Party 93.1 goes bye-bye

I remember the first time I came across Party 93.1... It used to be the classical/opera station. I was really excited. And now, as I sit in my friend's apartment (in Atlanta), I try to explain the type of music I like, and I go to the party931 website, but alas! It's gone! What a horrible surprise! I used to look forward to going home, to the beach and listening to Party 93.1. I think the execs at Cox have made a big mistake...

I miss the blast of blazing beats from some of the breakbeat music. I miss FAYE!!! She is such a trip. I met her in Orlando last year, along with DJ Smooth and some other local Floridian DJ's. PARTY 93 will always be heart felt.

Lots of love to all.

Catch some of the same Flavor on BPM XM!!! It's the next best thing.

I loved that station, every time I was in Miami, my radio was locked on 93.1fm. There is something shady about this, because Party 93.1 was indeed extremely popular. It was the face of Miami. Knowing that dance music was always hard to find in US, I am not surpised too. Dance music in US ever since the 80's had a stigma of being gay and foreign, and therefore scared a lot of suburban disciplined Americans. Especially after AIDS crisis. Remember the dance viriety in the early 90's, dead is the word. Dance music is very obscure in this country unless you are in the gay community, but even that is fading out. I think corporations don't even have a chart for this(dance) kind of music. For them it is 'Techno,' a term that worldwide rather represents an industrial gothic beat. It is too complicated for them.
Hey, just keep on supporting the dance scene every way you can. Miami has always been a dance capital, don't let it go away! Don't let some stinky classless rock, or tuneless R&B to take away your style. Let corporations, the city, and local leaders know how you feel. Here in Seattle we got city's school district to run our dance radio station along with donations from listeners to keep it on the air, the demand is too big because people are still paying. Though it is ran by students, it even has more viriety than Miami's passed Party 93, which was not so bad anyway. Check it out, there is a live playlist www.c895fm.com And C89.5 is still the most popular radio staion in the city for more than 10 years!

I do not live in Florida but I am also mad that Party 93.1 has gone away. There are not a lot of dance stations in the United States and I get pissed when I hear that another one has gone off the air. I live in Arizona and I listen to Energy 92.7 and 101.1, but if it were to suddenly change format, fists would be flying!

I know you can't hop in your car and turn on the station, but you can tune in online to www.energyarizonafm.com They play the same great dance that party 93.1 did. Shame...being from Fort Lauderdale I also listened to them and was looking forward to tuning in online from Arizona. Oh well, I happy we finally have a great station here now. Hey check out my web site at http://hometown.aol.com/djmikeld
looks like I have to get rid of all 93.1 ads.

If God is a Dj, Life is a dance floor, love is the rhythm, you are the music! (Pink)

Keep on dancin!
Dj MikelD

I agree this is terrible i miss that radio station so much it's not even funny... the miami radio stations all suck they all play that regeton music or hip hop and rock that's it what happened to the party 93.1 station that made miami smile.....i miss the 5pm rush and the 3am special mix they had on sundays... man this is so terrible i hop in my car and put on the radio only to go station by station and get frustrated to end up putting a Cd ....this really is bad all the people i work with are complaining about this the new rock 93.1 sucks..we miss you party 93.1...........buaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree... whats up with South florida? The only dance music around and you get rid of it? What am I supposed to listen to now Power 96 is hip hop so is 103.9.. Y100 is all over the place and plays all kinds of music ,,, they really need to stick to one format... and I dont feel like listening to dentist/elevator music! I guess Im going to sallelite radio... what a shame!

Same thing happened to me as many of you. I went to turn on PARTY 93 on the way to school from work and I hear rock! I was like hummm maybe I'm hallucinating, then I hear Rock 93, the new Rock station. I was like geez at least have a more original saying and NAME! I was soooo pissed. I wrote them an email and everything, of course I didn't get a response. This is what I wrote to them:

Dear Mr.Disney or To Whom It May Concern:

I believe the transition made from Party 93 into a Rock Channel was as grotesque of a change as the switch to Reggaeton from Zeta. It disturbs me to think that now NO where in South Florida -the capital of club scenes- will we be able find danceable, decent and energetic music. Power 96 is horrible now and used to be great in the 90s; Party 93.1 was the only thing close to what Power 96 used to represent, it was the only hope for good music in South Florida. I know MANY listeners that are disappointed in the change. It would be nice to notice your listeners ahead of time before changing music genres out of no where. I hope someone in the news station business smartens up and finally listens to the people's demand for a station that will always keep the party going. I hope you forward this to someone that will take this into consideration and think about a new and better change that doesn't involve more ghetto music or dramatic switches.

