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More likely, they're now dead.Hugh Jorgan wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 7:49 am Those are miserable numbers. Management should be embarrassed.
I wonder how much of their demo has moved a little farther down the dial and listen to Adel's offering?
wouldn't moving from 760 to 910 actually be moving "up the dial"?Hugh Jorgan wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 7:49 am Those are miserable numbers. Management should be embarrassed.
I wonder how much of their demo has moved a little farther down the dial and listen to Adel's offering?
Starts with the "right wing hate speech" trope. Makes a xenophobic comment in the next sentence.FredLeonard wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 10:46 amWhat's left of AM? Preachers selling Bibles autographed by Jesus. Right-wing hate speech. I'm not sure foreign language radio is such a good thing. Radio and newspapers in English once helped immigrants become fluent in English. Now foreign language radio is a way for them to avoid becoming fluent in English and to avoid assimilation.Radiobirdman wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 7:33 pmYou may be right but I've heard that "AM is dead" and "No one listens to AM" since the late 1980s. There are still 4,000+ US AM stations out there. Lots of them are ethnic stations that are inexpensive lifelines for the community. Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mexican, Indian, etc.FredLeonard wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 6:14 pm Why stop at WJR? Shut down the entire AM band. It has had a 105 year run. Time to let it go. WJR is not the only Detroit station that once represented the pinnacle of radio and is now nothing. If the owners think a format is worth saving, they can move it to FM.
WJR once was not just for white collar baby boomers. Boomers listened to WJBK, WXYZ, Keener or CKLW. All now bottom of the heap, too. Back then the elites listened to WJR. Word is they once ran ads from auto parts manufacturers targeting only three people - executives at each of the big three who could buy their parts to put in cars. Of course, today WJR is returning to its roots. It was once a bastion of right-wing hate speech and came close to losing its license.
Baby boomers grew up with AM. Those born later did not. For them, AM radio is alien - like shortwave. Radio wasn't yet dead in the late 80s but it was dying.
Bull! It is not "xenophobic" (look it up in the dictionary) to point out that people living in an English-speaking country are at an extreme disadvantage if they can't speak English fluently. That's not to suggest that they should give up their ancestral language. Being bi-lingual actually gives one a distinct advantage intellectually and in learning ability. Narrow mindedness is not limited to the right. Foreign language broadcasting is like training wheels. As long as parents keep the training wheels on the ground (which most do), a kid is never going to learn to ride a bike.