If ESPN was to leave 1050 AM for FM, could we see Country Music maybe find its way back to 1050 ?
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Could 1050 AM Return to Country Music ?
- Thread starter xmradiopro
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Don't count on it....
MusicRadioUSA said:
As many here have observed, the likely result of ESPN going to FM would be ESPN Deportes en Español going on the AM.
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jhguthlac
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I concur. ESPN needs an affiliate in NYC for their Spanish version and 1050 would be a good choice.
MusicRadioUSA said:
No more likely than WINS abandoning ALL-NEWS to resume that old Murray-The-K top-40 format. Yes, I'm dating myself. That's because no woman wants to date me... but seriously...
That not going to happen. Remember 1050 when it was a country station as WHN? Yes it was. The station began playing country music in 1972 until the station ended its run in 1987 and it ran for 14 years. After that, the station flipped to all sports as WFAN and it lasted a year until 1988 when the station moved to 660. Over the years, it was WUKQ as a spanish station and then WEVD as a talk station in the 1990's until it became ESPN Radio in 2001 as WEPN as we know today. Country is not going to return to the airwaves.
After WHN bit the dust, it went over to WYNY and play country music on 97.1 and then moved to 103.5 in 1988 and stayed until 1996 when KTU came along. And then by 1997 it was 107.1 in Westchester County as "Y107" until it died in 2001 when Big City blew out the country format and went to a fail Spanish format as "Rhumba 107" and then lasted a short time until Pamal took over and went to a Top 40/CHR simulcast of WSPK's "K104" under "K107" in around 2003 and that didn't last very long until it became a AAA station as "The Peak".
After WHN bit the dust, it went over to WYNY and play country music on 97.1 and then moved to 103.5 in 1988 and stayed until 1996 when KTU came along. And then by 1997 it was 107.1 in Westchester County as "Y107" until it died in 2001 when Big City blew out the country format and went to a fail Spanish format as "Rhumba 107" and then lasted a short time until Pamal took over and went to a Top 40/CHR simulcast of WSPK's "K104" under "K107" in around 2003 and that didn't last very long until it became a AAA station as "The Peak".
jfrancispastirchak said:
Heck, I'm even old enough to remember WHN's "Easy Listening" format of the '50s & '60s-- pre-country, pre-WFAN, etc. Returning home from Onteora boy scout camp (upstate NY) in summer '65, our troopmaster bored us tired, dirty youngsters to tears with 3-hours of non-stop WHN, with Johnny Mercer, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra.... zzzzzzzzzzz
1050 makes too much money right now with sports. They are also ESPN's flagship.
klutch00 said:
Country music also appeals to a much younger demographic than it did back in the WHN days -- the demographic that doesn't listen to AM at all anymore.
klutch00 said:
maybe 2012 ?
I think WHN Country music would also appeal to older demographic like it did in the 1970s & 1980s...
CTListener said:
MusicRadioUSA said:
Unfortunately, Ms...if you're talking about "old country", it appeals to the same demo as "oldies", and that demo is rejected by most advertisers these days. Today's country is a solid 25-54 sale, that also does well with 18-34 listeners.
Besides, music on AM is virtually dead. And it will stay that way, though I'm sad to say...
1050 AM is not going to be changing formats. Get over it.
ansky212 said:
It's not that modern country "can't make it." It's that it hasn't even been given a chance to make it since it took its current form. NYC's AC stations aren't rejecting Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum, but it's assumed by programmers and Madison Avenue that nobody's going to listen to those same artists if they're played along with Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert instead of Maroon 5 and Katy Perry. I hear so much similarity to hot AC and even classic rock in most of modern country -- even the twangier songs and the ones with dirt road/pickup truck imagery -- that the "conventional wisdom" (and don't forget, this is the "wisdom" of people in the city where the demise of the American economy was bred three years ago in the banks and brokerage houses, so just being in the biggest city doesn't make you brilliant) just gets my eyes rolling sometimes.
If you want your country music fix, you should try other stations. You have satellite radio and a number of stations outside of New York City including 106.3 WTHK which is "Thunder 106" which is down in New Jersey, but it did reach in New York City if you are in Brooklyn or Queens. If you're in Danbury, CT, there's WDBY's "Kicks 105.5" and if you in the Hudson Valley area including Poughkeepsie, you can listen to two stations including WRWD at 107.3 and WKXP/WZAD's "The Wolf" at 94.3 and 97.3. You can listen to it online by the following links:
http://www.wrwdfm.com
http://www.hudsonvalleycountry.com
http://www.wrwdfm.com
http://www.hudsonvalleycountry.com
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