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Alt 92.3 to Become WINS Simulcast

at 8:50 AM the simulcast starts with a 30-60 second montage of voices/promos that appeared on the frequency over the years starting with Paco from 92 KTU. Audacy's Chris Oliviero joins Susan Richard to explain the reasons for the simulcast.
 
Lin-Manuel Miranda joins Susan Richard at 8:55 AM.

The "1010 WINS" (WINS-AM) stream for me is about a minute ahead of the now former "ALT 92.3" WNYL / now WINS-FM stream;
your milage may vary.
 
At about 8:59 AM, a montage of past 1010 WINS news clips / actualities with reporters voices old and new is heard.
After the 9 AM time signal, Lee Harris read the headlines into Karen Stewart's traffic + transit report.
And so it goes...
As mentioned in the Variety article posted earlier in this thread, Harris referred to the station as "1010 WINS on 92~3 FM" during the first news story about New York City rats. The reporters for the first stories have added the "92~3" suffix at the end of their reports.
 
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With the flip of ALT to WINS on 92.3 in NYC, Audacy now own has 12 ALT stations (soon to be 11 when ALT 107.5 in Las Vegas officially goes to Beasley from Audacy).
 
OK, so where is the stream for the continuation of Alt 92.3? The link on WNYL's page on Audacy still brings up the WINS audio. Live, voicetracked, or jukebox in a closet?
 
The legal ID of 1010 WINS on 92.3 FM is WINS, WINS-FM and HD New York.

The first story of the simulcast was the city's Rat Action Plan.
 
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The continuation of Alt 92.3 on WINS FM 92.3 HD2 has begun.
And, as one would expect, the WINS simulcast on WNEW 102.7, HD3, which had been on for years, has ended.
 
Why do they always target our alternative rock stations?
92.3 K-Rock-92.3 Free FM
92.3 K-Rock-92.3 NOW FM-92.3 AMP Radio
101.9 RXP-101.9 FM News
New Rock 101.9-101.9 WFAN
ALT 92.3-92.3 1010 WINS FM
 
The New Arrivals stream has changed over to "ALT 923" (readout still says "New Arrivals" but the liners/sweepers now say "ALT 923").
Edit: as mentioned by mikerock in his post earlier.

Stream is available at (copy + paste for most browsers; it will open OK in a Firefox browser)
>>>http://live.amperwave.net/direct/audacy-wnylhd2aac-imc<<< (higher quality 128 kbps 44.1 kHz AAC)
or (copy + paste and it's OK to open in a browser)
>>>http://live.amperwave.net/direct/audacy-wnylhd2mp3-imc<<< (high quality 128 kbps 44.1 kHz MP3)
 
I heard an automated song ID on the new Alt 92.3 HD2. My guess is that like New York's Country 94.7 HD2, they will carry the national Alt shows in the near future, and perhaps provide a local one. Like the Country channel, the programming could end up sounding quite similar to the original station, with several of the same personalities, and far fewer commercials.
 
NYRadioFan22 said:
Why do they always target our alternative rock stations?
92.3 K-Rock-92.3 Free FM
92.3 K-Rock-92.3 NOW FM-92.3 AMP Radio
101.9 RXP-101.9 FM News
New Rock 101.9-101.9 WFAN
ALT 92.3-92.3 1010 WINS FM
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Stern going to Sirius and CBS trying to roll out a national brand. They flipped a bunch of stations to "Free FM"

Bad decisions. Bad ratings. CBS trying to roll out a national format. CHR with a rhythm lean. They flipped a bunch of stations to the same format around the same time. When they launched Fresh 105.9 in Chicago, literally a few months into it they played with CHR on there during the nighttime hours (Dumb decision) before deciding to tweak B96 back to Mainstream CHR.

New owner. New idea.

Filler until they could get it over to CBS

Bad decisions. Bad ratings. Audacy trying to roll out a national trend of simulcasting their 50kw heritage news stations on FM.
 
luperm said:
It's always been a money game. Alternative usually does not make enough of it.
It has nothing to do with owners or "corporate suits" -- although I understand why you'd want to blame some "boogeyman" rather than take time to actually understand the problems that the radio business faces.
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I didn't blame radio. I said that Alternative as a genre of music is anti-corprate and anti-social norm. As a radio format, Alternative has been most successful artistically when two things have been happening. One (and most important), as many on here say, is when there's a consensus amongst the listeners as to what they want to hear. That's missing right now. Two, is when an independent owner is more passionate about the genre.

What historically have been the most acclaimed (artistically) Alternative stations? Who's owened them? I think of Indie 103.1 in LA, WFNX in Boston, and so on. But what happened to all these stations? They all eventually ran out of money and failed; because Alternative as a genre and Alternative as a radio format don't work well together currently. My opinion, as originally advice from Big A is to really look towards college stations for more artistic Alternative stations. That, and satellite and/or internet only stations.

But I'm not blaming corporate radio. I see it the same as another genre of music that I enjoy, The Blues. Great music, but not commercially viable on FM radio. So, I go to satellite and internet.
 
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