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Cox Selling Connecticut Stations
- Thread starter DToTheJ
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Just out of curiosity, what are the "far too many" NPR outlets? You can pick up WNYC-FM from New York, but their daytime schedule is different from WSTC/WNLK's. Connecticut Public Radio's WEDW-FM is only 2000 watts. WSHU-FM plays Classical Music most of their schedule.
WSTC/WNLK's days were numbered when Cox failed to give them an FM simulcast. How many News-Talk stations far up the AM dial running 1000 to 5000 watts have any listeners anymore? If Sacred Heart hadn't acquired them, they'd be Spanish Religion or Indian or Korean now.
I guess I have a problem also with satellite delivered Christian Contemporary formats. There's almost no local content. I don't understand a radio format where all the music can only be about one topic. And this is a part of the country where there are so few evangelicals who might listen to K-Love. The CC format does great in places like Dallas and Orlando. But not in Fairfield and Westchester Counties.
WSTC/WNLK's days were numbered when Cox failed to give them an FM simulcast. How many News-Talk stations far up the AM dial running 1000 to 5000 watts have any listeners anymore? If Sacred Heart hadn't acquired them, they'd be Spanish Religion or Indian or Korean now.
I guess I have a problem also with satellite delivered Christian Contemporary formats. There's almost no local content. I don't understand a radio format where all the music can only be about one topic. And this is a part of the country where there are so few evangelicals who might listen to K-Love. The CC format does great in places like Dallas and Orlando. But not in Fairfield and Westchester Counties.
Gregg said:
I believe the idea is to hook the accidental listener with catchy-sounding music and then let the message do its job on him and make him a steady listener -- and maybe even turn him into a living, breathing checkbook in the eyes of that preachin'-and-teachin' station up the dial. That's how Christian broadcasting is supposed to work, local content or no local content. They can call it religion, but it's just another business once that veneer is stripped away.
Gregg said:
With all due respect, Gregg, with the exception of WGCH there's virtually no local community oriented radio station left on the AM dial between the state line going up the coast to Westport. The old WMMM was the first AM signal to go NPR, then the Cox AM stations at 1250 and 1400 going to them as well. Are you really saying the communities are being served in the public interest by having no less than three NPR drones covering the dial?
Gregg said:
Perhaps an FM simulcast would have been a smart move to keep community radio in the area but I fear that wasn't in the sights of the bean counters at Cox, especially since they're now pulling out of the area with the remainder of their stations. I bet even if the stations were sold and flipped to a foreign language programming format there would be far more community-specific programming than anything that spews from those transmitters these days.
Gregg said:
And is this any different from NPR, where many have accused it of being a hard left-winged propaganda machine? Many formats can be narrow focused but it's dependent on the station to make the local programming count, be it a format delivered by satellite or by local automation.
I want to mention and Have for years, there are the two 103.1 FM Translators one in Greenwich and One in Stamford. Dennis from what I understand last I spoke to him has plans for the one in Greenwich and the one in stamford is owned by i believe Univision and that sucker when on and the Greenwich on is off goes from Port chester to Norwalk over B103.1 on long island. the Spanish station 96.3 which used to be owned by the New York times WQXR 105.9. I am surprised with the selloff not to long ago that the New York Times would have tried to keep the Translator and sell it it WGCH or COX. I would love to see both of these get used as one frequency as synced translators on a microwave feed sort of what I-95 does or I should say did lol to their Norwalk and Bridgeport stations to a HD-2 channel within an FM stations COL area ie a rock station lol 
Technically speaking aren't both 103.1's in this area within every NYC stations COL that are off the Empire state building?
Technically speaking aren't both 103.1's in this area within every NYC stations COL that are off the Empire state building?reelyreal said:
Don't they own WAQY Springfield? Ugh, ultra-tight, ultra-familiar playlist, although they have some pretty good personalities for a station in this "just play the music" PPM era.
MarcB said:
Since the NYC market lost it's *ONLY* smooth jazz station a few years ago, 95.9 would probably do well with that format. They just need a sales staff that is OLDER than 20-somethings!
If I had my druthers, it would be a Christian music format, but with a VASTLY LARGER playlist than K-Love, and naturally, MUCH more local.
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