what are your favorite rhythmic stations?

[watza222]

i'd have to say that my favorites are KYLD (WiLD 94.9), KVEG (Hot 97.5), and WLLD (WiLD 94.1).

 

[alexh1013]

KMVQ (movin 99.7 san francisco) and KDON (102.5 san jose/santa cruz)

 

[Mid West Clubber]

B-96 Chicago

Power 96 Miami

Wild 94.9

kdon 102.5 Salinas CA.

Movin 99.7

KKFR Phoenix

kwin 97.7 East Bay

102 Jamz Greensboro NC

Hot 93.7 hartford CT.

 

[AM FM listener]

KVYB, Santa Barbara/Ventura, CA

 

[rapking]

1) Hot 93.7 WZMX Hartford CT
2) 102 Jamz N.C.
3) 106 KMEL S.F.
4) Dont know if it Urban or CHR/R but I love Pirate radio Hot 87.7 Boston MA

 

[musicman3355]

1. Power 106 LA
2. B96 Chicago
3. WiLD 94.9 SF
4. MOViN 99.7 (started liking this station more)
5. 106 KMEL
6. Hot 93.7 Hartford

 

[btone1035]

106 KMEL

 

[kilamanjero]

106 KMEL San Francisco Bay Area
Hot 93.7 WZMX Hartford
X102.3 WMBX West Palm Beach

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

I thought 106 KMEL was Urban and sister station WILD 94.9 is Rhythmic.

 

[prodigy3]

I thought 106 KMEL was Urban and sister station WILD 94.9 is Rhythmic.

You're right, both are great stations though... Power 106 in LA isn't really what I thought it'd be! Their imaging is horrible, wth happened to Eric Edwards?? It's some random lady speaking..

 

[Mid West Clubber]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

 

[CHRles]

Choice FM 96.9/107.1 London

Wild 104 Mcallen-Brownsville

Flow 93.5 Toronto

Power 96 Miami

Jam FM 93.6 Berlin

98.8 Kiss FM Berlin

Z-90 San Diego

105.9 The Voice Stockholm

Wild 104.9 Oklahoma City

Wild 94.1 Tampa

 

[kilamanjero]

I thought 106 KMEL was Urban and sister station WILD 94.9 is Rhythmic.

Technically KMEL is an urban, but it still bills as a Rhythmic CHR. It's one of the few that still does bill itself as such but is programmed as an Urban Contemporary.

 

[BRH]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

I kind of agree, as I mentioned in another thread. I'm old enough to remember the rhythmic CHR format when it first started in the late 80s, and it was a mix of rhythmic pop, dance, and hip hop with a CHR type presentation. That's what I consider to be a true rhythmic CHR. I've never understood how stations that morphed into pure hip hop/ R&B in the 90s (like WQHT, WPGC, KMEL, WHTA, etc.) were considered "rhythmic CHR". I've always considered those types of stations urban. They have almost the exact same playlists and types of airstaffs as the urbans, so why are they considred rhythmic CHR and not urban? I never got that. Anyway, I'm glad the musical pendulum has begun to swing back in the other direction, with rhythmics once again becoming differentiated from urbans by mixing in dance and rhythmic pop with a more CHR presentation. I think the rhythmic format right now sounds the best it has since the early 90s.

Anyway, I certainly have nothing against hip hop or R&B either, but I'm glad that there is once again a distinction and two seperate formats between rhythmic CHR and urban. (more variety, yay!).

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

I kind of agree, as I mentioned in another thread. I'm old enough to remember the rhythmic CHR format when it first started in the late 80s, and it was a mix of rhythmic pop, dance, and hip hop with a CHR type presentation. That's what I consider to be a true rhythmic CHR. I've never understood how stations that morphed into pure hip hop/ R&B in the 90s (like WQHT, WPGC, KMEL, WHTA, etc.) were considered "rhythmic CHR". I've always considered those types of stations urban. They have almost the exact same playlists and types of airstaffs as the urbans, so why are they considred rhythmic CHR and not urban? I never got that. Anyway, I'm glad the musical pendulum has begun to swing back in the other direction, with rhythmics once again becoming differentiated from urbans by mixing in dance and rhythmic pop with a more CHR presentation. I think the rhythmic format right now sounds the best it has since the early 90s.

Anyway, I certainly have nothing against hip hop or R&B either, but I'm glad that there is once again a distinction and two seperate formats between rhythmic CHR and urban. (more variety, yay!).

I'm no radio God, but I remember being told an Urban and Rhythmic station can have the same playlist, but the station labeled Rhythmic would get more advertisers. Pure Urbans labeled Rhythmic reminds me of 97.9 THE BOX Houston, HOT 97 NYC and HOT 107.1 Memphis. I don't remember HOT 107.9/WHTA here ever being labeled Rhythmic?

 

[kilamanjero]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

I kind of agree, as I mentioned in another thread. I'm old enough to remember the rhythmic CHR format when it first started in the late 80s, and it was a mix of rhythmic pop, dance, and hip hop with a CHR type presentation. That's what I consider to be a true rhythmic CHR. I've never understood how stations that morphed into pure hip hop/ R&B in the 90s (like WQHT, WPGC, KMEL, WHTA, etc.) were considered "rhythmic CHR". I've always considered those types of stations urban. They have almost the exact same playlists and types of airstaffs as the urbans, so why are they considred rhythmic CHR and not urban? I never got that. Anyway, I'm glad the musical pendulum has begun to swing back in the other direction, with rhythmics once again becoming differentiated from urbans by mixing in dance and rhythmic pop with a more CHR presentation. I think the rhythmic format right now sounds the best it has since the early 90s.

