So David, I guess you are dreaming of a day, just like some of the overseas imports are wanting, a day where all radio stations will be hispanic and there will be no non speaking English stations on anywhere.
Not at all. As I said, radio as an industry has always been good at identifying segments of a market that are underserved and providing some type of programming to attract this underserved segment. When each maket has the appropriate number of stations for a specific group, there will be too much fragmentation for any more to come in.
Come on dude this is America, and the only ethnic stations that have been suscessful in the past are Black Stations.
From the end of W.W. II there were stations like WOV and WHOM in New York which were all Italian, many Polish stations, and Spanish stations (the first fulltime ones were around 1947 and 1948). Plus, there were so many multi-ethinc stations or ethnic shows on general market stations that Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 had three pages of them in small type.
Spanish stations have been successful in the Continental US since the 40's, and there were hundreds of them by the 70's. Now, there are 997 of them. And we have an All Farsi station in LA, Vietnamese stations in Fresno, Houston and LA, etc. All are enormously successful.
Why, because they speak English, most of them born here, and are not illegal like Tenn Radio Boy has mention.
I listen to Spanish radio, and I am not illegal. 80% or more of US Hispanics are legal. But even legal immigrants who learn English or who already knew it will generally not change their tastes in musci. I grew up on certain kinds of Spanish language music, and that is what I like today. There is no way I suddenly am going to like AOR or Alternative because I have had no exposure to that music. That's the whole reason why stations catering to large ethnic groups are so successful.
Most listeners in this area that are listening to hispanic station are illeagl anyway.
How do you know this? Besides not having a chance in hell of being true, it assumes that anyone who listens to Spanish radio is not legal. The fact is, Hispanics who are second generation and, of course, citizens, use Spanish radio a lot because they grew up on the music and it is part of their life.
. Also, don't hide the fact of why most of them don't have bank accounts and pay cash. We know where the money is coming from.
Those who don't have bank accounts use check cashing establishments, just as a huge percentage of lower income non-Hispanics do. Then they pay things in cash with the proceeds.
They are even taking over our TV media, and moving in taking over TV shows on cable.
Yep, last week Univision was the number 2 network in 18-34 in the whole US. why? It superseves the lifestyle of US Hispanics, about 40 million of whom are legal.
We should NOT be forced to speak spanish,
You don't have to.
your stations should be forced to speak english.
That is not constitutional; it violates freedome of speech.
That is the way it has been here for over 200 years
That is not true. Foriegn langauge media have a long tradition in the US. This goes back to Dutch newspapers in New York, German ones in Pennsylvania, etc. In the 60's and 70',s for example, Cleveland, Ohio had nearly 20 different foreign language periodicals. Today, instead of papers we have radio stations.
and your coming in here forcing the American public to speak spanish?
Nobody forces anyone to speak Spanish. But if you want to have Hispanic customers, maybe learning Spanish would make you money.
Come on dude, if I had to live in Mexico, we would be force to speak spanish!
No, there are huge American communites in Mexico... hundreds of thousands of people in total, who have retired there due to the more attractive cost of living and the better health care and they don't have to learn Spanish unless they want to.
