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Air America Comes To The Poconos

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chrisdebello

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WVPO-AM in Stroudsburg and WPLY-AM out of Mt. Pocono have been announced as new affiliates of Air America.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody's there....
 
I've heard AAR is promoting these as "Philadelphia" stations. Much like a syndie talk show getting a clearance
on a small station in Lake Sunapee, NH, being described as "Boston"! :)
 
Or Mancow having a radio affiliate in Chico, CA and passing it off as his "Los Angeles affiliate".
 
AIr America, are they still around. They are horrible. With all the Conservatives up in the Poconos, that station should go over well. Both signals bite, tells you how desperate Air America(and Nassau) are. Probably offering the feed free, so I can see from a financial sense for Nassau, and no switching programs, but what sense if no one listens. Sounds like they're just waiting to sell these stations, don't want to service the community, but need to feed somekind of programming where they don't have to pay staff.
 
Plooker is right, left wing windbags......hope they sink..... more stink for the airwaves....

warm590 ;D
 
Woo hoo! That's awesome. Thank goodness for radio listening options on the public airwaves. :)

Congrats and best of luck for all involved!
 
archerlistener said:
Woo hoo! That's awesome. Thank goodness for radio listening options on the public airwaves. :)

Congrats and best of luck for all involved!

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Air America- Paranoid Radio at its best.!!!!!! :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p
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It's an excellent move for both WVPO and WPLY.
When AAR began (and it is now under new management), I posted here that there should be an affiliate in the Poconos.

Far be it from me, but WVPO, at just 250 watts has a tremendous signal and can be heard 30 miles away......in all directions. WPLY doesn't have a great signal at all but does serve Mt. Pocono 24/7.
Last I looked, the makeup of that part of the county continues to be made up of NYC move-in's, and most of these people generally have a Democratic, rather than a Republican leaning politically.

So while one poster is basically correct in saying that it is a "conservative" area (he didn't say that but that is how I took what he was saying), he is talking about native Northeast Pennsylvanians, but of those natives, nearly half of them are not conservative.

Like most AM stations, specifically in this area, WVPO and WPLY have struggled to find a musical format that sells. There is only one talk station in the general area I can think of and WILK (and it's two sisters) are conservative based.

"If" parking AAR on these two stations is a stall indicating a possible sale, it's not a bad choice overall.
And like any format, no one can be sure how successful it may be.

For lack of a better format, at least they have chosen something that is not being done in the Poconos, plus there really is a potential audience for it here.

I think it was a wonderful choice, and I for one will listen to it.
And I can: like I said, WVPO has a great daytime signal and I live two counties away in NEPA and can hear it well here.
 
masterg said:
and WILK (and it's two sisters) are conservative based.
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Lynn? Corbett? Conservative? Hardly...
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I think he means the syndicated stuff like Rush and Savage is conservative.

In any case we already have Air America in the Poconos -- WILK!
 
We have Air America on PBS, NBC, ABC And CBS...Big time PBS and CBS. Not to mention most of the newspapers in the U.S.
 
I work in Monroe County and I have yet to hear Air America on WVPO/WILT. I have tried to listen the past few mornings however both stations are Simulcasting Lite 93.5.
 
Bravo Au-Vox. I agree with you.

One would think that the failed financial model of Air America would have silenced it. I wonder if some wealthy left-wing philanthropist is supporting it somehow.

At least Lynn's anti-Christian ( or is he just a Catholic hater?) athiesm is local. He might be a whack job, but he's " our whack-job". Even his one-sided version of Talk radio is better than syndication.

It seems the best of the syndicated shows make it , but a full line-up of syndication similiarly themed and from and from a single provider seems to not have enough appeal to attract a viable audience.

Air America will deliver a combined less than 1 share on those two stations. They need to play Standards and Polkas and hire retired guys to sell it part time and on the cheap.
 
AIr America, are they still around. They are horrible.
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Plooker is right, left wing windbags......hope they sink..... more stink for the airwaves....
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As opposed to Right Wing windbags?

