The Wave Is Now "Smooth R&B"

[Unregistered]

I'm sorry & Your right - KTWV & KHHT don't feed off KJLH - if they did, they would starve to death and yes we all know the shrinking black market in LA. I do think there is a "Sleeping Giant of Urban Listeners" who do want Good UAC but they are getting Watered Down Yoohoo. Also surprised to read Steve Harvey dose well with Hispanic listeners - He's Kinda Corny ( just sayin')

This thread misses entirely the point.

KTWV, to succeed, has to get most of it's listening from Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites.

LA has a shrinking and less than 8% African American population, and that group alone can't be the base for KTWV under the premise that not all Blacks like the same kind of music.

Since "true" urban AC stations tend to have over 90% Black listenership, KTWV can't be a true urban AC. It would get less than what Radio One was getting before they sold to Bonneville. KTWV has to be an r&b flavored AC station that will get very large Hispanic listening and some listening from "other" (to use NA's term).

KTWV is not "going after" KJLH. KJLH is a core targeted adult urban station, with a limited signal. It has essentially no Hispanic or Other listening.

KHHT has more than 50% Hispanic listeners... it does not feed off of KJLH. Even KDAY is 75% non-African American in listenership. Again, it competes in a broader market segment that is predominantly Hispanic. By contrast, KJLH's audience is about 2% Hispanic.

 

[NoMoreLurking]

You Mean Michelle Hennigan the PM announcer during the NPR simulcast of PBS Newshour and KPCC's Marketplace by APM.

Wow, you must know her. Or ... better yet ... you Googled her! We're very impressed billrecto(101).

 

[semoochie]

I once worked with two announcers, who sounded almost exactly alike, one, white and the other, black.

 

[XMportable]

I once worked with two announcers, who sounded almost exactly alike, one, white and the other, black.

Its very possible, but i think it mostly depends on you culture. I don't think its racist to be observant of this.

 

[calguy]

I would submit Dave Randall of KRTH as an example of someone who could be any ethnicity, from white to black to everything in between. Going the other way there's Lee baby Sims.

 

[955wdhf]

I would say the same of Christina Kelley of the same station(K-Earth). Even when she was on Hot 92.3 she caught me off base. She has a great and sexy voice.

 

[bringbackradio]

Why would Hispanics go to Art Bell?

In fact, Steve Harvey does fairly well with Hispanics in quite a few major Hispanic markets.

Wow I never realized Harvey has crossed over to Hispanic listeners all the while maintaining the original audience. That must be how he has maintained a radio presence in the west coast to date, unlike Tom Joyner who only lasted two months.

 

[JeffM]

I would submit Dave Randall of KRTH as an example of someone who could be any ethnicity, from white to black to everything in between. Going the other way there's Lee baby Sims.

I'm far away from California but can only agree. For several years in the late 80's or early 90's a young black woman did the weather on a local TV station, the first to do so here; and she had what George Carlin called the "Hi, I'm from nowhere" radio voice. She was really terrific too, and doubled (under another name!) as the voice-tracked all-night DJ on a "lite" FM station. A musician friend of mine who has done some DJ-ing on the side also has a totally non-ethnic speaking voice.

At the network level, NBC employed black announcers Fred Facey (in NYC, the "voice" of NBC News) and Victor Bozeman (in LA, "NBC Night At The Movies" and others). They also had the only full-time female network staff announcer, Peggy Taylor. All great announcing talents, pioneers in their own way; all sadly gone now.

 

[LKellerIII]

I once worked with two announcers, who sounded almost exactly alike, one, white and the other, black.

Well, sure. I wasn't implying that all white people sound white, and all African-Americans sound African American. I was convinced that the former image voice at a "Kiss-FM" (Old School) in the Bay Area was Don LaFontaine until DLF passed away. It turned out it was an African-American VO guy with a very similar voice. Michael Hagerty gave me his name, but I no longer recall it.

And BTW - Lee Baby Sims jocked at Kiss-FM until his retirement.


Another example is actor Keith David, who sounds neither black or white, and does a lot of VO work on television.