How Satisfied Are You With Your Favorite Local Station?

[Barry]

AllAccess has an article stating that in a recent survey, nearly half of respondents indicated they are 100% satisfied with the programming on their P1 station. Public radio stations fared best, AC and CHR worst, in terms of satisfaction.
It may be fun to get some feedback on this board. On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being totally pleased, how satisfied are you with your favorite station in the New York area? If you cannot name the station, for professional reasons, that should be OK.

AllAccess: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...ff-research-finds-nearly-half-of-listeners-10

 

[ansky212]

This is a pretty lousy article and survey as they offer no explanation as to why the listeners are displeased. I can think of a few reasons that apply to most stations: too much song repetition, too many songs being played that you don't like, too many commercials, annoying DJs.

 

[DToTheJ]

Are news or news/talk stations ranked near the top alongside public radio? Spoken word formats are a no-brainer in terms of satisfaction, because you get something different every day.

 

[radiobum]

How about all the people who long ago gave up on radio? I asked my now 30 year old daughter about five years ago if people her age listened to radio. She thought only the poor ones who couldn't afford satellite, Pandora etc.

 

[kevinsealy]

On a scale of 1-5 I would rate WCBS-FM a 3.8 if I could rate that way. I would like CBS-FM better if they played more 50s and early 60s. I miss Don K. Reed, Cousin Brucie and Bobby Jay.

When it comes to WHLI 1100AM on Long Island, they come in at 4. If they played more Big Bands and Pop Standards they would be a 5.But today they come closest to what WNEW-AM sounded like like 35 years ago, with WNEW being my all time favorite radio station.




Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

 

[mikerock]

The New York metro region seems to have gone out of their way to drive people away from radio. At least if you like any form of rock or country.

I now listen almost exclusively to out of market stations through iheartradio, particularly 104.5 out of Philly and WJRR in Orlando. I have also had to go out of my way to study rock, triple-A, alternative, country and bluegrass playlists then create a library on itunes. Something I would not do if NYC metro radio serviced my needs. With that said I noticed tuning around other markets on iheartradio that some of them have the same blandness as NYC radio as well as their promoted channels.

The closest NYC radio has come to a station I like was the WRXP alternative format in winter 2011 before they screwed it up again in the spring. WXPK in Westchester was good for a few years but they got pretty bland to after awhile with the same tired old classic rock songs. I have also gone the satellite radio route but the audio quality is comparable to AM so I dropped it.

The problem is in order to keep people listening you need to continually bring something new to the table. They are not doing that so they lose listeners to these other options.

 

[ansky212]

The New York metro region seems to have gone out of their way to drive people away from radio. At least if you like any form of rock or country.

I couldn't agree more. We have the most homogenous, boring radio dial that one can imagine. For market #1 it's a disgrace. If you like rhythmic music then NYC is heaven, but everyone else needs to look for an alternate source of music. At home I listen to the MusicChoice channels through my cable box/stereo. At the office I listen to one of the music apps like Pandora. In the car I mostly just listen to ESPN radio.

 

[nd2023]

I'm 75% satisfied with 92.3 Now. I would have been 100% satisfied with Pulse 87 had it still been on the air. But I mostly listen to online radio stations on my iPhone.

 

[XCountry285]

New York Radio Sucks!
We don't have a rock station
101.9 is garbage!
We don't have an alternative rock station!
We don't have a country station!
103.5 can't stay away from Z100's playlist!
103.5 should go back to Dance strictly dance only attack 92.3 Now
someone needs to bring back the KRock Branding
We need Yankees on a stronger AM signal
We need to move the crappy AM stations to crappy signals and give the sports stations the better signals.
We need to have less commercial and more localized radio here.
Elvis Duran is funny but it's less about New York for obvious reasons
We need a station like Radio 104.5 in
or DC 101.

 

[leethalweapon]

Maybe because we all have an interest in radio (either professionally or hobby), we are too close to it. If you tapped the average listener, I would guess that their responses would be a lot different than any of us. I doubt the average listener would care about line-up changes at (just say) LITE, versus any of us, who devoted endless hours/pages banging on about how we are sad to see someone go, all the while speculating on whether the decision was all about money. While money may be a slight consideration, I doubt it's a primary factor in the decisions they have made.

 

[mrbrightside]

The New York metro region seems to have gone out of their way to drive people away from radio. At least if you like any form of rock or country.

I couldn't agree more. We have the most homogenous, boring radio dial that one can imagine. For market #1 it's a disgrace. If you like rhythmic music then NYC is heaven, but everyone else needs to look for an alternate source of music. At home I listen to the MusicChoice channels through my cable box/stereo. At the office I listen to one of the music apps like Pandora. In the car I mostly just listen to ESPN radio.

I also agree. But don't tell people on this board that though. CBS-FM should play 50s and 60s music, you know, music that is 60 and 50 years old respectively. New rock music, nah... Why play that on the New York dial (live every other city in the country)

 

[XCountry285]

I for one don't care whose on the air, as long as music is being played and I don't tune to another station from another market and hear that same song on that same type of station. For example, I was in Reading, PA and I hear both FM97 and Q102 play literally the same songs for a few hours within seconds of each other. I couldn't avoid it. It was horrible. That's what I don't like having. Also, the same morning shows too that drives me nuts

 

[MarcR]

The New York metro region seems to have gone out of their way to drive people away from radio. At least if you like any form of rock or country.

