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Does anyone here listen to WGPR? They are one of my favorite stations. I listen to them online from out of state. They play a huge library of quality music. I always discover something new when I listen to them. Last night I discovered Al Green-Lay It Down, I was in awe of how great a song that was and was quite surprised that it's from 2008. I didn't even know Al recorded music recently.

WGPR play a great range of music from classics to currents. They play lot's of "oh wow!" songs. For example they played Cece Peniston-We Got A Love Thang...I totally forgot about that song it sounded great.

My favorite Urban ACs are the ones that don't play too many of the young artists such as Trey Songz that get a lot of mainstream Urban airplay. I don't care for how sexualized these artists and their songs are. WGPR doesn't seem to play much of this...the currents they play are tasteful such as the new Sade,

Plus WGPR has a real community feel to it. They also have good quality morning news which is missing from a lot of music stations these days.
 
I hate to throw cold water over your praise of WGPR but their ratings are mediocre at best, #18 in the latest ratings. They're often the lowest-rated commercial FM in Detroit with a full-market signal. Two other Urban AC's are ranked higher.

However, as long as the owners of WGPR like what the station is doing, it will stay in business. WGPR used to also own Channel 61, then called WGPR-TV. Before there was a BET on cable, WGPR-TV tried being a black-oriented TV station. Their ratings were bad, just like WGPR-FM. Then one day, WJBK-TV 2, which had been a CBS affiliate since the early days of Detroit television, decided to become a Fox affiliate when Fox acquired NFL rights.

And what's worse, no other major station in Detroit stepped up to become the CBS affiliate in one of the country's largest markets. So CBS bought WGPR, allowing the network to clear its programs in Detroit. Many cable companies in the outlying suburbs had to add Channel 61 to their line-ups since they never ran WGPR-TV. The station took the call letters of CBS's popular all-news AM station, becoming WWJ-TV. The owners of WGPR made many millions of dollars.

So I suppose they can continue to program WGPR-FM with a wide playlist and little repetition. It may not get ratings, but I'm sure it does OK.








Gregg
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I know their ratings aren't great but they are slowly climbing. Plus they are one of the few urbans in the U.S with higher ratings in PPM than diary,
 
Re: WGPR Should try HIP HOP MUSIC

I think that WGPR should try to move their format from Urban Adult contemporary to Urban Contemporary format, which consists of hip-hop music and r&b music. If i was in control of WGPR I would flip WGPR to hip-hop/rap music and r&b.

Gregg said:
I hate to throw cold water over your praise of WGPR but their ratings are mediocre at best, #18 in the latest ratings. They're often the lowest-rated commercial FM in Detroit with a full-market signal. Two other Urban AC's are ranked higher.

However, as long as the owners of WGPR like what the station is doing, it will stay in business. WGPR used to also own Channel 61, then called WGPR-TV. Before there was a BET on cable, WGPR-TV tried being a black-oriented TV station. Their ratings were bad, just like WGPR-FM. Then one day, WJBK-TV 2, which had been a CBS affiliate since the early days of Detroit television, decided to become a Fox affiliate when Fox acquired NFL rights.

And what's worse, no other major station in Detroit stepped up to become the CBS affiliate in one of the country's largest markets. So CBS bought WGPR, allowing the network to clear its programs in Detroit. Many cable companies in the outlying suburbs had to add Channel 61 to their line-ups since they never ran WGPR-TV. The station took the call letters of CBS's popular all-news AM station, becoming WWJ-TV. The owners of WGPR made many millions of dollars.

So I suppose they can continue to program WGPR-FM with a wide playlist and little repetition. It may not get ratings, but I'm sure it does OK.








Gregg
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