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WFAS-FM BRONXVILLE NY Sold

TheBigA said:
Same with Moody Bible Radio. I saw lots of FMs, only a few AMs. In the case of both Moody and VCY I see a lot of stations in the commercial part of the FM band too. We already know EMF has a lot of stations in the commercial band.

People wonder what will happen to FM radio when iHeart and everyone else goes away. This is what will happen. Because no one else is buying radio.
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VCY's first station was 107.7 WBON (Their flagship) It's owner used it for it's subcarrier. Then they went around the Milwaukee dial, 103.7 WTOS and 95.7 WMIL before going back to WBON. Until the early 70s, it was leased time. Their second station didn't come until the early 80s. What is now 98.9 WVCX. Then in the late 80s, 101.5 KVCX. Their first AM was what is now 690 WVCY and that one came in the 90s.

Moody Radio has been actively getting rid of their AMs in recent years. They sold their flagship AM daytimer in Chicago for about 1 Million. They were running their Spanish feed on it for over 20 years and they are taking that network online and on HD.
 
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Perhaps the 7.2 million sales price for WFAS FM is a rough indication of what WVIP 93.5 is worth, as it broadcasts from the same tower. Or it may be valued somewhat higher, as it carries a full schedule of leased (mostly ethnic) programming. My guess is that the owner does not intend to sell anytime soon.
 
MVB13 said:
Less chance for an actual real decent company to bring formats not served in this market here to NYC.
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Like who? The option is open to anyone and everyone, not limited to companies.

What is the point in putting any format on a signal that most people can't receive?
 
Barry said:
I wonder whether VCV America would have been better off buying WLIB 1190 AM, if it was available for a similar price. I believe WLIB offers better coverage of the Metro area. Since the religious broadcaster has a primarily talk based format, being on FM is probably not so important.
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Barely anyone has an AM radio anymore.
 
MVB13 said:
And how is that? Less chance for an actual real decent company to bring formats not served in this market here to NYC.
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There are plenty of non-comm’s that do amazing things and serve audiences differently than just running NPR programs or Godcasters, WFUV being one of them. Just have to search them out, if you truly cared about radio.
 
Jeffrey said:
Barely anyone has an AM radio anymore.
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Look at the October 6+ shares, before WINS started simulcasting. WCBS-AM was #10, with a 3.2 share, WINS and WABC were tied for #11 with 3.0's, and WOR was tied for #19 with a 1.5. That's not exactly "barely anyone."

In the current report, WOR's cume was 419K, WABC's was 538K, WCBS was 801K, and WINS had a whopping 1.32 Million, the 11th highest in the market. Again, that's not "barely anyone," and tons of FM stations in markets everywhere would kill to get a cume like those.

Plenty of people have AM radios, plenty of people know how to switch bands to AM. What they often don't have is good reason to do it, or a high tolerance for the noise, buzzing, fading or poor fidelity that comes along with switching over to an AM station. Where the payoff exceeds the effort, people figure out how to do it.
 
MVB13 said:
And how is that? Less chance for an actual real decent company to bring formats not served in this market here to NYC.
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@MVB13 if the "formats not served" in NYC were saleable and made sense to do, someone would already be doing them and making money.
Country? I'm told audacy wasnt billing that much with it.

Oldies? HA

And not all non comms are a bad thing, as others have said.. I work for one that is the opposite of your typical NPR station
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
@MVB13 if the "formats not served" in NYC were saleable and made sense to do, someone would already be doing them and making money.
Country? I'm told audacy wasnt billing that much with it.

Oldies? HA

And not all non comms are a bad thing, as others have said.. I work for one that is the opposite of your typical NPR station
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You can add Alternative and EDM to that list. More unsellable dud formats.
 
Any thoughts on who may purchase WFAS 1230 AM? It does reach most of Westchester County and parts of Fairfield and Rockland. Of course it can be flipped back to a standard analog signal.
 
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