According to the vast majority of Alternative haters and their are many,
Donald? Is that you?
OK. Snark aside, and even though this is getting to Julius levels of obsession, I'll bite.
According to the vast majority of Alternative haters and their are many, who constantly bash the one outlet in a 100 miles radius,
Incorrect. Within a 100 mile radius you have Alt 92.3 in NYC, 107.1 Spin Radio north of Allentown, and just on the edge of that range, the translator that WHFS lives on near Baltimore.
To appease you all, WRFF should just flip to Rap and Blazing Hip Hop to add to the wasteland of underperforming urban formats on the dial.
No one has said that. At all. All they've pointed out is how WRFF's billings greatly underperforms it's ratings, and that's a problem that Alternative stations (save for a handful of long-term legendary stations) face across the country. Plus, I wouldn't consider any of the Urban formats in Philly as "under-performing." WDAS and Power 99 hum nicely along. WRNB has shown signs of life, and Praise 107.9 and Boom 103.9 are billing about as well as one would expect with such tiny signals.
if you had your way any form of Rock would be banned from the dial.
Not me personally. WRFF and WMMR are the top of my presets. That's just speaking for me personally.
There are people who love and listen to Rock even if the suits don't support it, so why starve them, you have your variety of urban formats including the new 106.1, which you all embrace, be satisfied.
You seem to have trouble grasping that radio is a business, and regardless if there are people who love and listen to rock, if they're not a profitable segment of the population, you won't have stations targeting them. You could argue that plenty of people in the Philadelphia area like polka, so why starve them of a station targeting their tastes? Because of the $$. Along the same lines, in Philly, you have a variety of Rock formats, including WMMR, WRFF, WMGK, WBEN, WRFF-HD2, and WIP-HD3. Be Satisfied.
Contrary to your and others beliefs, why are the three Rock outlets here constantly in the top 5 every period and always above the 4.0 mark
Again, you seem to have trouble grasping the business end. No one has disputed the ratings of WMMR, WMGK, or WRFF. But it's about the ability to turn those ratings into money. This isn't contrary to my or others beliefs.
Why doesn't anyone ever say anything demeaning about any urban format here, and if they do, its well, why don't they flip to another blend of urban LMAO.
Well, this is me making an assumption, but the majority of the people who post on this board are white males, who are not the target demographic of Urban stations, and don't listen to them. So unless the ratings of Urban stations radically change, they go mostly unnoticed to the common poster. But members of this board DO listen to the rock-formatted stations, and in doing so, nitpick any little change that there may be, leading to more scrutiny and more posts about it.
No you don't. Because you started yet another thread about it.
