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CBS kills rock twice in New York City
- Thread starter XCountry285
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This will be the 4th time CBS has killed rock in NYC. WNEW-FM, K-Rock twice and now WRXP.
As far as the numbers do not lie and this is the future, well just take a look at the numbers for each news/talk and FM sports format in NYC. Complete and utter disaster each time. WRXP is doing far better on auto-pilot. Seems CBS is ignoring the numbers and is attempting a repeat of past and current failures.
As far as the numbers do not lie and this is the future, well just take a look at the numbers for each news/talk and FM sports format in NYC. Complete and utter disaster each time. WRXP is doing far better on auto-pilot. Seems CBS is ignoring the numbers and is attempting a repeat of past and current failures.
I agree. Spoken word isn't working on FM. I don't mind the whole sports thing on FM. However, don't kill a station that is filling a role that NO OTHER station in the market is doing! Go after 92.3 where they're losing horribly for the past 4 years!
XCountry285 said:
Never mind Boston, Detroit, DC, Phoenix, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Dayton, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Birmingham, San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, etc., etc.
XCountry285 said:
Pray to the [rock] gods that a 94.7 miracle takes shape?
CBS the rock killers, killed K-ROCK for 92.3 later FM They SUCK!
Hardrocker9 said:
We don't know what will happen with the CBS properties in the next month. Maybe NOW will be relaunched as k-Rock. Fresh and CBS-FM are ganging up against WLTW (the latter is at #2 in the market), so they're safe. NOW is the weakest link.
This is just one part of a puzzle.
Like I said, if you want a better rock station which is on 101.9, I would recommend WRRV. They got a better choice for alternative rocks than "New Rock" which you are going to miss soon. Check out the link. There's astream where you can listen to online. Check it out.
http://www.wrrv.com
http://www.wrrv.com
The most annoying thing of it is, they should have just placed the "FM New" format as a placeholder. No one would care if that was killed for WFAN, since AC/Hot AC is available on WPLJ, WWFS, and WLTW. Instead, they put on a format that has been missing from NY radio, got fans excited, and then pulled the plug (the second time.) It really goes to show you that Merlin has no idea what it is doing.
/snark 
Lot's of Cheetos's dust on this thread. Mom needs to run the vacuum cleaner..
/end snark 8)
Lot's of Cheetos's dust on this thread. Mom needs to run the vacuum cleaner..
/end snark 8)
Jay Walker said:/snark
Lot's of Cheetos's dust on this thread. Mom needs to run the vacuum cleaner..
/end snark 8)
What does this even mean?
mrbrightside said:Jay Walker said:/snark
Lot's of Cheetos's dust on this thread. Mom needs to run the vacuum cleaner..
/end snark 8)
What does this even mean?
My apologies, A poor attempt to lighten up the thread. Again my apologies...
Could use a little lightening up. New music fans keep getting screwed by corporate radio "balance sheets."
mrbrightside said:
It is sadly ironic after all the time, effort, and money invested to keep a rock based format in NYC, an iPod from Chicago running as an "after thought place holder" had the most visible short term gains with the rock format.
It is sadly ironic after all the time, effort, and money invested to keep a rock based format in NYC, an iPod from Chicago running as an "after thought place holder" had the most visible short term gains with the rock format.
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True, it may have just been an afterthought feed, but it was surprisingly well programmed musically. It's the first and ONLY time alternative was done correctly in NYC. There were no Tom Petty or AC/DC songs mixed in, it was very current based, with some gold as well. It was essentially a copy of Radio 104.5 in Philadelphia, which coincidentally, is number one in A18-34 and A18-49.
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True, it may have just been an afterthought feed, but it was surprisingly well programmed musically. It's the first and ONLY time alternative was done correctly in NYC. There were no Tom Petty or AC/DC songs mixed in, it was very current based, with some gold as well. It was essentially a copy of Radio 104.5 in Philadelphia, which coincidentally, is number one in A18-34 and A18-49.
mrbrightside said:
Even sadder, the last few weeks it's actually been BETTER than 104.5 I'd argue. 104.5 while very good, has wandered very soft and indie of late. RXP was refreshing.
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