Clear Channel To Convert To Hispanic Radio

[JAT]

20-25 stations will convert to Spanish-speaking. That's 20-25 stations that I will have no use for whatsoever, as I do not speak Spanish. Get out of Aztlan, Gringo.

SAN ANTONIO—Clear Channel Communications Inc., the country’s largest owner of radio stations, Thursday said it will convert 20 to 25 stations to “Hispanic formats” over the next 12 to 18 months.

Clear Channel already has 18 stations carrying Spanish-language programming. The company said news and talk station WWVA-FM/WVWA-FM in Atlanta will be the first station converted. It will focus on Spanish contemporary music.

Some of the converted stations will concentrate on regional Mexican, tropical or contemporary music, while others will play a range of genres.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives..._channel_t.php

[IFF]

if the music is good, i don't see why you can't listen to them. i don't speak alot of irish but i have no problem listening to An Taobh Tuaithaill on Radio Na Gaeltachta because the music is good in my opinion

[JAT]

Get yourself a bongo. Hit it a few times. You've now experienced the essence of every "Latin American" song ever written.

[IFF]

actually i have an excellent cd at home by Rodrigo y Gabriela who are from Mexico and play Spanish guitars and they don't have any bongo's in their music

[Ironweed]

Originally Posted by JAT

Get yourself a bongo. Hit it a few times. You've now experienced the essence of every "Latin American" song ever written.

I think it was Bill Bryson who remarked that the "singer" on the average Latin American song sounds like they're having their nuts slammed in a drawer. And that the average announcer on a "Spanish" station sounds the same, only that the drawer is being slammed shut more vigorously.

One of those images that kind of stays with you.

[Devil Dinosaur]

Here's a thought: if you don't like Spanish music, don't listen to the station! No one's going to force you to park the dial there.

[86Dude]

Latin music=Polka and some stupid spanish trumpets.

[JFS]

Originally Posted by 86Dude

Latin music=Polka and some stupid spanish trumpets.

Yeah I don't care much for latin music either so I just listen to something else.


Classic Rock works for me most of the time but then I am an old fart anyway.

[86Dude]

Originally Posted by JFS

Yeah I don't care much for latin music either so I just listen to something else.


Classic Rock works for me most of the time but then I am an old fart anyway.

Same here.

[turtle_o]

my aunt lives in Atlanta, she was born and raised in new york, and she said one of her only complaints about atlantas was that there was NO KIND of spanish radio. (her other complaint being the traffic.)

I think Jat that you really have nothing to worry about, i mean one radio station in whole city of atlanta isnt really that big a deal. . .

[turtle_o]

Originally Posted by JAT

Get yourself a bongo. Hit it a few times. You've now experienced the essence of every "Latin American" song ever written.

are you kidding me? The bongo is not the ESSENCE of spanish music. First they have all the kinds we have in english.. but in spanish. (Barring country, i've never heard a spanish country song.) Then they have their own regional musics, and then they have the blends of all those influences. And LOTS of spanish music doesnt even have bongo's in it.

[turtle_o]

Originally Posted by 86Dude

Latin music=Polka and some stupid spanish trumpets.

is that the ONLY kind of spanish music you have heard? Should I judge all english music by the BackStreet boys?!
(not all spanish music uses bongos, and not all spanish music uses accordions, not all spanish music uses TRUMPETS!)

[JFS]

Originally Posted by turtle_o

are you kidding me? The bongo is not the ESSENCE of spanish music. First they have all the kinds we have in english.. but in spanish. (Barring country, i've never heard a spanish country song.) Then they have their own regional musics, and then they have the blends of all those influences. And LOTS of spanish music doesnt even have bongo's in it.

The term latin music is very broard. Bongo's are found more in Cuban and Jamaican music then in Spanish music. They are all forms of Latin Music but have distinctly different sounds.

[h2g2Fan]

Consolidation of the airwaves is the problem. Nothing else.

[turtle_o]

i was refering to any music who's words were in spanish. (still latin music, but latin music refers to the Latin America region, and i was just referring to language, i think.)

(salsa and merengue have bongos too, well any of the latin american regions that had african influence would have bongos, but they have bongo-less music too.)

[igofast]

H2 and Turtle win the thread!

[Snouter]

turtle_o, if your aunt was born and raised in New York, why the hell would she want to listen to annoying Salsa music and the irritating babbling of Spanish; unless maybe she also has a desire to hear French, Italian and other languages? Of course, she could get a short wave radio and listen to foreign languages.

[turtle_o]

Why would a puertorican born and raised in new york want to able to listen to spanish music? (because it's fun music, because she likes it, because she doesnt even need an answer to that kind of question.) and get it right, bachata is annoying, reggaeton is way annoying, merengue can get annoying, salsa is NOT annoying. And when spanish is one's mother-tongue, it doesnt seem like irritating babble.

[h2g2Fan]

turtle, you and I don't have to say anything more on this issue, we've already won the thread.

[Snouter]

English is the mother tongue of anyone born in the USA.