Do you see Audacy keeping 92.3 and 94.7 the same. They are both on the bottom
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NYC Metro Radio Ratings: August 2022
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On point of fact, the company has NOT kept either station "the same." They've added on-air talent to The Block. They've changed the music policy at 92.3 several times and changed talent there too. So while the general formats are the same, the execution of those formats have been in a continual state of flux.
Truthfully, looking at what the company has done around the country, they haven't had a whole lot of success when it comes to launching new formats. So it's hard to say that just changing formats or exchanging frequencies will make a lot of difference.
Audacy wrecked a lot of their CHR and Alternative stations
It has nowhere on FM to put WBZ that makes bottom-line sense. Its full-market FMs are demographically far more desirable to advertisers than news/talk/infomercial stations like WBZ, while Rumba (97.7) and Bull (101.7) have important roles in the cluster's overall success. This is a far different scenario than the one Audacy faces in New York with Alt and Block. WBZ will just have to ride Ancient Modulation to the bitter end.
The other way of looking at it is they inherited a bunch of failing CHR and alternative stations from CBS. Unless you consider AMP to be a success, and it was wrecked after the sale. Also doesn't the state of the music in those formats bear any responsibility?
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He's talking about WCBS 880
In Philadelphia WTDY used to be very close to WIOQ now WIOQ is way ahead. and WTDY is not even in the top five in 18-34. I think Iheart does better with the format than Audacy
When was that? I see multiple threads on this board going back five years talking about WTDY's low ratings.
Back during the Amp radio Wired 96.5 days. WTDY's ratings just started to drop and it just stayed there. Audacy dosen't have any other options though
There were brief times where WTDY pulled pretty close to WIOQ overall, and there were some months where WTDY had some very strong 18-34 numbers (I think even #1 a couple of months.) Didn't happen often, but it did happen
In Philly Audacy bought another FM station (or acquired the station through a swap with Radio One), as soon as Audacy had control of 103.9 FM they started simulcasting all news KYW on FM. That’s a slightly different evaluation process than deciding to flip the format of an existing station you own.
I would expect WINS or WCBS to eventually be on FM in NYC but not both. Flipping 2 different FM music stations might be too much to place both similarly formatted all news stations on FM.
Especially at a time when the formats are billing well while still on AM.
True. Especially with CHR. 97.1 in LA always struggled to gain the traction it got. Then there are CHR’s like Power 96 in Miami and B96 in Chicago that have been around forever but are stuck in second place (or in WPOW’s case, 3rd).
The last thing any radio company is going to do right now is format flips unless absolutely no other option is available. Has no one noticed how much less common they’ve become? Audacy certainly is in no place, hence why they’re trying to fix what isn’t working instead of spending even more money and effort on something new.
Is this Julius back again?
Eventually WINS and WCBS will have to both move to FM. You can't move one without the other. The one left exclusively on the AM dial would be doomed.
And it would make no sense for Audacy to doom two of its top billing stations in the chain, in order to keep WNYL and WXBK chugging along at the bottom of the ratings and revenues. I wish AM radio were still viable. But increasingly it's not.
A few AM-only stations are hanging on, enjoying high revenues and getting decent ratings. Someone mentioned WBZ, one of Boston's highest billing stations. Same with KFI Los Angeles and a few others. But man, that list is getting smaller. And the clock keeps ticking.
WINS and WCBS don't get the ratings they once did. Both were once solidly top 5 in the NYC ratings. But thanks to spoken word formats' ability to run more spots each hour than music stations, their billing is still among the tops in the Audacy chain, ahead of even well-rated FM stations like WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. And CERTAINLY ahead of WNYL and WXBK.
So in the not-too-distant future, Audacy will have to do in NYC what it's done in LA, Chicago, SF and Philly. Give its all-news stations an FM simulcast.
And it would make no sense for Audacy to doom two of its top billing stations in the chain, in order to keep WNYL and WXBK chugging along at the bottom of the ratings and revenues. I wish AM radio were still viable. But increasingly it's not.
A few AM-only stations are hanging on, enjoying high revenues and getting decent ratings. Someone mentioned WBZ, one of Boston's highest billing stations. Same with KFI Los Angeles and a few others. But man, that list is getting smaller. And the clock keeps ticking.
WINS and WCBS don't get the ratings they once did. Both were once solidly top 5 in the NYC ratings. But thanks to spoken word formats' ability to run more spots each hour than music stations, their billing is still among the tops in the Audacy chain, ahead of even well-rated FM stations like WNEW-FM and WCBS-FM. And CERTAINLY ahead of WNYL and WXBK.
So in the not-too-distant future, Audacy will have to do in NYC what it's done in LA, Chicago, SF and Philly. Give its all-news stations an FM simulcast.
B96 and WTDY used to be in striking distince to WKSC and WIOQ not anymore. I believe WKSC has started to outbill B96. Some of these CHR stations that were formally owned by CBS are now different formats
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I had to block Julius on my Facebook. He was messaging me to much. I’m not the same personIs this Julius back again?
Did 98.7 in Detroit struggle against Channel 95.5. Before it flipped to soft AC and now Alternative
I thought he was only concerned about WPHT.
That was literally all he talked about
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