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Another Christian FM For New York

Jeffrey said:
Sad. WVIP was an odd station with it's brokered programming but it's Caribbean programming/voice filled a need for the Caribbean community mostly of West Indian decent. There are numerous west indian pirates however, some sounding better than WVIP did but of course a pirate can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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I doubt that many people are going to miss WVIP. It carried mostly informercials and brokered religious shows, When I’ve visited West Indian sections of the Bronx, I heard a number of radios in stores and cars tuned to various unlicensed stations playing reggae music, but never WVIP. And I believe it did not have much of a signal in the sections of Brooklyn that have a large West Indian population.
In contrast, there has been no FM station focused on the large amount of religious Hispanic people that reside in this area.
My guess is that WNVU will have a significantly larger audience than WVIP.
 
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Barry said:
I doubt that many people are going to miss WVIP. It carried mostly informercials and brokered religious shows, When I’ve visited West Indian sections of the Bronx, I heard a number of radios in stores and cars tuned to various unlicensed stations playing reggae music, but never WVIP. And I believe it did not have much of a signal in the sections of Brooklyn that have a large West Indian population.
In contrast, there has been no FM station focused on the large amount of religious Hispanic people that reside in this area.
My guess is that WNVU will have a significantly larger audience than WVIP.
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Are we forgetting online streaming?? There are many websites carrying music that WVIP played and alot more.
The unlicensed pirates are solely for the community. But I believe that there should be a radio station that would cater for the community. I admit that Time Brokered radio was saturated with informercials and other programmings..Yes that is very true.
 
BJSteigner said:
Are we forgetting online streaming?? There are many websites carrying music that WVIP played and alot more.
The unlicensed pirates are solely for the community. But I believe that there should be a radio station that would cater for the community. I admit that Time Brokered radio was saturated with informercials and other programmings..Yes that is very true.
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An economic underclass will always be underserved by commercial radio, just not enough per capita income there to interest advertisers, at least not those willing to pay major market prices for those spots.
 
Listening to the new station more than I expected to. I am enjoying the variety of different Latin music genres that they’ve been sampling, and the upbeat presentation.
 
Almost 2 weeks after Way-FM took control of 93.5, it is still stunting with abbreviated versions of Spanish Christian tunes. Why may it be taking so long for them to air the regular Vida Unida network programming? Don’t they simply need to install a satellite dish and receiver at the transmitter site, or possibly connect with an online feed?
 
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Mediafrog+ said:
$10M was the announced price for the sale of what was then KUHA to HMG (under It’s previous name, KSBJ Educational Foundation.) It was pointed out at at the time that Houston Public Media got back exactly what it had paid five years earlier when acquiring the former KTRU.


As has been said on these forums before: If you want to know what the future of FM radio sounds like, just listen to what AM radio has already become.
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There will probably be 15 years separating the ultimate fate of both bands, which will undoubtedly have holdouts. Because streaming is already encroaching on the viability of both OTA mediums.
 
JackindaBox said:
Maybe they are planning to expand the Spanish Christian format too.
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No, they're probably going to air the obviously fake "for the past few (insert random time period here), we have been asking you for what you want to here on a new radio station" thing even though the format was already long decided. Also, WNVU has been confirmed to be the future VIDA UNIDA affiliate.
 
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