So what happens to the AM band if the stations just start shutting down.
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NYC Metro Radio Ratings: August 2022
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That's up to the FCC.
Same thing that has happened world-wide on the Long Wave band (below 530 kHz). Most stations and beacons are gone and the band is nearly empty... just like many of the Short Wave bands, particularly the tropical and regional service bands below 6 mHz.
Neither medium wave or longwave is of any use to the telecommunications interests that have snapped up huge chunks of UHF and SHF bandwidth, so barring a decision to grant amateur radio -- a no-growth hobby -- all or portions of the abandoned bands, those bands will remain unused and silent. Maybe pirates would want to squat there, but is unlicensed operation in a frequency range for which no legitimate users exist still a crime?
It's only a crime if someone enforces the law.
There are, but Audacy won’t put both on FM. I strongly doubt they will even put one of the two on FM for aforementioned reasons.
No, but Audacy will try to get the most amount of revenue out of them while they can, even if that includes making cuts, eventually consolidating the newsrooms, etc.
That's really not a useful question. The decision isn't based on "need." One could argue that NYC doesn't need ANY all news stations.
And we should point out that in addition to WCBS and WINS, there's also WNYC and three news talk stations.
They all exist because there's an audience for each of them. But I bet a large percentage of the population doesn't listen to any of them.
Yes, in the way WCBS and WINS have done. One for Manhattan and the Boroughs, the other for the suburbs in NJ, CT and upstate.
Do NJ, CT, and upstate count in the ratings? Why target them.
Surely you know that several New Jersey and Connecticut suburbs "count." Stop playing dumb.
There is (part of) one County in CT, 9 counties in NJ and 3 upstate counties in New York as well as Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island in the Metro Survey Area. The City and Boroughs are quite less than half of the metro.
Maybe im wrong but i think WNEW, WNYL and WCBS-FM are safe. Making 94.7 the only space they have to move one of their AM stations. Unless the buy another signal
bingo. If you think the amount of young people not listening to radio is scary, just look at how many people are not watching local tv news anymore. local tv is falling at faster rate than radio
Yes. terrestrial Radio isn’t going to die in our lifetime.
All the stations inside Audacy nyc are safe
The low listenership is hardly surprising. New York's BIN 1600 simply doesn't hold a candle to the black news/talk station that WLIB was during the 1980s and the 1990s. WLIB kept its listeners informed of the latest news about the black community in the New York metropolitan area. Today, WWRL is reporting stories that happened a day ago, and it is lacking the local focus that WLIB had during its heyday. In terms of talk content, Los Angeles' KBLA is a lot closer to the old WLIB than today's WWRL because KBLA discusses issues that matter to the black community in their service area and allows its listeners share their thoughts instead of spending time on yesterday's news and fluffy stories.
AM just might die in our lifetime, of course that depends on how old you are.
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