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94.7 Updates

According to the sale document, the closing shall occur "on...the fifth (5th) business day following the date upon which the FCC Consents have become Final Orders..." So, it may be sometime next week before we see any changes.
 
Barry said:
We may still have to wait a few days till anything happens with WFME and WDVY. Although Family Stations Inc. is now officially listed by the FCC as the owner of WDVY 106.3, their request to shift it to noncommercial status and operate it from remote studios still has not been approved. Cumulus may have agreed (or been contractually required) to let Family Radio continue broadcasting on WFME 94.7 till they can legally shift their programming to WDVY.
I can't recall any other instance in New York, in recent years, where it took so long to find out what format a station would be changed to.
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Does Cumulus have a local studio currently for WDVY's current programming? In theory they could plug in a satellite receiver there and let Family Radio move to that studio until the MSW is approved. I've seen this happen before in sales to EMF (KLove/Air1) that the previous owner patches in their feed until the MSW is approved and operations can happen from the transmitter site.
 
Just for the record, I spoke with RadioInsight, and he tells me he likes country but normally listens to AAA or alternative. So, he's not saying he thinks 94.7 will be country because he has an agenda. He says he would be happy if 94.7 went to any one of those formats.

So, I stand corrected on him not being much into country!
 
Kent said:
Just for the record, I spoke with RadioInsight, and he tells me he likes country but normally listens to AAA or alternative. So, he's not saying he thinks 94.7 will be country because he has an agenda. He says he would be happy if 94.7 went to any one of those formats.

So, I stand corrected on him not being much into country!
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The point is that's everyone's best educated guess. Guessing is fun;it generates rumors and clicks. I don't care if they listen to Icelandic folk music while eating Hakarl. Same for the other board. It has zero to do with what might actually happen. We don't even have 'well I heard from a friend of a friend in a bar' stories. The closest thing we have is the 947nashfm.com that was registered back in August the way Cumulus registers other sites, which could be everything or nothing.
 
Giacomo Siffredi said:
WRXP could stand for other things. Here are some examples:
Womack, Reba, and eXpect some Parton
Wright-wing Redneck eXPerience
White Rural eXPress
We Relish eXtra Peach/Pecan Pie
;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D
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Could someone with experience please offer me a breakdown of how various music formats corelate with political persuasions.
 
Radio Insight sounds convinced about the country format. So my question is, how successful have they been with predicting other format changes in the past, whether it be in NY or anywhere else?
 
liradioisbad said:
Barry said:
We may still have to wait a few days till anything happens with WFME and WDVY. Although Family Stations Inc. is now officially listed by the FCC as the owner of WDVY 106.3, their request to shift it to noncommercial status and operate it from remote studios still has not been approved. Cumulus may have agreed (or been contractually required) to let Family Radio continue broadcasting on WFME 94.7 till they can legally shift their programming to WDVY.
I can't recall any other instance in New York, in recent years, where it took so long to find out what format a station would be changed to.
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What about 102.7 after Opie and Anthony were cancelled? Everyone knew that was the end for talk on that station, but it took months before Blink debuted.
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102.7 stunted with CHR for months before Blink
 
107.3 in Atlantic City stunted with Chumbawumba, then ZZ Top (ZZ-107, having been assigned WZZP), then two months as Fun 107, before going forward as Cat Country 107.3, taking the WPUR letters.

If Cumulus is taking the WRXP calls to turn 94.7 rock, and it's not a misdirection, why not just announce the format, instead of leaving it to be assumed?
 
ansky212 said:
Radio Insight sounds convinced about the country format. So my question is, how successful have they been with predicting other format changes in the past, whether it be in NY or anywhere else?
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RadioInsight is good, though not perfect, at getting these right. It's usually less a matter of predicting than it is a matter of getting all of the information together. So, they're only as good as the information they get.
 
I just heard someone announce on the station that they were going to 106.3 and that listeners go to the Family Radio website until they're able to secure "one or two AM stations in the NY area." Then a station ID and now dead air, with PLJ bleeding into the dial position.
 
According to the other board the station announced the 'time has come" ID'd and went off the air at 3:39pm. Now simulcasting PLJ...
 
Listening in central NJ to 94.9, they're certainly simulcasting WPLJ loud and clear. With commercials.

Okay, that was weird. "Everybody Talks" by Neon Trees blasted over part of the last commercial, kind of distorted. And then they went from the last commercial without an ID into Everybody Talks...but I just tuned over to 95.5 and that's what PLJ's playing, so false alarm.

Yep, still ID'ing as 'PLJ.
 
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