If that's true, then their listeners are in their 50s. That's how old Jim Colbert is. Cats is in his 70s.
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If that's true, then their listeners are in their 50s. That's how old Jim Colbert is. Cats is in his 70s.
Read my post. Just talking about the topics you'd hear discussed.
The "news junkies" are on now 12 noon. I am not sure how old they are, or whether the show is live, but right now they are talking about Netflix comedies - nothing political. In fact one of their comments was "if you are over 45 and don't think Sex in the City is funny, you're too old for it." Following this was a reference to what they were watching while doing the "baby run" during the night. The topics are what young people are interested in. They are getting lots of listener input, some of which they call 'dispatches' which may be recorded calls? There are both men and women participating. It is different from what is on as "talk radio" in market 1. I would bet in the same time I have been streaming WTKS, WOR and WABC have both had a predictable "Trump is good, Biden is bad" schtick - tired, overdone and not at all what I am suggesting would be new talk.
The News Junkies are syndicated by iHeart on a bunch of their "Real Radio" stations including Dallas and WPB. I'm sure iHeart would love to get their syndicated shows on the air in NYC, but I doubt an owner will want to give up valuable real estate to them.
Is it "young talk?" It's younger than anything on WABC or WOR. But if you want to hear young talk in NY, listen to WKTU. They sometimes take calls too.
Part of the problem is the antiquated ownership laws. iHeart would love to buy 98.7, but they're at their legal limit. Would they put RealRadio on 98.7? Maybe. But we'll never know.
WKTU is a music station, not a talk station and if you want conversation, you're not going to go there. I agree that none of the current FM owners are going to take a chance on something new and that's a pity. They probably can't afford to. But as music starts to run out of gas, someone's going to regret not having taken that chance. As I stated several posts ago, Mr Cats has the money and passion. If 98.7 is sold, someone suggested that only EMF or Red Apple would be in the buying mode, and I agree. Mr. Cats is a smart guy, and could be on the ground floor of something new and unique to market 1.
Could 2024 be the year the all request format comes back ? and, play what people are excited to listen too
..... or same ol, same ol
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..... or same ol, same ol
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They do both. Same with Elvis Duran. If you could hear Bobby Bones, he combines young talk with country music. Formats are becoming less defined and more about lifestyle. If you want conversation, you go to a message board like this one or social media, not radio.
Don't bet on it. Stations play music based on what tests well. Don't expect them to play just any ol' song even if a station concentrates on just one genre. In other words, same old, same ol.
Who did an "all request format?" In order to "come back," it has to have been somewhere once.
I can see what WCBS is trying to do, although I don’t agree with it, even though I’m a sports first guy. This is what’s best to prevent WCBS from being left in the dust. i’m not sure which station airs WW1 sports in NYC, but it’d be smart to start moving that and more national broadcasts to 880 on weekends.
Depends on the game and the conflicts, but usually WFAN gets first shot. Compass does the Sunday afternoon games, and I think they're also on 880.
I’m not sure if it’s still like this. I used to run Compass. But, they only did national radio broadcasts for the Cowboys, Angels, and Rays. It was kind of odd but we needed live content 🤣
They do Cowboys and Raiders, but have added more games:
2025 NFL Schedule – Compass Media Networks
www.compassmedianetworks.com
While this example was neither NYC nor "all request", back in the '80s KLOK in San Francisco/San Jose tried a variation called "Yes-No radio", where they built and updated the station playlist by introducing songs on-air and asking listeners to call in and vote for whether each song was a keeper or not. It was effectively audience research in realtime, though with listener call-ins there's not even the illusion of statistical sampling accuracy that current day tests supposedly achieve.
As a concept, it was interesting. As a ratings success, not so much, though it wasn't an abysmal failure either. The problem (IMHO) was it required the station to be too foreground for listeners. They had to always be paying attention or it just sounded like a mess. Too much talking, too much explaining, too much reporting of voting results. Basically, too much clutter. Most adult listeners want their music stations to be background, or even wallpaper, and this concept destroyed that goal.
Ultimately it ended when the owner (Bill Weaver, IIRC) got an offer he couldn't refuse and the station was sold.
The format they should have tried was "We give the time...all the time. KLOK." Clock radio, like the USNO clock.
Guess he found out you were telling the tooth
For all of the constant talk about WTKS, if it would work anywhere else, wouldn’t it have been or be tried? “Hot talk” and “FM talk” (that sounds so 2000) was a fad in the 90s and early 00s primarily. Then there was Free FM which had issues of its own that have been discussed ad nauseam. Very few of those stations were successful enough to last. For whatever reason, the format has only done well in FL and a few random markets like Rochester.
I would consider stations like WHPT and WTKS to be an anomaly, not an example of what other stations should do.
I would consider stations like WHPT and WTKS to be an anomaly, not an example of what other stations should do.
Didn't someone once have a comedy routine based on that very same premise? Maybe that was Firesign Theater, but you're lifting that idea from someone.
Wonder if cbsfm will play 90s hits equally as 80s per hour. Right now its about 3-4 an hour and the rest 80s and maybe one 70s hit
There was WYEN in suburban Chicago in the late '70s, but somehow all the requests were for current AC songs.
WNBC did it as a stunt for a few weeks; somebody called in for The Star-Spangled Banner and Imus played it, then said he hoped the engineers wouldn't take it as a cue to sign off the station.- Status