It was on 94.3 years ago.Central LI has CT's 92.5.
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Alt 92.3 to Become WINS Simulcast
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OTA radio has no viable long term future.I am a 70 year old Brooklynite that became a country fan due to WHN.Also, many radio listeners have left or are leaving the five boroughs.
The people who don't shower now shop at Walmart.
The reason I asked is this -
Would it potentially make sense for 98.3 WKJY to flip to country?
They appear to deliver a very good signal into much of Queens and Nassau County.
WSOU is a terrific radio station, in my opinion.
Stuff like hot girl bummer belonged nowhere near alternative.
Their attempt at banishing Country artists who were caught going on racist tirades sure didn't last long, either.
but that will hurt relationship with creatives? we heard that WBD is laying off staff that oversees program development. Also I dont see se WAPO becoming a Amazon subsidiary or Google buying Huffpost or Buzzfeed besides i dont see a streaming service executives donating millions of of wealth to the homeless or poor people especially nearly every entertainment streamer is not a helper to public service and solving digital divide even with the advent of 5g and gigabit.
FYI it wasn't CBS that regulated Howard Stern. It was the FCC and conservatives in the federal government.
The industry didn't make this change. One company in one city did. Other companies do things differently. As we've discussed.
The ones who didn’t play that stuff are the Alts that are doing well. WLUM in Milwaukee just pulled down a 4.0 in the beauty contest ratings and they don’t lean Active like many of the other ones noted to be doing well, but they didn’t touch the super poppy fare either.
It’s the ones that did that are trying to crawl their way out of a hole. Unfortunately that’s 80% of the paneled stations. A few have started bouncing back (KROX in Austin, WKQX in Chicago, KVIL in Dallas) but a lot of them are mired in that mediocre 1.7-2.2 range. Understandably this is why TheBigA thinks the format is dead and why the music is to blame, because it is… but it’s the music from 3-5 years ago that is at fault, not the music that is being played now.
(Audacy stuck with the failing pop trend longer than the others, which is why they’re also suffering more. They bet the farm on something that was already suffering backlash and a decline when they made that decision.)
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Besides he would have left for the money regardless.
Hey! I shop at Walmart AND I shower. However, I do fart loudly to clear the aisles and keep unwashed people away from me.
But it has nearly no measured audience outside of its home county, and has nearly no 10 mV/m signal outside of it, either. Yes, if you try you can hear it, but it's not an easy "listening" choice outside of that immediate area: it gets nearly 80% of its measured listening in Morris County alone.
It has nothing to do with "creativity". In music it has to do with 1) no commercials and 2) personal playlists. Radio, as a one-to-many medium sustained by ads, can't do either.
As several have said, the issue was the FCC and its profanity policies,
No, that is not research. What you describe is sort of like prowling a beach at dawn looking for pretty stones and starfish.
Research to find a station format begins by considering all the possible alternatives based on everything from streaming plays to concerts to TikTok use of music. You test each alternative blend of music with a broad cross section of a market, and then do an Awareness/Trial/Usage study as to whether a new offering of a specific blend would attract people away from other stations or media. Finally, you test the music within the best testing genre with people who are partisans of that genre. That is three separate tests to find 1) the best formats, 2) which format can attract existing listeners away from current choices and 3) the right music.
That is not what is done. You are describing a focus group, which is used to find out perceptions of things like a morning show or an overall format. And generally, even those are done with a number of 10 to 12 person sessions.
A format search involves sampling a whole bunch of different blends or styles of music in "sample pods" with hundreds of people, individually to avoid group bias. And that, as I mentioned, is only the first step.
No, NBC finds that doing original shows for one-time broadcast is too expensive in a 500 channel world. There is no lack of creative ideas, there is a lack of money when those ideas can't be paid back via advertising in the old model. So now we will have scripted shows done on paid subscription channels where there is payback from users, not advertisers.
The New York radio ratings market is only partly in The City and the Boroughs. Most is in Jersey, Long Island, upstate counties and even part of CT.
And, were he to have stayed until the PPM was introduced he would have seen his rank drop from first or second to 9th or 10th in the major markets. Stern saw this happening in the early PPM tests in Philadelphia and he got out before Arbitron rolled it out as currency.
But would you say radio’s negative perception began when he was in the process of leaving? An old pd I had yanked his show off his station previously, due to him constantly pimping sirius radio and saying how bad terrestrial is
I don't understand what you mean by "negative perception". Of what and by whom?
by the general public. Howard’s exit was highly publicized
The "general public" did not listen to Stern. His listener base was relatively small, but they listened a lot.
In fact, were the "general public" to be polled, we likely would have found that more people were glad he was no longer on the radio than those who missed him.
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