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Lets Change NEW YORK FM Dial

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e-dawg

How about changing these station into these format.

97.1 into Alternative
98.7 into Rock
101.9 into Classic Hits
103.5 into Country
105.1 into Album Adult Alternative
107.5 into Oldies

What do you think?
 
It is a full moon outside, so Ill use that for your excuse...otherwise I would just consider you a troll.
 
The title of the thread according to your reccomendations should be: Let's change the New York radio FM dial,.....into more of a coplete mess than it already is.

Great theories champ ::)
 
e-dawg said:
How about changing these station into these format.

97.1 into Alternative
98.7 into Rock
101.9 into Classic Hits
103.5 into Country
105.1 into Album Adult Alternative
107.5 into Oldies

What do you think?
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I agree that changes need to be made, but not along these lines. The city needs at least one Urban station - I personally prefer Power 105, but Hot 97 is beating them. I don't think either station is going anywhere, because they both post strong ratings and bill high.

I do think that new formats should definitely be considered for 92.3 WFNY, 101.1 WCBS, 101.9 WQCD & either 102.7 or 103.5 (there's no need for two very similar Dance stations).

The market needs Country, Active Rock and Alternative - all would be decent options that would provide an upgrade for any of the stations listed above. In particular, think of all of the great Alternative bands that have come out of NYC past & present - isn't it ridiculous that this format is not represented? Someone needs to give this format a shot and do it the right way - you can't slam nu-metal in everyone's face and play Led Zeppelin every hour and expect to develop a loyal following, which is what CBS/Infinity foolishly did with K-Rock. That said, I hope this format were to get a shot on one of the non-CBS frequencies (WQCD or WKTU). I guarantee that there would be a big time payoff for anyone that looks at the real reason why K-Rock failed, and green-lights an Alternative station.
 
You want to kill ALL the URBAN ALL the URBAN AC And ALL CHR/Ryhthmic New York? Will not happen in over 100 years

Black: 17.7% Population What would they listen too?



e-dawg said:
How about changing these station into these format.

97.1 URBAN into Alternative
98.7 URBAN AC into Rock
101.9 Jazz into Classic Hits
103.5 Chr/rhythmic into Country
105.1 URBAN into Album Adult Alternative
107.5 URBAN AC into Oldies

What do you think?
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I'm sorry, forgive me for not being from New York, if that even matters, but...where is this demand for Country music on *any* New York NY frequency?
Is there actually market research showing support for this?

I can understand the outcry for the lack of oldies, but country?
five years ago, there was a station out of New Jersey...how did it do?

Nothing wrong with country music, it just doesn't have the demand in NY NY, that's all...
 
Sasles question

I agree that changes need to be made, but not along these lines. The city needs at least one Urban station - I personally prefer Power 105, but Hot 97 is beating them. I don't think either station is going anywhere, because they both post strong ratings and bill high.

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Supposedly Hot 97 is either so groundbreaking or so strapped that they only bill listeners for potential leads in the business doing the advertising'd district of operation. Now, I must ask, if they are providing $2000 worth of advertising, even if the business is set up where they can onyl handle $1000 worht of leads generated, then why should Hot only bill them $1000 when they are clerly using $2000 in resources.


which begs the further question, does anyone understand how sales and sales packages are put together. I mean i understand how to pitch, but what is it, what is a typical ad packege, what does it look like.
 
Want a radio station to change, how about the voice of the seditionists, 99.5 WBAI! I've heard this is a station worth millions of bucks, yet they air programming from anti-capitalist Pacifica.

My change: FM Talk, not the debaccle that is 92.3 FreeFALL FM. I'm talking possibly from Salem's conservative non-religious talk line-up as well as bringing Neal Boortz and Clark Howard to the Big Apple. And the calls would change to WUSA-FM if they are still available. Top hour news would come from USA Radio Network.

Oh and WFME is NOT Fordham's station, it's WFUV 90.7.
 
