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PassDutch
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WBZZ should flip to Air America, and Stern should move to WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox will bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
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ed_armstrong1980
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> WBZZ should flip to Air America, and Stern should move to
> WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox will
> bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
>
What are you smoking, and where can the rest of us get sommma dat stuff !!!
> WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox will
> bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
>
What are you smoking, and where can the rest of us get sommma dat stuff !!!
> > WBZZ should flip to Air America, and Stern should move to
> > WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox
> will
> > bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
> >
>
>
> What are you smoking, and where can the rest of us get
> sommma dat stuff !!!
A few thoughts:
This is one of the oldest markets in the country. WRBQ is a very successful station. Why would you "Jack" it ?
Isn't Stern going to XM?
You can't count on COX to do anything. COX does not react to any market changes. Hence 102.5. Why would they flip the Point and if they did, it would be another jockless station with the personality of red tide.
WBZZ is a non factor with calls that should be on 93.7 in PIttsburgh.
If Infinity actually blew up WRBQ, I would expect Clear Channel to find a way to get WSRZ city coverage before COX changes anything.
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> > WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox
> will
> > bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
> >
>
>
> What are you smoking, and where can the rest of us get
> sommma dat stuff !!!
A few thoughts:
This is one of the oldest markets in the country. WRBQ is a very successful station. Why would you "Jack" it ?
Isn't Stern going to XM?
You can't count on COX to do anything. COX does not react to any market changes. Hence 102.5. Why would they flip the Point and if they did, it would be another jockless station with the personality of red tide.
WBZZ is a non factor with calls that should be on 93.7 in PIttsburgh.
If Infinity actually blew up WRBQ, I would expect Clear Channel to find a way to get WSRZ city coverage before COX changes anything.
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> WBZZ should flip to Air America, and Stern should move to
> WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox will
> bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
>
WBZZ is better than nothing, but not much. Who listens to their poor signal and lousy programming anyway? We need Air America on a strong station to compete with all the right wing idiots on Clear Channel and elsewhere. But first we need to get Bush out of the White House, so that the religious right is forced to give up control of the FCC.
> WRBQ-FM after being Jacked. If RBQ is Jacked, then Cox will
> bury The Point and return oldies to the market on 101.5.
>
WBZZ is better than nothing, but not much. Who listens to their poor signal and lousy programming anyway? We need Air America on a strong station to compete with all the right wing idiots on Clear Channel and elsewhere. But first we need to get Bush out of the White House, so that the religious right is forced to give up control of the FCC.
Why would any station in Tampa want to go AA? Tampa isn't exactly that liberal. I now live in the Philadelphia area, and even here we don't have a real AA station. We have 1 that airs 2 AA programs. The station is still in the rating basement. Now Philly is 4-1 democrat, hasn't elected a republican mayor since the 50's, and if not for Philly not only would Kerry have lost the state of PA, but Bush would have solidly won it.
If AA can't do that well here (or get on full time) what hope does a republican area such as Tampa have?
If AA can't do that well here (or get on full time) what hope does a republican area such as Tampa have?
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FloridaBear1776
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> Why would any station in Tampa want to go AA? Tampa isn't
> exactly that liberal. I now live in the Philadelphia area,
> and even here we don't have a real AA station. We have 1
> that airs 2 AA programs. The station is still in the rating
> basement. Now Philly is 4-1 democrat, hasn't elected a
> republican mayor since the 50's, and if not for Philly not
> only would Kerry have lost the state of PA, but Bush would
> have solidly won it.
>
> If AA can't do that well here (or get on full time) what
> hope does a republican area such as Tampa have?
>
Philadelphia's problem is the lack of available strong AM signals for a market its size. Of the four really good signals, three are controlled by Infinity and have reasonably successful formats, thus no weak sister looking for something new. The fourth is controlled by Salem, which would rather have a failing conservative station than a successful liberal one. Also, Philly has never had continuous success with talk radio of any political stripe. Their main conservative talker -- on FM, yet! -- blew up a few years back. And this is 1210's second go-round in talk, it was revived in 1996 after the original WCAU was trashed in favor of oldies around 1990. KYW's long heritage as an all news station seems to have stunted the growth of talk radio as well. It dominates Philly as no other all-newser does anywhere else.
Tampa Bay is a more divided market than you might think. Pinellas County went for Gore in 2000 and narrowly for Bush in 04. The congressmen there are Republicans first elected during the height of the retiree boom years ago. It'll be interesting to happen when those seats go open. Suburban Hillsborough is solidly Republican, but the city of Tampa trends Democratic. At best, it's 51-49 or 52-48 Republican. Like Philly, there's a lack of good signals on which AA could naturally go. Worse yet, we have two Salems -- the real Salem, which owns three AMs, and the "little Salem" of Genesis, a local company founded by a fundamentalist who owns two. These owners would bulldoze their towers before putting on progressive talk. 1010 seems the best possibility. But that frequency seems jinxed and it would be a situation like Infinity's liberal talker in Seattle -- very little publicity or resources. Everything else is Spanish or brokered -- another huge factor limiting liberal talk here and in Orlando.
> exactly that liberal. I now live in the Philadelphia area,
> and even here we don't have a real AA station. We have 1
> that airs 2 AA programs. The station is still in the rating
> basement. Now Philly is 4-1 democrat, hasn't elected a
> republican mayor since the 50's, and if not for Philly not
> only would Kerry have lost the state of PA, but Bush would
> have solidly won it.
>
> If AA can't do that well here (or get on full time) what
> hope does a republican area such as Tampa have?
>
Philadelphia's problem is the lack of available strong AM signals for a market its size. Of the four really good signals, three are controlled by Infinity and have reasonably successful formats, thus no weak sister looking for something new. The fourth is controlled by Salem, which would rather have a failing conservative station than a successful liberal one. Also, Philly has never had continuous success with talk radio of any political stripe. Their main conservative talker -- on FM, yet! -- blew up a few years back. And this is 1210's second go-round in talk, it was revived in 1996 after the original WCAU was trashed in favor of oldies around 1990. KYW's long heritage as an all news station seems to have stunted the growth of talk radio as well. It dominates Philly as no other all-newser does anywhere else.
Tampa Bay is a more divided market than you might think. Pinellas County went for Gore in 2000 and narrowly for Bush in 04. The congressmen there are Republicans first elected during the height of the retiree boom years ago. It'll be interesting to happen when those seats go open. Suburban Hillsborough is solidly Republican, but the city of Tampa trends Democratic. At best, it's 51-49 or 52-48 Republican. Like Philly, there's a lack of good signals on which AA could naturally go. Worse yet, we have two Salems -- the real Salem, which owns three AMs, and the "little Salem" of Genesis, a local company founded by a fundamentalist who owns two. These owners would bulldoze their towers before putting on progressive talk. 1010 seems the best possibility. But that frequency seems jinxed and it would be a situation like Infinity's liberal talker in Seattle -- very little publicity or resources. Everything else is Spanish or brokered -- another huge factor limiting liberal talk here and in Orlando.
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