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970 WWDJ Hackensack to Become 970 WNYM "The Apple"

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Salem's 970 WWDJ is going to flip to Conservative Talk as "The Apple" taking the WNYM calls.....970 has already changed its call letters to WTTT which is temporary (the WTTT calls came from Boston's 1150 who got the WWDJ calls)........The new website will be http://am970theapple.blogtownhall.com/ but is currently offline (however it was up this morning)....I wonder how they will fair against WOR and WABC.
 
It's about time. That's going to fill a much needed void, because what this country and this city need is more right-wing shoutfests. Just the thing to help us all get along and progress as a community.
 
Oh my! No more 97/DJ?

Ownership and format changes aside, way up there in the hereafter,
Bwana Johnny must be shedding a tear, as are some of us down here. :'(


From Bootleg Top 40 Volume One...

"...lot of you folks calling in with some very weird ice cream flavors
this afternoon...very weird. I don't know who the person* was that
called up for pickle-brickle ice cream, but I would say that's a little--
little strange, you know what I mean, a little strange!"
(Hits post of Love Child. Note: Cranky Old Gringo should ignore
this footnote. ;D)

*: Did he say "person" or "virgin"?
 
Judging how Salem's conservative talker does in Philadelphia, this should be another wasted frequency.
 
Of course, as WTTT, they could be " New York's T, T, T, Talk Station". Inasmuch as I worked there 2 years and still have many friends there, the station will take 3-5 years just to show up, if Salem holds onto it and stays in NY that long.
 
yossefgershon said:
970 should have gone country---salem runs a country station in Honalulu.
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That's funny! WWDJ in fact WAS country in the 60s! Lee Arnold worked there before going to WHN.
 
Salem = wasted signal---------they waste at least 3 in Tampa
 
ks31 said:
According to Radio-Locator 970's new format is "Spanish"
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Radio Locator seems to keep formats and call letters together in their data base. It most likely is referring to the Spanish format on WTTT in Boston.
 
Salem talk stations have rotten ratings just about everywhere, but Big Daddy Salem has an agenda, so they are funded regardless of ratings performance.

As you can see, they even just cleared a New York signal as a reward to Medved, Hewitt, Prager, etc for their great performance!

The height of irony a few months ago, was Hugh Hewitt making fun of Air America's lack of ratings!

Must be nice to have a rich daddy, eh Hugh?
 
HHH said:
Must be nice to have a rich daddy, eh Hugh?
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The scary thing about that is there are a lot of rich folks with an agenda just waiting to get their hands on some radio stations. And with hundreds of radio stations on the market, it's pretty likely that this will be the next trend in free broadcasting.
 
One Suggestion

I have one suggestion to that WTTT 970AM.

Martini Radio AKA Adult Standard.

It is able to compete though.

People want Country Music....That's OK

As long as the station can market itself. There is no problem there.
 
Sam Lit said:
Wow, can’t even pick up 970’s big 50 Kw in Philly due to I-bash from 950/WPEN. How sad. Who can tell me if 970 running their own I-hash?
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Sam, Iboc has nothing to do with your inability to hear NY 970. It's all due to the fact that you are in a minor null. The stations signal is tucked in towards Philadelphia. Before you blame a technology that has nothing to do with the fact that you can't hear a station from the NY metro area, think. KYW is running 50 Kw at 1060 and we have a NY facility at 1050, not running IBOC and could never hear KYW in NYC. Can't hear WFIL, or any Philadelphia AM's other than WCAU and that sgnal can barely be heard in the northern NY suburbs of Westchester/Rockland counties. You have a computer, why not listen to their web cast. You'll hear everything they do except the audio quality will be much better. By the way, enjoyed your fathers work.
 
KJCB said:
970 will be Spanish Christian preaching.
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Well, I'm pretty sure talk programmer Peter Thiele, who's quoted in the company's press release about "Frank", doesn't speak Espanol.

He's only done talk, as far as I know. He was PD of Entercom talk WORD-WYRD/Greenville SC for a long while.
 
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