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WBLS Weekly?

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JerseyDude

Does anyone know what WBLS' latest weekly PPM rating is? I wanna know how much audience share the station has absorbed from KISS so far. A lot of my friends find WBLS hard to listen to.

WBLS sounds like garbarge. Heavy on music from 35 years ago. No local music and a Quiet Storm that starts when the sun is still up (7pm).
 
I like the music from 35 years ago... that's the soul I enjoy and listen to. The modern, overly graphic new stuff is garbage to me. I'm no prude, but some of these songs are downright audio porn.

Of course, that's only one opinion, and the only one that matters to me... mine!
 
JerseyDude said:
Does anyone know what WBLS' latest weekly PPM rating is? I wanna know how much audience share the station has absorbed from KISS so far. A lot of my friends find WBLS hard to listen to.

WBLS sounds like garbarge. Heavy on music from 35 years ago. No local music and a Quiet Storm that starts when the sun is still up (7pm).
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WBLS's music isn't different to what was played on Kiss or any other urban AC for that matter. Are you comparing the stations saying BLS leans older than Kiss did? They're not that heavy on music from 35 years ago at all.
 
You are right about WBLS sounding like any ole Urban AC station in Laurel,Mississippi or Louisville,Kentucky. It's heavy on 1970s Earth,Wind and Fire and Marvin Gaye. Almost as old as KISS was. A lot of my friends were born when those songs came out (1976-1977). There are about 10 current R&B songs being played to death on WBLS. When those 10 are not being played, it's back to Marvin and Gladys again.
 
JerseyDude said:
You are right about WBLS sounding like any ole Urban AC station in Laurel,Mississippi or Louisville,Kentucky. It's heavy on 1970s Earth,Wind and Fire and Marvin Gaye. Almost as old as KISS was. A lot of my friends were born when those songs came out (1976-1977). There are about 10 current R&B songs being played to death on WBLS. When those 10 are not being played, it's back to Marvin and Gladys again.
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I'm not sure why you think WBLS is so heavy on 70's R&B. If anything they lean more heavily on music from the 80's-90's and current. I can't remember the last time I heard Marvin Gaye on WBLS. For the record Kiss leaned much older than BLS.
 
WBLS played Marvin Gaye during Shayla's midday show this past Friday. Earth,Wind and Fire is played asif it is a current group. Forget about local soul artists like Angela Johnson,Lamone,Walter Christopher(Harlem) and Darien Dean (Mount Vernon). Those guys get some airplay on stations like WHUR/DC, WYBC (New Haven,CT) and on stations in the Southern United States and Europe. WYBC/New Haven has a Sunday evening Neo Soul Show. Real Soul lovers can't get WBLS PD Skip Dillard to even think about anything like that.

If a current leaning R&B Adult station pops up in New York, watch WBLS' ratings fall.
 
Also, WBLS' entire Sunday programming targets the 50plus crowd. From 12noon-until 6pm there is Felix Hernandez and Hal Jackson playing a lot of 60s and 70s music. A least Hal plays some music from the 1980s. From 8pm to 12 midnight, there is a Reggae Show. The 20s and 30s crowd totally shuts WBLS off on Sundays.
 
By the next monthly Arbitron rating we'll be able to tell how much of WRKS (98.7 Kiss-FM) audience migrated to WBLS.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
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