What format would get more listeners? Bilingual or an all 80's/90's radio station?

[boombox4]

Just curious, is "Spanglish" a thing on radio anywhere?

 

[davideduardo]

Just curious, is "Spanglish" a thing on radio anywhere?

It's been tried. But Spanglish is not uniform. In my house, we often speak Spanglish where we use words or sentences in both English and Spanish indiscriminately when chatting. We also make up words that don't exist in either language and those are very personal to just us.

A lot of the stations that play reggaetón and the like mix some English words and phrases in the jock chatter. But often it sounds a bit fake and contrived, like the jock is trying to show that they are bilingual.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Spanglish is not uniform. In my house, we often speak Spanglish where we use words or sentences in both English and Spanish indiscriminately when chatting.

There are many examples where two languages are mixed together, using whatever words are most convenient in the context of the conversation.

Years ago the government-run radio service in Tahiti broadcast on shortwave. I remember listening to a phone-in talk show where both the hosts and the callers rapidly switched back and forth between French and Tahitian in much the same way Spanglish is constructed. At least I could make out half of it using my high school French!

 

[davideduardo]

I mean there are sometimes that play both English and Spanish but I know it wouldn’t work as well as a place in Dallas.

The issue here on the mainland U.S. is that there are plenty of English language choices for listeners who like some form of that musical spectrum.