[BC] Top Stations in NYC and LA are all Spanish

[Glen Kippel]

Well, yes.  KUNA and KLOB are up at the top of the list here.  But,
considering that something like 53% of the local population is Hispanic, and
that there are basically two estacions de radio que transmitiendo en Espanol
(KESQ-AM doesn't really enter into the equation), as opposed to 30-something
stations broadcasting in English, it's easy to see how they get a pretty
large chunk of the PUR pie.

On 9/18/06, Mark Earle <mearle at mearle.com> wrote:
>
> Bill Harms wrote:
> > according to Drudge this evening (9/18), the top radio stations in
> > New York City and Los Angeles are Spanish Stations.  A news article
> > will purportedly follow later.
> >
> > Bill Harms
> > Elkridge, Maryland
> >
> A continuing trend in many markets, Spanish stations ranking highly.
> KLTN has been doing well since 1997 or so, in Houston. KLTN was the
> first in-market, not-a-rimshot, Spanish language station. It's a full C,
> 1000', just about.. 1.8 or 2.2 miles east of downtown, on an EPA
> monitored toxic waste site. Really. (Tower base is below grade by
> several feet).
>
> It was owned by.. shoot.. Tom Hicks was involved.. Evergreen.. no,
> that's not it. Chancellor? Anyhow, it was purchased in the spring, sold
> in the fall for a nice increase in price, and has been competitive from
> day one. For quite a few books it beat out the perennial #1, KODA/ Sunny
> 99.1, which is now a CC station.
>
> Sort of ironic that the owers of #1 sold the station that ended up
> beating or equaling them for a long time.
>
> Political soapbox: NY was the Melting Pot. Except, we stopped requiring
> melting and haven't secured our borders. We don't require immigrants to
> learn English and assimilate. So of course media in their language are
> doing well. LA I would  suppose, is the West Coast Melting Pot, or was.
>
> This trend will continue, due to our lack of policy - Spanish (and other
> non-English) language speakers continue to enter America and make up a
> higher and growing percentage of the occupants.
>
> --
> mwe
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