Albany Radio Predictions for 2012

[radio101]

well danikayser84 if Crush stays the same format twists a bit on music will have to see who is gonna compete with them b95.5 or 99.5 the River.

things seem to get crazy by the minute in this radio market

seems like if you ain't part of the click kiss your butt goodbye

 

[klutch00]

100.9 decides after doing a "Jack FM" Style format and a Rock format in a market littered with Rock stations, to compete directly with 99.5 as a Hot A/C. It hires known local talent and goes full tilt.

I wouldn't write these guys off so soon...yet. They have their work cut out for them. I think if they can carve a niche for themselves, they may not be able to beat "the 'Q' twins", but they can give them a run for the money.

560 goes dark, again. No one misses it, from it's most recent incarnation.

Call me someone who lives in the past too much, but I think should this station have a future, it probably should be as a community-oriented radio station which could be run by a college or a combination of colleges and high schools in the area. For income, I might suggest a 'hybrid-revenue' model in which the station survives on both advertisement and private donations.

There is a station in southeastern Pennsylvania, WBZH Pottstown which runs a free-form and talk format ans is showing some promise.

For details, go to:
http://www.wbzh.net/
http://www.facebook.com/WBZHRadio
http://www.wpazpa.org/

This might be a path that WCKL might want to pursue, but probably not with the current ownership.