They certainly sound less harder-edged than, say, a KLOS or a WPBB.
Except Q104.3 and the classic rock format performs well in 18-24 and 25-54 amongst male listeners. And that's something that's the same in nearly every market including this one.
Bands like Guns n' Roses and Nirvana are recognizable to the masses. Less so for bands like Arcade Fire and Death Cab for Cutie.
For how long exactly or are we going to have a situation like KFWB Los Angeles had to remove it's remaining staff members and send them to KNX because the former owner CBS determined that KNX has the more powerful signal at 1070 AM and a much higher audience size over KFWB. Note KFWB was sent to a trust at the time when some of their remaining staff at the time moved to KNX radio over ownership limits at the time.
There's a whole other thread on that but it really points to younger people who hold PPM meters mostly hearing their grandpa's station when they're in the same room, and not having any of their own stations to listen to. The meter doesn't measure their non-FM digital listening which is where they surely spend most of their time.
Now that I would agree, but even lately that has changed. I've heard a lot Soundgarden and Alice In Chains.
That’s exactly what happened with KYW 1060 in Philadrlphia. They updated the jingle to only refer to 103.9 FM, for a while they mentioned both AM and FM frequencies but I don’t remember the last time I heard a reference to 1060 AM except during legal station ID. Guess they realize any long term listener doesn’t need to reminded of AM frequency. Exception is the logo still has both 1060 and 103.9.
And I was in that thread before, and you came up with the same argument. That's absolutely not universally the case. The concept that young people only prefer "young people music" is outdated and largely wrong.
Washington, D.C., Chicago and San Francisco have seen all-news on FM thrive. WTOP is one of the top (pardon the pun) billing stations in the country. It failed in NYC a decade ago became of Merlin Media struggling to reinvent the wheel.
Or it could be "1010 WINS on 92.3."
Well, neither recent attempts really worked, so...
Also KLIV San Jose at one point was an all news station for Santa Clara County, CA until that was killed off. Note this station carries Vietnamese programming as of 2022.
The difference though is that KLOS rarely plays Billy Joel, Eddie Money, or Phil Collins.
I can't recall Alt doing vastly better than a 2 share in the beauty contest ratings. But if they did, it's only a few times, at most.
A Portland daytimer, KLIQ aired a short-lived All News format in 1959. This is supposed to be the first. KFAX San Francisco ran another short-lived attempt in 1960. XETRA blanketed southern California beginning in 1961 and the format was off and running. NYC's connection seems to be coverage of a 114 day newspaper strike where WABC-FM began coverage in December 1962. WINS switched to All News in 1965 and WCBS in 1967.
What difference does it make? It's billing that matters.
