New York's Country HD2

[TheBigA]

Townsquare Media is now quite invested in Country radio in the area.

They also own the #1 most-visited country music news site in the country.

 

[davideduardo]

I wouldn't be shocked if Beasley did something similar with WMTR in Morristown. WNSH was #6 there before the flip.

WMTR is an AM. Music listeners will go to the Internet before listening to music on AM unless they are over 60 years old.

The country format is potentially money sitting on the table.

The current oldies format fits an AM and complements the FM format. Together, the two Beasley stations take 94% of the market's radio revenue. They are not going to mess with that!

 

[Marcos_C]

Beach Radio can still be heard online.

The oldies format of Beach Radio can also be heard in South Jersey via WSJO-HD3 (104.9-3).

 

[JoeBenjamin]

I must have ESP----driving down Bay Parkway on Thursday, I was listening to 1310 and told my wife that I wished that 1310 return to Country!!!

 

[Barry]

Anyone familiar with the Jersey Shore that can say whether the new station's signal has decent coverage? Is it inferior to that of rival Thunder Country?
They're using translators on 96.7 and 104.1. What about WOBM 1160 AM, and WADB 1310 AM?
Can 96.7 be heard in southern Staten Island?

 

[Ai4i]

A regular station, a conventional station, can we be a bit more forward-thinking and say an analog station?
When I was young, regular radio meant AM and regular TV meant the twelve VHF channels.

 

[Theater of My Mind]

Anyone familiar with the Jersey Shore that can say whether the new station's signal has decent coverage?

They're translators so they are pea shooters in an area of sprawl. Driving distances tend to be kind of lengthy there. I don't think translator signals are well suited to that kind of suburban spread.

 

[Least]

WMTR is an AM. Music listeners will go to the Internet before listening to music on AM unless they are over 60 years old.

Where I 100% agree with you, I have to say that I actually listen to Oldies music on AM for fun. But as we pointed out countless times, I'm an outlier.

 

[Yabadabado1]

Where I 100% agree with you, I have to say that I actually listen to Oldies music on AM for fun. But as we pointed out countless times, I'm an outlier.

You're not the only one. There's a couple of AM stations I can pick up in NE Ohio that I listen to. at night, CFZM [Zoomer Radio] out of Toronto and a semi-local station whose signal is getting pretty bad. There's also an FM station I listen to WSTB, an alternative station that on Sundays becomes the Sunday Oldies Jukebox for about 25 hours.