Excuse me. I was trying to understand why the name of
a country would be used as a format, which makes no sense. Your explanation was
to say “Might
not be so obvious to someone in California.”
That statement tends to defend calling a format “Mexican” or “Cuban”
which, simply, is wrong.
DXers usually want to know
(especially of they send reports) how to describe accurately the type of
programming and music on a station. Since about 75% of stations in Mexico don’t
play the music WAFC plays, calling the station “Mexican” is
inaccurate.
For the sake of others who DO care about music forms, I checked the playlist of
WAFC and it is mostly ranchera grupera and norteña music. In Mexico, this
format would be known as “grupera” to distinguish it as a blend of
various forms of music. There could also be pure norteña stations, and
pure ranchera ones. Add in vallenato (imported from Colombia)
and cumbia (idem) and banda, and you have the prevalent forms of what in the US
music industry is called “regional Mexican music.” Many smaller
market stations in Mexico
play some mix of this, and a percentage of large market ones do too.
Calling most of the Miami
Spanish stations Cuban is definitely politically incorrect, as well as wrong. Despite
being a day or two a week in Cali, I have some
familiarity with Miami
radio.
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Whatever.
I'm not interested in a fight, just tried to explain the reference you asked
about.
Since I didn't say any of the things you are correcting, I'm not sure the point
of your comments. I certainly don't appreciate being called politically
incorrect, or any other names.
I'll not bother you further, and trust you'll show the same consideration.
W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida
David Gleason wrote:
I
guess I can see your point. Still, calling a format “Mexican” is
highly inaccurate, as the kind of music on WAFC is popular in many countries.
Similarly, the stations in Miami
are not all directed at “Cubans” and, except for a couple of the AM
talkers, would not be properly referred to as “Cuban” formats.
Personally, I find calling the WAFC format “Mexican” to be a tad on
the politically incorrect side. Of course, I don’t think there is a
“Cuban” format, either.
It's pretty
obvious when you listen to WAFC Clewiston, as compared to the Cubans and
domestics programming for Cubans. Those of us in Florida
often make the distinction between Cuban origin, Cuban directed and other
Spanish language formats. Might not be so obvious to someone in California.
W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton,
(Southeast) Florida
David Gleason wrote:
Oh.
I have no idea what a specific “Mexican” format would be,
though… since there are so many of them, ranging from Spanish rock to
oldies. I’ve never heard of an “American” format, either (g) .
David Gleason..
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10:09 AM
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Subject: [IRCA] XE format (was Re:
590 Musical Off to a Wobbling Restart;15 0022Z OCT 05; PVZ)
I would guess than
an XE format is Mexican; a reference to the XE-- Mexican calls.
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For purposes of taping, R-390#6 fed w/DA-5 Loop rather than wire ants, so as
to null both Clewiston FL XE format
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