WOR-AM is saying they have a special announcement today Monday at 10:00 AM.
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WOR-AM Special Announcement Today
- Thread starter xmradiopro
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It's Official: Mets to WOR in 2014
5 year deal announced (2014-2018).
MLB press release:
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131104&content_id=63659286&vkey=pr_nym&c_id=nym
AllAccess article and other news stories currently regurgitate the above linked press release; links to more detailed analysis to follow later.
Important to note: it's mentioned that marketing and promotion will take place amongst the other CCM+E NYC radio stations, bot not a simulcast.
5 year deal announced (2014-2018).
MLB press release:
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131104&content_id=63659286&vkey=pr_nym&c_id=nym
AllAccess article and other news stories currently regurgitate the above linked press release; links to more detailed analysis to follow later.
Important to note: it's mentioned that marketing and promotion will take place amongst the other CCM+E NYC radio stations, bot not a simulcast.
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5 year deal announced (2014-2018).
MLB press release:
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131104&content_id=63659286&vkey=pr_nym&c_id=nym
AllAccess article and other news stories currently regurgitate the above linked press release; links to more detailed analysis to follow later.
Important to note: it's mentioned that marketing and promotion will take place amongst the other CCM+E NYC radio stations, bot not a simulcast.
Baseball wouldn't be a good fit on any of them, and play-by-play of a second-division club like the Mets would kill ratings for hours every day. CC is placing a pretty large bet that AM will still be relevant in five years. Worst case scenario: Everyone else on AM has sent local content to FM and has either gone dark on AM or is running birdfeed talk, ethnic, Godcasting or dollar-a-holler, leaving the Mets stranded on a band that 95 percent of NYC listeners never visit.
Baseball wouldn't be a good fit on any of them, and play-by-play of a second-division club like the Mets would kill ratings for hours every day. CC is placing a pretty large bet that AM will still be relevant in five years. Worst case scenario: Everyone else on AM has sent local content to FM and has either gone dark on AM or is running birdfeed talk, ethnic, Godcasting or dollar-a-holler, leaving the Mets stranded on a band that 95 percent of NYC listeners never visit.
don't forget the FCC plans to save AM radio. the FCC commissioner who wants to save
AM radio says----- they want keep keep it vibrant for ten or fifteen years. Then what?
(and vibrant is not a term I'd use for AM radio. Life support & auto-pilot are better terms for AM radio.)
I'm still convinced that by next March, Clear Channel will move WOR from 710 to FM (probably replacing WAXQ at 104.3) and launching a 24/7 sports station (mostly Fox Sports Radio programming with perhaps local sports talk shows in drive times) at 710 on the AM dial, on which the Mets would be the new station's cornerstone.
Besides, the new sports station can continue to air Rutgers University sports and also become the next flagship for the New York Islanders hockey team next Fall, when the team starts playing home games in Brooklyn.
It would also prevent massive pre-emptions of talk shows on WOR.
"Fox Sports 710. Mets. Islanders. Rutgers."
Besides, the new sports station can continue to air Rutgers University sports and also become the next flagship for the New York Islanders hockey team next Fall, when the team starts playing home games in Brooklyn.
It would also prevent massive pre-emptions of talk shows on WOR.
"Fox Sports 710. Mets. Islanders. Rutgers."
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don't forget the FCC plans to save AM radio. The FCC commissioner who wants to save AM radio says----- they want keep keep it vibrant for ten or fifteen years. Then what? (and vibrant is not a term I'd use for AM radio. Life support & auto-pilot are better terms for AM radio.)
Ancient Modulation hasn't been "vibrant" since about 1975.
Baseball wouldn't be a good fit on any of them, and play-by-play of a second-division club like the Mets would kill ratings for hours every day. CC is placing a pretty large bet that AM will still be relevant in five years. Worst case scenario: Everyone else on AM has sent local content to FM and has either gone dark on AM or is running birdfeed talk, ethnic, Godcasting or dollar-a-holler, leaving the Mets stranded on a band that 95 percent of NYC listeners never visit.
I dunno in the next few years. NYC still has #8 and #10 on AM (and billers at that), with no inclination CBS intends to move them to FM based on their decisions of late. Also, spoken word on FM (save NPR) hasn't succeeded in NYC yet. I'd love to see the breakdown re WFAN (#11) AM versus FM listenership. Eventually, absent real change beyond anything the FCC is likely to consider, AM is probably a dodo bird... but maybe the bird has a few years yet to run before it meets the dodo.
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