All Access reports today that Pamal will be getting WBPM (Cool 92.9) and WGHQ (Newstalk 920) from Clear Channel. This is part of a multi-market deal, centered on Clear Channel getting WRNX from Pamal in the Springfield, MA market. I guess Pamal will be running stations from their Beacon broadcast center, or will they try to establish a Kingston area presence for these stations with studios there? (Neither station had much of a signal in Beacon).
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CLEAR CHANNEL GIVES UP cOOL 92.9 AND NEWSTALK 920.
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That is great news! I hope the WBPM call letters will go back to 94.3 soon if "The Wolf" fails with it's country format battling out with its chief competitor WRWD, the #1 conutry station in Poughkeepsie. If WBPM returns to 94.3 soon, they'll call it B94 again. Time for the station to go back to Top 40/CHR like they used to do back in 1999. Bring back CJ, Lou Brown, Carl Dayton and many others from the old B94 days. I hope the two Clear Channel Hudson Valley stations needs to get rid of including the two Lite-FM's that are not successful on 99.3 and 98.5. I love Bob & Sheri on 98.5 as well as the podcast version while I'm away. This is going to be the biggest format flip since CBS-FM back on June 3rd of last year.dx1ng said:
And don't forget News/Talk 920, they have no ratings according to the fall arbitron. They used to carry Music of Your Life on all four of these stations, WKIP, WELV, WHUC and WGHQ. They also don't have too much competition from WABC where WGHQ carried Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon as well as Mike Gallagher. You know what, WGHQ carries too much Mike Gallagher on both daily and weekends. That is too much! it is a waste! 
This station needs to change. Maybe an oldies station on AM would work. As you look at the fall arbitrons again, WABC is #4 in the Poughkeepsie ratings. WGHQ needs to change the format as soon as News/Talk fails.
This station needs to change. Maybe an oldies station on AM would work. As you look at the fall arbitrons again, WABC is #4 in the Poughkeepsie ratings. WGHQ needs to change the format as soon as News/Talk fails.I'm not really sure yet, I would like to see the WBPM call letters back to 94.3 soon if "The Wolf" dies and leave 97.3 alone and change the format only on 94.3 to become B94 again as a top 40 station. 92.9 will someday be changing its format to become classic dance, just like Mix 102.7 in New York City. I hope if there is a hole for Rhythmic AC in the Hudson Valley in Poughkeepsie, they would get it.Roger said:
Even if 94.3 did flip to a CHR format, I doubt they'd get the WBPM calls back and call it B94 again. Don't get me wrong, that would be awesome. I just don't think it would happen. Also, I did like the rock format on 92.9, and I was kind of upset when it flipped. With 96.9 covering newer rock, and WPDH covering classic and some newer rock too, it would be too much. That's why they flipped in the first place. I agree that there's a hole for dance though, so possibly one of these stations would flip to a dance format. I predict that one or more of the "lite fms" will flip too.Just my $.02 ;D
According to this week's article from Scott Fybush:In the Hudson Valley, oldies "Cool 92.9" WBPM and news-talk WGHQ join AC WHUD (100.7 Peekskill), top 40 WSPK (104.7 Poughkeepsie), standards WBNR (1260 Beacon)/WLNA (1420 Peekskill) and AAA WXPK (107.1 Briarcliff Manor) as the northern links in a Pamal cluster that now stretches south from Poughkeepsie into New York City's northern suburbs. (They also link up nicely with Pamal's stations in its home base of Albany.)
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Say, I was trying to remember - who were the others on B94 around 1988 or so? I seem to remember Robin Taylor, Lou Brown, Jeff Allen, and Mike Vincent from those days, but who was doing mornings?disney fanatic said:
If you check out these two links here;http://www.cool929fm.comhttp://www.newstalk920am.comThese two stations are still owned by Clear Channel. What would Pamal do?
I'm not sure yet. Maybe will see if these station will be ready for the format flip soon if oldies will slowly fading out on FM soon. Newstalk WGHQ had no ratings because it had numerous competition from WABC in New York and WGY up in Albany. WGHQ now carries Sean Hannity replacing Mike Gallagher in the afternoons. WGHQ had too much competition. I rememeber WGHQ where they were playing standards running "Music of Your Life". That had been benefit some listeners since the lost of these two NYC stations, WNEW-AM and WQEW both had given up standards years ago. WKIP benefit some listeners from the old WNEW-AM since 1992 when it flipped from standards to Bloomberg Business Radio and WQEW when it also flipped from standards to Radio Disney in 1998 and let's not forget WCBS-FM since it flipped last year from oldies to "Jack" and brought a few older listeners to syndicated MOYL. Is that true?derekm said:
Or maybe if you want to check out Pamal's website:http://www.pamal.com/index2.phpThey have a listed of Pamal's stations in the Hudson Valley. I don't see WBPM and WGHQ getting more stations yet. Will see.
It will take time to put them on the www.pamal.com web site. They still have WRNX on the web site.
WRNX will take over by Clear Channel soon if Pamal gets out of the picture.Roger said:
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