NEW SPANISH STATION

[omega]

New spanish station MIA 92.1FM in West Palm Beach comming next thursday... will it work in el large anglo market?

 

[omega]

the idea keeps running thru my mind why would cc flip their number one station in this market? its # 2 over all 12+ seems odd!

 

[Interstate 78]

because it is #1 or #2 in the 12+ meaning most of the numbers are probably coming from old people. i bet the 25-34 numbers are horrible. sad but true. clear channel (or any radio company for that matter) doesn't care about 12+ numbers.

 

[work]

West Palm Beach is largely Spanish now... west of I-95. Just what we needed. Another Spanish station. I think Spanish should be outlawed as far as a Radio format. I speak Spanish by choice. I love the language. But if we keep pandering to people who soeak another language, how will they ever learn
English? I know I would speak Spanish if I were in a Latin country - stumbling iften as I might - but I would do my best because it's their turf.

WRLX ws a product of the ex-Fairbanks stations, which included WJNO and WRMF. At the time I was at WJNO, the old WNGS was LMA'd by Fairbanks and changed to WRLX, flipping from lite AC to easy listening, hiring the ez-format genius from WRAT-FM, which had just switched to' Sunny 104" that had been consistently #1. Paul Dunn (now at WFTL) did such a great job at WRLX, that it hurt WJNO's News-Talk ratings, and Mr. Fairbanks phoned then=PD John Picano directlyto ask what the problem was!! (I worked for John as Production Director, and more). John explained that WRLX and WJNO shared teh same demographics, so WRLX was in effec makinga victim of its own sister.

Bythe way, Mr. Fairbanks was a wonderful GENTLEMAN. His family was and/or is into philanthrophy, and I cherish a hand-written letter he sent me while I was working for WJNO/WRMF. I grew up on his station WVBF "Electronic Mama" Framingham-Boston (VBF stands for Virginia Brown Fairbanks, his wife, and Titusville FL's old WRMF stood for Richard M. Fairbanks.).

I left WJNO after some years due to personal family issues and omg do I miss the wonderful folks who worked there - including the great Jim Edwards, News Director who ironically ended up doing AM Drive as a music jock on WRLX. Previously, Edwards news-ed at WGBS and also, I believe, WFUN.

Oh well...

Others I miss from WJNO was under-credited newsman Bob Cain, the foxy and ultra-talented newslady Angela Murray. I directed the Pete Rose Show when it began, as well as other shows. As for Picano, he moved on as PR Director of the S. Florida Fair. Anyone in this business would have killed to have been able to work for him!

Now, WJNO is just another toilet.

 

[jmtillery]

Sometime ago WJNO was moved from 1230 to the former WIRK-AM frequency - 1290. I believe they were able to get a power increase to 50,000 watts daytime on the 1290 frequency, remaining with 5,000 watts night-time. I agree, virtually everything Clear Channel touches becomes just another "cookie cutter" radio station. Only the call letters and the city of license are different.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida

 

[WJEPPD]

Sometime ago WJNO was moved from 1230 to the former WIRK-AM frequency - 1290. I believe they were able to get a power increase to 50,000 watts daytime on the 1290 frequency, remaining with 5,000 watts night-time. I agree, virtually everything Clear Channel touches becomes just another "cookie cutter" radio station. Only the call letters and the city of license are different.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida

Speaking of Spanish stations, that would be a cash cow up here in Thomasville, I see more and more Spanish speaking residents every week out here. A small town Spanish station locally run without the prefabbed format would kill here,HMMMM, not a bad idea