Anyway, I certainly have nothing against hip hop or R&B either, but I'm glad that there is once again a distinction and two seperate formats between rhythmic CHR and urban. (more variety, yay!).

The reason why WQHT, WPGC, KMEL (also the former KKBT) were considered Rhythmic CHRs is because they had playlists at one point that fell within that rubric. However, by the late 1980s to mid 1990s they saw the opportunity to fill a hole in their respective markets to lean more "urban" and all of them eventually morph into one. The process of their change didn't happen overnight, rather over a period of 5 to 10 years with all of those stations. In other words, blame it on their actual urban competition for not doing their job and allowing them to fill that hole. Other stations that are like those aforementioned stations are still in existence like WMBX West Palm Beach and WZMX Hartford.

 

[kilamanjero]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

I kind of agree, as I mentioned in another thread. I'm old enough to remember the rhythmic CHR format when it first started in the late 80s, and it was a mix of rhythmic pop, dance, and hip hop with a CHR type presentation. That's what I consider to be a true rhythmic CHR. I've never understood how stations that morphed into pure hip hop/ R&B in the 90s (like WQHT, WPGC, KMEL, WHTA, etc.) were considered "rhythmic CHR". I've always considered those types of stations urban. They have almost the exact same playlists and types of airstaffs as the urbans, so why are they considred rhythmic CHR and not urban? I never got that. Anyway, I'm glad the musical pendulum has begun to swing back in the other direction, with rhythmics once again becoming differentiated from urbans by mixing in dance and rhythmic pop with a more CHR presentation. I think the rhythmic format right now sounds the best it has since the early 90s.

Anyway, I certainly have nothing against hip hop or R&B either, but I'm glad that there is once again a distinction and two seperate formats between rhythmic CHR and urban. (more variety, yay!).

I'm no radio God, but I remember being told an Urban and Rhythmic station can have the same playlist, but the station labeled Rhythmic would get more advertisers. Pure Urbans labeled Rhythmic reminds me of 97.9 THE BOX Houston, HOT 97 NYC and HOT 107.1 Memphis. I don't remember HOT 107.9/WHTA here ever being labeled Rhythmic?

Bingo! Oh yeah, WHTA never was considered Rhythmic, but their sister station in Baltimore, WERQ "92Q Jams", was until 2006.

However, I don't know how on earth KBXX Houston still gets away with being tagged a "Rhythmic" because they never were in the "borderline league" like WPGC, KMEL, or KKBT. They clear made a pendulum switch from being a pure Rhythmic that played pop, hip-hop, and R&B songs to one that just play practically all hip-hop all the time which is MAINSTREAM URBAN (just like WHHH Indianapolis, WHHT St. Louis, and the other Radio One Mainstream Urbans with the exception of WKYS and WERQ).

 

[CHRles]

In the mid 90s 97.9 The Box played Dance titles like "Rhythm of the Night" by Corona and "Another Night" by the Real MCcoy.

 

[cartman1964]

94 in Tampa (wild?)

and Power 96 Miami

 

[Martin Mac]

Rhythmic and urban can be the same thing,, some are even dual reporters.. to me in order to be a Rhythmic you have to play some Dance, and an Urban has to play some R&B... To me an Actual Hip Hop station AKA Hot 97 NYC or Hot 93.7 Hartford are Hip Hop and not really rhythmic or Urban.. In fact I think their should be a Seperate chart and label for the stations that are only Rap and Hip Hop... ;D

I kind of agree, as I mentioned in another thread. I'm old enough to remember the rhythmic CHR format when it first started in the late 80s, and it was a mix of rhythmic pop, dance, and hip hop with a CHR type presentation. That's what I consider to be a true rhythmic CHR. I've never understood how stations that morphed into pure hip hop/ R&B in the 90s (like WQHT, WPGC, KMEL, WHTA, etc.) were considered "rhythmic CHR". I've always considered those types of stations urban. They have almost the exact same playlists and types of airstaffs as the urbans, so why are they considred rhythmic CHR and not urban? I never got that. Anyway, I'm glad the musical pendulum has begun to swing back in the other direction, with rhythmics once again becoming differentiated from urbans by mixing in dance and rhythmic pop with a more CHR presentation. I think the rhythmic format right now sounds the best it has since the early 90s.

Anyway, I certainly have nothing against hip hop or R&B either, but I'm glad that there is once again a distinction and two seperate formats between rhythmic CHR and urban. (more variety, yay!).

I'm no radio God, but I remember being told an Urban and Rhythmic station can have the same playlist, but the station labeled Rhythmic would get more advertisers. Pure Urbans labeled Rhythmic reminds me of 97.9 THE BOX Houston, HOT 97 NYC and HOT 107.1 Memphis. I don't remember HOT 107.9/WHTA here ever being labeled Rhythmic?

Bingo! Oh yeah, WHTA never was considered Rhythmic, but their sister station in Baltimore, WERQ "92Q Jams", was until 2006.

However, I don't know how on earth KBXX Houston still gets away with being tagged a "Rhythmic" because they never were in the "borderline league" like WPGC, KMEL, or KKBT. They clear made a pendulum switch from being a pure Rhythmic that played pop, hip-hop, and R&B songs to one that just play practically all hip-hop all the time which is MAINSTREAM URBAN (just like WHHH Indianapolis, WHHT St. Louis, and the other Radio One Mainstream Urbans with the exception of WKYS and WERQ).

Why is WKYS and WERQ an exception? I mean ive heard Rhythmic tracks on WKYS from time to time, is that why? And WHHH really reminds me of WPGC's playlist. Both labeled as Rhythmic, both practically are Mainstream Urbans.