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Just heard country... Maybe it's not going to be country afterall... The one thing i am almost 100% sure of at this pointbis that it's not going to be talk!
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The only guarantee happening here is that come 9:47AM on Monday, a new format will appear.
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Jeffrey said:
Sorry, that was a bit vague... I meant i heard them playing country on the stunting loop.
Is there a cost involved in changing call numbers?
Lance Venta, who has been consistent in predicting on his website RadioInsight that 94.7 will have a country format, has tweeted that he feels the likelihood of this is around 98%. He states that all signs have been indicating this since November.
I was thinking that an advantage for Cumulus to put country rather than alternative on 94.7, in addition to the ones that have already been discussed, is that the audience for country may be more similar to that of WPLJ. That may make it easier for their sales staff to encourage their sponsors that advertise on WPLJ to also buy time on 94.7.
I still haven't received much of an answer to my question- if alternative rock is such a lucrative format in NJ , why was heritage alternative station WHTG switched to Thunder Country (which has become a ratings leader in its market).
I was thinking that an advantage for Cumulus to put country rather than alternative on 94.7, in addition to the ones that have already been discussed, is that the audience for country may be more similar to that of WPLJ. That may make it easier for their sales staff to encourage their sponsors that advertise on WPLJ to also buy time on 94.7.
I still haven't received much of an answer to my question- if alternative rock is such a lucrative format in NJ , why was heritage alternative station WHTG switched to Thunder Country (which has become a ratings leader in its market).
I posted on facebook about this and underneath pops out coming soon www.nashfm947.com. I am saying it would fit must perfectly for a country station.
I cant believe how close lipped every one is being about the change. But with all the Nash fm talk and websites it can only be country.
TheBigA said:
I could not agree with you any more.
Regardless of anything else there's one thing NY'ers are obsessed/proud of; being NY'ers. Bring New York to Nashville, not Nashville to NY. But then again when you're arm-chairing things from Atlanta.....Remember this technically is Cumulus's 'first' NYC station. They just acquired the others, which were well established.
not that it means anything but radio-locator shows 94.7 WRXP as Alternative
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=new+york&sid=&x=7&y=7
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=new+york&sid=&x=7&y=7
It doesn't mean anything. R-L, as has been noted ad nauseam, does not de-link data from a callsign when it's changed. So when WRXP 101.9 became WFAN-FM 101.9, all of the format and slogan data that went with the old 101.9 remained in the R-L database linked to the "WRXP" calls, and any station that picked up those calls will show the old 101.9 format/slogan information until someone manually changes it. It doesn't represent any sort of assumption on R-L's part - just bad database design.
TheBigA said:
I'm only asking this out of learning, not as a diss or being ignorant and if it comes off that way, my apologies. But what exactly is "New York Style" country?
With dance music, especially back in the 80s and 90s there was a lot of regionality involved. New York was heavy on our brand of freestyle, Miami was heavy on their brand of freestyle, Chicago was big on house, L.A. had their style. So did Orlando. And while not the U.S., Toronto had their brand of dance too. But each area had their production of dance music going as well.
That's why I am trying to learn. Yes, the major country labels have their offices in Nashville. And some of that music has mainstreamed to a certain extent onto CHR, though not as much here as southern cities have taken it. What would you categorize as "New York", a more suburban feel with today's artists?
I am seriously asking and as I've said, not to be ignorant or spiteful, but to learn.
Tony Santiago said:
My meaning was that it shouldn't present itself as Nashville. That name may mean a lot in some parts of the country. In New York, it's one stop short of Hooterville and Bumpkinsville.
What killed the country station in San Francisco was when they played more new music by artists the locals didn't know. WHN and the first WYNY stuck to established hits by established artists, and didn't try to be too cool for the school.
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Barry said:
G Rock didn't directly go to country. They went to Top 40 first. Only when that didn't do well did it go to country. I really don't know what the ratings were for the last few months of G Rock but the Wikipedia for Thunder 106 might provide some insight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKMK
But even if alternative really wasn't that lucrative in NJ, it doesn't say much about the overall New York market. As I said before, RXP 2.0 shows the potential of alternative to be lucrative in New York.
Scott and Todd asked fans to post their preferences on their Facebook page. Of course, this could all be a smokescreen. There's just too many format holes in New York but not enough FM's to go around. Hopefully, you'll get the format you want someday.
It is no more of a NYC signal, then Z-100 from the "pee-shooter", which just happened to be transmit from the same location.WNTIRadio said:
The signal vector makes all the difference.
As a Jersey Shore station, it is fine, except in parts of Tinton Falls, of course. But Queens and Brooklyn, as combined would make up the City with the largest population in the Country, that's a different story. It needs to be a Manhattan (New York County) signal at that point.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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