Sincerely,

Party 93.1 fans

What a bummer. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY DANCE MUSIC! ROCK AND ROLL IS OK,BUT WHO WANTS TO LISTEN TO THAT NOISE ALL THE TIME.. I found Party 93.1 dance while on vacation in Florida and fell in love with it.. It was the best station ever!! Even after returning to Michigan i locked in on my pc at work and listened every day! Must be something politcal at work to make them drop the format.. Probably GW Bush or his brothers influence..LOL! BRING BACK THE DANCE MUSIC FORMAT!!

SINCE THE PURE DANCE CHANNEL IS NO LONGER AMONG US...

I had the chance while I was leaving Voodoo Lounge to snag a Party 93.1 Pure Dance Channel banner from the wall outisde. I proudly display it on a wall in my house! Thanks WPYM... I was listening since the first song on New Years, and I sad to see you go!

SpLiT P. L. U. R!

i agree, this is fucking bullshit [excuse the language] but 93.1 was the only station providing dance/trance/rave music and there was already a rock station so why bother moving it to another location? we have enough reggaeton with 103.5 the beat, power 96.5, and 99.1 jamz soo why bother changing 94.9 into a hipanic reggaeton station ?! things were fine the way they were... i hear people complain about how 94.9 zeta moved but at least they still have a rock station! anyways i'm done complaining... ='[ still gotta miss party 93.1

PLUR <3 brittany

well, i was at work in London (England) yesterday and since my boss was out, we decided to play some tunes and I looked for the dance station I listened to in the car on my trip to Florida last year...

me and my boyfriend spent many a happy hour or five driving between locations singing along to the club classics and listening to the freestyle which didn't really make it over to the UK but reminds of the 80s and early 90s anyway.

i can't believe they've axed the only dance music channel - isn't Miami supposed to be the US dance music capital??? we have loads of pirate and commercial dance stations here in London but most of them focus on new tunes...and constantly change frequency as they get raided!

i hope your petition motivates someone to fill this now obvious gap and look forward to hearing the new station wheh i return! in the meantime, we have a great online station playing club classics - www.passionradio.co.uk - if anyone's interested.

I' m so mad, words can't explain. Showbusness in this country needs to get a clue that if they do things like this they loose faith of so many people. Party93.1 was a very popular station in Miami, what ratings were they (brain damaged COX)to come to this?! Right, we will all start growing hair and become rockers, or how about becoming fat and turning into a hip hop whore. I don't understand why they so sure it will fly here. There are like 3 stations of this garbage here. We are not ghetto here, and we are definitely not ghetto fabulous. We are just fabulous, no more no less. And Party93.1 , regardless lack of new artists that they didn't try to find, came very close to meet the demand. I just hope that corporate America will get a clue about Miami, and pull out a bit with its Rock nightmare, as well as this retarded pop hip hop monster where producers forgot to write the actual music and fooling this country for more than a decade.
I lost my faith in Cox, and frankly they don't know a clue about dance music anyway. Hope somebody more sophisticated comes across our scriblings and sets another dance station for us.
ps. don't waste time correcting my grammar, just concentrate on the issue, thanks
BTW speaking of Classic/Italo Dance, here is a staion with live stream. If you were heavy club goer in Miami in the 80's this one is for you: http://www.radiostaddenhaag.nl/

For complaints on removing Party 93.1 go to http://coxradio.com/includes/stations/wpym-fm.html There you will have the oppurtunity to send those jackasses and email and voice your opinion!!!!!!

