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WB and UPN Merge To Form New Network - Let's Get Some Dance On There

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CHRles

With UPN and the WB combining to form a new national network called CW, and with them admitting to targetting younger views, then maybe we ought to look into the possiblity of the network airing a weekly Dance show. Friday or Saturday nights would probably be best. It's a great way to get people excited before they're heading out to clubs, or just going out to visit with their friends.

Theres more then enough good Dance videos, especially from overseas, to fill a 30-60 minute weekly time slot.

If the show taps into the whole "Wild On E" tv show lifestyle, amd combines that with perhaps the hipness of Mad TV or SNL, and plays a broad range of CURRENT Dance music, then maybe we can tip the scale in our favor. We can make Dance more successful in this country.

If the show does decently well, then I'm sure MTV will start airing its own Dance show, and radio will be even more supportive of Dance.

We all talk about the need to push things forward, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do so.

Someone needs to seriously pitch this idea to the new network, or to Fox which has always leaned a bit on the young end, or even to NBC which has had its worst ratings this past year in a long time. <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by CHRles on 01/24/06 05:33 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> With UPN and the WB combining to form a new national network
> called CW, and with them admitting to targetting younger
> views, then maybe we ought to look into the possiblity of
> the network airing a weekly Dance show. Friday or Saturday
> nights would probably be best. It's a great way to get
> people excited before they're heading out to clubs, or just
> going out to visit with their friends.
>
> Theres more then enough good Dance videos, especially from
> overseas, to fill a 30-60 minute weekly time slot.
>
> If the show taps into the whole "Wild On E" tv show
> lifestyle, amd combines that with perhaps the hipness of Mad
> TV or SNL, and plays a broad range of CURRENT Dance music,
> then maybe we can tip the scale in our favor. We can make
> Dance more successful in this country.
>
> If the show does decently well, then I'm sure MTV will start
> airing its own Dance show, and radio will be even more
> supportive of Dance.
>
> We all talk about the need to push things forward, and this
> seems like the perfect opportunity to do so.
>
> Someone needs to seriously pitch this idea to the new
> network, or to Fox which has always leaned a bit on the
> young end, or even to NBC which has had its worst ratings
> this past year in a long time.
>
What makes you think the network would even consider airing Dance Videos, or any videos at all for that matter? Did you read about this somewhere? Do you have any links to sites, that might tell us a little more about this?
 
> What makes you think the network would even consider airing
> Dance Videos, or any videos at all for that matter? Did you
> read about this somewhere? Do you have any links to sites,
> that might tell us a little more about this?
>

Well, I strongly believe in this product (Dance music), and I think we need to grab the bull by the horn whenever we see an opportunity like this arise.

What I know is that CW is going to be largelyt aimed at the 12-34 agegroups. It's going to be a new network so new ideas can be pitched to it. We know the networks are on the lookout for new ideas and new concepts.

We know how successful American Idol is, and that Top of the Pops might soon be airing in this country as well. Both are music shows! Well, why not a show dedicated to Dance and club music?

It also wouldn't hurt to mention the fact that there's a number of Dance stations on both satellite radio services, that Dance is creeping back into Mainstream Pop radio. There's also hundreds of virtual Dance stations with thousands and thousands of listeners online. Even a few of the HD radio stations program Dance music.
 
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> > DANCE PARTY USA!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> >
> There you go! You tell em Sam! :)

yes, sam. you go!

It doesn't look like they will be looking for new programming, unfortunately. They will be taking the best of UPN and the best of WB and putting onto the CW.<P ID="signature">______________
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> yes, sam. you go!

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> > > DANCE PARTY USA!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> > >
> > There you go! You tell em Sam! :)
>
> yes, sam. you go!
>
> It doesn't look like they will be looking for new
> programming, unfortunately. They will be taking the best of
> UPN and the best of WB and putting onto the CW.
>

This is true, but I'm sure that'll leave some room for new shows. A lot of their shows don't do well in the ratings, and this new network will operate 7 days a week.

Would be awesome if you, Tony Santiago, John Parker, and Marcus (metro) got a chance to meet with someone at CW. Perhaps this would also make for a decent discussion at the WMC, or perhaps this is just a fantasy idea. I think it's plausible, and a noteworthy topic, but that's just me :)
 
Hmm, the best of UPN and the best of the WB.
I guess they can call it "The WB but we cancelled a couple of shows to make room for Everybody Hates Chris (which I keep forgetting to check out)"

Seriously, I don't watch either, but my girlfriend watches some of the WB stuff.
Does anyone even watch UPN?

> > > DANCE PARTY USA!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> > >
> > There you go! You tell em Sam! :)
>
> yes, sam. you go!
>
> It doesn't look like they will be looking for new
> programming, unfortunately. They will be taking the best of
> UPN and the best of WB and putting onto the CW.
>
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Because you dance to disco but you still like rock.</P>
 
Maybe they can wrestle Deep House Dish away from Saturday Night Live!
Honestly though, I wouldn't mind seeing a Soul Train or American Bandstand type show dedicated to dance music (or even mainstream pop for that matter).

