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Yes just like my city of Boston!! Boston lost its only urban FM station back in 2006, and then pirate radio stations started popping up everywhere .trock said:
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It's unfortunate, especially with the large African American population in Pittsburgh, I'm suprised one of the lower rated stations didn't jump on the format opportunity.
Boston is somewhat understandable with the smaller African Amercian population than Pittsburgh, and at least we have 94.5 and 1090 in Boston, Pittsburgh has nothing! (right now at least, rumor has it some retired radio guy is opening up an urban station for Pittsburgh)
A friend of mine visited Pittsburgh a few weeks before the demise of WAMO and got some recordings of WAMO-FM, I've listened to them, it's sad to see another Hip Hop station bite the dust.
Some people say Urban radio is dying. I 100% disagree to the fullest. Urban radio as a whole is not dying, Hip-Hop is hitting rough times as of 2008, but other Urban formats like Gospel and R&B are still flourishing. Just remember, times trends and styles are constantly changing, Formats have their heydays and their comebacks. CHR is a great example, it's THE format right now with PPM, but it was facing an identity crisis throughout alot of the 90's, kindof like what is up with Hip-Hop now.
Boston is somewhat understandable with the smaller African Amercian population than Pittsburgh, and at least we have 94.5 and 1090 in Boston, Pittsburgh has nothing! (right now at least, rumor has it some retired radio guy is opening up an urban station for Pittsburgh)
A friend of mine visited Pittsburgh a few weeks before the demise of WAMO and got some recordings of WAMO-FM, I've listened to them, it's sad to see another Hip Hop station bite the dust.
Some people say Urban radio is dying. I 100% disagree to the fullest. Urban radio as a whole is not dying, Hip-Hop is hitting rough times as of 2008, but other Urban formats like Gospel and R&B are still flourishing. Just remember, times trends and styles are constantly changing, Formats have their heydays and their comebacks. CHR is a great example, it's THE format right now with PPM, but it was facing an identity crisis throughout alot of the 90's, kindof like what is up with Hip-Hop now.
Pittsburgh proper has a large black population, but the market the black population makes up less than 10%. It's obvious (to me) why the urban format is so disposable to the market at-large, but due to their size of demographic in the city itself warrants the need for a full-power urban station on the FM. Where Sheridan Broadcasting screwed up another (hopefully this local mogul) will pick up and make a community oriented station like what WDKX in Rochester, NY.
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