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Can WNEW Return To New York?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

As reported, CBS Radio is planning to sell fifty stations in latter markets. It's very likely the entire West Palm Beach cluster will be sold off. One of those stations is urban AC WNEW. CBS parked the calls onto that station after 102.7 in New York flipped to "Fresh" WWFS.

Question: Could CBS sell off those heritage call letters along with the station? Or can they move them back to 102.7 in New York first?

Note that 102.7 FM's HD2 channel is "wnew.com", a retread of the rock format that was on the main frequency until 1999.
 
They could, but they almost certainly won't. They'll just park the calls on a different station where they'll be used only once per hour.
 
I really doubt they would bring them back to NYC. Those calls now remind us of how CBS let a great heritage station go down the tubes. Why bring back that reminder.
 
Nothing is impossible in this world of radio.Twelve years ago the WKTU call signs were brought back.

Unless Classic Rock returns to 102.7 FM in New York, the WNEW-AM call letters have a better chance especially *IF* a fulltime Pop Standards station returns to New York.




Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Kevin L. Sealy said:
Nothing is impossible in this world of radio.Twelve years ago the WKTU call signs were brought back.

Unless Classic Rock returns to 102.7 FM in New York, the WNEW-AM call letters have a better chance especially *IF* a fulltime Pop Standards station returns to New York.

Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
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stranger things have happened in NYC radio... 8)
 
Yep...anything can happen.

It's like the poster said about the 'KTU call letters returning. The WWPR calls returned as well (although to a radically different format - Power 105.1 than what the call letters were in the 80's - Power 95).

With that, I have a question. Even though WWFS are the calls on the FM dial, could they officially use different calls on the HD side? (such as WNEW-HD2). Kinda like how AM-FM were owned by the same company but the AM station (WABC) and the FM station (WPLJ) were different.
 
Tony Santiago said:
Yep...anything can happen.
With that, I have a question. Even though WWFS are the calls on the FM dial, could they officially use different calls on the HD side? (such as WNEW-HD2). Kinda like how AM-FM were owned by the same company but the AM station (WABC) and the FM station (WPLJ) were different.
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The HD on 102.7, iirc, is ALREADY using the WNEW call letters (vintage rock, by the way...)

AJ
 
The HD2 channel is "promoting" the call letters... but legally, isn't its callsign WWFS-HD2?
 
'New?" "Fresh"?--------oy--------whatsa difference. A pickle is new or fresh--------same ting, cuzzins
 
Legally, 102.7 HD2 is 'WWFS-HD2'.

They're just known as WNEW.com. They've never promoted themselves as 102.7 WNEW HD2... only as WNEW.com. I've been hearing promos for WNEW.com on a lot of other CBS station streams (i.e. KCBS-FM/Jack, KROQ, and I believe even Movin'/Dallas).
 
It's about history, my love - history....(me personally, bringing back the call letters would be a GREAT thing!!) :)

AJ
 
"Fresh" looks horrible garbage taken from the sewers of New York City and Chicago. Those two "Fresh" stations that are both in New York at 102.7 and in Chicago at 105.9.

What were they thinking! Maybe you should make your own fantasy AM station such as WNEW-AM if they are going to do standards and WNEW-FM HD2 that are playing vintage rock from the 60's through 80's.

Remember back in the 80's when WNEW-FM was playing New Wave? That might be fun as the one that you are now hearing on a weekend on Saturday nights on WBPM where Randy Turnip plays New Wave music on the "Music Blimp".

I guess that WWFS HD2 which is WNEW-FM is going to do a "Music Blimp" type show soon.
 
I'm NOT here to create a fantasy - I'm SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGING the obvious fact, which IS that the WNEW call letters ARE part and parcel of NYC radio history - and for a LOT of people, particularly those on the AM side of the radio bandwagon, bringing back the WNEW call letters WOULD be a GREAT thing...as far as this CBS-FM "devoted fan" :) is concerned, musically, i'm sticking with what i've got, and i'm not about to change over to WNEW or ANYBODY ELSE!! :) :)
 
Does anyone think legal IDs or call letters matter to anyone outside radio? aka Joe Q Public? not really. Unless you brand your station around them like PLJ, otherwise Z100 is Z100...No one on the street cares it's WHTZ. CBS could do it. They brought WXRK back from Cleavland.
 
JAO, you just nailed it - the point here being that to the typical Joe or Joanna Q. Public who's OUTSIDE radio, call letters/legal IDs DON'T matter....to THEM, it's ALL about the music and the personalities...
 
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