> With UPN and the WB combining to form a new national network
> called CW, and with them admitting to targetting younger
> views, then maybe we ought to look into the possiblity of
> the network airing a weekly Dance show. Friday or Saturday
> nights would probably be best. It's a great way to get
> people excited before they're heading out to clubs, or just
> going out to visit with their friends.
>
> Theres more then enough good Dance videos, especially from
> overseas, to fill a 30-60 minute weekly time slot.
>
> If the show taps into the whole "Wild On E" tv show
> lifestyle, amd combines that with perhaps the hipness of Mad
> TV or SNL, and plays a broad range of CURRENT Dance music,
> then maybe we can tip the scale in our favor. We can make
> Dance more successful in this country.
>
> If the show does decently well, then I'm sure MTV will start
> airing its own Dance show, and radio will be even more
> supportive of Dance.
>
> We all talk about the need to push things forward, and this
> seems like the perfect opportunity to do so.
>
> Someone needs to seriously pitch this idea to the new
> network, or to Fox which has always leaned a bit on the
> young end, or even to NBC which has had its worst ratings
> this past year in a long time.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Because you dance to disco but you still like rock.</P>
 
Here's a REALLY-COO-WIL IDEA for such a Dance show on CW, Fox, or even NBC...

Back in the 1990's, MuchMusic (both in the U.S. and Canada) aired a Dance Music show on Friday nights from 8:30 pm Central time until 10:00pm, and it was LIVE-TO-AIR!!

This show was called "Electric Circus" and it was unlike any Dance Music show up to that point.

There are several reasons for this...

1) The show featured the newest and most current Dance/Techno/Electronica tracks each week, AND aired the videos for several of these tracks (in tandem with showing the EC Dancers in the EC Environment dancing to the tracks).

2) EC had a weekly Top 10 Dance Chart featuring the Top 10 Dance videos of the week. They played snippets of the #10 to #2 videos, and played the #1 song/video in its entirety.

3) EC also showed the latest Dance / Club Top 10 charts from different International chart magazines, such as Billboard here in the U.S., as well as chart magazines from Canada, Great Briiain, and the Euro charts too!

4) The show also had live performers on several of their shows, performing 1 or 2 songs live in the Environment and in front of the Dancers, and they sang the song LIVE, NOT lip-synched like on Bandstand in the 70's.

5) EC also had a News segment featuring news from the Dance Music / Club world each week, and kept audiences up-to-date on things like the Winter Music Conference in Miami and other events like those throughout the world.

6) About once a month, EC did theme shows. One month, they would do a show featuring all Latin Dance music, another month, they would do an entire show dedicated to the DJ's. Other months, they would do themed shows based on the Holiday of that month (Halloween the last Friday before October 31, and Christmas on the last or 2nd-to-last Friday before Christmas). AND, twice a year, EC would do LIVE outdoor remote-broadcasts from different well-known sites in Canada. In February, on a Saturday night in mid- to late-February, they would broadcast a LIVE outdoor remote-broadcast from the Winterlude festival at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. And in late-July, EC would do a LIVE outdoor remote-cast from Paramount Canada's Wonderland in Maple, Ontario (just outside Toronto). In both of these live outdoor remote-casts, they would invite thousands of people to show up to these remotes and be in the audience, while they would have about 100 of the EC Dancers on 1 main stage, and 2 smaller platforms above the crowd dancing to the shows, and they would both feature several acts performing their Dance songs on-stage for the autiences both there at the site, and live to the audiences watching at home.

7) During EC, usually in the middle of the program, they would have well-known locan local, national, and world-renowned DJ's perform on the show, and they would perform a live mixset lasting up to 10 minutes...giving the viewers at home a chance to sample their music & musical-styles.

And finally, the best part of EC...

8) Electric Circus had a LIVE, on-air Chatline which ran 24/7, but during the show, they would have desktop or laptop computers set up in the EC Environment where some of the EC Dancers would chat LIVE with the online chatters watching at home, and the online chatters also would be able to chat it up with the host of the show, and sometimes they would have the performers on the show do live chats with the online chatters either during or immediately following the show! :) Of course, this chatroom WAS moderated, which was a MUST for anything like this to work. :)

Now that you know about Electric Circus, there was 2 hosts on that show which REALLY made the show click!!

When I started watching and participating on the show, the host of the show was American-born Juliette Powell. She spoke both fluent English & French, and she REALLY liked to party on the show!! :) Juliette hosted the show from September 1996 until September 2000.

The second one was Nadine Ramkisson!! She served as the host for EC on MuchMusic between September 2000 and August 2002. She brought an "international" flair to the show, since she was originally from Trinidad. And prior to Juliette leaving the show in 2000, she was the show's Dance Co-ordinator, and would take over hosting duties when Juliette had to be somewhere else on assignment. :)

This was, BAR-NONE, the BESTEST Dance Music TV show EVER!! :)

And I REALLY would like such a show to rise again, and I think such a show WOULD work on a network like The CW, Fox, or even NBC on a Friday or Saturday night during prime-time, and would be PERFECT to run LIVE for 90-minutes ever Friday or Saturday night!! :)

What do you think of such a show?

DeanSB<P ID="signature">______________
Dance Music RULEZ!! :)</P>
 
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