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Great!  How many Hispanic stations do we have now in Charlotte?  And, how many do we need?  Ah, what the hay! What else could anyone do with an AM signal that doesn't cover the market effectively?
 
Just tuned them in. Big dead carrier. LOL Spanish stations must do that a lot. 103.9 in Greenville, 105.3, and the others do that quite often. "Oh..oh.....my playlist ran out"!!! Hehe!
 
Heard a little of 1220 today. The music was nice more of a Cuban flavor, not Mexican. The Spanish speaking segment of the market seems a bit overserved right now.
 
TheStoker said:
Just tuned them in. Big dead carrier. LOL Spanish stations must do that a lot. 103.9 in Greenville, 105.3, and the others do that quite often. "Oh..oh.....my playlist ran out"!!! Hehe!
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I hope those stations have better processing than 103.9 in Greenville. They have awful processing, sometimes it sounds like an online stream.
 
I hope those stations have better processing than 103.9 in Greenville. They have awful processing, sometimes it sounds like an online stream.
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Maybe they sound crappy because they've got their entire audio chain fed through that Big 20-spring REEEEVERB!
With the following settings: Dry Signal:1%; Wet Signal:99%. ::)
I understand it's a prerequisite. You cannot operate an Hispanic station with a REEEEEEEEVERB! ;D
 
Actually the Hispanic stations in Miami sound every bit as good as the other stations. I think some of these stations sound like a bad internet stream because that's where they get the feed from!

It would be great if these radio stations tried something besides talk or Hispanic formats? I'd like to see someone try doing some unique format music or non music.

How about:

All Comedy
All Elvis
All Weather
All Local News
Radio Drama with local actors (area theatre groups would be willing I'm sure)
Old Radio Shows
Classic Country
Children's stories

I'm sure there are some even better ideas out there that could be explored.
 
Here is a brilliant idea. How about a station in Gaston County focus on Gaston County and not Charlotte! How about a Gaston County station with local news and sports and syndicated programs with a local focus! WRHI does it in Rock Hill and has for years. 1450 WGNC is on the right track. WGNC has local sports and a local morning show, but they fail beyond that. They have no local news and weather
 
Jim said:
Here is a brilliant idea. How about a station in Gaston County focus on Gaston County and not Charlotte! How about a Gaston County station with local news and sports and syndicated programs with a local focus! WRHI does it in Rock Hill and has for years. 1450 WGNC is on the right track. WGNC has local sports and a local morning show, but they fail beyond that. They have no local news and weather
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Local businessmen used to own local stations and local business would support it. I guess that went away when the big box stores like KMart, WalMart and Best Buy came along a forced the little guys out.
 
Jim said:
Here is a brilliant idea. How about a station in Gaston County focus on Gaston County and not Charlotte! How about a Gaston County station with local news and sports and syndicated programs with a local focus!
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Outstanding Idea, but not likely to happen. Local news done properly costs real money. If you are going to really do local news right you need a news director 2 or 3 other anchors and several reporters. The reporters could be stringers but you need several who are available at a moments notice to cover stories. You can't do rip n read from the wire and the local paper.

The lack of local news is one of my biggest beefs with the majority of radio stations on the air today, I can not stand jukebox radio. If all you are going to give me is music and commercials, I can just play CD's of the music that I want to hear and have no commercials.
 
I agree with that, if you have a station, you should focus on "local" issues, "local" news, and cover events within the community, Charlotte has enough stations, and i don't understand why WOHS in Shelby wants to move near here, although they do need another talk outlet to compete with WBT, but
that won't happen until someone decides to go "Talk" on FM, which may happen eventually.
 
I think you're right about an FM talker but we already have WFAE NPR talk and WLNK which is lifestyle talk. I don't know who would make the switch because it would take resources to do it right. Personally I wouldn't want another political talk station either liberal or conservative.
 
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