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WHYY sells another

Feels like a good move for everyone involved. WNJS really didn't add to WHYY's coverage, at least from how it looks on radio-locator, and the frequency ends up with a unique (at least for 2023) block-programming schedule from RDV.
 
It's a good purchase, lots of potential listeners to WRDV in Cherry Hill.

New Jersey Network was very late to the public radio game. By the time they started, all of the best frequencies were already gone. They ended up with a lot of low power fringe frequencies. The only useful stations are Atlantic City and Cape May. The Manahawkin signal reaches a lot of fish.
 
Good to see WNJS, unlike WNJB, staying as a public radio station. Like I said before, WHYY pretty much didn't care about the New Jersey audience when they took over the NJN radio stations in South Jersey, where as WNYC in NYC got it right, keeping much of their Jersey-centric/NPR programming pretty much in tact, albeit with some of their popular programming airing there as well like 'HYY in Philly.
 
Wow! This will actually be great to have a nostalgia station on 88.1. I always felt WNJS really didn't need to be there. WHYY's signal booms into the area WNJS serves.
 
Wow! This will actually be great to have a nostalgia station on 88.1. I always felt WNJS really didn't need to be there. WHYY's signal booms into the area WNJS serves.
RDV-FM is not the typical 2023 ‘standards‘ station playing soft hits of the 50’s to 70s with some MOR of that era. They are big band, swing all day as they have for 40-some years putting the original target audience in their 80’s and up & weekends are for a ‘younger’ audience with 1950’s r&b & doo-wop. I’m glad this programming still exists but I’m not sure who the audience is to keep this going as commercial radio here plays no music earlier than the 1980’s!
 
I’m glad this programming still exists but I’m not sure who the audience is to keep this going as commercial radio here plays no music earlier than the 1980’s!

The key thing is those who listen are the ones who pay for it. Not advertisers.
 
The key thing is those who listen are the ones who pay for it. Not advertisers.
They do have sponsor announcements every half hour from local merchants. Those of the generation who grew up with this music and are still around don’t generally have much ‘disposable income’ to donate or someone else handles their finances. My Mom listened to RDV for many years but now at 98 she just doesn’t listen to radio anymore.
 
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