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PLJ SOLD

Speakin as a New Yawker...

joebtsflk1 said:
We Praise Lord Jesus, that's a good one!

I say you win naming rights to the new 95.5 FM. (Hint: "The Big Apple" might be too ironic to use in a Judeo-Christian context...)
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speaking as a native New Yorker (and a Christian), I don't see the irony of using "The Big Apple" for a Christian radio station :D
 
andreajesus said:
speaking as a native New Yorker (and a Christian), I don't see the irony of using "The Big Apple" for a Christian radio station :D
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I may be mistaken but hasn't "The Big Apple" phrase been copyrighted by someone/something? If so, maybe they can call themselves "the Big Crabapple" or "The Giant Kumquat" or something else.
 
andreajesus said:
speaking as a native New Yorker (and a Christian), I don't see the irony of using "The Big Apple" for a Christian radio station :D
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I notice that the only significantly large enough, to support a radio station, "Adams" is in Massachusetts. They should have an "Adams Apple", if they don't already.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
I may be mistaken but hasn't "The Big Apple" phrase been copyrighted by someone/something? If so, maybe they can call themselves "the Big Crabapple" or "The Giant Kumquat" or something else.
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The "Big Apple" is just a dumb name. Nobody from here refers to NY as the Big Apple...just like people in Boston don't refer to it as Beantown or people in Chicago calling it the Windy City. Only tourists do that.
 
But no matter what.....

the soon-to-be-former 'PLJ will be called....what matters is that Christian music in New York will FINALLY be on an FM signal that people can actually get (I love Star 99.1, but can't get it on a regular radio out here)....

#WePraiseLordJesus
 
MarcB said:
Aside from 106.9 WCCC in Hartford, are there any K-LOVE stations that kept the same call letters? This August will be 5 years since WCCC was sold to K-LOVE.
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It’s rare, but EMF occasionally keeps the calls of the stations it acquires. When it bought my local Christian station from the estate of its original owner, it kept the KMFC calls. They stood for the original owner's wife, Mary Frances Clare. EMF also kept the KOBC calls of the station it acquired from Ozarks Bible College in Joplin, MO. It kept the original format and staff for a year or two before replacing them with the satellite feed. WQFL in Rockford has the same calls with Air 1 that it had as CCM, too. Of course, all three of those stations were Christian before EMF bought them, and the calls were previously identified with Christian programming.
 
TheBigA said:
They're only good frequencies if the market will support them, and clearly the market was saturated. So a few dropping out is a good thing.
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with that logic we should have less radio stations. Selling 95.5 made sense for Cumulus but the listener loses out. There are many underserved formats in New York that would get more listeners than another religious station but most likely not make money. Probably one reason WVIP has about 5 hours of music and regular programming and about 19 hours of infomercials. There is likely a pretty large audience for Caribbean music in New York given the massive community and the number of Caribbean pirates in Brooklyn but my guess is no one would ever program it properly since there is no money in it.

Fortunately today there are many other platforms to hear new music so radio isn't necessary and I do wonder if the big business of radio will be responsible for it's own eventual demise.
 
Jeffrey said:
Fortunately today there are many other platforms to hear new music so radio isn't necessary and I do wonder if the big business of radio will be responsible for it's own eventual demise.
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Those of us who work in the business recognize we're not in the music distribution business.
 
Those who work "in the business" should start logging how much time their employees spend on this board during work hours.
 
Jeffrey said:
with that logic we should have less radio stations. Selling 95.5 made sense for Cumulus but the listener loses out.
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How does that work? With K-Love on a good signal, listeners who prefer Contemporary Christian finally have the format on a real NYC signal. Losing WPLJ is hardly a real, palpable loss because the format was highly similar if not downright identical to that of other stations. I see a net gain, not a loss.

There are many underserved formats in New York that would get more listeners than another religious station but most likely not make money.
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Were there a better format opening, don't you think someone would have filled it?

Probably one reason WVIP has about 5 hours of music and regular programming and about 19 hours of infomercials. There is likely a pretty large audience for Caribbean music in New York given the massive community and the number of Caribbean pirates in Brooklyn but my guess is no one would ever program it properly since there is no money in it.
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And "Caribbean" is a dozen or more formats in five or six languages. That's like saying we need an "American music" station.

Fortunately today there are many other platforms to hear new music so radio isn't necessary and I do wonder if the big business of radio will be responsible for it's own eventual demise.
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Radio has seldom served those little niche audiences. Nothing new.
 
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kevtronics said:
...heard on 93.5 WVIP, brokered time slots on various other stations like WPAT(AM) and WNYE, and on dozens of pirate stations in and around the city.
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Can you identify the languages? French, Kreyol, English (in a half-dozen dialects, ranging from that of the Bluefields area of Nicaragua to Guayana to the BVI) , Spanish, Hindi, Papiamento, Dutch, Garifuna, Kriol, Panamanian Creyol, Miskito are among the more common languages of the Caribbean Basin.
 
DavidEduardo said:


How does that work? With K-Love on a good signal, listeners who prefer Contemporary Christian finally have the format on a real NYC signal. Losing WPLJ is hardly a real, palpable loss because the format was highly similar if not downright identical to that of other stations. I see a net gain, not a loss.



Were there a better format opening, don't you think someone would have filled it?



And "Caribbean" is a dozen or more formats in five or six languages. That's like saying we need an "American music" station.



Radio has seldom served those little niche audiences. Nothing new.
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Net gain for who? Not the New York radio listener. Not advocating for WPLJ but that or any other format served the NYC population better than KLove who I would imagine will be one of New York's lowest rated stations. Religious programming in New York is a niche format. EMI bought the station, they have a mission...more power to them. My point is that it isn't what serves New York City best based on what the average listener would listen to. Programming a niche format doesn't make sense for a multimedia company...I get that but that's not my argument.

To say an "American station" makes perfect sense if one is abroad. To say Caribbean station also make sense. WVIP calls itself the voice of the Caribbean and they don't cover all languages and dialects. I think it is obvious that this is a generalization and typically when one speaks of a Caribbean population in New York they are referring to the English speaking countries and perhaps some French creole.
 
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