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Party 93.1 is NO MORE! (pg. 8)
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| *~*Angelblue*~* |
| quote: | Originally posted by phonk64
Just for a bit of perspective. Atlanta radio has been teh gay recently as well. We lost our best classic rock station abruptly one night and now it plays mellow, yuppie rock all the time (its even CALLED Dave FM). Its lame and they never tell you and I think thats what makes people mad the most. Change sucks.
Since the radio scene in atlanta sucks so much, I pretty much only listen to CD's and my MD player, which is the ONLY way I can listen to dance music in my car here. Unless of course you WANT to listen to top40 with MikeB from Eleven50 on fridays (LAME!!!).
*sigh* Radio is dead to me.
And some caution on Satellite radio. It might seem like a good alternative, but the electronic stations on XM (all 2 of them) play pretty mainstream crap. My sister has it in her car and it was alright. My Cd's were still better.
If only there was a way to get etn.fm streams in my car...(hint hint enginners)
*Raises a fist to The Man, aka ClearChannel* |
Preach on!! WTF Happended to Z93? I loved that station so ing much...If I didn't have cd's I could always depend on that station and now i have nothing..atlanta sucks for radio cept for saturday's on 91.1 WREK GA Tech 10-12 http://www.wrek.org EDM Sound System |
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| FallingMoon |
the station, it's cheese, and the retards like Buster the butt buster but how about
GDJB?!!!!???
and Nocturnal Sessions???????!!????
what will they do with the shows that MADE the station?
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| leeor |
| I'll never listen to party 93.1 online. Is markus organizing anything? I mean, it IS what made him what he is today... |
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| gerrycueto |
| quote: | Originally posted by PVD_S11DJ
hmm it looks like they were ranked #17 on the latest arbitron list of Miami FM stations.... any station with numbers that low has a limited life... its too bad it wasn't better run - when I was in Miami a few weeks ago, I kept hearing the same 10 songs over and over on it. They were playing Tiesto's Traffic like it was the current #1 or something.
01) WHQT - urban adult contemporary
02) WCMQ - spanish oldies
03) WLYF - adult contemporary
04) WPOW - power 96 - hip hop
05) WEDR - urban soul
06) WXDJ - tropical
07) WMIB - urban soul
08) WAMR - spanish contempporary
09) WHYI - Y100 top 40
10) WMXJ - oldies
11) WLVE - smooth jazz
12) WFLC - adult contemporary
13) WRMA - spanish contemporary
14) WKIS - country
15) WRTO - tropical
16) WBGG - classic rock
17) WPYM - party 93.1 dance |
It's obvious that those pop remixes and freestyle songs dropped party 931's rating, not tracks that define dance today like Tiesto - Traffic. Freestyle is not a kind of music that transcends time, due to the fact that a lot of their hits were shot up straight out of the underground arena without having been properly reproduced or mixed down commercially. It was good in its time, and that's it. Mega 103.5 slumped in ratings as soon as they introduced freestyle into their (70s and 80s disco/synthpop) format. It's like reggaeton (the only reason the latin music industry accepted it was because its independant labels were giving them competition; a lot of reggaeton tracks are poorly [mass]produced by people who obviously have had no commercial production experience)... 10 years from now, it'll be so old and busted, if no one does anything original with it.
As for pop/top40 remixes, they are very dangerous to mess with. Especially if they're worse than the originals. Unfortunately, Party 931 was playing remixes that made you long for their originals far more than these half-assed dance mixes did. Hell, most of their remixes were produced by the actual radio DJs, no wonder a lot of them were ty and poorly produced. I knew I wasn't alone because the public here in Miami would often talk about how lame those remixes were. I've never heard a conversation about how the remixes in party 931 have totally revolutionized pop music as we know it, or have made them any more appealing than their originals.
What makes a station good and unique are the tracks it plays. You don't hear every other song on a country station, being a country remix of a hiphop song, nor do you hear on the hiphop station every other song being a remix of a rock song. Party 93.1 was trying TOO hard to please the masses, that they have not only lost respect from the EDM listeners, but they've lost respect from the pop listeners as well. Personally, Party 931 offended me by making it look like dance music was an 80s and 90s music, but has no place in the mainstream market today other than to make stupid dance mixes of pop songs by playing more freestyle, classic dance, and pop remixes than actual genre-defining dance tracks.
I knew death to such a station was on its way, but I didn't want this to happen. I wrote them emails telling them to please change their format to something more unique. It is sad this station had to end this way. Now there's nothing worth listening to on the radio for me... especially since my favorite shows like Nocturnal Sessions and Global DJ Broadcast are gone.
Let this be a warning to future dance stations. Keep your pop remixes and golden oldy dance classics to an extremely low ratio compared to the actual new, genre-defining dance tracks that make dance music what it is today. |
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| freeflytim |
| quote: | Originally posted by leeor
I'll never listen to party 93.1 online. Is markus organizing anything? I mean, it IS what made him what he is today... |
EXACTLY!!!
Without GBDJ and especially our file-sharing Markus would be nothing!
Hopefully Markus realizes this and also realizes that he needs to find another venue.
I think MadProps need to go out to Tigerclaw and others that ripped these shows for all of us. |
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| limin_li |
Hey guys, I think its appropriate to do a tribute DJ set on my show this thursday night on ETN.fm I currently have some jingles and I may have the January 2002 WPYM signed clip. However, I need your help with more jingles and voice overs for Party 93.1. Please, if anyone recorded stuff such as jingles, voice overs etc etc please IM or PM me here on TA. Lets do this right.
Limin |
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| TigerClaw |
Not to worry folks, GDJB will return soon, Heres the official press release from Markus taken from www.globaldjbroadcast.com.
As many of you now know, on February 14, 2005 at 6 p.m. Party 93.1 changed format to rock. The Global DJ Broadcast will no longer be heard on 93.1.
To our loyal fans and listeners all over the globe we thank you for tuning in every week over the past 3 years. In the last 24 hours, we have had many offers to air Global DJ Broadcast and are taking our time to consider each option. We are going to take a few weeks off and recharge ourselves, and will be back on the air soon.
We’d like to thank the employees and staff of Cox Radio and WPYM/Party 93.1 for the support over the last 3 years. When one door closes, another door opens.
The guest DJ sets that were scheduled to air over the next few weeks will be heard on www.ETN.FM during the time the Global DJ Broadcast was normally aired (Sunday/Monday 1a.m EST/6 a.m. GMT) We feel as we have made a commitment to our guest djs these sets should be aired for the loyal listeners of GDJB to enjoy.
We appreciate your many emails expressing your feelings over this unfortunate change of events and we look forward to new opportunities and events to come.
GDJB crew |
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| mister ben |
| what about nocturnal sessions? |
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| Brutal |
+1
| quote: | Originally posted by mister ben
what about nocturnal sessions? |
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| ::TranceVanDyk:: |
| they had party patrols, least commercials, late-night mixes, and all that. was the station not making money or something or are rating the only thing that matter? |
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| Ely |
| I think they just saw posibilities for a greater audience playing rock, that's it, more audience more money. |
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| gerrycueto |
| quote: | Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
they had party patrols, least commercials, late-night mixes, and all that. was the station not making money or something or are rating the only thing that matter? |
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. |
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