94.7 Updates

[Marckd]

I have said aspects of what I am saying quite a few times in the past week or so. This thread is TOO LONG AS IT IS - I think it should have been divided. Okay here is my current view

WIth them getting WRXP calls - leads me to believe its rock of some type - either straight ahead alternative, active rock/alternative hybrid, active rock, alternative leaning Triple A, or a WDHA/WBAB type rock station. If this is the route they go I would not be surprised.

Country is still my hope - It also would not be a surprise. They may be parking the WRXP calls to throw the average person off. I still think country is possible.

Basically it will likely either be a rock based format or country.

Still again, its slightly possible we will see WABC simulcast on 94.7 or CBS Sports - As said before a radio historian who is highly respected by people in and out of the industry and I even worked with for a period of time is banking on CBS Sports - If he says that - I do take his predictions seriously. He does have credability and must know something we do not. I say CBS Sports is UNLIKELY but still POSSIBLE. I say this is the third option while WABC FM is the 4th.

SO I say 99 % chance ot WILL BE one of those 4 formats. My gut is divided either rock of some form or Country. If it is country it will be Pop leaning playing some Hot AC type artists that are not overly rhythmic or hard. My opinion there.

 

[chrocket87]

I love country and I love alternative rock, but can country listeners hear some crossover country songs on PLJ the majority of the time in the recent years? Yes, The Band Perry, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and they can hear them on 102.7 as well at times. Alternative we really can't hear Audioslave, Of Monsters & Men, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Jack Johnson, Blink 182, etc on any other station in the market. Also WRXP don't people remember that 101.9 as rock was WRXP 2xs so if it's the call letters now why are people saying it will be country.

To take the inverse of what you're saying, where can people hear Georgia-Florida Line, Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town, etc.? Alternative listeners can also listen to crossovers such as Neon Trees, Gotye, Lumineers, Fun., etc. on Z100, Fresh, PLJ, and Now. And I've heard Linkin Park and OMAM on Fresh as well.

I think it goes Alt or country. Or maybe both ;D

 

[UncleBozzle]

Have any of the other stations such as "Fresh" or "Lite FM" been adding more modern rock songs? Might they be trying to toy with the competition a bit, which might help out WPLJ?

 

[luperm]

Have any of the other stations such as "Fresh" or "Lite FM" been adding more modern rock songs? Might they be trying to toy with the competition a bit, which might help out WPLJ?

You're overthinking it.

 

[R.D.P.]

Did a check on Wikipedia and discovered the WRXP calls stand for this: (W)(R)ock e(XP)erience.

Which leads me to believe that the new WRXP will be some form of rock.

R.D.P. <><

 

[badjef]

Do you know how to keep someone in suspense?

I'll tell you later...

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[Frequency Breakdown]

Did a check on Wikipedia and discovered the WRXP calls stand for this: (W)(R)ock e(XP)erience.

Which leads me to believe that the new WRXP will be some form of rock.

R.D.P. <><

As you know, ANYbody can update Wikipedia. So its use as a reliable source is most definitely questionable. But yes, in its two Rock incarnations, that's what those call letters stood for.

By the way, You JUST discovered that?

 

[richstrunck]

For the record Cumulus has a station in Upstate New York WKXP, also Lew Dickey said they are bringing a whole new format to NYC

 

[richstrunck]

WKXP are the call letters and it broadcast a country format!

 

[MoldaMania182]

WKXP are the call letters and it broadcast a country format!

For the record Cumulus has a station in Upstate New York WKXP, also Lew Dickey said they are bringing a whole new format to NYC

Are you ok? This is the third time you keep pushing this, I've already explained why that's irrelevant, ONE page back. Lew Dickey said nothing of a 'whole new format' either. His exact quote is "a flagship for one of our key content initiatives" It's intentionally ambiguous. Try to at least bring facts.

 

[Jeffrey]

WKXP are the call letters and it broadcast a country format!

For the record Cumulus has a station in Upstate New York WKXP, also Lew Dickey said they are bringing a whole new format to NYC

Are you ok? This is the third time you keep pushing this, I've already explained why that's irrelevant, ONE page back. Lew Dickey said nothing of a 'whole new format' either. His exact quote is "a flagship for one of our key content initiatives" It's intentionally ambiguous. Try to at least bring facts.

