scooty430 said:
Nope. That sample is mid-day, weekday. Not a specailty show.
And I am telling you that a Mediabase comparison of songs played in regular programming on each station gives a slight advantage to KRTH. What I mean by that is all 168 hours of the week on each station less specialty shows. MediaBase is what radio and the music industry uses and allows us to look at hours, weeks, days, etc. back for years and years. You looked at a few hours. I looked at everything from Jan 5 to yesterday.
WCBS plays a much larger variety.
No, reality says you are seriously wrong.
I'm not sure what this MediaBase "monitor" says, but the actual playlists tell a very clear story.
MediaBase give really accurate monitors of all songs played by hundreds and hundreds of stations, and which can be viewed as a log (hour by hour sequential play) or a single day playlist, lists by currents, recurrents, and gold, comparitive lists of multiple stations showing total plays per station and total all station plays, add lists by station, group or format, etc., etc., etc. It's the gold standard for music play monitoring and has historical data for many stations going back nearly a decade.
If you want to sit down and record the two playlists, 10am to 8pm weekdays, side by side, for a week, be my guest.
I did better. I looked at all nbon-specialty show plays for the entire 168 hours of each week.
By the way, the standard for peak hour listening is 6 AM to 7 PM, not 10 to 8.
But Latinos and "transients" (many of whom come from New York and Boston, by the way)
Oh, jeeze. Most of the non-Hispanic white migrants to LA over the last 30 years come from the plains states. There are dozens if not hundreds of demographic studies about this.
The Hispanics come from Central America and Mexico.
only like about 200 songs, played over and over. That is because.....well, I don't know, really. But studies show that people that have moved from other cities only like small playlists. I guess the move makes them want to hear Brown Eyed Girl a lot - it's like comfort food.
Jeeze again. Since it can be proven that the regular playlists are about the same, the non-Hispanic white audience share is comparable, and LA is not New York, why not just realize that the stuff that CBS-FM plays is inappropriate for the mood and the audience and the history of the LA market.
The Latinos like four songs: "Low Rider," "Black Magic Woman," "Suavecito," and "Evil Ways."
Actually, Hispanics don't like those songs. They are played out among Hispanics. Non Hispanic whites like them, for some reason. You are doing racial profiling for music taste. Offensive and wrong.
It helps to play these a couple times a day. And of course the random Selena song from 92 had a huge effect on ratings. Many Latinos listen to hours and hours of KRTH songs from the 60s and 70s to hear that one Selena song. Great programming decision.
You are bordering on being racially and ethnically offensive as well as just being plain stupid. Stop it.
Puh-lease! One of the biggest groups that loved Oldies, REAL Oldies, as in Huggy Boy and KRLA, was the Latino community. Yes, as in Elvis and the Everly Brothers. The whole "let's play lots of Santana" idea is a rather sad white man's idea of how to appeal to Latinos.
Now you are stereotyping and are truly offensive. Crawl back in you cave, take the iPod with all your favorite oldies with you, and leave the rest of us alone. Racism has no place in discussing playlists.
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