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Format suggestions for 1210 AM, if they were to change someday

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Ether have a sports format (94 WIP simulcast or air CBS Sports Radio) or move KYW to 1210, if CBS have the guts to end the talk format on 1210 AM after nearly 18 years. 1210 AM's format is getting stale too, just like KYW.
 
The only "change" possible is for CBS to hang it up, give in, throw in the towel...

Here are the options:

1. Go all automated, all syndicated, all the time. A computer in a closet hooked to a dish at one end and a tower at the other.
2. Sell to a religious broadcaster. All preachers all the time.
3. Sell to a brokered broadcaster. All colon blow and buy gold all the time. Plus maybe RJ on weekends.
4. Sell to a foreign language broadcaster.

The best possible use of 1210: Give it to WHYY for a tax write-off. WHYY uses it as a second channel (like WNYC and WNYC-FM). Lots of good public radio programming not cleared locally.
 
FredLeonard said:
The only "change" possible is for CBS to hang it up, give in, throw in the towel...

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The sooner CBS does this, the better. 1210 as it is can't last any longer. I will be stunned if they don't change during the 2014 Phillies season.
 
Jul said:
The sooner CBS does this, the better. 1210 as it is can't last any longer. I will be stunned if they don't change during the 2014 Phillies season.
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It wouldn't be the first time in the last 1/4 century that's happened (1990 the day of Mulholland's nono, 1994 during ST, 1996 on the eve of the ASG at the Vet).

ixnay
 
Julius: Ixnay makes a good point. CBS ditched talk before. For oldies and then for sports. Neither did as well as talk (before or after). If they make a change, they will lose the audience they've got and they won't get a new one. OK, that audience is not as big as it was but it could be a lot smaller. AM stations can, if they are lucky, hold an audience but it's been years since any AM station built one. AM is off the radar for people who have yet to age out of the money demos (except for you).

Not only is AM dead; right-wing talk is close to dead. Notice that a year on FM couldn't revive it.
 
FredLeonard said:
Not only is AM dead; right-wing talk is close to dead.
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...In your mind only....
FredLeonard said:
Notice that a year on FM couldn't revive it.
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And it did great ratings in it's one year on FM, became the # 1 talk station in town, beating veteran WPHT, and only ceased to be because the owner decided to sell all his radio stations.

BUT, you don't like conservative talk radio so you aren't interested in the facts. Only in pushing your agenda.

As I stated before, I hate the Big Bang Theory. That said, I'm not delusional enough to make the claim that it's not a hit.
 
Great ratings? Yes, it was "the number one talk station" but that's a bit like being the most-watched infomercial. On that point, the comparison to Big Bang Theory doesn't stand up.

While one could say the collapse of the all-news stations lead to the owner being effecitvely forced into bailing out of the business entirely, it's telling that no one jumped into the void to maintain the established "very successful" format on the frequency, nor did anyone else on the dial try to capture that large audience by ditching their own format.
 
Krazyjoe said:
...In your mind only.... And it did great ratings in it's one year on FM, became the # 1 talk station in town, beating veteran WPHT, and only ceased to be because the owner decided to sell all his radio stations.

BUT, you don't like conservative talk radio so you aren't interested in the facts. Only in pushing your agenda.

As I stated before, I hate the Big Bang Theory. That said, I'm not delusional enough to make the claim that it's not a hit.
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Actually, WHYY-FM was/is the number one talk station in town.

CBS can sell spots in The Big Bang Theory at premium rates. Merlin couldn't sell FM talk. The owned decided to sell because the station was losing money. Right-wing talk gets geriatric demographics and generates unwelcome controversy; therefore, many advertisers won't touch it. Those ratings you cite are meaningless.

Talk about pushing an agenda, Dude.
 
WPHT is the pre example of what radio shouldn't be. No wonder they stink.
 
I see that WAMU in DC has purchased a small AM station there. Wouldn't totally shock me to see more NPR stations buying AM frequencies. Their audience is old, they love talk, and most public stations are overwhelmed with content. Not that I expect CBS to sell a heritage station. Just that other AMs might follow.
 
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