Just thinking outside the box, what about getting a NJ focused FM and a LI FM, and doing a simulcast branded something like Big Apple Country. Since NYC proper is not that vital to a Country format, concentrate where the format works. You could even do an AM as an originator, and have a string of FM translators, similar to CJ Country in the Western NY market. Maybe even a FM translator in Westchester too.
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Country for Frisco,zilch for NYC
- Thread starter JoeBenjamin
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That was tried years ago, and it did not work.
In part, the metro is so big and there are a limited number of suburban FMs that are not already doing very well. When this was done in the past, the FMs were only able to cover portions of the market because, as I said, the better signals were prospering and not likely to change.
That's kind of what the second incarnation of WYNY was about. It took four small suburban stations and made them a "quad-cast." Ultimately each of the stations was sold off and they programmed individually.
The money is in the middle, not the suburbs.
I noticed in NC the call letters did not change when stations switched to Spanish except for WLQB "La Que Buena" and WLGD "La Gran D". Both of those were in the Wilmington area. The second one is now rock with different letters.
If it could be a success in NYC, that's where hip-hop started in the first place.
Certain songs from today's AC and country sound a lot like CCM.
Rockingham NC which is a small town has a "Christian Country" station but I happened to hear one CCM song on it. I knew this song because my pastor devoted a series of sermons to it.
I've heard some of those country-ish CCM songs. Musically, they're fine, if generic, but lyrically, they just don't measure up. All sorts of stuff is going on in country lyrics, including plays on words, and that's a lot of what makes the genre so much fun. And the topics: love, heartbreak, cheating, drinking, driving, making it in country music, rural life, dancing, politics -- all treated in different ways with creative twists. I hear none of this in "Christian country." There's only one message in all of it, and it makes for tiresome listening for those who don't have Christianity as the focal point of their lives, IMO.
Huh? 107.1 is a standard North American FM frequency. What's so "wierd" (sp., weird) about that?Cause it was on a wierd radio in between number 107.1.
Y107 did lots of promotion in Brooklyn.That is one station that cared about their listeners.Many Brooklynites listen to the 107.1 The Boss instead of 104.3 and listened to the Breeze when 101.1 went JACK.Cause it was on a wierd radio in between number 107.1.
It was clearly a joke because of the emoji. I read it as Y107 being on 107.0, between 107.1 and 106.9 but
I thought it was a joke because of the emoji. I thought you meant that Y-107 was on 107.0, between 106.9 and 107.1 but you left out "106.9"!
Now that would be weird for the US and Canada, but perfectly normal for most of Europe. Sometimes I wonder if the evens have some sort of advantage over the odds, or vice versa, or if it equals out, approximately.
It's "real" too. There are distance and signal restrictions for second adjacent channels in the US, that's all. In many if not most of the countries in the world, full power, same-market same site second adjacents are allowed.
These cities are supposed to have a set standard of channel spacing, yes, but in most of the country it just doesn't work out that way. Not enough room, too many stations, perhaps.
I do see the pattern you're talking about though:
100.3 WHTZ
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101.1 WCBS
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101.9 WFAN
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102.7 WNEW
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103.5 WKTU
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104.3 WAXQ
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105.1 WWPR
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105.9 WQXR
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106.7 WLTW
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107.5 WBLS
All of the above stations broadcast from the Empire State Building, and have IBOC HD. I guess you could say they're like guide stations to kove around the dial quickly, then you can tune 0.2 or 0.4 Mhz off to discover a smaller station for the specific suburb or borough? (Or in NYC'S case, almost certainly a few pirates)
When I first looked at the two posts, I thought yours was another reply to the original poster. Before I realized my mistake, I set up both quotes for my reply. When I discovered what had happened, I wrote a new reply and had intended to delete the old one and the other post after finishing my reply but I was interrupted and forgot all about everything except posting the new reply! I thought it was a joke because you used an emoji. I've only seen one used when some kind of joke-like material is involved.
I will guess that ihearts WLTW and WHTZ are New Yorks highest billing music stations
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