XCountry285
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Do you guys have Top 40 stations playing music like Kelly Clarkson,Green Day,Kanye West & Fall Out Boy etc.?
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Top 40 In Puerto Rico
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XCountry285 said:
No, PR is 100% Spanish speaking. Some stations mix some English pop, but English music has not been big in PR for the last 10 to 15 years. WMEG 106.9 is closest, with a lot of English stuff, all Spanish announcers.
The-Major said:
None of the USVI stations really has any potential to do anything but get near-DX listening in San Juan. Some do get a weak signal onto the area from Fajardo to Humacao, but none have ever made it into the ratings in PR, including a St. Croix station that is in Spanish targeting eastern PR.
XCountry285
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I never knew Puerto Rico was that big wow im suprised. 
XCountry285 said:I never knew Puerto Rico was that big wow im suprised.
SI - About four million people live en Puerto Rico. That's why they are considered to be the 13TH biggest radio market en los Estados Unidos - ahead of such other big radio markets as Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, y San Diego.
Over 100,000 people live on the U.S. Virgin Islands.
THE MAJOR
XCountry285 said:I never knew Puerto Rico was that big wow im suprised.
It is a strange market, since arbitron considers the entire 35 by 100 mile island one market. The fact is, it takes 3 Class B FMs in a simulcast to cover it all, and it takes 4 to 5 AMs to do so.
This is why the rankers printed in R&R and All Access bite so badly. No major station is "alone" except WVOZ-FM and WBRQ-FM.
Here are expamples of the simulcasts
WPRM-WIVA-WRIO Cadena Salsoul
WZAR-WFDT-WFID Fidelity
WKAQ WUKQ (FM) KQ-105
WKAQ-WUKQ-WAEL Radio Reloj
WUNO-WPRP-WORA-WCMN NotiUno
WIOA-WIOB-WIOC Estereotempo
Almost all media buys in PR are island wide, so TV is the same (3 channels in a net) and there are only San Juan newspapers.
There are over100 stations in PR.
The-Major said:
Remember, US pop to be appreciated among mostly non-native English speakers has to have "sound appeal:" Most US pop in recent years has not had this appeal.
KQ-105 used to play 30% or more US pop. Today, it plays maybe one song an hour if that. There is just better stuff in Spanish for CHR (KQ is a CHR dating back to 1968).
Hip hop is another reason... nothing to like if you do not get the lyrics (?) and reggaetón, in Spanish, is the Latin conunterpart of hip hop and much bigger.
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DavidEduardo said:XCountry285 said:I never knew Puerto Rico was that big wow im suprised.
It is a strange market, since arbitron considers the entire 35 by 100 mile island one market. The fact is, it takes 3 Class B FMs in a simulcast to cover it all, and it takes 4 to 5 AMs to do so.
This is why the rankers printed in R&R and All Access bite so badly. No major station is "alone" except WVOZ-FM and WBRQ-FM.
Here are expamples of the simulcasts
WPRM-WIVA-WRIO Cadena Salsoul
WZAR-WFDT-WFID Fidelity
WKAQ WUKQ (FM) KQ-105
WKAQ-WUKQ-WAEL Radio Reloj
WUNO-WPRP-WORA-WCMN NotiUno
WIOA-WIOB-WIOC Estereotempo
Almost all media buys in PR are island wide, so TV is the same (3 channels in a net) and there are only San Juan newspapers.
There are over100 stations in PR.
123 according to Radio-Locator.
Other radio networks are:
WSKN-WDEP-WKJB-WLEY-WKFE-WMDD Radio Isla
WIAC-WYAC-WISA-WIBS-WIX2AC Radio Puerto Rico
Historic Network: Radio El Mundo (Radio Reloj's forerunner)
WKAQ-WPAB-WKJB-WABA
When did Radio El Mundo become Radio Reloj? (here I go again with the questions!)
On TV:
WKAQ-WOLE Telemundo
WAPA-WTIN-WNJX Televicentro
WIPR-WIPM Tu Universo TV
WLII-WSUR-WORA Univisión
WMTJ-WQTO Fundación Ana G. Mendez
Historic TV Networks in PR:
WKAQ-WRIK-WORA
WAPA-WSUR-WOLE
WKBM-WSUR-WVEO (Telecadena Pérez Perry)
Cinema 30/Univisión 30 in the 80's were channels 30 (San Juan), 48 (Ponce) and 16 (Mayagüez)
Noticias 24 were channels 24 (San Juan), 20 (Ponce) and 38 (Mayagüez)
When WRIK broke away from Telemundo in 1970 (becoming Rikavisión) it took WORA-TV with them, thus leaving WKAQ-TV without an outlet on the island's west coast (They did have a lo-pow translator on ch. 22, forerunner to WNJX).
In the second half of the 70's, and I remember this as I saw it live at my grandparents' house, WORA switched to WAPA and WOLE took Telemundo's programming. Then they swapped in the early 80's WORA rebroadcast Telemundo and WOLE again rebroadcast WAPA. WRIK was left "orphaned".
WORA-TV has broadcast programing from 4 San Juan TV stations in its history. Contrast that to the the WIPR/WIPM twins which have always been Puerto Rico's Public stations.
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