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Commercial Free Hours

B

Barry

Many of the music stations in the New York area broadcast commercial free at certain times each weekday. Most of these time slots appear to to be at around the times when most people begin their workday. But there are also some in the afternoon.
Even frequent ratings leader WLTW goes commercial free for around two hours each morning.
Is this primarily a tool to gain an edge over competing stations? I wonder whether it is worth the loss of revenue.
It may be interesting to know when the various music stations offer continuous music without ads.
 
It's not just an NYC thing.

In Springfield, Mass Audacy's 94.7 WMAS has commercial free hours at 9:30AM, 12:30PM, and 3:30PM. They're an Adult Contemporary Station.

In Hartford, CT:

Audacy's Lite 100.5 WRCH does a commercial free block 9AM-10AM and 5PM-5:30PM. They're Adult Contemporary.

The River 105.9 is commercial free at 8:45AM. They're an i-Heart owned Classic Hits Station that plays 70s, 80s, and 90s.

96.5 TIC-FM. This Audacy Hot AC station does 96 minutes commercial free in the morning.

Kool Radio, which is a Classic Hits Station (60s-80s) independently owned by Full Power Radio does 2 hours Commercial Free 9AM-11AM aside from the commercial that's part of the TOH News from USA Radio Network. WNTY 96.1/990 in Connecticut, WACM 100.1/1270 Springfield MA, and WSKP 104.3/1180 Westerly RI.

BOMBA-FM, which is Full Power Radio's Spanish CHR station in Connecticut and Springfield does a Commercial Free block. They're based at WMRQ 104.1 HD2 and is heard on 6 translators throughout Connecticut along with an AMer in Springfield with an FM translator.
 
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