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For a Marconi award, a station has to be "ahead of the crowd" in its category. Alternative stations have been nominated before. KROQ has received the award, for example.
And the categories are broad... "rock" covers classic rock, alternative, AAA and other variants.
The "Spanish" Marconi covers Regional Mexican, Spanish CHR, Tropical, Spanish AC, Spanish Adult Hits, Spanish language Sports, Spanish language talk, Spanish language regional oldies, etc.
There is no discrimination there.
Correct, in fact WPLR & WBAB are classic rock stations and WRLT is AAA. The other two stations are active rock.
WPST Princeton? They go by where the studios are located?!
Is KYW regularly nominated in the News/Talk category? I hate to sound negative but I was surprised to see it there. When I've heard them over the past few years, it seems like such a cheapened, hollow version of its former self. At any rate, I hope they beat New Jersey 101.5! Personal opinion of course...but I listened to them for a few minutes recently and I was literally disgusted. (By the host; not the unnecessarily aggressive reverb.)
Is KYW regularly nominated in the News/Talk category? I hate to sound negative but I was surprised to see it there. When I've heard them over the past few years, it seems like such a cheapened, hollow version of its former self. At any rate, I hope they beat New Jersey 101.5! Personal opinion of course...but I listened to them for a few minutes recently and I was literally disgusted. (By the host; not the unnecessarily aggressive reverb.)
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Stations are identified by the city of license or the metro they are rated in. Standard industry practice.
It’s a highly successful major market news station, and the category is obviously focused as much on listener acceptance as content.
How legitimate are the Marconis? In the newspaper business, I've heard of regional press associations' "Newspaper of the Year" awards that are, basically, rotated among dues-paying member papers so that every one of them can boast of being a Newspaper of the Year for a while. Is this the case with the Marconis or is there an independent panel doing the judging?
I sense sarcasm and I see incorrect grammar. I think we'd all like for you to expand on exactly what you mean by this statement.
For WPST, aren't both of those Trenton?
They're given out by the NAB.
The winners, going back to 1990, are at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAB_Marconi_Radio_Awards
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