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This should be interesting -- NASH-FM

The move would appear to give WNSH more competitive coverage in central Long Island. Perhaps there are more people in that area than in the parts of NJ that would receive a weaker signal.
Maybe their signal would also be more solid in certain parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
 
Andy Travis said:
One thing often ignored in these transactions by radio fans, is that selling these stations to a noncommercial operator in markets where they retain other stations eliminates a competitor. Why would Entercom sell 100.3 LA for example, to a commercial operator when they could sell it to EMF? It effectively shrinks the market and positions them to capture more revenue. I doubt many of these stations were ever on the open market for other bids.
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That's been the view for a while. But it seems like we're getting to a point where as the mass appeal options on the FM dial diminish, and technology options grow, it becomes a lot easier for potential listeners to ignore radio altogether. Imagine you're a DC listener who alternated between WASH, WRQX, and WIAD. Within a few months, you've seen two of your top choices disappear. Might finally be worth figuring out how Spotify and CarPlay work together...

Entertainment options are unlimited these days. Sales to EMF aren't helping the cause of over-the-air radio.
 
encarta95 said:
But it seems like we're getting to a point where as the mass appeal options on the FM dial diminish, and technology options grow,
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But for the first part of your premise to be true, these stations have to be popular in the first place. WIAD wasn't. WRQX has had mixed experience. In NYC, WPLJ has been struggling for years.

So for fans of mass appeal music, which means popular music, there are still lots of broadcast choices available.

This is not to say people won't augment what's available with personal devices. That's been the case for 50 years.
 
Barry said:
The move would appear to give WNSH more competitive coverage in central Long Island. Perhaps there are more people in that area than in the parts of NJ that would receive a weaker signal.
Maybe their signal would also be more solid in certain parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
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Queens and Brooklyn will have immense multipath and blockage; they are lower than the average building above horizon line on Manhattan. And the coverage on LI only moves a couple of miles to the east.

The loss area in NJ is not inside the NYC MSA for ratings.
 
AMRocks said:
CBS news is not a 24/7 simulcast on hundreds of stations across the country. It's a newscast at the top of the hour on many stations with different formats. And that likely have employees.
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Many stations that carry the CBS news don't have any news department or newspeople.....some, none at all.

Some stations that take all syndicated programming, Hannity, Rush, beck, etc...have no local hosts at all...not one host

The point was not about jobs, but that you called it crap programming, and the point still stands that syndicated programming necessarily doesn't == bad.

AMRocks said:
EMF doesn't even need an operator at the location.
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EMF has lots of jobs, employs lots of people and many people work for them....just not in New York.


AMRocks said:
Personally, non-commercial stations should stay between 88.1 and 91.9. Just my personal feeling.
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I am assuming you know how much your opinion is worth to Cumulus, EMF and the FCC, right?
 
Wimmmex said:
EMF has lots of jobs, employs lots of people and many people work for them....just not in New York.
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The funny thing is that EMF has done what some folks thought companies like iHeart and Cumulus would do.

Beware of what you don't expect. EMF now owns over 500 radio stations.
 
madooputtus said:
So will TuneIn users will be asked to listen to NASH FM 94.7 on radio.com after the deal closes?
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The digital footprint for the station will change. The website will be part of radio.com, and the station will promote that platform.

At the same time, I expect the station will disappear from TuneIn.
 
Why is it a given that 94.7 stays country, with or without the NASH name? Wasn't the idea that it would give the NASH brand a station in market #1, whether it made sense otherwise or not?


madooputtus said:
So will TuneIn users will be asked to listen to NASH FM 94.7 on radio.com after the deal closes?
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gr8oldies said:
Why is it a given that 94.7 stays country, with or without the NASH name?
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Not sure that anything is a given, but Entercom is a big player in the country format, and WNSH has received pretty decent ratings with a weak signal and a syndicated morning show. I would expect they'd at least see if the ratings improve with a local morning show and slightly improved signal. Then revisit it in a year.

Also I'm not sure that the trade of one NYC station plus two Springfield stations is equivalent to three stations in Indianapolis. So there may be other caveats in this trade that could include continuation of the syndicated evening show for a certain period and clearance of a certain number of Cumulus commercials.
 
My Country 96.1’s signal does not reach Eastern Nassau or Western Suffolk. Nash’s signal is very spotty once you are east of the Wantagh Parkway. Their HD1 signal does have good reach, in fact sometimes better than the analog.
 
BarryATL said:
Is the small amount of coverage change worth the move?

https://www.fccdata.org/?facid=&cal...=&party=&party_type=LICEN&latd=&lond=&lang=en
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Nash FM will lose coverage in Sussex County for sure which barely has variety in the Northwestern, Western & Southwestern and Central Parts of it. You basically only can receive WSUS 102.3 an A/C station, WNNJ 103.7 a Classic Rock Station, and WHCY 106.3 a CHR. In the northerneastern part of the county you can receive Hudson Valley stations which has country. You can maybe receive in the Southwestern part of the county WCTO on 96.1 from the Lehigh Valley. Still I am sure it billed well in rural Sussex County. Country like Hot A/C, A/C and Alternative and Rock are more Suburban Stations.
 
bizzle13 said:
Nash FM will lose coverage in Sussex County for sure which barely has variety in the Northwestern, Western & Southwestern and Central Parts of it. You basically only can receive WSUS 102.3 an A/C station, WNNJ 103.7 a Classic Rock Station, and WHCY 106.3 a CHR. In the northerneastern part of the county you can receive Hudson Valley stations which has country. You can maybe receive in the Southwestern part of the county WCTO on 96.1 from the Lehigh Valley. Still I am sure it billed well in rural Sussex County. Country like Hot A/C, A/C and Alternative and Rock are more Suburban Stations.
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Sussex county is not in the Nielsen New York City Metro Survey Area, so it has / had no revenue potential for WNSH.
 
Re: NASH FM

The proposed tower move by Entercom is smart! Signal within the Burroughs of NYC would be considerably improved. Ditto Westchester County, SW Connecticut and Long Island. Coverage loss in New Jersey would mainly be across outlying areas that mean little to nothing with regard to ratings & revenue.
 
Would radio-locator.com update the status of both WNSH & WMAS (a co-channel station based in Springfield, MA), now that they got construction permits?
 
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