am shocked about "Throwback" being dumped. I would think eventually more terrestrial stations (like the dance station we lost in Phoenix) would flip to an old skool format, figuring it targets the older audience that liked the music from the late 70's to early 90's.
People have been telling me they have cancelled their subscriptions because of the merger. Not good when you consider the 16 rock stations, some of which are artist specific.
You now have NO dedicated classic dance outlet since "The Strobe" and "Chrome" are both gone (they're telling people to go to 70's on 7 and 80's on 8) and that has fans of that music in a frenzy. We're kinda lucky in New York City that there are 3 area stations that do classics, but for that poor person outside of the region, they now have nothing.
Boombox had a core audience for those that liked the mashup/electronica side of dance. While "The Move" hadn't been on XM receivers for a bit, there was still an audience that loved the deep house music, to which "Area", while a great station in itself, doesn't touch as much on deep house in the way that "The Move" presented itself.
BPM replaced "The Beat" so to speak but even there you have an argument since "The Beat" was for the casual, non-core, pop-remix fan versus BPM, while fine for core fans, could come off as rather "intimidating" for those used to "The Beat. And yeah, I'm noticing BPM to be somewhat "watered", though still a good station.
Though I am not much of a hip-hop fan, I am shocked about "Throwback" being dumped. I would think eventually more terrestrial stations (like the dance station we lost in Phoenix) would flip to an old skool format, figuring it targets the older audience that liked the music from the late 70's to early 90's.
People have been telling me they have cancelled their subscriptions because of the merger. Not good when you consider the 16 rock stations, some of which are artist specific.
If I'm not mistaken all the artist specific stations will be eliminated in the coming months while more duplicate stations from Sirius and XM will make their way to the new Sirius XM.
Now I know there are some people out there who are pissed at a couple of the Dance stations that were removed. That is because the satellite radio companies did their own in-house ratings research and dicovered which stations were performing well, and which ones were under performing. It's pretty well known that a lot of Americans who have purchased satellite radio aren't from the big cities, or big city folks in search of good Rock stations. That's why you have a lot of Country, Oldies, and Rock stations on satellite radio.
The satellite radio companies are struggling to find new buyers, and more importantly their stocks are tumbling. These are challenging times for satellite radio, and they can't worry about some of the niche Dance station if there wasn't a lot of support for it. I mean, you guys have seen it for yourselves - Jammin Oldies didn't work, the Movin stations have for the most part failed, and the only people asking for Classic Dance are usually found in markets already served by a Movin/Jammin Oldies station on their FM dial.
Another thing to consider: Are most of the Classic Dance listeners male or female? Are most satellite radio listeners male or female? Something tells me there are a lot more male listeners (especially on the Sirius side) then females.
Now I know there are some people out there who are pissed at a couple of the Dance stations that were removed. That is because the satellite radio companies did their own in-house ratings research and dicovered which stations were performing well, and which ones were under performing. It's pretty well known that a lot of Americans who have purchased satellite radio aren't from the big cities, or big city folks in search of good Rock stations. That's why you have a lot of Country, Oldies, and Rock stations on satellite radio.
The satellite radio companies are struggling to find new buyers, and more importantly their stocks are tumbling. These are challenging times for satellite radio, and they can't worry about some of the niche Dance station if there wasn't a lot of support for it. I mean, you guys have seen it for yourselves - Jammin Oldies didn't work, the Movin stations have for the most part failed, and the only people asking for Classic Dance are usually found in markets already served by a Movin/Jammin Oldies station on their FM dial.
Another thing to consider: Are most of the Classic Dance listeners male or female? Are most satellite radio listeners male or female? Something tells me there are a lot more male listeners (especially on the Sirius side) then females.
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