The downward trend of New York's urban stations

[Jeffrey]

First of all, Z 100's numbers are up in the city, LI and NJ and most of Z's playlist is hip hop/r&b "lite"; they have simply incorporated hip hop into hip pop, stealing the younger and whiter segment of that audience, while the pop side of hip hop is turning off all the 'keep it real' folks;
second of all, due to the death of the commercial retail single, the sales of which steered trends in top 40 for decades, there will never again be a next big thing...ever..
so get over it and get used to it...the party's over

Z100 is doing very well at the moment but if you look at their playlist they play much less hip, hop than they did a year ago. You'll hear the familiar Beyonce, Ciara, etc..but 50 Cent type hip, hop or "rap" as we could define it is without a doubt, for the most part, no longer on their playlist.
They have a real mix of urban/rock/pop and even 1 country song in rotation.

 

[davideduardo]

What are the rankings of HOT, POWER and Kiss, anyway? #1,#2, and #3 18-34?

18-34 Winter WHTZ. WQHT, WWPR, WSKQ. WPAT, WKYU, WLTW, WBLS.

 

[KDRadio]

I believe that the hip hop movement is dead, however there there will always be rappers and rap songs played on top 40 stations. the trend of creating hip hop only stations is going to over in the next 3 years