94.7 Updates

[mikerock]

Hey Country can STILL b a stunt. I'm not 100% convinced. Why WRXP? Not sure if that was to just throw us off. Website and FB just seem so "thrown" together. From what I hear there was so much more effort with the stunt and little with the station. The List live link still has WRXP_FM in the header

Call letters are easy to change. WRXP was just to raise hopes and get us geeks talking, it really means nothing. Cumulus has plans for the Nash brand..

Update 1/20:A Cumulus holding company has applied for multiple “Nash” trademarks.

Applied for by the “Consolidated IP Company LLC” on November 14 were trademarks for: Nash, Nash Channel, Nash On-Line, The Nash Experience, Nash Awards, Nash FM, and Nash TV. They were accompanied on January 3 by Nash Notes, Nash Country, Nash Magazine, Nash Entertainment, and Nash Interactive. With the exception of the final one all were applied for the purpose of “Radio broadcasting services; conducting award ceremonies; printed publications, namely, entertainment magazines; providing online publications in the nature of entertainment magazines; providing a website featuring online radio broadcasting and entertainment news, events and information”.

Source: http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/79538/is-cumulus-planning-a-national-country-brand/

Why go through all of that work just to flip to dead-end alternative?

Country is here on 94.7. The WRXP calls were just a smokescreen and are now just a placeholder.

"dead-end alternative"? RXP 2.0 was doing very well with no promotion or jocks. Lets see if Nash-FM can go from no ratings to up in the 2s in matter of 2 months like RXP did.

 

[njradioman]

I recorded the format change while i was in the car. Will I get nailed for copyright if I upload it to youtube?

if you do not edit out the full songs, you tube will probably inform you what copyrights your breaking as soon as it is uploaded.

I don't have the full songs just the switch and the first 15 seconds of the first song they played.

 

[AlNYRadio]

I will put it up in about 15 minutes on YouTube, the final hour of stunting and the first 5 songs on Nash. I'm currently starting to upload it.

 

[AlNYRadio]

The number of likes are rising alot. Up to around 300 likes, about 10 likes per minute!

 

[AlNYRadio]

The video will be up in about 5-10 minutes. I will give the link.

 

[ansky212]

Sounds like they may still be having some technical issues. At 11:50AM the station completely dropped off the air for about 3 seconds. Then about a minute later it completely dropped off again for about 3 seconds.

 

[wprt949]

Why do they keep playing the launch at the top of every hour

Congrats too country music fans in NYC

 

[stevensonair]

I think it was classless to taunt people with the WRXP calls. It's that kind of thing that makes broadcasters appear petty and insensitive to the public. I hope whoever masterminded that is proud of themselves.

 

[Radiofornia]

I don't think too much of "the public" had any idea what was going on with the WRXP calls or the stunting of 94.7. This sort of thing bothers radio people much more than the average radio listener.

 

[mikerock]

I think it was classless to taunt people with the WRXP calls. It's that kind of thing that makes broadcasters appear petty and insensitive to the public. I hope whoever masterminded that is proud of themselves.

+1. There were people complaining on the FB page about that and the choice of country. All them have been removed now, only leaving positive FB comments. LOL

 

[Barry]

There is a new larger studio photo posted on Instagram. The large Taylor Swift poster on the wall may be an indication of what some of their promotional material will look like.
Nash FM Studio: http://instagram.com/p/UwKC3hwif6/

 

[Nate Wesley]

I think it was classless to taunt people with the WRXP calls. It's that kind of thing that makes broadcasters appear petty and insensitive to the public. I hope whoever masterminded that is proud of themselves.

This is a complaint that only a radio geek would make.

 

[wprt949]

Excuse me but is that the old wfme studios or is that a new place ?

 

[TimeIsTight]

RXP 2.0 was doing very well with no promotion or jocks. Lets see if Nash-FM can go from no ratings to up in the 2s in matter of 2 months like RXP did.

In choosing the Country format for its new NYC FM, Cumulus was much less interested in how well one type of music would do in the ratings versus another.

The selection of the Country format has everything to do with Cumulus starting a new national Country Music brand named "Nash." And it needs to flagship that brand in the biggest market.

Cumulus likely never considered any other format seriously. The Country format is all about a New York affiliate for a new "Nash" national brand.

The New York radio dial has a number of lower rated "flagships." CC just bought WOR as its talk flagship, ESPN bought WEPN-FM as its sports talk flagship, Disney radio has a low rated flagship etc.

Cumulus certainly expects its new Nash flagship to do fairly well in the ratings, but attracting potentially the highest ratings weren't the "primary motivation" in selecting Country Music as the format that would do the most for the big corporate bottom line.

 

[edarmsttrong]

Excuse me but is that the old wfme studios or is that a new place ?

That studio can't be too new, with the cart racks embedded in the wall behind Taylor. Yeah, I know, that's something only a radio geek would notice.

 

[benale]

I really don't think this is a stunt. If it is, this will rank up there with "Blink", FM News and the CBS-FM move to Jack as one of the dumbest moves in New York.

Cumulus is starting a new country network called Nash FM and 94.7 is the flagship. I wonder if that will be all local, part local or just a frequency to feed the national network. Hopefully, there will be some local hosts soon. WHN was the greatest country station I ever heard. I hope Nash FM will be a worthy successor.

I'm very happy Cumulus chose Country. New York is saturated now with CHR, Hot AC, AC and Sports. It's nice to have something different. This is the first time in almost seventeen years there has been a full power country station in NY.

 

[MoldaMania182]

Excuse me but is that the old wfme studios or is that a new place ?

From what I've gathered, Nash's studios are housed together with those of WABC and WPLJ, at 2 Penn Plaza.

They are.


Also can we PLEASE stop with some of the stupidity here...this is not a stunt. Stop the denial. It's a new initiative. Go from there.

 

[TheBigA]

I've scanned through some of the other Cumulus-owned country stations around the country, and none of them are using the NASH-FM marketing.

 

[LibertyOne]

It appears whoever is encoding the artist names on the RDS and HD data is getting clumsy. In the last two hours I saw two errors. One of the George Strait songs was listed as George Strati and Dierks Bentley was listed as Dierks Bently. It was not my radio and bad decoding.

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

The devil is always in the details, and details like these are important. Could be things are frantic. Could be they have "AC types" trimming and labeling cuts. Or, as it often happens to so many of us, it could be somebody just fat-fingered the info. It happens. But it should be corrected, ASAP.