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Glad a Radio station somes up a whole culture to you...Way to Cherry Pick!....
WAMO was sorely mis-managed...and they DIDN'T Play anything that couldn't be heard on one of the Top 40 stations so they didn't command a specific audiance, blacks were switching between WAMO B94 and Kiss all playing the same thing....B94 and Kiss advertised the same events as WAMO...
Losing WAMO was no great tragedy here....We can still get all the Latest Rap and R&B and its repeated just as much as it was on WAMO.
Anyways who still listens to Broadcast Radio? that's sooooo 90's....again Pittsburgh is just ahead of what is a dying form of Entertainment....Don't worry folks in Bham will catch up....
Its all about Satellite, Ipod's, You Tube and Internet Streaming - Get with the times Bham...
Show me the stats of Bham Blacks in proverty vs Whites, and Unemployment of Blacks vs Whites are you saying its reversed Blacks earn more and are more skillfully employed in Bham that Whites are I would like to see that.
What city in America in has the blacks overall doing better than the whites. It is not many.
A story that can be repeated around the country...Its in every big city...Not just Pittsburgh...Nor did I ever say Pittsburgh was a great black mecca....What I did say is I would like proof that Bham affords Blacks a better life than all the other major cities with stories similar to Pittsburgh. But there's also a strong middle class in the Burgh in which blacks are afforded...
Show me the stats of Bham Blacks in proverty vs Whites, and Unemployment of Blacks vs Whites are you saying its reversed Blacks earn more and are more skillfully employed in Bham that Whites are I would like to see that.
Here's the thing: those numbers are WORSE in Pittsburgh than they are in many other cities. (University of Pittsburgh studies show that black Americans in this city are worse off than in 70 comparable cities across the nation) Pittsburgh as a whole is prosperous: the other side to that story is that blacks in Pittsburgh are not.
The Pittsburgh region is also #1 in Black poverty rates.
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The Pittsburgh region has received many accolades over the past year for its high quality of life and the resilience of its economy. But our community also is No. 1 in the nation on an issue that should be a source of shame, not pride.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pittsburgh region has the highest rate of poverty among working-age African-Americans of any of the 40 largest metropolitan regions in the country. More than one-quarter (28 percent) of the region's African-Americans ages 18 to 64 lived in poverty in 2008. That's twice as high as in regions such as Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C.
broadcast radio will never die, for many reasons that i can explain BUT it would be strayign away to the original topic
Anyways, I think pittsburgh as a whole has more to offer.
broadcast radio will never die, for many reasons that i can explain BUT it would be strayign away to the original topic
Anyways, I think pittsburgh as a whole has more to offer.
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I would agree, cause I'd probably rather live in Pittsburgh than Birmingham (I'm black).
However, Northern cities are no better than southern ones in terms of economic opportunity for black people, and southern cities might even be better as of recent.
Pittsburgh is a city that has been receiving accolades for increases in stability and wealth...but it doesn't look like black people are sharing in that at this time...
1. Your second source says radio is not really dying. FAIL.
2. So NYC and other large cities are behind because it has urban radio stations? FAIL 2.
1 - But anyone living in 2010 knows it is - You Fail 1
2 - NYC has 8 million people too there will always be a market for Broadcast - YOU FAIL 2
Look at more tech progressive cities and see how much longer Broadcast Radio has to live....Like the Newspaper, Like the Music Industry and CD's, its a dying industry....You're just showing how far behind in times people in Bham and the South really are....Internet is the way of life now for all things MEDIA...
The Real Story - How Segragated are cities, Birmingham high concentration of Blacks but EXTEMELY Segragated...it's so clear you can almost drawl the line...Pittsburgh low concentration of Blacks but more intergration with Whites.
Here's the thing: those numbers are WORSE in Pittsburgh than they are in many other cities. (University of Pittsburgh studies show that black Americans in this city are worse off than in 70 comparable cities across the nation) Pittsburgh as a whole is prosperous: the other side to that story is that blacks in Pittsburgh are not.
The Pittsburgh region is also #1 in Black poverty rates.
Glad a Radio station somes up a whole culture to you...Way to Cherry Pick!....
WAMO was sorely mis-managed...and they DIDN'T Play anything that couldn't be heard on one of the Top 40 stations so they didn't command a specific audiance, blacks were switching between WAMO B94 and Kiss all playing the same thing....B94 and Kiss advertised the same events as WAMO...
Losing WAMO was no great tragedy here....We can still get all the Latest Rap and R&B and its repeated just as much as it was on WAMO.
Anyways who still listens to Broadcast Radio? that's sooooo 90's....again Pittsburgh is just ahead of what is a dying form of Entertainment....Don't worry folks in Bham will catch up....
Its all about Satellite, Ipod's, You Tube and Internet Streaming - Get with the times Bham...
You can say its all about music if you want, but you and I both know its a bigger issue than that. The blacks in Pittsburgh understand it, as evidenced by this article below. They're outraged and embarrassed by it. Unfortunatley too, the attempts to start a new station didn't work out...
“...With no one doing anything to replace it, I got even more upset,” he said. “It’s a ‘Black out,’ there’s no news and information about and for the community. There are elections coming up and, right now, we have no input.” Edwards said the lack of a Black station not only makes the city look bad, but is also bad for business and for attracting residents. “It’s missed by everyone, not just African-Americans,” he said. “Can you imagine people looking at Pittsburgh for relocation asking, ‘Where’s the Black station?” and hearing there is none? We’re the only major metropolitan city without a Black radio station...”
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