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I Stuck Out My Big Antenna

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Those RRRRs

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Well it's just after five, and I stuck my big antenna out the window and pointed it northeast and it's official...92.3 KROCK is back in NY. I could barely hear it, but their first song...All Apologies from Nirvana. That's brilliant. They are obviously apologizing for the FREE FM Fiasco.

Maybe YSP should play that song for about 24 hours before they flip to whatever they're flipping to.
 
I listened online at there website awesome but the bad news philly did not kick the trash off 94 so free fm lives on in philly which is sad
 
It won't live on in Philly. It can't. CC's switch on 104.5 last week is the only thing that's keeping CBS from switching YSP in Philly today. It probably won't be rock, but we'll probably get something decent there. I think CBS told the consultants to go screw themselves in NY...hopefully they'll do the same thing in Philly.

The consultants are part of the brain pollution agenda in this country. They aren't interested in making money for radio stations. They are interested in the dumbing down of America for their own monetary reasons. The only problem is that CBS had to find out the hard way in NY, and it cost them millions of dollars, but it sounds like they finally kicked the consultants to the curb.

Idiots. Good for them.
 
barsky mornings again like y100 if they make changes and bring back cuz ed
 
It does make sense that 1045 beat YSP to the punch, BUT, I would imagine YSP would Rock harder and play hair metal bands, metal, hard rock and the Alternative cuts that made them famous in the late 90's, when they flip, which they will very soon. Whereas 1045 is staying away from any hard rock/metal tunes. Would there be room for the old YSP and 1045 probably, if MMR was not around I would say definitely. YSP is in the same boat CC was last week, it does not take a rocket scientist to know CC could not have flipped to any other format than something Rock oriented with their urban and urban AC properties, anything else would hurt them, so they played it smart, this way they are covered. If 1045 did stop YSP from switching to Active, Philly lost big time in the deal, YSP may not flip to Rock but Urban or Soft AC would not be out of the question....(did I say urban well hush my mouth)
 
what makes you so sure they will flip soon and does this mean barsky is gone yet again
 
Re: What happens with 94.1?

radiostar2010 said:
what makes you so sure they will flip soon and does this mean barsky is gone yet again
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92.3 was the flagship for the 'Free FM' brand nationwide. With the 'head' cut off of this syndicated format, the body can't survive. The Free FM concept has officially failed and NY isn't alone in replacing Free FM with a music format: it happened in San Francisco last week. Out there, Free FM became KFRC-FM bringing back venerable calls and a classic hits format. In the SF example, CBS radio recently purchased the frequency - so Free FM was their first format on the frequency. In NY, K-Rock pre-dated Free and was returned.

Which brings me to the elephant in the room: What happens NOW at 94.1? The Free Fm format doesn't work well here, though it has been stronger than in some places (which isn't saying much). Did CC take the rock option off the table with the flip of 104.5?

Personally, I am not so certian that the flip of 104.5 rules out the return of rock to 94.1. The format of 104.5 skews older and is more alternative-based. An active rock format would not really draw the same crowd. The question is whether a reborn 94.1 'YSP would draw enough listeners away from WMMR to be successful. It worked before...

Option B is to continue with some form of talk. This may get some traction here in Philly, but without the synergy of all of those other Free FM stations up and down the line, CBS radio loses the economies of scale need for syndication of talent. At least within their ranks. Now that the NY station is gone, i tend to think that the others will follow. And, none were successful. The closest Free FM to success was in LA, where the pre-Free KLSX was an adult talker before the Free concept ever came along. That one could go back to local talk and do fine. But I am not so sure that would be the case here.

My money goes with 94.1 becoming a rocker again - playing active rock with classics mixed in. In other words, a brushed up form of AOR. Given the heritage, the desired demos, and the Eagles contract, this is the format that would make the most sense.
 
I have to agree with you all the way, YSP probably would revert back to Active and probably will by summers end latest. If they stay talk so be it, but if they flip it would be Active. The only problem I have with YSP doing Active is the Eagles interrupting the music flow and the pompous, sex talking jocks just did not cut it, just play the damn music. Although Tommy was much better than Pierre in that time slot.
 
RWS, The Eagles bring in more money than ANY music they would play. They could play POLKA (hey there is an idea! lol) and they would STILL make more money from the Eagles for 1/3 the year (not to mention playoffs and Super Bowl which bill even higher).
 
I agree, the Eagles are their bread and butter, what I am saying is, I don't care for the games and sports talk interrupting the Rock music. Maybe its better YSP morphes into all talk on the weekends also, and relies heavy on sports programs. If some other station wants to grab Active, at least it would be on 24/7/365, and we won't have to suffer thought the Couzin Ed style music talk, if he returns let it be YSP.
 
why can't they just put a complete mix of all kinds of music of course english only no rumba but play a mix of everything rap rock r and b and even have a few talk shows like loveline at night and opie and a mornings ready for the new lineup o and a morning till 9 then the music mix till lovelines live at whatever time the reruns sucked but new fresh shows would be cool then back to the mix of today
 
radiostar2010 said:
why can't they just put a complete mix of all kinds of music of course english only no rumba but play a mix of everything rap rock r and b and even have a few talk shows like loveline at night and opie and a mornings ready for the new lineup o and a morning till 9 then the music mix till lovelines live at whatever time the reruns sucked but new fresh shows would be cool then back to the mix of today
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Anybody else out of breath from reading that?
 
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