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Alternative formats resurge across the country could NYC be next.

chrocket87 said:
If, and I mean if WBAI gets sold, that would be the format's only chance at a market-covering signal. WFAS would be a garbage signal, but could be a candidate as well. Sadly, that's it. I may have to check out these recent flips, as I had no idea Portland got a 2nd station.
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It's a translator for, I believe, an HD2 channel.
 
Yikes! With KINK and KNRK already serving the Alt/AAA crowd, how the heck does CC think there's room for another one, especially on a translator? I would think Active Rock would fill more of a hole.
 
According to Lance Venta, another station flips to Alternative, how many is that this past month??? 101.7 KCKS Hamilton City, CA, and if you count their simulcasting co-owned AM that makes another.
 
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hangman said:
According to Lance Venta, another station flips to Alternative, how many is that this past month??? 101.7 KCKS Hamilton City, CA, and if you count their simulcasting co-owned AM that makes another.
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If you include markets like Chico... and KCKS is a rimshot trying to get into Chico... you have to look at the universe of stations in the US and evaluate whether a few format changes is significant or not.

As of last week, there were 11,150 commercial stations in the US, not including translators or LPFMS or non-coms.
 
luperm said:
So, are you suggesting that there is some sort of conspiracy by nameless "suits at corporate" to deprive the supposed masses of alternative music?

How is it sweeping the nation? Is a translator in Portland, OR and a weak rimshot outside of Buffalo sweeping the nation? And so, how does this apply to the NY market?

The only "corporate conspiracy" I know of is the desire to make money. Your argument would make more sense if you backed it up with numbers. Alternative on a big signal has to displace something that's already there. What should be displaced? How much billing would that cost the owner? How much time and money would it take to get an alternative format going? How and when will the owner profit? Those are just a few questions...
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Maybe it is more like corporate doesn't understand the Alt format. Period. Successful Alts have a collective soul and an audience of devoted P1s. You just can't have somebody's mom come in to program one, that's all!

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I would have to agree with those that if WBAI-99.5 does get sold to a commercial broadcaster in the near future, it would have to become some kind of active or alternative rock format (unless Cumulus buys it; in which case, there's a slight chance it could simulcast WABC-770).
 
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