Yea, why the hell did 93.1 dissappear. This is South Florida for crying out loud, all the best clubs are down here. Why not have a dance station? It doesnt make sense. = Angry and confused Fort Lauderdale Guy/NYer.

PUT THAT SH-- BACK ON!!

hey people...

im from toronto.. canada... and i often would listen into party 93.. on the internet.. especially for the global dj broadcast.. .. and im also upset that theyve taken it off the air.. .. Up here in Toronto.. theyve done similar things.. such as taking off the only good dance radio stations.. (energy108).. we have a semi..dance/hip-hop/rock station.. but.. hearing a good dance song once an hour is BS!.. so im.. upset.. mostly because.. north America's.. main stream dosnt get DANCE MUSIC!.. n it pisses me off... later..

I am not afraid of expressing my feelings about party 931 changing to a rock station. I am not going to hide my name because it makes no sense. Why have party 931 listeners have to suffer without the music we want to listen to its outrageous and incredibly stupid. Party 931 was a special station because there was nothing like it. There not other dance stations we could just listen to its the only one in miami and i dont have satilliate radio so i needed party 931 music. It's not fair because there are several rock stations. I have been a loyal listener for years dance music has been part of my life for a long time other stations dont play Kylie, Rockell, or Paul Van Dyke.
We don't deserve this we are entitled to listen to what the hell we want. So how could party 931 just leave out nowhere. I am not going to stay annoymous because I know what I am talking about Iwant my view to be heard and i want people to realize that I am not afraid to express my opinion and I will not be under the shadows

ITS SO FUNNY THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK AT ABOUT 8:35 AND TURN ON MY RADIO AND HEAR SOME WACK ASS MUSIC WTF!I GOT SO PIST OFF AND CALLED MY FRIENDS TO SEE MAYBE IF I WAS GOING CRAZY AND THEY ALL SAID THE SAME THING AND THEY WERE ALL COMLAINNING ON HOW PIST OFF THEY WERE! 93.1 WAS THE ONLY STATION THAT PLAYED LITTLE SUSSY AND JOHNNY , ETC. ALL MY FAVORITE FREESTYLE MUSIC MAN! JUST WHEN I THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING SO GOOD! IAM TOO UPSET TO EVEN MENTION THEM ANYMORE! THEY DIDNT EVEN GIVE US A WARNING OR ANYTHING THEY JUST SPLIT! AS FAR AS IAM CONCERNED 93.1 CAN GO TO HELL! LOL....BUT I WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE MEMORIES, GUESS ILL JUST HAVE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE GOOD SONGS THEY USED TO PLAY!.....WELL TAKE CARE LOVE YA BYE!......MARIA 305!

Hey, I hear ya! I'm stationed at Eglin AFB and I have been to most of the big cities and clubs all over the world. I love club music, its all I ever listen to. I now download Global DJ's off of Winn MX. 1-4 hour rips of the stuff, its the best of the best by the worlds best DJ's. I am soo sick of these stupid rock stations moving in every time a good station gets the boot. I grew up forced to listen to that crap and every where I go there it is, raiding my eardrums with classic rock, old rock, new rock...shit! So, I came to the conclusion, we...the true club music appreciaters are not a dying breed, the rest of them have just not cought on yet...They will when they figure out that this music is OUR tie to the past, present and future like their rock was and is to them and its going to be the future of our radio as well whether the rock worshippers want to except it or not.....later Bro!

I love it how everyone is complaining that theres no more 93.1 Party. Well what about the people who listened to 94.9 Zeta??? I see comments of how theres numerous rock stations... all that was left was Big 106. They took our station Zeta away for a Latino and proud when theres numerous latino stations down here. To sum it up, these changes were all completly uncalled for and should have never happened because Clear Channel wanted better ratings. Besides I like all music geners that there are in exception for the Latino and Proud b.s.

I couldn't agree more!
Party 93.1 was such a great station. I listened to it daily (in my car and office) and loved that they played all the hip club/house/electronica music that wasn't heard on all the other "common" stations out there. Too bad that they couldn't see a loyal market when they had one.
I tried to switch to (yuk) Y100 and even worse Power 96 and now I just listen to Cds cause that hip hop or Top 100 stuff totally got on my nerves.
So, I guess once again, us dance listeners are out in the cold.
This is to Cox, I hope your new Rock station (which really sucks) goes to hell!

