Why Dont we have a bilingual station??

[mrtexmex2007]

Ok Tejano didnt work here in houston. Even Johnny Ramirez from the Morning show said us tejanos should give up hope for getting a tejano station on fm, tha we should be happy we have it on hd. So tejano didnt work, the old Mega Latino And Proud didnt work, so what music format would work for bilinguals?????

 

[ilistentotheradio]

... any station? They could listen to spanish radio, or english radio.

So to answer your question... all of them are formats that work for bilinguals.

 

[mrtexmex2007]

... any station? They could listen to spanish radio, or english radio.

So to answer your question... all of them are formats that work for bilinguals.

You know what I meant, how come we dont haave a bilingual station that speaks both spanish and english. Spanish stations are straight spanish and English stations are straight English.

 

[poops]

... any station? They could listen to spanish radio, or english radio.

So to answer your question... all of them are formats that work for bilinguals.

You know what I meant, how come we dont haave a bilingual station that speaks both spanish and english. Spanish stations are straight spanish and English stations are straight English.

Something like morning show hosts Marco Stevens & Jaime Pruitt maybe playing a numero uno hit by Juan Mellencamp?????

 

[DJboutit3]

101 does it from time to time so does 1049

 

[-juan-]

101 does it from time to time so does 1049

101 is trying to restrain itself from being bilingual nowdays.

104.9 is not Bilingual. It may have commercials in spanish, but that is about as close to spanish as you can get there. Vice Versa with the Spanish stations. KLTN plays english commercials.

 

[HoustonRocker2]

Ummm the answer to this is so simple. Mexicans don't want to speak, learn, or listen to english and Americans don't want to speak, learn or listen to spanish.

 

[upstate29651]

Ummm the answer to this is so simple. Mexicans don't want to speak, learn, or listen to english and Americans don't want to speak, learn or listen to spanish.

..and one of these groups of people are right. Can you guess which one?

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[davideduardo]

Ummm the answer to this is so simple. Mexicans don't want to speak, learn, or listen to english and Americans don't want to speak, learn or listen to spanish.

Hardly true. Over 40% of Houston Hispanics are bilingual or Spanish dominant, and, of the "Spanish dominant" Hispanics, a significant portion know some English. The fact is that first generation immigrants who did not come from an English speaking nation seldom become English dominant or even bilingual. Language learning abilities decline before adolesence, so it's the second generation that becomes bilingual. That has applied to Gaelic speaking Irish, Germans, Italians, Poles and other groups that have come to the US going back to the 1800's.

The issue here is that there is no single format that bilinguals might like to have presented bilingually. So there is no market for such a concept because the bilingual is not part of a monolithic lifestyle group that would like one type of music.

Many bilinguals and even English dominant Hispanics listen to Spanish langauge radio because they are culturally tied to the music. Just because a person has been in the US many years or decades does not mean they are going to start liking kinds of music they did not grow up on. Another fact is that music taste is formed mostly in early adolesence, and in later life is based on early preferences, even if mutated by maturation.

I acquired my music taste in Latin America... there is nothing that is going to make me very interested in most English langauge music formats becuse I have no early exposure to the genres of music presented.

 

[stan]

Ipods are great. I can place the music on my Ipod that I want to listen to, and I don't have to listen to any unnecessary crap, whatever that is. Terrestrial radio doesn't do much for me any more, and it has nothing really to do with the music genre presented. The fact is that radio has ceased to entertain, for the most part, and captivate audiences. This is why other sources of entertainment, including satellite radio, have become more popular in recent years. Couple that with the ability of individuals to download, burn their own CDs, or stuff MP3s into their portable music devices and you have a diminishing effect of radio in society.

And it doesn't help that the major corporations have dumbed down radio to the lowest common denominator.

 

[FilioScotia]

People want to listen to radio stations that reflect their own culture. It really is that simple. We could have 3 million bilingual people in Houston, but people would still listen to the radio stations that speak the language they grew up with.

 

[mrtexmex2007]

So what will happen with the next generation? Will the next generation bring back bilingual radio? Well I dont really remember but back in the days Tejano was a big thing. We had Puro Tejano on Fm and we also had KQQK and others. That bilingual generation is gone, so will we have another one in the future?????

 

[ilistentotheradio]

Ipods are great. I can place the music on my Ipod that I want to listen to, and I don't have to listen to any unnecessary crap, whatever that is. Terrestrial radio doesn't do much for me any more, and it has nothing really to do with the music genre presented. The fact is that radio has ceased to entertain, for the most part, and captivate audiences. This is why other sources of entertainment, including satellite radio, have become more popular in recent years. Couple that with the ability of individuals to download, burn their own CDs, or stuff MP3s into their portable music devices and you have a diminishing effect of radio in society.

And it doesn't help that the major corporations have dumbed down radio to the lowest common denominator.

Congratulations. You've contributed absolutely nothing to the topic.