Is Freestyle dead in Miami????

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Yesterday I was reading a copy of an industry fax called, g-mail and they were doing a story on Power 96 in Miami and the increase that they had in the ratings going from a 5.1 to 6.0.

They talked about some of the changes that they made with personnel and the music. That's where I came across the Program director, Kid Curry's comments about the stations move away from freestyle music: "Since we're an 18-24 station, we decided, over the past three months, to get rid of freestyle music, a genre that put us on the map...but we felt it was now a 15 year old product,"..."We held on to it as long as we could, but we decided that freestyle was done."

The article goes on to state that it's now played only in special feature form, out of regular rotation. Curry goes on to state that, "At the time, there wasn't a person in my office who didn't get up in my face saying, 'You're wrong,' but I believe it's helped us. Our regular oldies now sound more compatible with our current product."

Any thoughts?
 
kid kurry is a prick!!!

kid curry is the biggest prick of life...i hate that guy. i live in miami and all they play is ghetto sh!t and trance...on fridays they have freestyle fridays at 12-1, jammin johnny is the one in power96 that supports freestyle... jammin johnny told me that power96's next cd is gonna be a freestyle cd...they have been making cd lately to support some foundation. they still play freestyle but only in mixes!!!!



peace out
 
Yo, that sucks. Power 96 played mad freestyle back in the day. I even remember on Stevie B's "Love and Emotion" cd cover, he thanked Power 96 for playing his music and the hottest freestyle. This is kinda like what happened to Hot 97 and Q102.
 
well actually j parker after reading your post, i'd have to say that if this station wouldve been a regular dance music station that plays just dance music. and if we wouldve had a newer updated freestyle sound to play on this station, you guys wouldve still been up there. cuz then you guys wouldve not only played the new skool but you guys couldve squeezd in the old skool (good old skool) as well. along with all the other cheesy dance stuff that wouldve gotten you half of your ratings. just an idea.
 
I'M FIRED UP NOW!!!!

I'VE LISTENED TO BOTH POWER 96 & ITS SISTER STATION, SPORTSRADIO 560 WQAM FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. POWER'S RATINGS ARE HIGH.....BECAUSE EVERYONE AGE 18--24 LISTEN TO IT. WHAT KID CURRY DOESN'T REALIZE IS THAT, ASIDE FROM THE NIGHTCLUB SPOTS, LISTENERS 18-24 ARE IN NO POSITION TO SPEND MONEY ON POWER'S ADVERTISERS BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE IN COLLEGE!!!!! THE STATIONS ADVERTISERS INCLUDE CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES, MORTGAGE COMPANIES, LOANS COMPANIES, ETC, ETC, WHOSE TARGET CONSUMER IS OLDER, COLLEGE GRADS & FULL TIME WORKING PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE INCOME TO SPEND ON ADVERTISERS. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO MY MANY FRIENDS AGE 18--22, POWER IS ESSENTIALLY FOOLING THEIR ADVERTISERS WITH THEIR HUGE RATINGS. THE HUGE RATINGS ARE BECAUSE EVERY 14-22 YEAR OLD IS LISTENING TO POWER WHILE THE OLDER, COLLEGE GRADS WITH GOOD HIGH PAYING JOBS ARE TIRED OF LISTENING TO THE SAME GHETTO SHIT SONG OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND ARE FORCED TO DIVIDE THEMSELVES WITH Y-100 (WHICH PLAYS SHIT THAT POWER PLAYED OUT 6 MONTHS AGO), MEGA 103.5 ( WHICH SUPPORTS FREESTYLE AND RETRO YET TARGET 35 YRS + WITH ALL ITS DISCO) AND COAST 97.3 (WHICH IS JUST PLAIN BORING AND SLEEP INDUCING TO LISTEN TO WHILE WORKING).

LET'S FACE IT, POWER'S ADVERTISERS' (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NIGHT CLUB SPOTS & MAYBE VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS) DO NOT WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS BECAUSE 95% OF THEM WORK PART-TIME AND HAVE LITTLE MONEY OF THEIR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THEY DON'T REALIZE THIS WHEN SHOPPING FOR RADIO ADVERTISING....THEY LOOK AT THE RATINGS NUMBERS, REGARDLESS OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC

POWER PLAYS THE SAME GHETTO OR TRANCE SHIT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT KID CURRY SAYS..........THE ONLY PERSON I SUBSIDIZE ASSOCIATED WITH POWER IS JAMMIN JOHNNY .......AND THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS DEVOTION TO FREESTYLE AND THE CONCERTS HE HAS ARRANGED IN THE PAST. BEYOND THAT, POWER'S ADVERTISERS DON'T SEE MY MONEY


PISSED OFF,


MIKE
 
i feel you mike...kid curry sucks. all he plays his ghetto crap. we need to swamp his mailbox again w/ emails. when we did that they played freestyle alot. also kennyguido if ur reading this when is that tka concert down here???? the west palm bch one...are u sure it was in july...jammin johnny would have told me. they had on in july but on thursday in club boca.



keep freestyle alive!!!!!!
 
yo wassup mike & alex!!
i know i been lost...but guess what?? im now living in NY!!
i been here for the past summer....im having a blast! mike your tape is done and still in miami....yo alex when i come back down i will hook you up with that new school tape u wanted. yo guys im having a blast over here! try to come up for that big freestyle show that johnny is doing in october. it's going to be dope!

that really sucks about power removing it's freestyle. after reading what jparker wrote, that sh*t had me fuming with anger!....kid is a jerk and it's about time to send him tons of mail again. yo mike & alex we got ktu up here which still supports the classics, and johnny's mix show where he plays the new stuff like that sbt record "what am i to do",or the new sa-fire & cynthia duet, both which are blazing hot! it's 7pm and they just played lisette melendez "together forever"....a song u wouldnt hear on power at this time. anyways u guys keep it real and keep pushing for power to play freestyle....i will e-mail kid again, i'm going to let him have it good!

