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Care to guess how townsquare will handle pendell rd cluster???

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oldies4ever

i'LL GO out on a limb here---I risk beating a dead horse, or repeating what Disney fanatic has guessed. Anyone care to give us your opinion as to what will happen at Pendell rd??? Here's my lame predictions:

PDH--needs help badly, ya I know the ratings are good, but the repitition is unbearable. Boris doesn't even belong in the same studio with Robyn, let alone co-host a morning show. He must be working for peanuts to take all that responsibility. Robyn's Personality and on air demeanor are the best in the business, IMHO

Mix 97--will probably leave it alone as it probably does ok as a listen at work station.

The Woof-- ratings were never even fair. I see this one as being ripe for the picking...format???

WEOK--not sure what value townsquare puts on a peashooter am, but I think it has potential. heck, put somebody in there to give Van some competition at the other oldies station, AM drive...they need a seasoned oldies jock with some knowledge in a live morning show. Their daytime signal and reverb (Thanks, Tom) works...live and local, here's your chance....

WRRV--not familiar with the stuff they play so I can't comment whether its doing what it should be. Far as I'm concerned, all you need as qualifications for rrv is to sound like a stoner...

I hope that everyone who works there gets to keep their job.
Discussion???

oldies4ever
 
As an on-air employee of this cluster, I feel you are doing Boris a disservice. The Wolf will not change format right away, and WEOK is already 2nd fiddle to WKNY, another AM station from the "cluster", that although is not entirely Oldies format, does carry a 70/30 Oldies/Current AC mix. RRV will stay as is because of its younger listener base, who cares more about the music and less about DJ personalities, and there are advertisers for that market.
 
What the should do: apologize to John Tobin and write the check, bring in some one to be his number two and run the board, put Robyn back in middays, hire a PD to do afternoons and figure out how to bring in some listeners under 50 years old....put Borris back on RRV where he belongs. Next project should be CZX, it's the most underperforming station in the Hudson valley.

What the will do: put on a syndicated morning show, likely free beer and hot wings, shuffle the deck chair with Robyn and Borris and sit back as the pdh listeners retire and move to Florida over the next 10 years.....then they'll
 
I disagree that there will be no changes made; IMHO, they are all underperforming, especially the Wolf. Country listeners are a fickle bunch; they will stick with one station and they all see to like Walker. I have seen this forever in the Albany market--WGNA morning show is almost unlistenable, and is consistently #1, and any competition is squashed. I'm surprised the wolf has remained country as long as it has. PDH is popular because there is no good alternative to it.

If this cluster was doing so well, Cume - u- less wouldnt have dumped it.More Discussion????

oldies4ever4
 
oldies4ever said:
If this cluster was doing so well, Cume - u- less wouldnt have dumped it.More Discussion???
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That's faulty logic. Cumulus explicitly stated that they are focusing on larger markets. The HV cluster clearly does not fit that description, thus the sale.
 
Or if WKXP/WZAD should stay country, it will be a simulcasting WGNA on 94.3/97.3, because the station is still #1 in Albany under Townsquare. If Cumulus gets out of the way, maybe WGNA will be simulcasting a country station to become #1 in the Poughkeepsie in the future Neilson Audio (formerly Arbitron) ratings book to tackle WRWD in a ratings battle. 94.3/97.3 should remain as a country until "The Wolf" disappears by year's end. WGNA still a #1 country station in Albany, let's hope if WGNA needs a simulcast on these two frequencies, and call it "107.7/94.3/97.3 WGNA".
 
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I would like to see PDH Flip to a top 40 station and put it up against WSPK. I know I know the last thing we need is more Lady Ga Ga right?
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So you want to blow up a hugely successful heritage classic rocker and replace it with another 50KW top 40 station?? We would have the two most powerful Poughkeepsie stations playing the same thing, and relegate rock to little virtually DJ less shut up and rock 93.3. Surely you can't be serious. You are just trolling for comments with your first post !
Whatever changes Townsquare makes this defiantly will not be one of them.
 
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fix for pdh

first put borris back on rrv, Bring back shmonty and put him on with Robin for the morning show, tweak the music a bit, adding more from the 80s heavy metal , more green day and add in some new rock
 
So you're suggesting they program PDH to cut into RRV. That'll work.
 
For those of you have followed over the last two months that now it's official. Cumulus sold all of the Poughkeepsie stations as of this morning, and now, all of the stations like WPDH, WRRV, WKXP, WZAD, WEOK, WKNY, and WRRB are now owned by Townsquare. I listened to "The Wolf" this morning during CJ's morning show right before the top of the hour, there's no mention of Cumulus and "Powered by Nash" anymore. Cumulus owns the "Nash" brand and the magzine and it remains in New York City on WNSH since January. Here is an article about the completion of the deal.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/124346/cumulus-townsquare-peak-deal-closes

UPDATE: I went to a few stations website that "The Wolf", WPDH, WRRV and "Mix 97" are still Cumulus instead of Townsquare. I wish these websites needs to update and on the top banner on the sites listed as iHeartRadio which Cumulus usually had since it streamed two years ago and it is coming to an end as of soon when all of the now former Cumulus stations no longer carries stream on iHeartRadio, it should belong on TuneIn or any other streams instead of iHeartRadio.
 
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Just to update, I just found that all of the former Cumulus HV stations are still using iHeartRadio after Townsquare takes over, and they're still running "CMT Radio Live with Cody Allen", "Kickin' It With Kicks" and "American Country Countdown" when it is syndicated by Cumulus Networks. I was also listening to Beth Christie yesterday where she was promoting iHeartRadio. Like I said, according to all of the station's websites that I was looking up, and it is still Cumulus. That means it is going to change very soon. "The Wolf" will replace "CMT Radio Live" with a new syndicated show for Townsquare called "A Taste of Country Nights" with Jeremy Robinson, and it will debut on Monday through Friday nights. No word on what's going to happen with either of the stations. I also found a link to a Cumulus HV site. Maybe someday, the site is going to change, let Townsquare do their thing to update the site. Here's an example.

http://www.pendellrd.com/
 
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UPDATE: I went to a few stations website that "The Wolf", WPDH, WRRV and "Mix 97" are still Cumulus instead of Townsquare. I wish these websites needs to update and on the top banner on the sites listed as iHeartRadio which Cumulus usually had since it streamed two years ago and it is coming to an end as of soon when all of the now former Cumulus stations no longer carries stream on iHeartRadio, it should belong on TuneIn or any other streams instead of iHeartRadio.
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Townsquare will undoubtedly pull its streams off of iHeartRadio. However, Townsquare is also probably the pickiest when it comes to mobile apps. It won't even allow its stations to be listed in TuneIn's directory while Clear Channel and Cumulus list theirs as "Restricted" on the mobile app and either pop-up iHeartRadio or their actual streaming links if you click them on the website. All Townsquare properties go through RadioPup, though you can add them to TuneIn if you have the "Pro" app and know their streaming URL.
 
* they'll lower the average age of the sales staff (theyve recently fired 2 of their oldest sellers)
* they'll hire a locally based market manager from a market leader (already done)
* they'll launch their events division while training the sales and on-air staff on their digital division
* they'll downsize to 2 PD's from 4
* they'll either sell WKNY or move in entirely in-house in Poughkeepsie
* they'll flip Mix97 to their PopCrush format
* they'll refomat all the station websites to the townsquare templates
* they'll add a new morning team to WPDH and put Boris back on WRRV/B
* there'll be significant pressure on revenue since this deal is highly overleveraged
 
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