I listened online the last day they were on. Listening to the 90's dance music on that day brought back some good memories. You can't forget "Take Me Away (XTC Come Hard Mix)" by Mix Factory...a side B cut!
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The Party is over
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Looking at the FCC app, it seems that the transfer is not approved yet. Also, there is no LMA on file. In other words, COX will not transfer the station till the FCC gives them their blessing.
Puerto Rico is the center hub for reggaetón much like New York, LA and Atlanta were for hip hop. I'm still surprised when Bad Bunny cranks out a verse in a Cardi B collab saying "c****n no te conocen en Plaza" which you would not understand unless you were an Islander.
Heck, you might get the reference "siempre con la zeta y no somos salseros"...
Of course I would understand that he meant "Plaza Las Americas" where I bought my first color TV at J.C. Penny's in 1970. I also know that from "Barrio Obrero a la 15 un paso es" and was the creator of Z-93 in 1979 (actually 12/29/78 and 7:40 PM).
In any case, reggaetón which sprung from Panamá to PR is now pretty international with Colombia producing as many stars as Puerto Rico and the music being as big in Chile as it is in San Juan.
La zalza tiene una radio... Z-93.Heck, you might get the reference "siempre con la zeta y no somos salseros"...
If that's indeed the case, then cox should have waited and kept 95.3 as it was, then transferred when everything was ready. Now their losing any money they would have made on commercials for WPYO.
Who is going to sell ads for a station that will be gone within days? With approval and closing potentially coming at any moment, the end of the first quarter was a perfect financial time to end Power's operations. At this point the value for Cox is trying to move all 95.3 listeners away before SBS takes over.
Also… the situation in Tampa is different. They kept the original station “97x” on its original frequency telling the listeners to move to their hd2’s or their 97.5 translator. In Orlando I guess they are trying to protect Exitos 96.5 from a direct competitor.
They should have moved Party to 96.5. Cox is overconfident in their Spanish format, which they only have in one market.
I agree. I dont inow how much Power was billing but I would think that it was making more than Exitos 96.5
Reggeatón is a fusion of the Jamaican pounda beat + Hip Hop and Latin American rhythms and producers like DJ Nelson and DJ Playero were one the firsts to develop this sound in Carolina, Puerto Rico in the mid to late 1990's.
What the Panamanians were doing in the early to mid 1990's in particular is widely known as Reggae en Espanol or Spanish Reggae. They kept the original Jamaican Dance Hall beats, sped up the riddim and sang in Spanish. Often they would sing in Spanish over the popular Jamaican Dance Hall songs keeping the melody and the rhythms. Regardless it was popular in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, NYC and South Florida. Yet, it is not Reggaeton.
An example of Reggae Español:
An example of an early underdeveloped Reggaeton Track ( notice the different beat pattern, Techno keys and rapping/ singing style :
That is not true at all.
Just before 1990, Pichín Román did reggaetón videos all day on his UHF TV channel in San Juan. By that time there was not just enough music, there were enough videos to program the genre all day long.
The earliest songs, though, were from Panama, where artists like El Chombo, El General and JR Ranks were doing tracks in the mid 80's. It then spread to Puerto Rico and by around '89 to '90 Pichín had enough material to program on his TV channel locally. We are talking about pure reggaetón videos all day long.
We used to adjourn after work to a restaurant on Ave. rafael Cordero around the corner from Salsoul where they had that channel on in the bar, always. We came up with a formula where each video had to have at least two of these elements: guns, yachts, mamis, balcón en un departamento en el Condado o Isla Verde, a Mercedes. We'd bet on which elements would be in the next video.
A year or two later, Pichín's San Juan radio station went to an all reggaetón format under manager Jaime Bauzá.
Since the whole genre is derived from Jamaican beats and influenced by salsa (and not, really, hip hop which was not even played on the radio in PR in the late 80's or earlier 90's) it is obvious that as it developed it kept much of its Jamaican heritage as well as some of the rhythm from salsa and other Caribbean beats.
Every music form goes through stages of development.
Those DJ sets were on point, along with that 10am hour on that last day.
It would of been nice if they had that kind of freedom the whole time.
The main reason I'm talking about 95.3FM is because of "Party" & what "Power" did that last day on-air.
I'm also interested in the technical engineering aspect of radio, as well as producing syndicated shows, which I have been doing independently myself, so I know a thing or two about some of the behind-the-scenes stuff.
Even with all of this knowledge & real on-air experience, no radio station has hired me for anything paid yet, so I stay independent with no non-compete while keeping my integrity & enjoying my freedom (posting in this message board), until someone in charge of a radio station will take a serious look at what I have been doing as a labor of love since 2005.
No it wouldn’t. Two separate markets, two different owners.
Plus they may even be better off using the "Party" moniker anyway, going off of the comments on this thread and Power 95.3's social media accounts.
Found these comments ironic again today, as 102 JAMZ, the ORIGINAL 102 Jamz, WJHM Daytona Beach/Orlando (1988) had a itself a duplication a year later in 1989 by WJMH 102 Jamz in Greensboro NC. (Latter station still exists... Even has a Wikipedia article under the station name..)
Audacy launched another 102 Jams today again in San Francisco CA via KRBQ playing Classic Hip-hop.
Back to your normal thread ..
Byron
The sale was approved by the FCC on 4/20. So… any minute now.
¿Saldrá el Zol sobre Orlando y Tampa Bay?
Over on the Tampa board there's a post saying that the other station formally owned by cox 97.1 WSUN which is still playing their alt rock format (but is letting people know the format will continue on a translator & HD subchannel) is now saying 97.1 will flip on April 27 at 12:00PM.
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