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740 WNYH now All XMAS Music?

MarcB said:
Is 740 WNYH now all XMAS Music? I just hear 3 XMAS Songs in a row on it. Yesterday I heard their regular Pill-Popping/Oldies Format and even this morning at 730 I heard them running oldies.

740 AM - Can't understand how a station licensed to a city of a 159000 people can't make any money running normal programming.
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Because city of license means nothing these days. It especially seems to mean nothing on Long Island....what difference would it make if, say, WALK was licensed to Patchogue or Islip or Babylon or Centereach or Huntington? Nothing.

As to how the station isn't able to make money, that is a whole different story...perhaps the doctor who owns the station and is playing radio could answer that for us. It's amazing that they can't find enough snake oil infomercials and jesuscasters to fill up the schedule nicely, since the goal of the ownership was to broker out the station.
 
They've tried practically everything on 740 since 1994. Disney went to 1560. Country went to FM for awhile. Serving their immediate local area in the mid 90s didn't last. Korean came and went. The WLIE experience would discourage another Long Island AM talker. Selling on the CT shore really wouldn't fly.

Greater Media had the last class act on 740 as standards. The morning show that included WGBB 1240 filled in a Nassau null. The WHLI simulcast made some sense, but it played second fiddle to 1100. Without island-wide and nighttime coverage these days, the only option seems to be religion or relaying public radio or some NYC station that would like its profile boosted in Suffolk. In those cases, playing to an Arbitron market or even fulltime status wouldn't matter much. Even there, you're not without competition. There are possibilities, but they're not endless.
 
Perhaps a crazy idea, but 740 wouldn't be a bad station to pick up Knicks/Rangers broadcasts for Suffolk County. WEPN 1050's signal is absolutely awful out that way, day and night.
 
neo11 said:
Perhaps a crazy idea, but 740 wouldn't be a bad station to pick up Knicks/Rangers broadcasts for Suffolk County. WEPN 1050's signal is absolutely awful out that way, day and night.
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740's evening signal doesn't make it through all of Huntington, the town the transmitter is located in. You are correct that the WEPN signal is a waste for Suffolk County listening of the Knicks and Rangers, but 740 is not the answer.
 
One other thing I've noticed about WNYH is the awful audio-it's way past slammed to the wall-noisy and distorted. Someone who didn't know what they were doing, tinkered with the audio processing. The station also ID's at weird times. The 20 kW signal gets out-I've heard it on my car radio to the entrance of the PA Turnpike. At that point, my station, WVCH, begins to cut it up. If Dr. Yoon wanted to get people to buy airtime , he'd clean up the audio, smooth out the automation, and get the station ID'ing on the hour and half hour. Doing that would give prospective time buyers the impression that the ownership knows what they're doing. As it stands now, it sure doesn't sound it....

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Phiiladelphia
 
Guys, how many times does this station need to be talked about. The ASS Doctor will not hire anyone, listen to anyone or step back and let someone with radio savy in to run it. He started with a at best decent sound, playing some oldies and standards, but then began this mix of 80s, 70s, 60s, things that make you poop, snake oils and bee's wax for your balls. The fact is Dr Yoon will continue to lose his shirt unril he steps back. In the meantime he will just be a waste of a signal and will not improve. :-*
 
Didn't you used to work there CrapThunder? You sure sound like you have sour grapes.........

I think the oldies library from WNYH must've taken a road trip down to Maryland!
 
Interesting... There must have been some kind of technical glitch with this website because this post was at the top of the list the other day, and so it got me to thinking... Here it is an entire year later, and still nothing has changed at 740 WNYH. The only thing that has changed is that obviously we have grown tired of talking about it.

DG02816 said:
One other thing I've noticed about WNYH is the awful audio-it's way past slammed to the wall-noisy and distorted. Someone who didn't know what they were doing, tinkered with the audio processing. The station also ID's at weird times. The 20 kW signal gets out-I've heard it on my car radio to the entrance of the PA Turnpike. At that point, my station, WVCH, begins to cut it up. If Dr. Yoon wanted to get people to buy airtime , he'd clean up the audio, smooth out the automation, and get the station ID'ing on the hour and half hour. Doing that would give prospective time buyers the impression that the ownership knows what they're doing. As it stands now, it sure doesn't sound it....

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Phiiladelphia
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CrapThunder said:
Guys, how many times does this station need to be talked about. The ASS Doctor will not hire anyone, listen to anyone or step back and let someone with radio savy in to run it. He started with a at best decent sound, playing some oldies and standards, but then began this mix of 80s, 70s, 60s, things that make you poop, snake oils and bee's wax for your balls. The fact is Dr Yoon will continue to lose his shirt unril he steps back. In the meantime he will just be a waste of a signal and will not improve. :-*
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Looks like nothing has changed at WNYH. Going to, and even IN Rhode Island, the 20 kW signal still sounds like garbage...dull, NO dynamic range whatsoever. And, yes it is audible in my home town of Coventry RI, about 110+ miles away, albeit at threshhold levels. What I mentioned in my post of nearly a year ago still stands.Done right, it could make a mark in the area. Right now it's just a 20 kW toy and joke.
 
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