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Christian Contemporary Music Coming to 96.7, from New Rochelle NY

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Barry

AllAccess and Radio Insight are reporting that Cox is selling WCTZ, an A/C station on 96.7 from Stamford CT. The buyer is Educational Media Foundation, which broadcasts its K-Love Christian Contemporary programming from numerous stations throughout the country.
As we already know, Cox had applied for permission to move the stick from Stamford CT, to the Trump Tower in New Rochelle, which just happens to be only a few miles north of NYC. Radio Insight indicates that EMF intends to move ahead with this, once permission is secured from the F.C.C.
So a considerable chunk of the metro area will have access to Christian Contemporary music on the radio. WAWZ also broadcasts a CCM format from NJ. But it is hard or impossible to hear in much of the metro area.
The articles indicate that till the sale and the new tower are complete, WCTZ will remain The Coast, with its A/C format.
The area is saturated with A/C stations, so one less should be no great loss.
Link to RadioInsight: http://radioinsight.com/
 
Between 94.7 WFME and Star 99.1, the NYC Metro area doesn't need more religious garbage.
 
Oh wonderful, another syndicated god-caster. I wouldn't mind if Star 99.1 purchased 96.7 to augment their coverage area since they're local, but doesn't K-Love already have enough stations. I honestly would rather have an AC station or even the multitude of pirate stations on 96.7 that currently exist than a god-caster.

Didn't K-Love also want to lease 87.7 after Party FM left?

Of course you know I wish that Cox would resurrect its former "Party" format from its sister 95.3 in Orlando and bring "96.7 Party" to New York City ;-)
 
EMF coming to NYC would be big news for their network and big for CCM in the Big Apple.. Star 99.1 is listenable in NJ and Parts of NY but does not do well in the main city or most of the surrounding area. While some would want to compaire KLove to WFME .. totally not.. that's like compairing WQXR to to Z100!.


But shame it cant go to Pillar for a sister station to Star 99.1... They do a lot of good for the NY/NJ local wise
 
It was either Coast or WFAS that was going to go. I suspect that that pricing was a bit more attractive on Coast. Coast still has to build out the New Rochelle site. WFAS already has their Bronx site built, tested, and ready to go. After they killed Kool, it seemed like Cox never really knew what to do with that station, other than to use it to try and protect Star. The area is so saturated with AC stations.

It would not surprise me if WFAS went religion or ethnic/brokered. Multicultural or Whitney should pick WFAS up...they seem to have no problem filling their dance cards with brokered programs. My guess is that we'll hear an announcement about WFAS soon.
 
The other day on my Walkman, while I was scanning the FM dial - mostly because WCBS 880 overpowers every single signal on the AM dial and I really was not in the mood to hear that station or Francesa on WFAN - I came across a station playing a song I have not heard on the radio in years: George Benson's "Turn Your Love Around." Then I heard the ID for the station - "96.7 The Coast." I thought this station had some promise and would stick around for awhile.

I knew this was too good to be true.
 
My only hope was that Pamal would have tried to pickup 96.7 from Cox and do a signal swap with 107.1 whose signal is a complete mess.....The Peak is a great station and if they got 96.7 they would have had much better coverage....There still is always a long shot with 103.9 but since Pamal & Cumulus are in direct competition with each other in Westchester, that won't happen.
 
DToTheJ said:
The other day on my Walkman, while I was scanning the FM dial - mostly because WCBS 880 overpowers every single signal on the AM dial and I really was not in the mood to hear that station or Francesa on WFAN - I came across a station playing a song I have not heard on the radio in years: George Benson's "Turn Your Love Around." Then I heard the ID for the station - "96.7 The Coast." I thought this station had some promise and would stick around for awhile.

I knew this was too good to be true.
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I agree. Even though The Coast is AC they still had a much different, wider playlist than Lite FM. I don't know how people can say this market is over saturated with AC. Where I live in Essex County, NJ, the only AC station I can get reliably is Lite FM. I can pick up WEBE 108 from CT but that is fairly weak. I actually liked listening to The Coast until a pirate came on 96.7 this past summer. I would much rather have another AC station than some religious crap. I can only hope that WFAS stays AC when they move to the Bronx tower.
 
I don't know how people can say this market is over saturated with AC
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If you are in the Bergen, Rockland & Westchster area you can pretty much pick up these station who all carry an AC format:

96.7 WCTZ
97.5 WALK-FM
98.3 WKJY
99.9 WEZN
100.7 WHUD
102.7 WWFS
103.9 WFAS-FM
106.3 WFAF (WFAS-FM simulcast)
106.7 WLTW
107.9 WEBE
1300 WRCR
 
The only thing I saw was that EMF would not be LMAing the signal. The signal will stay as-is until the sale closes.
 
Mike said:
Let me ask this question

how does 96.7 do ratings wise ?
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Irrelevant, on two levels: first, because EMF isn't buying WCTZ's present format, or even intending to operate the station commercially. It will flip to noncommercial operation the day the sale closes, and will be supported (like all EMF's stations) through listener donations; and second, because the signal WCTZ presently runs from Stamford is not the signal EMF will be using. EMF will build out WCTZ's application for a new transmitter site atop Trump Plaza in New Rochelle, with much more signal south toward NYC and much less northeast toward CT.
 
Will there ever be a period when the AC format will be broadcasting from New Rochelle before the sale closes?
 
Nick said:
Will there ever be a period when the AC format will be broadcasting from New Rochelle before the sale closes?
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No reason to expect that there should be. The AC format now is just a jockless placeholder until the New Rochelle facility can be built and the sale to EMF completed. I'd think it's more likely that EMF will begin operating K-Love from the Stamford site, depending on how quickly they can close the purchase.
 
The articles concerning the sale state that EMF will not LMA 96.7 prior to the sale, even though that is their usual practice. Any guess as to why? An LMA would seem to make sense for both parties.
 
Just a hunch, but I suspect it's because EMF has no interest in launching K-Love via the Stamford signal. Better to wait until the signal is where they want it to be, then launch K-Love into NYC once people can hear it there.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Just a hunch, but I suspect it's because EMF has no interest in launching K-Love via the Stamford signal. Better to wait until the signal is where they want it to be, then launch K-Love into NYC once people can hear it there.
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Scott,

Your exactly right. KLove would have LMA'ed if Cox had already built the NYC Targeted CP but since they are not up in NY yet .. KLove has no interest in programming to a Market that they would be leaving once the CP is built.
 
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