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| quote: | Originally posted by gerrycueto
least commercials? heh yeah right... every 25 minutes there was a commercial break... it may feel like less commercials to you since most stations go one 50 minutes and then take a long commercial break.. Party 931 divided the commercials, so it felt like you were getting less, but you were actually getting the same amount.
The late-night mixes are what made Party world famous, but the general audience isn't going to be up all night listening to the radio. A lot of the listeners probably didn't even know there were good late-night shows.
Party wasn't doing too well (I don't need to go into that again), so in a desperate attempt to make more money and sweep up the rock audience Zeta had lost, they became 93 Rock.
It's not that Miami doesn't like dance music. It's that Party 931 was playing a crappy dance format, ignoring most current dance hits for oldskool freestyle and pop remixes, playing the same 10 songs over and over again, and lack of radio DJ/MCs. Listening to party 931 was like having a jukebox... it gets boring after awhile.. and that annoying voice grr.. I'd rather hear some Y-100 DJ nagging about Britney's boobs than the same prerecorded voice saying "PPParty 931 South Florida's PURE dance Channel" after every song.
Furthermore, putting down stations that don't even have the same format as you is no professional way to convert listeners from their stations to yours. Of course when a station is new, they're going to play less commercials than everybody else. As the station ages, they play more and more commercials till they're like everybody else.
Also, the strong gay support on Party 931 could have also cut down on its ratings. I'm not a homophobic person, but there are a lot out there in Miami. Once the station started openly supporting gays and having gay talk radio, you were automatically labeled a queer for listening to the station. A lot of my homophobic friends stopped listening to Party because of that. |
 I love how you said "PPParty 931 South Florida's PURE dance Channel" LMAO
but I agree with you on this 100%
the ONLY thing that MADE the station was the GDJB and Nocturnal Sessions...but look at the times of those shows...
NS- Saturdays 3-5 AM
GDJB- SUNDAY NITE/MONDAY MORNING- 1-5 AM
nooooooooo way many people stayed up for that (or even knew of it)...I loved both and I listened to NS more because it was on a weekend but the GDJB I had to put it on to go to sleep because I had to wake up early the next morning, its not as if I could have stayed up listening to it.
If they changed their format, as you stated, they would have made it...at least have a DJ and PLAYING real DANCE music not a bunch of crap over and over...and most of it was not dance music it was cheesy remixes. I remember 107.1 lol it sucked because they just played CDs, but at least better music was being played and it was alot more successful than 93.1 and 107.1 was an underground station. SAD.
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then as time passed, it turned into the biggest cheesefest...even more than when they first started...when if you think about it, shouldn't they have gotten better with time. The gay radio show was completely absurd because WTF do gays and EDM have to do with each other...big loss of reputation there...also it sort of puts people who listen to REAL EDM to shame, it's leading for people to label us homosexuals. I am not in the least bit homophobic but it was a bad call on their part. I wouldn't even say they played the same 10 songs over...more like 5 songs. I don't think any of those people know what it takes to run a REAL EDM radio station besides I don't even think it's possible without the cheese spreading over the cracker. 
Goodbye. -Mental