I think it is a joke that Miami doesn not have a radio station with dance or electronic music. The city should have had already several dance and electronic music radio stations. Miami all over the world is known for it's winter music festival and now it doesn't even have one station! PATHETIC!

we are very displeased, we want back again party 93.1, the new clasic fucking rock station is depressing, and revolting.

Stop perpetrating the myth that only gay people like dance music. I'm not gay and I love dance music.

I have nothing against gays, personally; the problem is there's a lot of people who do, and those people will shy away from dance music if they think it's a "gay thing", since they're paranoid that folks will think they are gay if they are heard listening to it.

Dance music is for everyone. Gay, straight, white, black, alien.. doesn't matter. Feel the beat, enjoy the music. Don't spread stereotypes. Please. }:)

-Z

I was wondering the same thing, having lived there for a year, I had really grown to love that station. Origanally from Denver Co. where they don't play any music like that, it was refreshing. BRING IT BACK...

I had the same surprise too. They also changed 94.9 to a Latin music station.

931 went to rock to grab the spot 94.9 zeta left when they turned Latin Hip-Hop . But why Cox radio choose 93.1 to covert baffles me. They shoulda changed 99Jamz- if one hip hop station went away theres others to fill the need, but party has no one! With the way its going I wouldn't be surprised if someone else picks up the genre. And the web site says they will be an internet station soon, which doesn't fly with me. I need something to listen to in the car . XM is looking good right now

well i don't know if this will help you any but they are still broadcasting online. Go to part931.com and you can listen in live.

I was out of town, and I came back and for a minute at the airport it felt like someone had fucked with my radio! 91.3 is still NPR, 93.1 suddenly was Zeta, Zeta had gone spanish, and Y100 is now ultra lame? Geez when Party 93.1 kicked off the classical station (yeah so I like classical too!) they let us know like in 2 months notice.. As far as I know there was *NO* notice of this (although I did think it was funny that this new years there wasnt the big deal they made last year). Anyways I hear they are going to re-launch on the web at party931.com.... we shall see. Im still pissed.

I have been a faithful party 93.1 listener for the past two years! Since I visited Miami, I am not even from there! I have enjoyed it from afar, in NY, and recently in MD, and now it's gone?! What the heck? Aren't there enough of those boring rock stations?!

Right on.....bring back the party.....fuck the rock...got plenty of that already.....

i love party 93.1 to but here in texas kkdl 106.7 chaged to hip hop
and mex. i'm posst off. it was dance to and kdl 103.1 in LA was dance.

thats fucked up man, that was like the only good ass radio, I know they have it online but fuck that i dont have time fo that shit.....@%$**%@

I am a native Floridian who moved to Boulder, Co. They don't have any good radio stations out here. The only station I have found here in 93.3fm at 11 every night apparently Paul Oakenfold plays. Anyway, I knew that party 93.1 always played awesome stuff. I could always count on it even when i found it streaming online but then one day all I heard was alternative rock. Your right when you say they had cornered a market in South Florida that no one else hasd even come close to let alone thought of. Now what do I do, guess it's back to jsut downloading music. But I really loved that station, one of a kind especially the awesome stuff they would play late Sunday nights. Absolutly loved it!

hey sweetheart... if you want to complain about rock complain about the fact that the latin part of florida took over the alternative 94.9 zeta rock station from us... they changed all the radio stations around... at least you got warning (the party station website does state they're changing hands) thats why you got rock now on your stations.

party93.1 is not gone
http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/player/pages/index.asp?station=WPYM_FM&headertext=Party%2093.1FM',' ','%20'

That station sucked... Check out www.1club.fm - Now thats a real dance station. Party had NO ratings. Dance is a shitty format to make money with.

