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ESPN 98.7 FM to be no more come August 31, 2024

Weiserguy said:
It was a rhetorical question, Scott, and I realized as I typed it that few on this board would have any idea what I was talking about.

But damn, it was so cool to visit WOR-FM (the lessee of said 1440/2), as I did 5 or 6 times in my callow youth.
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I never got to visit 98.7 on the second floor. I did have several very nice visits upstairs to the AM station in its last years in the building!
 
Barry said:
IF not sold by August 31, I can't see any problem with 98.7 playing some music, and maybe commercials, for a few weeks or months till there is a buyer. Similar to when 101.9 was up for sale.
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That was absolutely cold for them to do that to us!!! Why give us another alternative station YOU KNOW we'd love if you were just going to take it away again?!?!?!?
 
How would they know that some people would love it? And even so, so what? Maybe let them program something for a few months they’d enjoy until they can unload it. What do you suggest they do as an interim format? Fart sounds interspersed with polka? Something else to repulse everybody because God forbid a few people would get overly attached to it?
 
Oh, Good God! I'M GOING TO BUY IT! Are you happy now? AND GUESS WHAT? I'm going to program Country. "98.7 The Bull", and our tagline is "We slake our thirst with the tears of the ALT Rock Fans!"

"98.7 The Bull...New York's Country with No Alternative (see what I did there) but to listen! Nah Nah Nanny Boo Boo!"
 
exdjted said:
Oh, Good God! I'M GOING TO BUY IT! Are you happy now? AND GUESS WHAT? I'm going to program Country. "98.7 The Bull", and our tagline is "We slake our thirst with the tears of the ALT Rock Fans!"

"98.7 The Bull...New York's Country with No Alternative (see what I did there) but to listen! Nah Nah Nanny Boo Boo!"
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No, this isn't good enough.

"We air the pre-recorded cries of alternative rock fans all over New York!"
 
fybush said:
You do understand you're not their customer, right? And that they owe you nothing. Right?
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To NYRadioFan22

More direct: you are a radio station's product, and "you" and thousands of others are sold to advertisers.

Those of us who have been in radio for a few years at least understand that our business is selling ads. We get more money if there are more listeners. If we have too few listeners, we don't make money and we find something else to do or play on the air.
 
NYRadioFan22 said:
I wonder if an alternative station could survive if it had a little less Machine Gun Kelly
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No. The issue with alternative is the shrinking non-Hispanic white population of many cities. And the increase in the influence of Black and Latin audiences and their preferred rhythmic music; that sets the mood and the tone of the market.
 
Or here's a crazy idea, what if the Yankees move to 98.7 on their own radio network, WYES? That way, the Michael Kay Show can simulcast on ESPN 1050, WYES 98.7, and the TV YES Network!!!
 
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