94.7 Updates

[NJMark]

A Top 10 NYC station cumes 2 million or more. 2000 FB likes is nothing.

Oh, for heaven's sake, it's only been half a day!! People are still finding out the station exists!

As for content, I'm hoping Nash is just a branding identity, and not a "network" situation.

Essential to the success of a radio station is being visible, with on-air staff making promotional appearances at places like street fairs, county fairs, car dealerships, and in the case of country radio, dance clubs and events. (NY country stations always had the St. Jude's fundraising event.) They come out, meet people, and give away "station stuff" like t-shirts, key chains, magnets, and bumper stickers.

That can't happen if everything's fed in from a satellite.

 

[TheBigA]

That can't happen if everything's fed in from a satellite.

I have no reason to believe that's what it will be.

For all their faults, Cumulus is live and local at WPLJ. They're live and local from 5AM to 7PM at all their other country stations.

So one can assume they'll do the same with this station. The NashFM thing is just branding. Like Wolf or Froggy. Nothing more.

 

[Jeffrey]

That can't happen if everything's fed in from a satellite.

So one can assume they'll do the same with this station. The NashFM thing is just branding. Like Wolf or Froggy. Nothing more.

are you sure about that? My guess is a national brand, syndicated, satellite fed. Branding as America's country station....hmm...

 

[TheBigA]

are you sure about that? My guess is a national brand, syndicated, satellite fed. Branding as America's country station....hmm...

I haven't seen anything that says it will be satellite fed.

The "America's Country Station" was used by WYNY, because even though its ratings were meager, it was the #1 country station in the US. Currently, WUSN in Chicago uses that line for that reason.

 

[ansky212]

I don't care if this station is satellite fed or not. A satellite fed country station is better than no country station at all.

 

[BarryATL]

I think there will be a 24/7 satellite feed that stations will pick and choose from based on the size of the market and station revenue. If the station economics makes sense for live during drive, then it will be and on the bird at other times. I would think in market #1 they will use the Nash FM imaging but will be local because that will be what is needed for that market. On the Cumulus country station in Lake Charles, LA, I will bet that they will make heavy use of the bird because it will have a better sound than someone who is local and minimum wage.

NOTE: I am know nothing of Lake Charles' country Cumulus station. I am using them as a made up example. I do not want to offend my Cajun friends.

 

[TheBigA]

I think there will be a 24/7 satellite feed that stations will pick and choose from based on the size of the market and station revenue.

Cumulus Media, the former ABC Radio Network, offers dozens of 24/7 satellite fed formats to small market radio stations across the country from its hub in Dallas. Ironically, no Cumulus-owned stations run those formats, but rather locally owned mom & pop radio stations.

So as I said, I have no reason to believe this station, located in NYC, will be satellite fed. However, I expect it will carry the Cumulus owned overnight programming from Nashville, hosted by Cody Alan and Kix Brooks.

 

[crainbebo]

Don't forget Dial Global. They offer all kinds of formats for small market radio stations. In Aberdeen, WA, there's four FM stations owned by the same company (Jodesha Broadcasting). One is Dial Global AC, one is Dial Global Hot AC, one is Dial Global Classic Rock, and another is the Dial Global Hot Country (?) format.

-crainbebo

 

[davideduardo]

I think there will be a 24/7 satellite feed that stations will pick and choose from based on the size of the market and station revenue. If the station economics makes sense for live during drive, then it will be and on the bird at other times. I would think in market #1 they will use the Nash FM imaging but will be local because that will be what is needed for that market. On the Cumulus country station in Lake Charles, LA, I will bet that they will make heavy use of the bird because it will have a better sound than someone who is local and minimum wage.

Again... branded shows and formats are not generally satellite delivered in major markets. They are delivered in workparts and assembled locally so that they can be customized. And, more important, they are done this way so stopsets do not have to be padded with PSAs and such as some satellite delivered formats require.

Dial Global's Storq system works in substantially similar fashion, allowing stations to have shorter or longer stops, etc. Content in variants of this system can be delivered to the stations and updated each hour with the next hours material, while music and promos and commercials are run off the local system.

In more customized situations, each station can modify the number of content slices it takes, and add local traffic and other content at will, and they will program the music log locally, not take a standard log from a format supplier.

 

[HHH]

Would be interested to hear how the signal and processing is on the new station.

WFME's tech was dated and dusty, and I am sure that Nash 94.7 at least has a processor from this century

Also: Any signal improvements? I know that there is only so much that can be done from First Mountain in West Orange, but I'll bet that some tweaking did/will make some difference.

Curious to hear signal reports east of the Hudson.

 

[erwin33]

Would be interested to hear how the signal and processing is on the new station.

WFME's tech was dated and dusty, and I am sure that Nash 94.7 at least has a processor from this century

Also: Any signal improvements? I know that there is only so much that can be done from First Mountain in West Orange, but I'll bet that some tweaking did/will make some difference.

Curious to hear signal reports east of the Hudson.

Nash FM's sound is very good. One of the best sounds in NYC on FM at the moment in my point of view. Where CBS FM is the worst, big time! I think they using Omnia, because sister station PLJ is also using an Omnia.11. But this sounds different than PLJ. Maybe it's an Omnia 6 or something.

 

[romer979fm]

The "America's Country Station" was used by WYNY, because even though its ratings were meager, it was the #1 country station in the US. Currently, WUSN in Chicago uses that line for that reason.

and when KZLA Los Angeles was still around...they also used similiar branding ("America's most listened to country station") IIRC

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

Interesting comments here regarding Facebook "likes" and the use of the TOH and other imaging. 94.7 is still in the introductory phase and will be for a while. We're not Average Radio Users. We put everything under a magnifying glass; imaging, rotations, processors, etc. There's a long discovery period for average radio consumers. On the timeline, the station is barely out of the starting gate. Day two sounds pretty good from this end of I-90. Has any TV appeared?

 

[Jeffrey]

Would be interested to hear how the signal and processing is on the new station.

WFME's tech was dated and dusty, and I am sure that Nash 94.7 at least has a processor from this century

Also: Any signal improvements? I know that there is only so much that can be done from First Mountain in West Orange, but I'll bet that some tweaking did/will make some difference.

Curious to hear signal reports east of the Hudson.

actually oddly enough the signal seems worse than it was in western Brooklyn and it was spotty driving westbound through Queens on the LIE last night as well. I don't remember WFME being spotty but then again I can't say I really sampled them as I've been sampling Nash.

 

[WNTIRadio]

Nash FM's sound is very good. One of the best sounds in NYC on FM at the moment in my point of view. Where CBS FM is the worst, big time! I think they using Omnia, because sister station PLJ is also using an Omnia.11. But this sounds different than PLJ. Maybe it's an Omnia 6 or something.

Let me state, that as someone who does this for a living, it's not the brand of processor that's at fault for bad sound. It's just like a sports car... if there's a bad driver, the sports car won't help.

I have Omnia.11's, Omnia.9's, a 5ex and a 6, Optimod 8500, 8400, 8300 at various client stations and even an 8200 still in service at one station. It's all about understanding the architecture of the processor, the goals of the station and then using the tools available to craft the best possible sound while keeping the goals of the station in focus.

As for the 11, I can make it sound smooth and mellow or have the hairs on the back of your neck stand up with a wall of sound. There is plenty of power and adjustments in there to do either, or pick any spot in between. There's also enough rope on all of the modern processors for someone to hang themselves.

Last I knew, CBS-FM was running an 8500. Mind you, the same 8500 that was there when Mike Erickson was in charge of the processing. Same box (except for Mike's little 2 band modified Behringer in the mix), different users. Different sound.