I see that WFAN's ratings plunged....What happened?
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Hmmm...let's see...no football, baseball, hockey, basketball.....other than that?
I keep thinking that eventually, someone's going to put another PLJ type of station (Hot AC) on the air in New York. The NYC market is starved for such a station right now...Z100 isn't quite what I'd call Hot AC, and 102.7....well....sucks.
I'd say if any format flips are going to happen soon, WFAN-FM and/or WEPN-FM are the most likely candidates. Perhaps WNSH would consider it, but they seem to have re-committed to the country format.
I'd say if any format flips are going to happen soon, WFAN-FM and/or WEPN-FM are the most likely candidates. Perhaps WNSH would consider it, but they seem to have re-committed to the country format.
WFAN is one of America's highest billing radio stations. Most of the audience is on the FM. If I were to make a list of the top 10 stations in America least likely to change format, WFAN would be on it.
WEPN is key to the national ESPN radio operation. It's leased from Emmis, and it would not surprise me to see Disney buy it at some point to guarantee a signal in NYC.
WNSH has a deficient signal, and so it is best suited for a format not duplicated on a better facility.
Remember, radio is a business. Things that may not makes sense to a listener make enormous sense to an owner.
Entercom owns both WFAN and WNEW. I doubt they'd flip WFAN to a competitor of WNEW. Same with WNSH.
WEPN is run by ESPN. Need I say more?
Why would they flip WFAN, maybe the most recognizable sports station in the country? Or WEPN, the flagship station of ESPN Radio?
It's no more limited than the ESB stations. When they went to the new site, they got lower height but higher power. In theory, identical coverage.
You'd never get them to sell.
I think it is more likely that EMF would sell off PLJ than Pacifica willingly parting with WBAI.
Yeah, I don't think that would work out too well. I know that in the Bridgeport area, you usually can't hear BAI (not that that's a bad thing, LOL)....because WEZN "Star 99.9" is a local station, right out of Bridgeport. 99.5 is too close to it.
Why would a 'flagship station' be necessary for a national radio network? Just curious.
A network is only as good as its stations. Typically one refers to the station in the most important market as a flagship.
But is that mainly traditional, or needed anymore? I mean, IHeart recently decided to centralize hoperations in several "digital delivery centers", and I don't recall any of them being actual radio stations. I'm wondering if the importance of a key station really counts in the 2020's as much as it may have in the 1980's or 1990's. The times I've heard guys on ESPN (whether it's the night guys, like Jay Reynolds, or the morning crews like Mike & Mike (a few years ago), they didn't even mention WEPN.
There was a time where it was thought that one had to be syndicated from a New York, LA or possibly Chicago to be taken seriously. That's why Rush Limbaugh didn't syndicate out of Sacramento. It's not as much of a big deal now, with the Bob and Tom Show originating from Indianapolis for a couple of decades now, and many other examples.
Completely different reasons. A network is intended to distribute the same programming over a large geographic area via multiple stations. iHeart's centralization of operations is intended to cut Operational Expense (OpEx), by eliminating expensive leases and owned-property expenses in multiple locations. Also to cut employee overhead.
Why would a flagship station matter to advertisers? Aren't they more interested in the network reach as a whole?
I'm not trying to be a jerk here, just curious as to why it makes a difference. I recall a few years ago BigA mentioned that Disney kept one station in LA for visibility or something like that. Is that the reason?
To the other guys: thanks for your responses.
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