Nice to see political bias get in the way again. I'm not defending WBAI but I'm not bashing it either, and calling it seditionist is going a bit far, I feel. That said, why is there such a fascination with talk on FM? What is so great about talk on FM that can't be done on the many underperforming AM's in the city? Especially the type of format you are talking about, which doesn't seem like it would appeal to a demographic that is used to listening to FM for the most part.

I never understood the need to waste a perfectly good FM frequency that could air one of the many music formats not heard in the city for yet another blah-blah-blah radio station that will surely not even set the ratings on fire. Even stations like WABC see a big drop in their audience when there isn't a compelling political issue for blowhards on the radio to rant about.
 
RobertAnthony said:
Want a radio station to change, how about the voice of the seditionists, 99.5 WBAI! I've heard this is a station worth millions of bucks, yet they air programming from anti-capitalist Pacifica.

My change: FM Talk, not the debaccle that is 92.3 FreeFALL FM. I'm talking possibly from Salem's conservative non-religious talk line-up as well as bringing Neal Boortz and Clark Howard to the Big Apple. And the calls would change to WUSA-FM if they are still available. Top hour news would come from USA Radio Network.

Oh and WFME is NOT Fordham's station, it's WFUV 90.7.
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Conservatives have WABC with Curtis Sliwa, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc. Let the liberals have WBAI since apparently Air America Radio isn't going to be around much longer.

If WBAI were to change, it would be better off as a Rock station than anything else. Not everyone in the city is going to throw down money on satellite radio, and this is a format that everyone has been clamoring for - either Active Rock or Alternative. I personally would rather see one of those god-awful Rhythmic ACs (WNEW & WKTU) that play the exact same thing change instead. That or that Lite-FM clone masquerading as Smooth Jazz, WQCD.
 
wbai is the voice of the average liberal American. They weren't 6 years ago but they stayed true to what they are and the left has went extreme, they now are a perfect match. I know, if you are factual and honest then you claim that this is the true hate radio station, but their audience is all about hate and this is a free country for people to be haters who live a life of negativity. Wbai gives the left what they want, and really for many, what they need.
 
I think it's pretty said that those on the right associate the entire left with hate, and associate one particular radio station, WBAI, with the left. It's a very simplistic and close-minded view in my opinion.
 
Before Bush took office wbai and the average liberal sounded very different, now you cannot tell them apart. So is it that the average liberal democrat has moved to the extreme left, or has wbai become less extreme? Make your argument either way but to deny that almost every liberal sounds the same these days and that they certainly are not distinguishable from what is heard on wbai is undeniable.
 
e-dawg said:
How about changing these station into these format.

97.1 into Alternative
98.7 into Rock
101.9 into Classic Hits
103.5 into Country
105.1 into Album Adult Alternative
107.5 into Oldies

What do you think?
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I think you are a white male who likes hard rock.
 
Herb999 said:
Before Bush took office wbai and the average liberal sounded very different, now you cannot tell them apart. So is it that the average liberal democrat has moved to the extreme left, or has wbai become less extreme? Make your argument either way but to deny that almost every liberal sounds the same these days and that they certainly are not distinguishable from what is heard on wbai is undeniable.
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I think that's a media construct and portrayal more than reality, or it might just be what Limbaugh and Hannity want you to believe. I'm sorry that liberals are so intolerable to you.
 
I wish you were right but the words and actions of liberals are reality, I don't listen to rush or Sean but if they are being honest as I am about the average American liberal in 2006, then good for them. Seriously, there is nothing wrong with being honest, I don't know why being so these days makes one some kind of neo-con. Wbai used to be something I would turn on for a good laugh, however it is not funny anymore now that their hate and ignorance seems to be mirrored by almost everyone who is democrat. If you don't adopt the political beliefs of wbai on the left, well you know what happens, if not ask Joe Lieberman.
 
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