Which makes sense because Monday is a holiday and the show TJ's little cluster of obscure affiliates will be airing is likely a rerun. Even if this is just a replacement format on 98.7, kicking its morning show off with a Labor Day rerun would be pretty bush league.
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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music
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Meh, it is what it is. NYC radio isn't as exciting as it once was so I get why people were hoping for something unique or different. I think it was borderline delusional, but I can't blame them for it. I did a thought exercise as well myself.
New York radio has always been rather bland because of the number of national interests and agendas involved, and because it's NOT the place to take chances. Either musically or otherwise. As I often say, you don't start out at the top. You work your way up.
The company that pitched this idea to Emmis IS taking a big risk. The only real benefit is publicity. A lot of other syndicated shows could have done this. This was the one that made the right offer. I wonder if it's the ONLY one, or if Emmis will use other similar shows moving forward. Maybe try iHeart's Woody Show or Bobby Bones.
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I think they went with TJ because of his ties to the NY area. Remember, he used to be a part of Elvis Duran's show.
Or it was a simple business decision with no other tenuous thread to something else.
This is why if you find lengthy unscoped airchecks online that are downloadable, you might want to grab them before they are taken down.
Two years ago in November, MixCloud, which had become something of a haven for unscoped aircheck posters, imposed a $135 yearly fee for anyone with more than ten posts after that fee took effect. Existing pages were grandfathered up to that point, but to continue, they'd have to pay. Virtually everyone who was posting unscoped abandoned ship.
YouTube became the next refuge for some of them, but YT has been cracking down significantly---requiring edits to remove specific songs, and in at least one case (likely because of ignored notices), it shut down a prolific poster (Airchecks by RadioMania). An attempt to start a second site was shut down very quickly and another account which has tried to re-post things previously posted by RadioMania is now going through similar battles.
Even the Internet Archive (archive-dot-org), where unscoped airchecks have lived (including some significant collections) for 20 years or more is now facing litigation and I'm noticing accounts that had unscoped airchecks suddenly empty or gone altogether.
A couple of groups on Facebook have attempted to share on that platform, but are finding out that the publishers, labels and RIAA are watching there, as well.
I think we're about to see aircheck trading return to what it was before the internet---individual trades between people who have things the other wants.
You can even find clips of old MTV in its glory days recorded over VHS
I remember an episode of "WKRP" where for some reason Johnny and maybe Venus started broadcasting from the transmitter and Johnny got scared of the "phone cops" and left, and a bomb went off and everyone assumed he was dead until he came running through the main studio.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Excuse me while I block that siding from the main track that you've gone down, Chimp.
What exactly triggered you, K.M.? Broadcasting from the transmitter, the bomb or the Phone Cops? (I used to carry around some paranoia about that last one myself.)Excuse me while I block that siding from the main track that you've gone down, Chimp.
Just as long as Bailey was okay...that's all that matters...
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
The fact that Cincinnati is around 650 miles from NYC.
Sorry to go off track [again] but when WKRP started weren't they at 5,000 watts and then somewhere along the run I noticed 50,000 watts on the wall in reception? If they did, maybe they could have been heard in NYC if nobody else was on their frequency.
Yes and yes. In the pilot, the graphic on the lobby wall showed WKRP as a 5,000 watt station. Later on the graphic got changed to 50,000 watts. Dr. Johnny Fever also referred to 'KRP "on air" as 50,000 watts on more than one occasion. But IIRC, that graphic, or the coverage map on Andy Travis's wall, also showed them as being on 1530 khz, so the (hypothetical) signal wasn't likely to make it clearly into NYC, given (actual) adjacent channel interference.
On Lance's redesigned RadioInsight.com, he refreshed the original story
on Monday evening 9/2/2024 to reflect the (now official) addition of "The TJ Show" to 98.7.
radioinsight.com
Link to temporary station's "website" (really a Gemini XIII page for "The TJ Show" with a locally flavored NYC message/presence)
which emphasizes the temporary nature of this format:
Edit: There is no streaming at this time.
on Monday evening 9/2/2024 to reflect the (now official) addition of "The TJ Show" to 98.7.
Emmis Launches TJ 98.7 “The Pop Up Radio Station” New York
Emmis Corporation resumed operating 98.7 WEPN-FM New York following the expiration of their 12+ year LMA of the station to
radioinsight.com
Link to temporary station's "website" (really a Gemini XIII page for "The TJ Show" with a locally flavored NYC message/presence)
which emphasizes the temporary nature of this format:
Edit: There is no streaming at this time.
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Other way around. The map said "50,000 watts" in the pilot and then was changed to "5,000 watts" in the regular episodes because (as series creator Hugh Wilson told someone ... I don't remember who, but it was in one of the trades) it was "unrealistic that a 50kW station would be in such dire straits."
Oh, HELL. I just contributed to the off-topic siding. Someone please moderate me.
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I may have missed it, but I didn't see a streaming link
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