I, too, think that's going to prove to be a disaster. I really think both the Buffalo and Memphis changes are going to bite Audacy in the long run.
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I, too, think that's going to prove to be a disaster. I really think both the Buffalo and Memphis changes are going to bite Audacy in the long run.
Not a bad choice. "Better Days" might have upped the ante.
I mean what sense does it make to replace the format of your highest billing station in the Memphis Audacy cluster with a lower rated country station
This is a company that traded away the highest billing sports station in Boston (WBZ-FM), and kept the lower billing one (WEEI). They shut down the higher billing country station in Seattle (KMPS) and kept the lower billing one.
They had to, legally, sell one of the two sports stations and they also had to keep the cluster under the market maximum for the FCC to approve the sale. For the first time since the Commission ruled on classical music format switches, the FCC used the specific format shares to determine a cluster was a monopoly if they owned "all" the sports stations in the market.
They had to dump both WBZ AM and FM in order to get under the revenue threshold the DOJ was looking for. In Seattle, KKWF was the stronger in-demo brand.
I understand that. However, I was responding specifically to the point about "highest billing station." This isn't new. There are likely reasons for it. We don't know them yet.
My theory about this is that they feel they can better merchandize the country format than the pop format. Especially given the amount of money they're investing right now in the country format.
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I always forget that the Goo Goo Dolls are from Buffalo.
It was good of them to go with a band from Buffalo. Otherwise, why not just end with DMB's Closing time?
Radio is a business first before it can be anything else.
Now, instead of being an advertising business with music as the bait, 102.5 will now be all about donations by as many listeners as possible.
To do that successfully they need the strongest possible signal. Otherwise, they would have just taken 107.7.
Keep on mind, EMF runs on donations, not ads, so it no longer matters if it's a listener in Buffalo NY or Toronto ON, just as long as donations come into them.
Effective immediately, (after the week of both stations 102.5 & 98.5) it will no longer matter (to 102.5) that someone in Toronto Ontario might not go to Buffalo to do their shopping. Donations from all over will be welcome.
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*SemisonicIt was good of them to go with a band from Buffalo. Otherwise, why not just end with DMB's Closing time?
OK, we get it. You don't like the EMF programming. Many people do.
I am not a listener as I am not an evangelical Christian and I find the music rather uninteresting and uninspiring. But millions of listeners seem to like the EMF programming and enough are willing to send them money to not just sustain the operation but to grow it.
The stations they are buying have found no other interested party willing to offer as much. That says a lot.
And thinning the herd of commercial stations leaves fewer commercial stations to divide up declining radio ad money, something that benefits commercial radio greatly.
Oh those poor radio stations, just minding their business, radiating electromagnetic power when all of a sudden.
Maybe the employees as "collateral damage," but transmitters and towers? Nah.
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Thanks! It won't let me edit that. You are correct and I am surprised at myself for making that mistake.
Closing time by Semisonic is indeed what I meant to say.
Out of curiosity - how well can Toronto's 104.5 CHUM-FM be heard in & around Buffalo? Same question for 105.7 from St. Catharines and 105.1 from Niagara, ON. (105.1 is classified as Mainstream AC, but in Canada, Mainstream AC stations often sound more like what we'd call Hot AC here in the U.S. The library tracks 105.1 plays are definitely more reminiscent of what would be played by Hot AC domestically.)
For folks who live north of Buffalo, there are certainly multiple substitutes from which to choose that appear to have playlists quite similar to what was previously played on 102.5. I am unsure, though, how easily those stations can be heard in Buffalo proper.
As much as Star 96.1 wants to depict itself as the successor to Star 102.5, so far 96.1's median library song age is significantly older than Star 102.5 and the station appears to be less recurrent dependent than 102.5.
For folks who live north of Buffalo, there are certainly multiple substitutes from which to choose that appear to have playlists quite similar to what was previously played on 102.5. I am unsure, though, how easily those stations can be heard in Buffalo proper.
As much as Star 96.1 wants to depict itself as the successor to Star 102.5, so far 96.1's median library song age is significantly older than Star 102.5 and the station appears to be less recurrent dependent than 102.5.
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104.5 used to come in much better closer to the city, until 104.7 lit up. Now it's still decent in the northern suburbs and areas more north. Anything south of Hertel and the adjacent channel interference messes with it too much, at least in my experience. 105.1 and 105.7 come in decently.
105.7 would likely be impacted by the pirate on 105.5 if they're still broadcasting.
Huh? I guess you question or deny the existence of a supreme being or greater force of some kind. Great. This is a country where you are free to think that way.
But many of us, apparently a majority, believe otherwise. To us, faith based endeavors are not a fraud, whether they be religious radio stations or nuns who care for the terminally ill or teachers in faith-based schools.
Why would the FCC question religious radio?
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