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SMALL MARKET URBANS

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Does anybody know any good small-market (preferably jockless or minimal jocks) urban stations? I'm trying to find more and a lot of them don't stream!
 
"Good" is the key word, a lot of these have been bought by conglomerates of course and are cookie cutter without much individuality.

It is large market of course, but I just spent some extended time listening to WMMJ Washington D.C. For years and years this was a gold heavy urban AC and very good. Wow, so generic now. In over 6 hours I didn't hear one song that captured my attention as being something that is a current, recurrent, or oldie that is played constantly on other urban ACs. I have several airchecks from about 20 years ago on my website. Then I spent several hours listening to WPGC. All of that great WPGC heritage for new music and as a standout urban-oriented "rhythmic" is gone, mostly worn out hip hop songs and rhythmic top 40 tunes, only the voicers remain the same. Pretty sad to this former longtime admirer of WPGC. Of the Washington stations, only WHUR has a bit of heritage left in terms of DJs and music but with Steve Harvey and Baisden filling many hours a day, it too is not what it was.
 
Well, KJMH is owned by Townsquare, not that little I guess, but a small market urban.
 
Scholarm1111 said:
"Good" is the key word, a lot of these have been bought by conglomerates of course and are cookie cutter without much individuality.

It is large market of course, but I just spent some extended time listening to WMMJ Washington D.C. For years and years this was a gold heavy urban AC and very good. Wow, so generic now. In over 6 hours I didn't hear one song that captured my attention as being something that is a current, recurrent, or oldie that is played constantly on other urban ACs. I have several airchecks from about 20 years ago on my website. Then I spent several hours listening to WPGC. All of that great WPGC heritage for new music and as a standout urban-oriented "rhythmic" is gone, mostly worn out hip hop songs and rhythmic top 40 tunes, only the voicers remain the same. Pretty sad to this former longtime admirer of WPGC. Of the Washington stations, only WHUR has a bit of heritage left in terms of DJs and music but with Steve Harvey and Baisden filling many hours a day, it too is not what it was.
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You can say that one again. It's a shame that CBS gutted WPGC to make it into a shadow of its former self. That station was legendary for new music, urban oriented playlist with a rhythmic jam here and there. The market has a giant gaping whole in its urban radio scene because WPGC is only there in name only nowadays.
 
KTCX Beaumont, Texas - "Magic 102.5". This is the only urban station in the Golden Triangle market, and they play EVERYTHING despite being under Cumulus ownership.

www.ktcx.com
The iHeart link is available there.
 
I agree with the endorsement of KTCX. Dayparted musically and a better than average Sunday afternoon old school show.
 
KWBT-FM Mexia/Waco //KHLE-FM Kempner/Killeen 104.9/106.9 The Beat is one the better small market urban radio stations I have heard in a long time. Great sounding station. Plays new and ol' skool music. Hip-Hop, R&B. Blues Saturday Mornings. Gospel Sunday Mornings. This station reminds me of how KIIZ-FM Killeen (Z92.3) used to sound back in the '90s and early '00s.
 
Blacknight said:
KWBT-FM Mexia/Waco //KHLE-FM Kempner/Killeen 104.9/106.9 The Beat is one the better small market urban radio stations I have heard in a long time. Great sounding station. Plays new and ol' skool music. Hip-Hop, R&B. Blues Saturday Mornings. Gospel Sunday Mornings. This station reminds me of how KIIZ-FM Killeen (Z92.3) used to sound back in the '90s and early '00s.
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I remember those days, heck I remember when it was the Z at 1050 AM back in the 80s. Now R&B 103.1 beats them.
 
WRSV-FM (Soul 92 Jams) is a longtime small market urban dayparting with Rick Smiley mornings, gospel from 10am-1pm and R&B and hip hop in the afternoon and evenings.. It is from Rocky Mount, NC and streams at soul92jams.com. Their sister station, WEED-AM 1390 is still on the air after many decades. They are currently a gospel station.
 
WYTT FM 99.5 Jamz Emporia VA, Small class A and poor dial position (co channels and 1st adjacents in all directions), not enough signal to get into richmond market or rocky mount NC market, live dayparts during the week from what I can tell, they do stream www.995jamz.com
 
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