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WDVI flips from AC to 'Rochester's Country 100.5'

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WDVI flipped to Country at 9 AM this morning, replacing the AC format and leaving WRMM alone in the format in Rochester, and giving iHeart a second country station in the region next to WNBL. Interesting strategy nonetheless.

Mornings already seem to be Bobby Bones. Will be interesting if they try and pickup former WBEE morning co-host Jeremy Newman for an airshift.

Of note, however, looks like Pete Kennedy is also out at iHeart seemingly. Wondering if he will resurface elsewhere in the Rochester market.
 
Jeremy Newman actually starts today on 100.5 fm. Bob Lonsberry posted a picture of the 2 of them together this morning. Jeremy is working drive time 2-7 pm.
If WNBL stays country, I wonder if they will try something like a 90s-00s or classic country format. My guess is for now is that WNBL will be flipped to Christmas music next week (100.5 had been playing Christmas music 24/7 the past holiday seasons) and there will be a new format in the new year.
 
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ericNY said:
Jeremy Newman actually starts today on 100.5 fm. Bob Lonsberry posted a picture of the 2 of them together this morning. Jeremy is working drive time 2-7 pm.
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Surprised that didn't get included on the station's website or in a press release. Definitely not surprising in the least. Could definitely help people make the switch to WDVI for country.
 
This ought to be interesting.

Now Rochester has, technically speaking, four Country signals: The legacy WBEE, The Bull @ 107.3 (which should soon flip to Halloween Polkas); Country 100.5 and in outlying areas, The Wolf 107.7 Whethersfield Township.

Might as well add the 27 translators (only a slight exaggeration) that 1140 WCJW Warsaw has sprinkled all over Wyoming, Genesee and Livingston counties.

Oh, and in the distant rural areas, throw in WKPQ 105.3 Hornell ... yeah, that's a stretch.

BTW, Dave, no need to bring up the inside the 60 dBu contour listening trends... it's just fun to throw out all the places listeners in Rochester (one county metro, Monroe) and its 'burbs up and down the 490 and 390 can now find Country on the FM band.

OK Rochester posters... ball's in your court. Giddyup!
 
Rusty Bridges said:
This ought to be interesting.

Now Rochester has, technically speaking, four Country signals: The legacy WBEE, The Bull @ 107.3 (which should soon flip to Halloween Polkas); Country 100.5 and in outlying areas, The Wolf 107.7 Whethersfield Township.

Might as well add the 27 translators (only a slight exaggeration) that 1140 WCJW Warsaw has sprinkled all over Wyoming, Genesee and Livingston counties.

Oh, and in the distant rural areas, throw in WKPQ 105.3 Hornell ... yeah, that's a stretch.

BTW, Dave, no need to bring up the inside the 60 dBu contour listening trends... it's just fun to throw out all the places listeners in Rochester (one county metro, Monroe) and its 'burbs up and down the 490 and 390 can now find Country on the FM band.

OK Rochester posters... ball's in your court. Giddyup!
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I live in Wayne County near Newark. picking up my son from school this afternoon, I scanned to see what country stations I can get in my car clearly.
Got WBEE, 107.3 The Bull, Country 100.5, WUUF 103.5 out of Sodus and WBBS 104.7 out of Syracuse in clearly. 107.7 The Wolf, WQNY 103.7 out of Ithaca and 92.1 out of Syracuse came in faintly.
 
Ironic. NYC just lost its only Country station on Friday. Then on Monday, Rochester gets its second full power Country outlet. Not to mention all the nearby country stations listed above.

The average person would probably not guess that Country does so well in Upstate New York.

Rochester - WBEE-FM #1

Buffalo - WYRK, often #1, currently #2.

Syracuse - WBBS #1

Albany - WGNA, often #1, currently #3

Utica-Rome - WFRG #1

Binghamton - WHWK #1 by a wide margin

Burlington-Plattsburgh - WOKO #1 with nearly double the listeners of the next music station

I guess the upstate radio markets really ARE different than New York City! WNSH finished its last ratings as a country station at #21 in New York.
 
Gregg. said:
I guess the upstate radio markets really ARE different than New York City! WNSH finished its last ratings as a country station at #21 in New York.
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NYC vs. the rest of the state truly is different from a demographics perspective. Most of WNSH's rating success was in the NJ and LI suburbs. In Morristown, NJ (about an hour's drive to the city), WNSH was in the top 3 of stations in the market.

As discussed on that thread, the true issue was not that it didn't get good ratings within the NY market, it was that it was not an attractive sell to advertisers within the NY metro.
 
Gregg. said:
Ironic. NYC just lost its only Country station on Friday. Then on Monday, Rochester gets its second full power Country outlet. Not to mention all the nearby country stations listed above.

The average person would probably not guess that Country does so well in Upstate New York.

Rochester - WBEE-FM #1

Buffalo - WYRK, often #1, currently #2.

Syracuse - WBBS #1

Albany - WGNA, often #1, currently #3

Utica-Rome - WFRG #1

Binghamton - WHWK #1 by a wide margin

Burlington-Plattsburgh - WOKO #1 with nearly double the listeners of the next music station

I guess the upstate radio markets really ARE different than New York City! WNSH finished its last ratings as a country station at #21 in New York.
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One only has to spend a day or so in any of those cities and surrounding areas to realize just how different from New York City and its neighbors they are! Albany was a good country market as far back as the mid-'70s.
 
CTListener said:
One only has to spend a day or so in any of those cities and surrounding areas to realize just how different from New York City and its neighbors they are! Albany was a good country market as far back as the mid-'70s.
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Exactly. And that experience can't be found in Google searches which drive-by posters use to sound like they know a market.
 
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