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TheBigA said:
If you're willing to give up your personal information and maybe a credit card number, there are lots of companies willing to accept.

Radio asks for nothing. Just turn it on and listen. If it's not your style, change the station, or turn it off. That's it.
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IHeartRadio, Audacy, TuneIn is free
 
TheBigA said:
If you're willing to give up your personal information and maybe a credit card number, there are lots of companies willing to accept.

Radio asks for nothing. Just turn it on and listen. If it's not your style, change the station, or turn it off. That's it.
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My car has internet radio. There are hundreds of commercial free internet stations to listen to with every format immaginable. It's completely unnecessary to listen to terrestrial radio.
 
Jeffrey said:
My car has internet radio. There are hundreds of commercial free internet stations to listen to with every format immaginable. It's completely unnecessary to listen to terrestrial radio.
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If all you want is music, then sure. But you really should at least pay for that music, so the artists get paid.

These streaming services have basically replaced home record collections. Or home-made cassette tapes.

Broadcast radio is not supposed to be a free music service. It plays music, but it does many other things. Such as WEPN.
 
Jeffrey - with all uh due respect, :)
1) why are you on this particular board
2)) can you tell us sort of what you do to earn your income?
3))) doubt you will engage, but make up something....
 
VicRadio said:
IHeartRadio, Audacy, TuneIn is free
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They're free, but you need to register if you want all of the features. Username/password. Sometimes they want to know your musical preferences

TuneIn adds their own commercials in addition to the ones from the stations.
 
iHeart has many of the local competitors stations on their app, too, if you search by city. I haven't listened to Audacy in a while.
 
101.9 La Kalle said:
I can only see two formats working in NY: Spanish Tropical/CHR and Regional Mexican.

A new programmer's best shot at launching a successful Spanish station in New York is Regional Mexican, as Spanish CHR is dominated by Mega, Amor and Equis.
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I can also see them flip to Country or to Alternative Rock ever since 92.3 flipped to 1010 WINS and 94.7 flipping to Classic Hip Hop. That would fill the void especially since those two formats are only available on the HD2 channel.
 
TheM1ghtyBear said:
I can also see them flip to Country or to Alternative Rock ever since 92.3 flipped to 1010 WINS and 94.7 flipping to Classic Hip Hop. That would fill the void especially since those two formats are only available on the HD2 channel.
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Once again, this is not a flip. This is a sell. The station is being sold to a new owner. Very different situation.

Until we know who the owner is, we can't anticipate format at all. If it's Family Radio, it won't be a music format.
 
TheM1ghtyBear said:
That would fill the void
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Fill what void? That's not really a thing when there is very little listener demand or advertiser interest.
Alternative has a long track record of failure in the NY market. Multiple attempts. Multiple stations. Multiple failures.
Maybe the void exists for a reason. There's no polka station in NYC. Should that void be filled?
 
TheBigA said:
Once again, this is not a flip. This is a sell. The station is being sold to a new owner. Very different situation.

Until we know who the owner is, we can't anticipate format at all. If it's Family Radio, it won't be a music format.
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Curious you mentioned Family Radio. I heard Family Radio is announcing a deal soon, but I did not hear specific to NYC.
 
Family Radio would certainly be an interesting twist. Sell suburban FM. Buy obsolete AM facility. Sell valuable land under old transmitter site. Take proceeds and buy full market FM. It took like 12 years, but...
 
RadioGuy1864 said:
Curious you mentioned Family Radio. I heard Family Radio is announcing a deal soon, but I did not hear specific to NYC.
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My take on this is that whoever buys this station has a business plan that involves more than commercials and music. That business model isn't going to work for any formats that aren't already available. Especially in this current business environment. Randy Michaels had his big behind kicked when he tried this ten years ago. Everyone was watching, and I don't think anyone wants to go down that route again.

I don't know how much money WFME took in. Obviously WPLJ has paid off well for EMF. I know that Pillar of Fire has invested more in their stations. So that seems to be where the money is right now.
 
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This is when I wish I had a spare $50 million. I'd have bought it under the LLC "Thor Odinsson Family Evangelical Cat Rescue and Biergarten Society Broadcasting Consortium" just to watch people twist themselves into knots speculating what the future format would be, and then stunting with "99 Luftballons" mixed with "99 bottles of beer on the wall" and "99 Problems (But this format ain't one)".
 
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