Spanglish

Title of a great film with Adam Sandler, but also what I heard this morning on my adventures in radio scanning!

92.7 used to be an all electronic station until one morning, without notice, (very literally) it changed into an all Spanish music station. I wasn’t as concerned because I had passed my electronica stage at that point, but I was annoyed.

So, since that day like 2 years back, I had not tuned back to 92.7 until thsi morning. What did I hear? English commercials, spanish commercials, Spanglish commercials that mixed both - then came on the traffic report. BQE South is jam packed - (Spanish) - back to some random English and then Reggaeton!

I hate Reggaeton on the hip hop stations like Hot 97 and Power 105.1; it stinks. They even play it on that idiotic Z100 (but not that idiotic because that’s how I get my Kelly Clarkson fix). But the reggaeton on 92.7 was actually pretty good. Instead of cringing and changing the station, I listened to it all the way to work! It’s perfect for those who want to slowly transition into speaking slang Spanish. You’ll hear a lot of traffic directions, yelling, and useless English being jammed along with speedy Spanish. . . and one fine day, you’ll wake up and realize that you know what the word culo means. It will be glorious. I think 92.7 is going to have to replace 103.5 on the 2nd set of memorized buttons.

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3 Comments so far

  1. mist. (unregistered) April 1st, 2006 4:40 am

    92.7 moved to 107.1, selling their frequency to the Spanish language station. 107.1 (WLIR) moved to Suffolk County, where they still play alternative/modern rock/indie and techno (during nights).

    They stream:

    http://www.wlir.com/WLIR.htm

  2. Dhaval (unregistered) April 1st, 2006 4:13 pm

    Thanks Mist! Do they still play indie rock? I have to check out their playlist.

  3. mist. (unregistered) April 2nd, 2006 3:24 am

    looks it, yes. Only DJ left seems to be Andre.


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