Mega Media Group, Inc. Signs a 10 Year Lease for the 87.7 Frequency in New York

[pjc1961]

Echo Broadcasting Group (which operates Pulse 87) has signed a revised 10 year lease agreement with Island Broadcasting Company, where advertising revenue minus commission expense would be split by the parties. To see the entire press release, click on link below:

http://megamediagroup.ir.stockpr.co...year-lease-for-the-87-7-frequency-in-new-york

Looks like 87.75-76 (or at least the ownership of that frequency) has a long-term heartbeat.

Long live Pulse 87!

To Tony & Dance Divas everywhere: there is hope! ;D

 

[d21ofnj]

Damn...no mention of moving Pulse to 99.5....damn u Nick! ;D

 

[myke25]

Re: Mega Media Group, Inc. Signs a 10 Year Lease for the 87.7 Frequency in New Y

what happens when the FCC decides that LPTV stations have to convert to digital also?? won't that most likely happen within 10 years?

 

[neo11]

Maybe they're thinking of doing what that Albany station is doing...broadcasting video/audio in digital, and audio in analog as well? Is that even possible/legal?

 

[cawasinnj]

Maybe they're thinking of doing what that Albany station is doing...broadcasting video/audio in digital, and audio in analog as well? Is that even possible/legal?

Nope.

It's a gamble, although that's better than what I thought it was which was an April Fool's joke.

 

[PhDance]

To Tony & Dance Divas everywhere: there is hope! ;D

I'd say there is a lot more than hope. There is a great commitment in the Dance format by Pulse's owners. They wouldn't seek a 10 year renewal on the format, push so hard to be listed in PPM, or announce they will replicate the format in two other cities if they had no intention of surviving.

A lot of people on this board were premature in dismissing Pulse so quickly.

 

[lalumia]

they can commit to whatever they like, but if the general audience continues to give dance the cold shoulder, there's nothing they can do about that, even if they sign a 100 year lease...

 

[musik187]

Ok I've had it! lol... lalumia... are you ALWAYS insisting on being so negative about dance music... I don't get it... Dance/Rhythmic/CHR, whatever you want to call it, is not doing poorly at all... we're at the point where electro-sounds are leaking into even Hip-Hop music. Lady GaGa and Kid Cudi, BOTH who FIRST aired on Pulse 87...are now at the upper ranks of the HOT 100 Billboard chart... artists like Bob Sinclair and David Guetta actually get airplay on Top 40 radio nowadays, all is NOT lost for Pulse 87... obviously since they are expanding, on top of everything... sure a lot of the dance music might not be at the top of the pop charts all the time, but hell, that wasn't the case in the late 80s either and HOT 103/97 was huge back then... Sure I can see both sides of the story here but to be sooo sooo negative about dance, especially now, just doesn't seem to be so relevant anymore.

 

[radioli]

Ok I've had it! lol... lalumia... are you ALWAYS insisting on being so negative about dance music... I don't get it... Dance/Rhythmic/CHR, whatever you want to call it, is not doing poorly at all... we're at the point where electro-sounds are leaking into even Hip-Hop music. Lady GaGa and Kid Cudi, BOTH who FIRST aired on Pulse 87...are now at the upper ranks of the HOT 100 Billboard chart... artists like Bob Sinclair and David Guetta actually get airplay on Top 40 radio nowadays, all is NOT lost for Pulse 87... obviously since they are expanding, on top of everything... sure a lot of the dance music might not be at the top of the pop charts all the time, but hell, that wasn't the case in the late 80s either and HOT 103/97 was huge back then... Sure I can see both sides of the story here but to be sooo sooo negative about dance, especially now, just doesn't seem to be so relevant anymore.

I actually believe it was PARTY 105.3/101.5 that played Lady GaGa 1st. Thats why she performed at their MegaJam concert and thanked the station for breaking her song. After that concert, she climbed the charts. You can see the video clips of her performance on YOU TUBE where she's pleading with the audience to please support her music. Vic Latino knows which artists are on the rise and supports them before anyone else.

 

[radioli]

Echo Broadcasting Group (which operates Pulse 87) has signed a revised 10 year lease agreement with Island Broadcasting Company, where advertising revenue minus commission expense would be split by the parties. To see the entire press release, click on link below:

http://megamediagroup.ir.stockpr.co...year-lease-for-the-87-7-frequency-in-new-york

Looks like 87.75-76 (or at least the ownership of that frequency) has a long-term heartbeat.

Long live Pulse 87!

To Tony & Dance Divas everywhere: there is hope! ;D

To Tony & Dance Divas everywhere: there is hope! ;D

I'd say there is a lot more than hope. There is a great commitment in the Dance format by Pulse's owners. They wouldn't seek a 10 year renewal on the format, push so hard to be listed in PPM, or announce they will replicate the format in two other cities if they had no intention of surviving.

A lot of people on this board were premature in dismissing Pulse so quickly.

Actually, the way I read it, this is just a 10 year extension between the owner of the 87.7 frequency and the owner of the Pulse format. The FCC may still come in around June and say the analog frequency has to go....can someone comment that knows better...I'm not sure what the legalities are with this change over from Analog to digital...

 

[lalumia]

I am NOT negative about dance music, I am REALISTIC about it's current situation;
and the average music listener does not regard GaGa as a 'dance artist', but as a pop artist a la Britney and Christina(unless you view them as dance artists also, which they're not)
Cascada,Amber, Reina, Deb Cox, etc; these are dance artists;
In the 70s, Cher, Rod Stewart,etc. had chart success with disco records;they did not automatically become dance artists, but pop stars who cut some dance tracks;
Dance needs artists who are first and foremost dance artists(by the way, Flo Rida and NeYo are not dance artists either)