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Bull!
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I think AMP Radio will be launch!!
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KYW--AM---FM---- When ? January ?
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No the wired format will be staying with CBS. Once they take over in the new few days!
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If that's the case, I wonder which FM they will blow up for WPHT AM/FM
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None. WPHT-FM....isn't going to happen.
Maybe 96.5 HD2 will be blown up if 96.5 becomes KYW & 98.1 HD3 will become something else. Pretty sure WPHT stays on an FM HD subchannel.
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Bye-bye, Wired.
Seriously...how has that station persisted for so long? The ratings have always been mediocre and the demos very young. It has got to be one of the lowest billing FM's in the market.
If 96.5 doesn't become a full-time simulcaster of KYW, then I agree the station will get AMP'd.
Bye-bye, Wired.
Seriously...how has that station persisted for so long? The ratings have always been mediocre and the demos very young. It has got to be one of the lowest billing FM's in the market.
If 96.5 doesn't become a full-time simulcaster of KYW, then I agree the station will get AMP'd.
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If KYW doesn't go to FM, I will be shocked.
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If you all consider sub-channels as moving to FM, KYW and WPHT are already there and have been for some time. KYW is on 94.1 HD2 and WPHT is on 98.1 HD3.
And WRDW may be the weakest FM performer in the bunch but it still gets better share and better cume than WPHT - and much better demo. You people are living in fantasy, especially the anonymous troll who started this burst of fantasy. Better sound quality has never gotten money demo listeners to start listening to what their parents like. And as we saw a couple of years ago, when hosts, formats or stations move, a lot of listeners don't follow. The kind of people who listen to KYW and WPHT don't deal well with change.
And WRDW may be the weakest FM performer in the bunch but it still gets better share and better cume than WPHT - and much better demo. You people are living in fantasy, especially the anonymous troll who started this burst of fantasy. Better sound quality has never gotten money demo listeners to start listening to what their parents like. And as we saw a couple of years ago, when hosts, formats or stations move, a lot of listeners don't follow. The kind of people who listen to KYW and WPHT don't deal well with change.
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They plan to keep the format once CBS
Takes over said a news reporter of KYW!
Takes over said a news reporter of KYW!
As usual, we're sitting here relatively freezing in the dark, Fred, Coal Country PA, eight months after that horrific winter last.
The end of that ice age also seemed to be simultaneous with KYW falling in the ratings as though it were the frozen Blob being dropped off in Antarctica.
Seems to me that the addition of a good-signal FM and a required 100% simulcast would be a wise KYW move for New Years Day. CBS has been moving things around in some markets like some chessmaster at a convention -- playing games against a dozen opponents, solo, at once. And getting those heritage, trusted call letters prepped and propped and unfurled BEFORE all the bad wx begins is a move that CBS quite possibly, in their dismayed wake, realized that they Lovelace'd last year.
If Guest Former GM Person poster knows his/hers stuff, KYW simulcast on a respectable market FMer should get some hands wringing together in glee, vindication and interest.
The end of that ice age also seemed to be simultaneous with KYW falling in the ratings as though it were the frozen Blob being dropped off in Antarctica.
Seems to me that the addition of a good-signal FM and a required 100% simulcast would be a wise KYW move for New Years Day. CBS has been moving things around in some markets like some chessmaster at a convention -- playing games against a dozen opponents, solo, at once. And getting those heritage, trusted call letters prepped and propped and unfurled BEFORE all the bad wx begins is a move that CBS quite possibly, in their dismayed wake, realized that they Lovelace'd last year.
If Guest Former GM Person poster knows his/hers stuff, KYW simulcast on a respectable market FMer should get some hands wringing together in glee, vindication and interest.
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Steve, why assume a simulcast? The only all news station that successfully transitioned to FM quickly dropped the AM simulcast. Of course, they still haven't figured out to do with the AM frequency.
Let's hope it's not as bad as last winter. But if it is, the money demos still won't be going to radio. And the information their parents get from radio stations like KYW will still be mostly obvious and useless. Nobody needs radio to tell them when it's really cold out. Nobody really cares how many people lost power; only when they will get their power back. And apparently PECO spends enough money with CBS local to get soft-ball treatment.
I'm trying to figure out how it's darker in Pottsville than in the Philly Metro, and how the temperature is more than a few degrees different. KYW is way too focused on the city, when most of its audience is in the 'burb and they pay no attention to "cold country," so I hope you don't look to them for anything useful.
If I were that close to Yuengling brewery, I wouldn't waste my time on KYW or worrying about the weather.
Let's hope it's not as bad as last winter. But if it is, the money demos still won't be going to radio. And the information their parents get from radio stations like KYW will still be mostly obvious and useless. Nobody needs radio to tell them when it's really cold out. Nobody really cares how many people lost power; only when they will get their power back. And apparently PECO spends enough money with CBS local to get soft-ball treatment.
I'm trying to figure out how it's darker in Pottsville than in the Philly Metro, and how the temperature is more than a few degrees different. KYW is way too focused on the city, when most of its audience is in the 'burb and they pay no attention to "cold country," so I hope you don't look to them for anything useful.
If I were that close to Yuengling brewery, I wouldn't waste my time on KYW or worrying about the weather.
KCBS? WBBM? Both benefitted from adding FM and remain on both bands and both are CBS properties.
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I'm talking about WTOP.
Benefited how? You are not going to claim their demos improved are you?
WBBM only added FM because they saw Merlin as a threat. Now they are stuck.
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