A flagship for one of our key content initiatives?? This could throw us all for a loop and i don't thik it's some Nash FM thing,

 

[richstrunck]

Actually Lew Dickeys comments on All Access yesterday said "Compelling New Programming" appeared on Yesterday's All Access you may want to check that out, because he did indeed said that! Find it in the net news section

 

[R.D.P.]

I had a hunch that RXP stood for that, way before I learned of it on Wikipedia.

R.D.P. <><

 

[MoldaMania182]

"This strategic acquisition of our second FM in the nation’s largest market will enable us to provide compelling new programming for our listeners and a powerful marketing vehicle for our advertising partners."

I am already aware, it still doesn't say new format, it says new programming which could be anything...anything not religious would be new programming on 94.7, technically so is shadowcasting PLJ. Point is it's just as equally ambiguous - perfect executive PR, nothing more. When you spend 40 million on something, what else would you say? Frankly the part I bolded is why Country has not worked in NYC in the past because they don't see it that way. Maybe it's changed, we'll find out soon enough. But clinging to these quotes will only let you find what you want to see in between the lines.

 

[ansky212]

Actually Lew Dickeys comments on All Access yesterday said "Compelling New Programming" appeared on Yesterday's All Access you may want to check that out, because he did indeed said that! Find it in the net news section

You guys are reading into these quotes WAY too much. This is just a canned, generic response that any business would use. Nobody has listened to this station for close to 50 years. Anything could be considered new.

 

[UncleBozzle]

Call me crazy but if I were the CEO of a company and I just shelled out $40 million for a radio station in NYC I am not putting Sports on it, I am not putting Talk on it, and I am not putting Pop on it. I am not going to be interested in sharing crumbs from the same plate everyone else is eating off of. My thinking would be to put a format on it that goes well with the other stations I have in the city. You might not feel that Alternative or Country are a home run down the middle, but they are both nice options that fit well with their sister stations. Not to mention if any sales staff could sell either two of these formats wouldn't you think the sales staff from WPLJ could do it? It's a piece to the puzzle that is WPLJ/WABC/WFAS.

 

[mikerock]

Call me crazy but if I were the CEO of a company and I just shelled out $40 million for a radio station in NYC I am not putting Sports on it, I am not putting Talk on it, and I am not putting Pop on it. I am not going to be interested in sharing crumbs from the same plate everyone else is eating off of. My thinking would be to put a format on it that goes well with the other stations I have in the city. You might not feel that Alternative or Country are a home run down the middle, but they are both nice options that fit well with their sister stations. Not to mention if any sales staff could sell either two of these formats wouldn't you think the sales staff from WPLJ could do it? It's a piece to the puzzle that is WPLJ/WABC/WFAS.

Something like

Country 103.9, WFAS
New Rock 94.7, RXP

 

[wprt949]

If its gonna be alternative it's gonna have too lean a little harder then radio 104.5 in Philly

 

[UncleBozzle]

Mike Rock is onto it...lol. They would need to use the more suburban stations for what the suburbs listen to. Country and Alternative.

 

[Giacomo Siffredi]

Remember they own 94.7 in Springfield Mass and could be tweaking the power of 94.7 in NJ to be stronger and weakening 94.7 Mass to be weaker so that they can justify bring PLJ over to 94.7 and then running WABC AM on 95.5 FM also for now. Talk is going to FM for the audience. They asking what to run on 94.7 and there answer will be PLJ. Think about it.

I've thought about this for all of two seconds: There is no accuracy to this whatsoever. Legally, a licensee cannot adjust power levels without fcc authorization, and such authorization would not be granted in the scenario you've laid out.

This isn't even speculation. It is misinformation, however well-intentioned, and must be corrected before other RadioDiscussion members start jumping on that bandwagon.

With this exception, for now I'm bowing out of this thread which has unfortunately devolved into a myriad of fact-bereft personal opinions. Cumulus knows what they are and will be doing with WRXP Newark, they are probably making final adjustments to whatever the ultimate content will be, and they do not care what Scott & Todd's audience or anyone else wants to hear.