This is all really strange, because in the 90s, Freestyle was REALLY big in Miami, especially on Power 96, which was actually a good station back then. Nearly all of us in high school then loved TKA, Johnny O, Cynthia, George Lamond, and all the other Freestyle artists and listened to Power 96 all the time. So dance WAS kind of big in Miami in the early 90s; I'm not sure what happened. It seems all the people who like dance got into hip-hop and rap, which caused Power 96 to shift, leaving a void for those of who didn't care for them.
Of course, now the only way to listen to dance music in Miami is from your own CDs, or Internet radio, or listen to Power 96 for hours and hope they play one of two dance tracks among the hours of hip-hop and rap, but that's unacceptable.
I hope some other station fills the gap. Any station that does will have a good audience, as Party 93.1 was pretty popular before the Cox executives had a loss of brain function.
The sad thing is that even if Cox switches Party 93.1 back to dance, the damage has been done. A lot of the audience may not rediscover them, or feel betrayed and not listen anymore. Cox is really shooting themselves in the foot here... Repeatedly. With a double-barrel 12-guage... at point-blank range.
I'm not so sure about dance always being dead...
This is all really strange, because in the 90s, Freestyle was REALLY big in Miami, especially on Power 96, which was actually a good station back then. Nearly all of us in high school then loved TKA, Johnny O, Cynthia, George Lamond, and all the other Freestyle artists and listened to Power 96 all the time. So dance WAS kind of big in Miami in the early 90s; I'm not sure what happened. It seems all the people who like dance got into hip-hop and rap, which caused Power 96 to shift, leaving a void for those of who didn't care for them.
Of course, now the only way to listen to dance music in Miami is from your own CDs, or Internet radio, or listen to Power 96 for hours and hope they play one of two dance tracks among the hours of hip-hop and rap, but that's unacceptable.
I hope some other station fills the gap. Any station that does will have a good audience, as Party 93.1 was pretty popular before the Cox executives had a loss of brain function.
The sad thing is that even if Cox switches Party 93.1 back to dance, the damage has been done. A lot of the audience may not rediscover them, or feel betrayed and not listen anymore. Cox is really shooting themselves in the foot here... Repeatedly. With a double-barrel 12-guage... at point-blank range.