I couldn't agree more. We have the most homogenous, boring radio dial that one can imagine. For market #1 it's a disgrace. If you like rhythmic music then NYC is heaven, but everyone else needs to look for an alternate source of music. At home I listen to the MusicChoice channels through my cable box/stereo. At the office I listen to one of the music apps like Pandora. In the car I mostly just listen to ESPN radio.

I also agree. But don't tell people on this board that though. CBS-FM should play 50s and 60s music, you know, music that is 60 and 50 years old respectively. New rock music, nah... Why play that on the New York dial (live every other city in the country)

One of the Boomer posters on the Dentist's board thought that Mumford and Sons were an obscure bar band from Long Island, so I get the gist of what you're saying.

 

[JustinCase]

When I'm not in school and at my apt in NYC, I mainly listen to 103.5 KTU... on the 1-5 basis... I'd rank it a "4" I like the jocks, I don't dislike the music, I just wish it had more mix shows on the weekends.

 

[davideduardo]

We need Yankees on a stronger AM signal
We need to move the crappy AM stations to crappy signals and give the sports stations the better signals.

There is no "stronger" AM signal than the 50,000 watts non-directional of WCBS. Similarly, WFAN is another of those 50,000 watt non-directional signals. There are only 25 like them in the US, and three are in New York (WABC is the other). 1050 is not the best of the best, but it is still a 50,000 watt signal. Only WINS and WOR are comparable or a bit better.

 

[butterfly]

What happened to our original Doug McIntyre's Red Eye Radio. None of his fans could believe that
he was replaced by a trucking show. This is New York. They had no right to do that at all to us.
Also most of the WABC radio lineup has gotten very stail. I have listened to WABC for years and years
and what I do now is listen on the net.
Someone that is now in charge doesn't know their job or the business for that matter.
I do know that times are very hard for everyone and including business.

butterfly

 

[davideduardo]

One of the Boomer posters on the Dentist's board thought that Mumford and Sons were an obscure bar band from Long Island, so I get the gist of what you're saying.

In all fairness, you can't expect every person to know the names of newer artists in formats and genres they don't like or don't listen to. Rock, today, is a declining set of subsets, and many names are not generally familiar.

Listeners to various forms of Black or Hispanic music, fans of country or AC, partisans of rhythmic CHR, and those who like talk or news radio or jazz or standards are likely to have no clue as to the identity of Mumford and Sons.

I'm sure that even those with an active interest in music who watched the Grammy show went "who's that" when the M&S nomination flashed on the screen.

 

[davideduardo]

I for one don't care whose on the air, as long as music is being played and I don't tune to another station from another market and hear that same song on that same type of station.

So if a New York station plays certain songs, a station in Philly or Hartford or Albany or Atlantic City should not play them?

As you should be able to tell from data going back to the pre-phonograph sheet music days, most hits in the US are national. What the piano player played in St. Louis in 1906 was the same thing that the piano player knocked out on the ivories in San Francisco the night before the quake.

 

[Theater of My Mind]

There is no "stronger" AM signal than the 50,000 watts non-directional of WCBS.

Just to nitpick, it doesn't really punch through in Manhattan the way WINS does. And there are some nulls in North Jersey, I'm talking about really close suburbs like North Bergen and Ridgefield where the signal disappears altogether like on route 1&9. I think I heard that the ground conductivity toward the west from WCBS-AM's transmitter site is quite bad, hence the weakness in that direction. But otherwise yes, it covers the area well.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Over here in Schuylkill County PA, there is no daytime NYC signal on the car radio. On the good portable I bring with me to work, WOR is the loudest.

WFAN gets a 4. I enjoy Francesa's work. At any hour of the day, this station is so much better than the canned ESPN and Fox fare that's all over the dial. I root for both the Mets (first) and Yankees (second) and am fortunate to hear their games that way on good ol' free radio from WFAN and their co-occupant on the tower.

WCBS 880 gets a 4.5. They give the time more often than the bigger-signalled KYW, and KYW doesn't do a good job covering the area of the signal lobe that comes our way. WCBS also gets a lot of play here during some election nights. Wayne Cabot in particular is fantastic, along with all those other familiar voices.

WEPN gets a 3.5. I listen to Lupica via the 1040 signal in NJ, and Michael Kay can be a pretty good listen.

WOR is a 3. I got into the Dobbs show a few weeks back (of course, he's off to wherever now). And Savage can really get going once he's wound up. They once would be a 4, back when Reynolds was on overnight. Joy Browne is a good listen on those rare occasions I have the radio on at that hour.

WABC gets a 2. The only show I'd tune in would be when Mark Simone fills in.

WQEW is a disgrace. Even after the bar was lowered to include the all-important 6-11 demo they still can't get their own shoelaces untied from each other in the ratings.

WBBR gets a 1. Another waste of a big frequency AFAIC.

WINS is a tough listen because of the signal, which is usually far better at night.

No FM signal reaches here with the occasional exception of WQHT. Off the PC I have WCBS-FM as a 'preset', and WLNG. But the internet oldies stations keep me locked in for a lot longer.