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Forget Y100 and whether flipping it was a good idea or not. The real question should be:
When will WRNB flip to all-Christmas?
When will WRNB flip to all-Christmas?
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A Soulful Christmas ? Chrismas music from TLC,Boys2Men,Mariah Carey,Ashanti,and other R&B Groups! I would love it .Phillyradiogeek said:Forget Y100 and whether flipping it was a good idea or not. The real question should be:
When will WRNB flip to all-Christmas?
rapking said:A Soulful Christmas ? Chrismas music from TLC,Boys2Men,Mariah Carey,Ashanti,and other R&B Groups! I would love it .Phillyradiogeek said:Forget Y100 and whether flipping it was a good idea or not. The real question should be:
When will WRNB flip to all-Christmas?
This is Radio One we're talkin bout. I guess there is not a huge library of Kwanzaa music....
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Radio One s-cks !Rockin Rob said:rapking said:A Soulful Christmas ? Chrismas music from TLC,Boys2Men,Mariah Carey,Ashanti,and other R&B Groups! I would love it .Phillyradiogeek said:Forget Y100 and whether flipping it was a good idea or not. The real question should be:
When will WRNB flip to all-Christmas?
This is Radio One we're talkin bout. I guess there is not a huge library of Kwanzaa music....
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Y-100 Modern Rock. it would be nice to have it still, 1045 is good, but they done go as heavy as they shoul. what we need is a "Bone" to come to the market. which will never happen
107.1 The Bone, an AAA station in northeast PAwaymar said:
I would like nothing better than for WRNB to go off the air permanently and leave 107.9 clear.
And I still stand by my point I made about a year ago that Y100 was Radio One's cash cow. Even if all their other stations target blacks, don't mess with success. WPPZ, the station that replaced WPLY might have a lower operating cost, but is most likely not bringing in as much (nominal) revenue today as Y100 used to bring. Y100's demographics were more attractive to advertisers than WPPZ's demographics, Y100 listeners generally had more disposable income. And Y100 did better in the ratings than WPHI ever did on 100.3.
I'll never forget that snowy day in February of 2005, when I heard 50 Cent - Candy Shop segue right after Pearl Jam - Alive.
Actually, it wasn't Radio One that let go of Preston & Steve- they announced they were leaving to WMMR before Radio One decided to exile Y100. For all we know, the reason that Y100 was allegedly able to generate the highest amount of revenues for Radio One in the cluster was BECAUSE of the cash cow Preston & Steve. That would make sense, wouldn't it? Knowing they were losing their cash cow, coupled with the low ratings for Y100, and you can't say the format flip was racially motivated. There's also a big difference between revenues and translating that into profitability. It's a lot harder for Radio One to sell Y100 when it is a completely unrelated asset. With the ratings it was achieving, it certainly wasn't selling itself. Radio One certainly didn't race to flip Y100 after they took possession of the station.
For the record, I religiously listened to Y100 before the plug was pulled.
For the record, I religiously listened to Y100 before the plug was pulled.
I wonder if anyone mentioned the output on WRNB FM....660 watts
If this station was a 10Kw or more, then this would be a direct hit against WDAS 105.3 FM.
If this station was a 10Kw or more, then this would be a direct hit against WDAS 105.3 FM.
BJ Steigner said:
What's happened with that license from an engineering standpoint makes me cry. WSNJ-FM at 107.7 was a wonder, covering nearly from bay to ocean out of Bridgeton thanks to a fascinating pattern that was pure horizontal polarization. The programming I could care less about, since I didn't care for WSNJ nor do I care for WRNB.
pabsungenis said:
But I'll have to say that Ed Seeger and company (and Ed Bold's daughter) made out very well financially from the move to "Pennsauken".
The history of WSNJ-FM is interesting. It actually began on 98.9 MHz, but in the late '50s after the WCAU stations were sold to CBS, the owners of the Bulletin (which needed an FM facility to continue transmitting their Muzak subcarrier service) filed a petition to move 98.9 to Philadelphia and substitute 107.7 at Bridgeton. This proposal had the full consent of the licensee of WSNJ; in fact, the Bulletin agreed to pay all costs including purchase of a new RCA 5 kW transmitter (I have a copy of the letter of agreement). That transmitter now rusts in a storage shed in Glenside, PA if it hasn't already been taken to the scrapyard.
John B. Reynolds, owner of 99.5 WJBR, also had to agree to the move because of third-adjacent overlap with his protected contour. Mr. Reynolds had no problem with the proposal because he felt it would encourage interest in FM listening, not to mention that the Bulletin had agreed to become a WJBR advertiser. (Compare his gentlemanly attitude with the NAB fuss over third-adjacent LPFM.)
However, the Pillar of Fire, owner of WAWZ-FM in Zarephath, jumped in and filed a mutually exclusive application to increase the power of their 99.1 facility. The FCC was somehow persuaded to grant both applications in spite of extensive first-adjacent contour overlap, which is why the stations beat each other up in the Trenton area.
BJ Steigner said:
WRNB is a class A, the fact that it is 660 watts is because of it's tower height. A class A radio station is 6kw (some at 3kw) at 100 meters (328 feet)... if the tower is higher, the wattage is lower... so this is a Class A and gets the coverage of a Class A (about 15 miles of city).
Amazing how a thread about a format change became an technical forum. Anyway, back to the format flip.
Did it ever happen?
Yesterday, while channel surfing, I heard songs fom 1976 to 1989, yet they still run spots saying "Best of the 90's and today". Do they think their listeners are stupid, or are the programmers out of touch?
Maybe they are following Now's template of changing formats evey few weeks if there isn't a dramatic spike in PPM numbers.
Discuss....
Did it ever happen?
Yesterday, while channel surfing, I heard songs fom 1976 to 1989, yet they still run spots saying "Best of the 90's and today". Do they think their listeners are stupid, or are the programmers out of touch?
Maybe they are following Now's template of changing formats evey few weeks if there isn't a dramatic spike in PPM numbers.
Discuss....
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