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This is Providence. Potential audiences are not growing. Any growth in population in this market is not English-speaking. Stations have reached their limit when it comes to audiences. Now it's a matter of moving them from one station in a cluster to another in the same cluster. The suits know after all the complaints die down people will keep listening anyway. Where else will they go? HJY will lose some to B101 but HJY listeners aren't about to go to WAAF or WBCN. It does not happen. Younger listeners don't care as much about radio anyway. They can get their music online and have their iPods. Listeners aren't going anywhere. They'll accept what stations give them like it or not. The only two stations going head to head with essentially the same format are Lite Rock 105 and Coast. Coast will always lose but they'll lose with less overhead now.