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What is the Best Urban/Rhythmic Station in The Bay?

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alexh1013

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Theres 98.1 Kiss FM, Movin 99.7, 102.9 KBLX, and 106KMEL

Or Wild 94.9 some people call it CHR/Top 40 or CHR/Rhythmic or CHR/Pop
 
I think Movin 99.7 is the best station because they play the new and old!
 
If I may take a tangent off your question fairly early in the thread, one of my pet peeves is when broadcasters make reference to "in the Bay." Perhaps you've heard the weathercaster roll this phrase off the tongue, "...to the mid '70's in and around the Bay." These throwaway phrases are fillers around substantive information. I know it could be worse, such as to throw in an "um" or "uh" as a placeholder while the broadcaster's mind catches up with his mouth. I submit to you however few individuals find the temperature "in" the Bay relavant. Nor are we likely to find any urban/rhythmic stations "in" the Bay. Salt water wreaks havoc on the tuning coils for one thing.

Does anyone else cringe as our standard-bearers of good broadcast writing and speech seem to be letting us down?
 
Though the KGO transmitter is not in the water, per se - it is on some kind of platform a mile or two from shore next to the Dumbarton Bridge. So I guess you could say that KGO literally provides the best News Talk in the bay. ;D
 
Sometimes ending with a preposition is inevitable though...Your and You're is a bigger pet peeve of mine...
 
sloux said:
If I may take a tangent off your question fairly early in the thread, one of my pet peeves is when broadcasters make reference to "in the Bay." Perhaps you've heard the weathercaster roll this phrase off the tongue, "...to the mid '70's in and around the Bay." These throwaway phrases are fillers around substantive information. I know it could be worse, such as to throw in an "um" or "uh" as a placeholder while the broadcaster's mind catches up with his mouth. I submit to you however few individuals find the temperature "in" the Bay relavant. Nor are we likely to find any urban/rhythmic stations "in" the Bay. Salt water wreaks havoc on the tuning coils for one thing.

Does anyone else cringe as our standard-bearers of good broadcast writing and speech seem to be letting us down?
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People like me call the bay area "the bay" because it short, sounds better, etc.

Some people my say that is "not right" or "ghetto" but many of my friends who are also say it.

I may be the only 14 year old mixed race person from Hayward commenting on these sites.
 
As long as we're talking about language pet peeves, mine is the rampant mis-use of apostrophes which are meant to be used in only two ways: (1)to denote posession of something ("Joe's book"); or (2) as a contraction of "is" ("Joe's going to the store.")

I cringe when I see items about "the 49'ers". The other day I saw a sign for a business on Hayes Street that said "Haye's Street Market." Ugh!

Please pardon the off-topic rant. Er..uh...I vote for Wild 94.9.
 
skyrocker said:
anyone else cringe as our standard-bearers of good broadcast writing and
speech seem to be letting us down?
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Pet Peeve: Ending sentences with prepositions -- where's that at? --Oop...
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As my English professor used to say, that is right behind the preposition.

I think you may have gotten me though on a technicality! The colloquialism letting us down does not beg for an object of the preposition, nevertheless, down is a preposition and it is seldom appropriate to end a sentence in this manner.

I take it though, nobody else cringes at the clunky speech on the air? Not even when broadcasters use the word less rather than fewer or between rather than among? What about talkers that refer to myself instead of me? Seriously, misuse of the language, particularly in a newscast, communicates volumes about a person's education and one's commitment to excellence in broadcasting. I guess it would seem more nit-picky if speech was ancillary to broadcasting, but it is the essence of broadcasting, at least in this medium.
 
Are you counting Dance under the "rhythmic" label? If so, then I would certainly vote for KNGY "Energy 92-7" as the best rhythmic station in the Bay Area.(and best station period). "Movin 99.7" would be my next choice.
 
I vote for 102.9 KBLX, because it has the least repetitive
rotation of music, while the most repetitive is 106.1 KMEL, with
98.1 KISQ not far behind...
--jay
 
KYLD Rhythmic?

Look on their playlist, Coldplay and Katy Perry is not R&B nor Hip Hop, not to mention a solid number of their currents are biggies on the HOT 100.....I'd say KYLD is closer to CHR than in anytime in it's 15 year history.....These two stations (KMEL and KYLD) are part of the same ownership cluster, and I doubt Clear Channel needs two rhythmic stations..
 
Fastphilly said:
KYLD Rhythmic?

Look on their playlist, Coldplay and Katy Perry is not R&B nor Hip Hop, not to mention a solid number of their currents are biggies on the HOT 100.....I'd say KYLD is closer to CHR than in anytime in it's 15 year history.....These two stations (KMEL and KYLD) are part of the same ownership cluster, and I doubt Clear Channel needs two rhythmic stations..
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Try telling that to Clear Channel. As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

BTW Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" is charting at Rhythmic.
 
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