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WHDR 93.1 ROck

...and they still don't have numbers even close to what they had as a one of a kind Classical Music station.
 
I don't know what they're trying to accomplish over there but it sounds just as sorry as that miserable excuse for a classic rock station at the other end of the dial. I know this may come as a shock to the good people of Cox Radio but Led Zeppelin actually had more than two songs. What's really sad is that even their HD-2 channel sounds almost exactly like 105.9 only without the commercials. Grrr. Don't get me started.
 
What a waste of a frequency, bring back Party 93.1....................
 
If anything, bring back Classical 93.1, set it on autopilot, and get those 55+ local buys the agencies claim they can't get clients to buy!
 
Sorry, Classical died 1679 and Disco died 1979. ;D
Let's see, Zep songs played today:

7:11 Black Dog
9:06 All My Love
10:45 The Ocean
1:09 D'yer Ma'ker
3:04 Over The Hills and Far Away
4:46 Rock and Roll
6:44 Kashmir

Excessive on playing Led Zep but there is a variety.
 
Folks, I was having fun with you, note the smiley face. I used to be a Disco/Funk, way back. Yes, Disco evolutioned into:

American Disco: 132-141 BPM - Lolleatta Holloway
Euro Disco: 142-144 BPM - Love & Kisses
Techno-pop - Kraftwerk
Rap/Hip-Hop - Afrika Bambataa
Club - Peech Boys
High Energy - Evelyn Thomas
Freestyle - Coro
Techno - A heaping bunch of no name artists.
Industrial - NIN
Chicago House - Frankie Knuckles
House - Black Box
Deep House - Who cares.
Drum n Bass - Care even less.

And many, mooooore!

See ya!

Note: Party 93.1 sucked. Do yourself a favor and get XM Satellite Radio for BPM 81. You will never come back to FM.
 
Party was never really done correctly for the market. Whether that was due to management at the station or higher-ups (which I contend that it was the higher-ups all along... the management early on tried, from what I've heard both over the air on behind the scenes), Party was just never fully executed properly. I second the vote for BPM, though I'm just as much a fan of Fusion Chicago, and you can listen to both online for free.
 
Nobody here seems to get it.... 93.1 WTMI was a one of a kind radio station with a proven format that catered to upscale educated South Florida residents with plenty of income to purchase advertisers goods and services. WTMI had a 30 year history of playing Classical Music in South Florida. Even with the changes and updating of the format that would lead many to say they were not doing the format correctly. WTMI still had ratings a good bit higher than anything on 93.1 has managed since. Now it's just one of the pack with not much to set it apart from the rest.

I'm not a big Classical fan but I appreciate music performed and written by people who are well educated in their field and studied heard to pefect their craft. Not to make a fortune but because there was a passion for the music and the desire to do it right, for art more than commerce. I believe in some kind of diversity on the air not just several different variations of AAA, Classic Rock, Dance, Trance or whatever.

To equate this to restaurants it seems like all the radio stations are trying to be McDonalds rather than a really great steak house.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
To equate this to restaurants it seems like all the radio stations are trying to be McDonalds rather than a really great steak house.
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And which one makes more money? McDonald's or a great steak house?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think creativity in radio is a much needed thing, but think of it this way:

If you own 70 restaurants, it's easier and cheaper (and possibly more lucrative) to make McDonald's out of them than making a great steak house out of each of them. The sad part about this, however, is that a McDonald's in Miami will have the same food as a McDonalds in Phoenix. Ditto with radio. It's cheaper for Cox to make a clone of KISS in San Antonio than a unique radio station. What you get is a fairly stale selection of music.

Radio-X
 
I agree with Mike, though... I'd much rather have WTMI back than Party or HDR.

Here's the thing: rock just doesn't play in Miami anymore. It hasn't for years. Zeta made it last as long as they could. They're gone now. HDR is finding the same problems. Dance would have played if done right, and classical even moreso. South Florida does have a significant classical audience. Rock, not so much.
 
I will never understand the fascination with The Party. For the relatively short time it was on the year, it played practically the same fifteen songs all day, every day. The station was as boring as it was predictable. There were other places to hear dance music on the radio. If I remember correctly, WPOW played a lot more dance music back in those days...
 
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