92.3 Now should get the WNUW call letters!

[nd2023]

Greater Media changed the call letters of 97.5 to WPEN-FM, as 97.5 is now simulcasting WPEN 950. The WNUW calls are available and would be great on 92.3. Or better yet, try to get the WNOW calls!

 

[d21ofnj]

I think they have a better chance of geting WNUW than WNOW. It will make sense to change from WXRK since AMP 97.1 LA has KAMP.

 

[necrat123]

They would have to pay Gaffney Broadcasting money to release the WNOW-FM call sign, which is currently licensed to their station in Gaffney, SC (Moving to Bessemer City, NC).

 

[stationless listener]

It's a stab in the dark but how about WWON-FM or WNWF-FM? I know there is an AM station in Tennessee and a Florida AM station, respectively, with those letters. Maybe they can legally call themselves that as long as they differentiate themselves with the FM dial. If not, could they use WON-FM or WNW-FM or are new three-letter call words not allowed anymore?

ETA: I do think that WNWW could be taken.

 

[MoldaMania182]

I think if CBS really wanted to change the calls, they would have done that by now, no? Even KAMP got theirs back on 6/30. Does the younger audience their targeting even care? They get buried in a whisper at the top of the hour anyway. Now FM hasn't exactly been a huge success yet either. Still a shot a it may not last. It could also be that CBS has an interest in finding something more fitting but doesn't want to give up the WXRK calls either. Anyone's guess.

 

[ericdxx]

Is WNFM possible?

 

[d21ofnj]

I think Nick may get what he asked for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRK

"The station's calls are expected to become WNUW (the calls that were on a radio station in Philadelphia until that station flipped from hot AC to sports)"

 

[RockTheGlobe]

I think Nick may get what he asked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRK
"The station's calls are expected to become WNUW (the calls that were on a radio station in Philadelphia until that station flipped from hot AC to sports)"

Right, because a credible source of information is a website where anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection can change/update/post any entry.

 

[d21ofnj]

I think Nick may get what he asked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRK
"The station's calls are expected to become WNUW (the calls that were on a radio station in Philadelphia until that station flipped from hot AC to sports)"

Right, because a credible source of information is a website where anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection can change/update/post any entry.

But yet, it's believeable when it comes to stations like Pulse, huh?

 

[RockTheGlobe]

I think Nick may get what he asked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRK
"The station's calls are expected to become WNUW (the calls that were on a radio station in Philadelphia until that station flipped from hot AC to sports)"

Right, because a credible source of information is a website where anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection can change/update/post any entry.

But yet, it's believeable when it comes to stations like Pulse, huh?

What are you talking about? I never said anything about Pulse 87, let alone source Wikipedia for information on it.

People have a bad tendency to update Wikipedia with whatever they think will happen and present it as fact. When Viva in Atlanta was stunting, someone updated the station's entry to say (with certainty) it was going to simulcast WGST-AM. Needless to say, that didn't end up happening.

 

[d21ofnj]

I think Nick may get what he asked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRK
"The station's calls are expected to become WNUW (the calls that were on a radio station in Philadelphia until that station flipped from hot AC to sports)"

Right, because a credible source of information is a website where anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection can change/update/post any entry.

But yet, it's believeable when it comes to stations like Pulse, huh?

What are you talking about? I never said anything about Pulse 87, let alone source Wikipedia for information on it.

People have a bad tendency to update Wikipedia with whatever they think will happen and present it as fact. When Viva in Atlanta was stunting, someone updated the station's entry to say (with certainty) it was going to simulcast WGST-AM. Needless to say, that didn't end up happening.

No, no, I'm not gunning at you, I'm just using an example here to others. I realize anyone can put anything on Wiki, but when information is entered to stations like Pulse per se, about them going off the air, majority of people belivie it and rub it in on this board.

 

[MarcB]

When Viva in Atlanta was stunting, someone updated the station's entry to say (with certainty) it was going to simulcast WGST-AM. Needless to say, that didn't end up happening.

It did. It was part of the stunting. Part of the stunting included several hours of WGST on 105.7

 

[RockTheGlobe]

When Viva in Atlanta was stunting, someone updated the station's entry to say (with certainty) it was going to simulcast WGST-AM. Needless to say, that didn't end up happening.

It did. It was part of the stunting. Part of the stunting included several hours of WGST on 105.7

You're not getting my point. An hour or so of the stunting was a simulcast of WGST, though it also spent time resurrecting the old "Peach" AC that had been in the market and an hour and a half as "Holiday 105.7" with Christmas music. But someone updated the Wikipedia entry to say that Viva was becoming a full-time simulcast of WGST after the stunting had already moved on from the WGST simulcast.

People are already posting on Wikipedia -- again, with certainty -- what will happen at KUFO in Portland, Oregon once its stunting ends, though absolutely nothing has been confirmed and the stunting still has another day to go before any kind of announcements or changes are made other than the ones already officially released.