Although Tejano or Hispanic is a format. Either way, and dare I say it, DE is your bet. Hopefully, his name in lights will get his attention.
An equivalent might be calling ``Midwestern'' a format. That encompasses a location and possibly a culture but I doubt that ``Midwestern'' would characterize a format since everything from farm-oriented KRVN in Lexington, NE to AOR KGGO/Des Moines, IA could be embraced by that term.
And while I'll engaged in pedantic mode, a few other minor nits:
1). Commercials that call Central Expressway ``I-75''. The interstate designated by that number is far, far from here. It's ``US 75'', a federal highway.
2). Spots (and I hear them all too frequently on WBAP) that verbally express a URL as something like ``www.wbap.com'' BACKSLASH ``mdavis''. The virgule in the URL is a SLASH (``/'') and not a BACKSLASH (``\""). We Unix dweebs and C programmers are all too acutely aware of such little things.
3). The LA and Chicago regionalism of placing an article before the name of freeway in traffic reports. For instance, ``...major backup on THE five'' or ``...45 minute delay on THE Stevenson''. Kudos to Mike Shannon and the others hereabouts, the way it's done in D/FW is more natural and economical, a la ``...construction on LBJ tonight'..
...and so ends pedantic mode (yes, it's always fun at parties). The weekend is coming and I can now get a life! :-)
You know what? I don't care. Spanish is a foreign language, and whether it is Tejano, Hispanic, Spanish, or whatever - its a friggin' foreign language and I don't listen. I'm weary of political correctness - it gets tedious trying to find ways not to offend people. After a long while - its just obvious you cannot go through life without offending someone, so just don't go out of your way to do it, and hope that anybody you inadvertantly offend has enough of a life to know it wasn't intentional and they don't get all huffy about it.
So - go ahead and call all non-Spanish formats "anglo" if you want and I got a life, so I won't be offended at all.
As for US 75 - it is almost inevitable that it will eventually be designated Interstate 45 and continued to Kansas City - the time saving for trucking is too good to pass up. And if the Disney rumors are true, they will at least need it all the way to Sherman - if not all the way to I-40 to accomodate all the tourist traffic.
Unix - ICK - any language that uses the ominous sounding name "deamons" is too spooky for me. Too close to "demons". But I usually don't get into the Unix vs. Windows religious discussions. Your point about "C" is well taken.
As for regionalism - how many times do I hear that bit of freeway between US75 and I-35 referred to as Woodall Rogers - I doubt anybody knows the road number. Or the THE Tom Landry Highway. Or THE George Bush freeway.
My pet peeve is terms like "left center lane" on the traffic reports. Why don't we do something intelligent like number the lanes from the left like Houston traffic does: "stalled car in lane 3" or "lanes 1 and 2 blocked by construction". Less time, less confusing.
