Correct. Same with 94.7.
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Correct. Same with 94.7.
6??
Wow i can barely use 3....im really killing the avg.
Throw away a station that is top 7 in revenues? Wow, it would cost them around $40 million/yr. in lost revenues to merge 880 and 1010.
Good thing you're not in marketing
You have to look at the whole market. It's not a south Jersey station. Not to mention that when WNSH signed on it's ratings were no better than the Block if not worse. It grew overtime but never reached top 10. We have no idea where the Block may end up.
Remember, there is a difference between "listen" and "hear". Advertisers really don't care if you listen purposely to a station, or you "hear" it in a store or in mom's car or at work.
I was in the post office the other day, and they had on a local radio station. I also heard a local radio station at the Firestone Auto Center.
Because they don't want to pay a subscription fee.
Circle K is the big convenience chain up here in Northern New England, and all the stores I've been to have had local FM going, almost always a country station. (How fitting, since Circle K was name-dropped in a recent country hit, "Thinkin' About You.") Others use a CHR or an AC. I've yet to hear a Muzak-like service or even SiriusXM.
No surprise. You went to a supermarket, a big-box electronics store, a department store and a mall. I went to gas stations/convenience stores. Big difference in budgeting for things like music. The music in big retail locations is thoroughly researched, piped in, and meant to make the shopping experience more enjoyable. The music at the Circle K is coming from behind the counter and is the store manager's --or sometimes the individual cashier on duty -- favorite station, making his or her boring workday go by faster. The customers in the back of the store often can't even hear it.
Keep in mind that radio is not a music service. If people use it that way, fine. If they don't, then they're likely paying for something.
My point is it's not a one or the other thing. Some people listen to radio, some don't. When radio was the only choice, they listened to radio. But stores have been using music services for over 50 years. Muzak started in the 1930s. This is nothing new.
Well theyre doing a bad job then cause sunday (this was like my chores wknd lol) i went to home depot & they were playing just all 70s songs.
Cant believe that makes it more enjoyable - yea for some but not for most.
Home Depot has its own in-house music system that it pipes in to all its stores. Same with CVS and WalMart.
Some may offer stores alternate music formats for certain geographical areas.
Elliot's been on air at DC 101 for long enough where they would've likely done this now if that was the case. Not to mention his roots working at Z100 alongside Elvis Duran. Don't forget that iHeart tried to bring that show to NYC on WOR of all places, and that failed miserably for obvious reasons.
If he were to return to NYC, I'd expect his performance in New York to be slightly better than he did on WOR. Obviously the demographics on Alt are more favorable, but the station's lack of rating success + more cemented local shows make that a tough proposition.
Plenty of non subscription options
SXM doesn't run its programming on a "loop." Do you mean he simply has 70s on 7 playing all the time?
Then they typically have commercials. Digital music royalties are way too expensive to give it away.
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