Can’t speak for others but I usually fall asleep and wake up with the radio on, either streaming on my phone or using an old portable radio I still have.
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WJBR sold to VCY???
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That study was done before the PPM when diaries showed home, away and in-car separately. Since the laws of physics don't change, the data does not change today.
At that time, at-work and at-home were equal in usage. Today, both are less but many stations get that listening in an even bigger area using streams (if they are 100% simulcasts). But I am referring to OTA signals only.
Heck, I've used the radio as my alarm clock and set it to the closest station. It is very effective.
I was in Wilmington during June, and WSTW sounded Hot AC to me.
My love for radio had to have started when I was a little kid, a combo of playing with my Dad's Realistic DX-375 and also falling asleep to WRTI jazz at night, when I was like 8. I was not the typical kid lol. To this day I still have my grandmother's old clock radio set to KYW-AM now and the alarm to wake me up to the top of the 7am hour.
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A year ago I bought, and have been using since, some cheesy $20 AM-FM clock radio at a Dollar General. It's been set alterntately to 1450 or 1460 AM just in case my two closest-unheard stations will wake me up.
At the end of one April afternoon nap, around sundown, the POS had me wide awake hearing and glomming a WADK 1540 from Rhose Island. The devil knows how 1540 became the alarm channel, but there are like ten buttons on the unit.
What good is a radio alarm if it doesn't get your A out of B with DX on occasion ?
A year ago I bought, and have been using since, some cheesy $20 AM-FM clock radio at a Dollar General. It's been set alterntately to 1450 or 1460 AM just in case my two closest-unheard stations will wake me up.
At the end of one April afternoon nap, around sundown, the POS had me wide awake hearing and glomming a WADK 1540 from Rhose Island. The devil knows how 1540 became the alarm channel, but there are like ten buttons on the unit.
What good is a radio alarm if it doesn't get your A out of B with DX on occasion ?
They have basically straddled the Hot AC/CHR line for decades now.
WSTW would get too AC sometimes which was magnified when the music cycle would go from pop to the so called "extremes".
From what I've heard recently, they are right on with the right, few, currents and a foundation of familiarity with the mass appeal non cringe up beat pop from 2k, even a 90s here and there in middays.
They have heritage like WNNK but they don't seem to do the 80s like Wink does. Two stations who know their markets and what they can get away with.
Some stations put too much emphasis on not staying too far from their format. They also many times over think sharing songs with sisters so STW and NNK are a great chance to talk positively about radio.
From what I've heard recently, they are right on with the right, few, currents and a foundation of familiarity with the mass appeal non cringe up beat pop from 2k, even a 90s here and there in middays.
They have heritage like WNNK but they don't seem to do the 80s like Wink does. Two stations who know their markets and what they can get away with.
Some stations put too much emphasis on not staying too far from their format. They also many times over think sharing songs with sisters so STW and NNK are a great chance to talk positively about radio.
Who’s trying “to get away” with anything? Or “overthinking” things that aren’t actually an issue?
Now that I see WNKN in the smaller Cincinnati market fetched $4.5 million, I'm thinking Beasley left money on the table. WJBR most likely has more potential listeners within its 65 dBu and 60 dBu than that station.
Didn't Beasley also commit some self-inflicted wounds in Las Vegas? Beasley traded KDWN for KXTE, but as part of that swap, Audacy wound up with KDWN's land, which it was very promptly able to sell for $40 million!
Didn't Beasley also commit some self-inflicted wounds in Las Vegas? Beasley traded KDWN for KXTE, but as part of that swap, Audacy wound up with KDWN's land, which it was very promptly able to sell for $40 million!
5 Million vs. 2.5 million in the 65 dbu signal area. However, the Cincy station had considerably greater revenue potential. Cincinnati has $75 million radio dollars vs. $13 million in Wilmington.
The deal was done with a negotiation between Beasley and Audacy where the sale of the land benefited both, per reports.
Market boundaries don't matter to non-comms. Potential reach does. Since WJBR reaches more potential listeners than WNKN, I would think it should be worth more money to a non-comm religious broadcaster than WNKN. I wonder if Beasley made any effort to solicit offers aside from the one that came from VCY? If so, and VCY's offer was highest and best, then the transaction in question becomes more understandable.
Thanks for the info regarding the KDWN land sale. That makes more sense now. I had not seen the reports regarding both parties sharing in those proceeds.
Thanks for the info regarding the KDWN land sale. That makes more sense now. I had not seen the reports regarding both parties sharing in those proceeds.
I doubt that. They've always been CHR, but Adult Leaning. I doubt they will change now. I did like that time in the mid 00s with the singer song writers they would put on. Great source for that.
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Wbai a useless station hanging on by a thread in my home market. Someone should buy it that isn't a Christian based company.
They milk the radio stations for music on the farms lol. 🚜 They grow the stations big and tall. Lol 😆 sorry I couldn't resist the silliness of the term farms signal. Weren't WSTW and WJBR owned by the same company at some point?
I hope they don't sell WDHA 😕 Beasley should buy stations in the NYC market IMO.
We need FM to be expanded. There are limited choices. FM is becoming AM. AM is dying. Radio is important for safety in this country especially in rural areas. We need local radio again and variety. Luckily Philly has a great range of music on FM so you're lucky here unlike NYC. The only thing you don't have of is Tropical and Spanish Language A/C.
No, Audacy already owned that land. It was the legacy KXST 1140 site in North Las Vegas. Beasley moved KDWN there a few years ago as a tenant after selling off the original KDWN site in Henderson, also for millions.
In order to end the lease to KDWN and have the ability to sell the land, Audacy had to acquire KDWN, a license it didn't really want, and it had to give up KXTE, a license it would have preferred to keep - but $40 million is a lot more than any of those licenses are worth. So it was Audacy that got the worse end of the deal (an AM in exchange for a full-market FM) on the license side, but it was all to make the land deal possible, which was all Audacy and not Beasley.
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