So what if 92.3 did try dance...again?

[DToTheJ]

I just think that there is room for dance music on MORE than ONE station in New York these days - "Pulse 92", anybody?? Pulse's music is DIFFERENT enough so that when you turn it on, you INSTANTLY know that it's Pulse and NOT 103.5 (I mean - I even heard Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" on 103.5 the other day and I'm thinking, WHAT??) ???

No you heard George Lamond's version of "Don't stop believing" - but yea we don't support local dance artists right? :

i could have sworn that was Journey - I didn't even know that George Lamond had done a remake...but if he did, BRAVO!!

Did Goumba Johnny cut off the song with 40 seconds left?

 

[andreajesus]

i'm not sure - when i left where i was, the song was still on - but you never know... :

 

[TonySantiago]

I was searching around and somehow I found this topic so I'm "rebirthing" it!

What makes this interesting is that Pulse 87 was STILL around and I was just prognosticating what they should do with a K-Rock flip figuring that some aspect of dance should be there if they were going to compete against Z-100. (92.3 Now didn't happen until September 2009, 9 months after this post happened).

Hearing 92.3 Now doing aspects of dance is amazing!

 

[The Spy]

Even K-Rock at one time had a modern dance show on Saturday nights about 10 years ago called Solid State with Liquid Todd..great show.

 

[TonySantiago]

Even K-Rock at one time had a modern dance show on Saturday nights about 10 years ago called Solid State with Liquid Todd..great show.

I definitely remembered it. And quite honestly, it was VERY cutting edge to the point of being "ahead of its time". For the alternative sounds of EDM he showcased then, in a way it's all coming to fruition right now as the EDM aspect is growing along with the dubstep genre....to which if Solid State was still on the air now, there would NO DOUBT that the show would be dubstep influenced.

I know he still does a show "Boombox" on AltNation on Sirius XM and with dubstep increasing in popularity, though you do have arguments with the dance music community about it (pro and con), I could see dubstep in there (if it isn't already, admittedly I never tuned to that channel so if it is there, let me know)

 

[Hamp]

I believe KTU tried that already. If it was working, we'd still be doing it.

If it was done right then they'd still be doing it. Instead it became the OLD beat of ny. 103.5 KTU ,"move while you sleep." Very boring, I can't keep them on for more than 5 mins. Those mixes, are pathetic, I can hear the same thing on BLI. Now Pulse and Party105 that's creative, some talented DJ's there that keep me tuned in throught the house party,deep mixes of hip-hop into house and trance. why would anybody want to dance to the Top40 sound blended? That's suppose to be creative? Gauranteed if Party made the move, back in the day, to Party 92.7, there would have been some serious competition and I beleive KTU would have lost that battle, cause back then they still were a safe dance station, where as Party was cutting edge. The only good thing going for KTU was when Vic was there and he was the only DJ breaking some dance out on his night show.

You forget I was part of Vic's nightshow and the one that did the mixes during his show helping him break new music. Nevertheless, you aren't in the current demo for KTU anyways so it's pointless to try and explain. Also, it's a different time than 4 years ago.

Hey DJ Riddler,
I think the whole point of what Tony was trying to say was that KTU wasn't programming for a New York City/Metro audience. It wasn't that the format itself didn't work in NYC, it was the way it was PROGRAMMED. There is a difference. You can have a format of any kind in a certain city, but what is programmed in one market, doesn't work in the other. Power 105.1 in New York, WGCI in Chicago and V-103 in Atlanta are all Urban contemporary formats. They may play similar music, but not every song in each market is going to get the same response. You have to program to the vibe of the market that you are in. That is what I think Tony was saying about 103.5 KTU. You cannot have consultants out of San Antonio telling a New Yorker, Chicagoan, etc. about what they should hear unless they KNOW the market!!! That means being there (not somewhere else) most of the time.
KTU just wasn't giving New Yorkers the TYPE of dance music that it needed at the time.
If stations like HOT 97 and Power 105.1 all of a sudden focused on nothing but southern hip-hop and NO east coast flavor, their numbers would tank as well.

 

[MarcR]

Hearing 92.3 Now doing aspects of dance is amazing!

And seeing them plateau at a rather anemic (for a CHR station) 2.9 share has also been quite remarkable.

 

[MarcR]

Even K-Rock at one time had a modern dance show on Saturday nights about 10 years ago called Solid State with Liquid Todd..great show.

It was an excellent show, but you can't turn specialty programming like that into a 24/7 format, or even one just on weekday evenings. If somebody did either, their ratings would probably tank.

 

[TonySantiago]

Even K-Rock at one time had a modern dance show on Saturday nights about 10 years ago called Solid State with Liquid Todd..great show.

It was an excellent show, but you can't turn specialty programming like that into a 24/7 format, or even one just on weekday evenings. If somebody did either, their ratings would probably tank.

For Hamp....this post was done in 2008. Riddler still has a show on KTU and Z-100 as well as on Sirius XM
For the first MarcR post about the 2.9.....STOP HATING!
For the second MarcR post....it was never suggested to bring about a format like Solid State to a 24/7 mode.