M A R L O N
 
Message To Kid Curry & Greg Reed:

"Hey Kid Curry, congrats on the high ratings!!!! (sarcasm)"

But i'm wondering, are the boost in ratings due to "Downplaying Freestyle" or "Downloading the Cash"????? hhhmmmm??
 
I just decided to go back in time and read this which was pretty cool, and want it to know how's Miami or better yet Florida doing with Freestyle....
 
yo !!!!!

first,let me say what's up all? i live,work and grew up here in miami and the radio busnss,and i gotta tell ya, the artical on power was kinda old because since jan(2002) power's ratings has fallen BIG time ,the ratings that u r speaking of is for the listeners of 12-18 yrs old in that catagory they are #1 but over all they are hurting badly they are trying to compete with 99 jamz listeners witch is owned by cox broadcasting cox also owns the new station party 93 (they play trance/dance and freestyle)since the party started airing in jan power ratings went way down so they got ride of a lot of dj's to try and compete with 99jamzs.so kidd curry has made a bad choice to not play freestyle,(only hip hop) and when he get's off work he likes to listen to country music..(huh???)oh and the new power 96 cd is out now and it's all hip hop music(it sucks)........vapro:mdance
 
Ever since Funky Frank and Mohammed Moretta left the station years ago Power 96 hasn't been the same. Party 93 is in the process of winning over all Power's dance listeners and they are well on their way to becoming Miami's new dance station. Don't stress it !!!! *uck Power !! who needs there asses. They felt it was time for a change so they made some moves. That shit will get tired and they change back you'll see. Support Party 93 !!!! Miami's new dance station. I know because they are playing my Freestyle Interlude on a regular. There is no longer a need to keep calling up Eddie Mixx to play our freestyle shit. We got Party 93 so let's all hop on the banwagon and party. Power 96 can kiss our asses.:shakinboo :shakinboo
 
I remember the good old times, too and i live in Germany...When i was down in Miami cack in the days i went to a lot of Places like Hot Wheel Skating or Deco´s, Atlantis Water Kingdom etc where they had a Bunch of Freestyle Concerts going on.
And i remember that the played a lot of Frestyle.....I recorded sooooooo many Tapes with non Mixed Freestyle and they had every day big Mix sessions with Freestyle Musoc and on weekends it was a blast to hear that Station.....
And now since arround 3 Years when i was down I heard not much Freestyle and when i talked with Eddie Mix he said it´s not so popular anymore.....and does anyone knew why Phil Jones leave Power 96 ??? I think he is in New York now as far as i can Remember.....

it was so cool back in the days when i was cruising thru Miami and arround Miami you always heard good Freestyle on Air......
Hope that the good old times will every come back to Power96

Greetings
Peter😕
 
HUH ?? Power's ratings aren't that high !!

Those ratings you stated aren't accurate
 
I can tell you that I dont believe that kid curry is on power anymore. I am not sure since I havent herd power more then 5 mins since jan 1st of this year. party 93.1 is doing great and they keep getting alot of support!!!!! including mine....

CG
 
there's a few things to take into account. freestyle did not just die all of a sudden in miami. kid curry's decision does not represent what most of miami feels. the move was done purely for ratings. in today's state of radio, you can't mix hip hop with many things. today all the thugs and wanabe thugs and suburban white kids want to hear music that is ghetto or cool enough for them. any station that plays a mix of hip hop and freestyle, hip hop and POP, hip hop and old school/oldies will suffer if there is a competing station in that same market that plays nothing but hip hop and r&b. take stations like "the beat" and ktfm in san antonio. the beat started from scratch playing just hip hop while ktfm played some other types of music, and the beat destroyed ktfm in the ratings immediately. yes ktfm did play freestyle. but it also played other types of dance music. after the beat killed them in the ratings, ktfm dropped everything but hip hop and r&b, but their ratings were not much different from when they played some freestyle. it is an image thing. then ktfm evolved to a mainstream chr and the ratings did not come close to the beat still. hip hop and r&b are in a state where they need to be separated from other types of music. not just freestyle, but also trance, house, techno, have to be separated from them. so it's not freestyle's fault. power 96 will also have to remove the trance and other dance from the station if they ever want to become the number 1 chr. that will take time too before listeners move back and as they gain new first time listeners.
all the stuff you hear about radio and freestyle is bullsh!t.
 
you know what......i was in miami in february and not once did i switch back to power 96 anyway.....party 93 kicked its ass.....freestyle is done, obviously they havent seen clubfreestyle.com....
 
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