I own a radio station in Tampa florida via internet and I found your post about the 93.1 station ( It was also one of my favorite when i went to Ft. Laduardale for vacation :( ) and I was thinkin i would love to bring back the station via internet!! Now ikno party 93.1 already has a internet station they are continuing to broadcast at online but they only have it at 24k quality ( Horrible Sound ) I would be willing to run the station 24/7 via shoutcast internet for everybody at 128k audio and also a 300k Tv stream with live djs almost everyday not to mention live broadcast feeds of ASOT and Global Dj Broadcast!!! If you would like me to pursuade this please comment on this page again or email me @ djucinfo@yahoo.com
Id really like to bring the station back for you guys!! just drop me a line and I will get it going ASAP!!
93.1 Listener
UnderCover

Also a South Floridian but unlike you, I don't like much party/dance music. I actually like Rock but I'm not happy with 93 Rock. You're right, they're playing boring crap from the 90s for the most part. I'm switching to SIRIUS and hope more people around SoFla do too, this is probably one of the worst radio markets in the country.

Once I visited Miami, I found by change the greatest radio channel world-wide. All day time, great dance music and my holiday got one of my best, as even the music brought me in such a relaxing athmosphere. When I came back to Austria, I often streamed this channel and had good moments and remembered this great time. Today I wanted to stream again, and ..... nothing, no homepage no stream.

I would anyway thank that team for giving me a good time!
best wishes for your future and still hoping that this channel comes back.

that dance party junk sucks!! no talent wannabe dj's all suck! 93.1rock can beat 93.1party's ass any time!!!

Radio personality Marky G and Y100.7 team up to bring dance music back to South Florida airwaves!

Miami, Fla. – After a year of absence from South Florida radio, dance music made its triumphant return on Feb. 12 when radio personality MarkyG and Y100.7 joined forces to bring listeners the newest and most innovative dance music program, Marky G’s South Beach Dance Party.

Every Sunday night, from 9 p.m. to Midnight, Marky G will deliver to listeners the best format in dance music South Florida has ever offered. The show opens with a splashy hot intro, followed by the best variety of dance remixes from the ‘80s, ‘90s and today, for the first hour. They get more progressive in the next hour with a terrific blend of house and trance, called Funky House. Last is the South Beach Countdown of Top 10 hottest songs in dance. Each hour the listener gets something special, like News from the South Beach Scene, next hour it is about Hollywood, and last an amazing spoof on Long Distance Dedications.

Marky G’s South Beach Dance Party on Y100.7 will fill the void left behind when Party93-1 changed formats and left dance music fans without dance music. MarkyG, who is best known for his hit radio show, Issues Over The Rainbow – which included some of the hottest celebrity guests in the world including Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge and the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy – plans on bringing that same key element to his newest radio venture starting this Sunday Night from 9-Midnight. MarkyG made his reputation on delivering slick highly produced incredible shows. Now he will do that with his new show delivering a different dance format each hour, and a lot of fun in-between. The dance music cravings of every listener in South Florida will be catered to, as there is nothing like this show on radio anywhere…and that is just how MarkyG wants it…“We are doing dance music the way dance music was meant to be done, in a show format with so much more going on than just the music,” said MarkyG of his new show. “Everyone is going to love this show. Anyone listening to Y100 will stay with Y100 for this music, and anyone that loves fun and dance music will make it a point to come listen to this program.”

For more information visit www.southbeachdanceparty.com

I know how you feel. But one thing you say is untrue. There aren't several rock stations. the ONLY rock station you could get south of palm beach was 94.9 Zeta. But Zeta got axed and replaced with this worthless reggae urban hip-hop. And those we already had TONS of. So all the angry rock fans protested. and thats why 93.1 got replaced with a rock channel. Altho i'm happy to have my rock channel back, i know how you feel about losing your favorite radio station. also, it was my dads favoirite channel (although he didn't care for all the homosexual advertizing). Also, i still miss 94.9 Zeta, becuase this new rock station on 93.1 just isn't the same. I beleive all three radiostations were looked over by the same person/company what ever it may be. If whoever the idiot is that did this would have just kept party 93.1 and 94.9 zeta the way they were, and given this reggae/hip-hop channel its own station they could have kept alot of people like me and you happier.