As a proud liberal and a member of the 77% of american voters who now disaprove of the Bush Crime family and their psychotic foreign adventures, I am an avid listener of progressive talk radio. Here in Rochester, NY - as in many other markets, our local prog talk affiliate runs a mix of AA and Jones Radio Shows. I like Jones' Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz the best...truly great broadcasters. But when it comes to Bush bashing, nobody beats Randi Rhodes.
 
a possible problem with liberal radio is that it will fall my the wayside if one of their own gets in office. it is heavily reliant on anger. except for savage, whom i think is laughing when he is expressing rage, most conservatives have fun on the air. Rush, love him or hate him, thrives no matter who is in office because for the most part he is aware that his primary role is entertainer...
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I think the primary thing here being overlooked in this thread is how Nassau has completely abandoned any semblance of trying to serve the local community, or what the demographic needs as far as on air entertainment goes. Their format of the day has alienated all their listeners, and this signal is basically being used as a throw away. Which is truly a great loss to the community. How long is it before Bob Matthews gets fired, and they blow off any local coverage of news and events period.. I say by Christmas.... Darn shame... however this is a nationwide trend, Nassaus not the only guilty party, all the major broadcast corporations have relegated AM to such status as well, and it would be nice somewhere in the future, instead of the FCC trying to pass LPFM, if the AM band were delegated to non commercial status, so that communities could at least have a chance to throw a local product on an AM and serve the community, since no one on FM seems to want to do it anymore...
 
paulk01 said:
I work in Monroe County and I have yet to hear Air America on WVPO/WILT. I have tried to listen the past few mornings however both stations are Simulcasting Lite 93.5.
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That seems to always happen... another standard radio numbskull move - chase away ANY potential listeners by flopping existing FM formats onto the AM signal just so there is something there before they have their systems ready for the "real" format. Or maybe a few technical problems and they are waiting for someone to arrive from Google to straighten out the glitches...

MrRF said:
...Air America will deliver a combined less than 1 share on those two stations. They need to play Standards and Polkas and hire retired guys to sell it part time and on the cheap...
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You may be right - a "local" operator might see the potential however you have to remember you're dealing with corporate radio from out-of-market and that's how they do it there.

plooker said:
...and it would be nice somewhere in the future, instead of the FCC trying to pass LPFM, if the AM band were delegated to non commercial status, so that communities could at least have a chance to throw a local product on an AM and serve the community...
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Great idea. Biggest problem with AM radio - you need real estate for that enormous antenna system. Unless someone can come up with a viable transmission system that only takes up as much space as an FM site, I have a bad feeling the Standard Broadcast Band will go the way of vinyl records and an IBM typewriter in the news room. In fact it might even go the way of the news room... The whole technical delivery system is just too costly these days and AM transmitter sites make more money when sub-divided into one acre lots... (Anyone following what is happening to the AM band in Canada? It's like, goin' gabye, eh?)
 
Yes AM sites are costly. But an innovative and more economical way is in place at 1340's site near the VA hospital.The ground system is copper wire suspended above the ground with a small solid state XTMR about the size of clothes washer. You still need the land , but not like at a big directional array.
It was one of Doug Lane's AM's prior to his crash and burning.
 
Au-Vox said:
We have Air America on PBS, NBC, ABC And CBS...Big time PBS and CBS. Not to mention most of the newspapers in the U.S.
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So true, Au-Vox.

Otherwise, I suppose this step is one notch above just turning the stations off.

Big band or polka would at least have SOME people tuning in. This is just a guarantee of further obscurity for Nassau Pocono. They have been striving for irrelevance for some time.

Mission accomplished!
 
jeffwoehrle said:
Au-Vox said:
We have Air America on PBS, NBC, ABC And CBS...Big time PBS and CBS. Not to mention most of the newspapers in the U.S.
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Big band or polka would at least have SOME people tuning in.
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Corbett has "Polka Fridays," does that count?
 
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