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Predictions for New York Radio in 2009

I don't think there will be too many big changes in New York radio this year.

K-Rock will continue to play some weird-ass unfocused yet narrow mix of classic rock with occasional newer songs thrown in, just so they don't have to say they're classic rock. They really should just put their alternative HD-2 format on the main signal and get the right jocks and promotions and have a good alternative station in the market, but that's just me.

WRXP will make some kind of decision. What it is, who knows? No one expected the flip from smooth jazz to this kind of free-form rock they're playing now. I guess the difference now is people are expecting a flip, but to what is anyone's guess.

The typical ratings dominators--WHTZ, WINS, WSKQ, WAXQ, WCBS-AM, WWPR, WQHT, WRKS--will still be dominant.

Pulse 87 may also be a thing of the past. They may have to buy a legitimate station, perhaps even on AM. Isn't it a bit weird that someone would broadcast an FM station on TV-6's audio channel anyway? Are they even in stereo?

Just some of my predictions.

Jacko
 
If WRXP continues the AAA station, they will stay here and ESPN Radio will not buy this station on 101.9, so leave them alone! Make WRXP, doing a great job for the station and maybe the station will be sounding a lot like WDST in Woodstock, NY and "The Sound" out in Los Angeles.
 
Jacko said:
I don't think there will be too many big changes in New York radio this year.

K-Rock will continue to play some weird-ass unfocused yet narrow mix of classic rock with occasional newer songs thrown in, just so they don't have to say they're classic rock. They really should just put their alternative HD-2 format on the main signal and get the right jocks and promotions and have a good alternative station in the market, but that's just me.

WRXP will make some kind of decision. What it is, who knows? No one expected the flip from smooth jazz to this kind of free-form rock they're playing now. I guess the difference now is people are expecting a flip, but to what is anyone's guess.

The typical ratings dominators--WHTZ, WINS, WSKQ, WAXQ, WCBS-AM, WWPR, WQHT, WRKS--will still be dominant.

Pulse 87 may also be a thing of the past. They may have to buy a legitimate station, perhaps even on AM. Isn't it a bit weird that someone would broadcast an FM station on TV-6's audio channel anyway? Are they even in stereo?

Just some of my predictions.

Jacko
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I agree with everything except most of your comments about Pulse 87. Why is it weird that they would use the audio of TV Channel 6 as an FM station? The audio signal happens to be on the low end of the FM dial, and it's not the first time that it's been done. So yes, it is a "legitimate" station. Have you seen the quality of the video signal, by the way? The audio signal has a much better "reach" and it just makes sense to try and operate a radio station in market #1 that actually covers the five boroughs and some surrounding suburbs, rather than a pea-shooter LPTV video signal that only a handful of people would actually ever see.

And yes, they are in stereo with RDS. Honestly, the hating and the snide comments are incredible.
 
MarcR said:
A more plausible scenario is that Rap/Hip Hop album sales, if it hasn't already done so, will drop below 10% of all album sales. I can't find information for 2008 as yet, but I'd surmise it's been another rather abysmal year for the genre.
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Sad but true. Rappers seem to now only be making ringtones rather than three minute singles.
 
Imus will say something really vile and stupid and be fired. He will be banished from all media for good. He retire his decrepit body to retirement community in lower Fairfield county CT. ;D
 
videokilledtheradiostar said:
1050 WEPN should change format or give up the signal entirely. I mean with a .2 share in NYC metro why not just open up the windows and scream outside. You'll reach more people. ::)
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Since when does WEPN have an 0.2 share? The latest PPM numbers have them at 1.1.
 
Tony Santiago said:
1. A full-time "old skool" hip-hop/R&B station on the standard dial.
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I've seen the idea for Classic Rap floating around for some time now, but how do you define Old-School? Is it any rap before '00, is it rap from '80-'92? Is it jus rap from '93-'00? It seems as if there have been two waves of Old-School and it would be a challenge to reconcile them.

But I would love to hear it, I was listening to DJ KaySlay on hot 97 and he was playing Rakim's "Paid in Full" followed by five or six tracks that used the same sample, (including "hit 'em up which I though was wildly inappropriate for a new york station) and it just sounded great, made me excited to hear hip-hop again.

I would love to see this format apear in New York. But it'd take Emmis's being willing to cannabilize their hot 97 and Kiss audiences for it to appear, because only Hot 97 has all the records and interviews going back 20 years, as well as access to the dj's and their collections.

In some ways, a fomat like this could be a brillant defensive move for them as a station like this would given them a third button on many presets, and help them cross promote Hot 97 and Kiss FM as well. A station like this might help them retain older men.

My only concern is that this format seems so obvious, that I'm sure market research has been conducted, and for it to still be absent from the dial means that it must just not work.
 
videokilledtheradiostar said:
He retire his decrepit body to ...
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I gather, then, that you have discovered the secret to not ageing?
 
videokilledtheradiostar said:
1050 WEPN should change format or give up the signal entirely. I mean with a .2 share in NYC metro why not just open up the windows and scream outside. You'll reach more people. ::)
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So why not put ESPN Radio on 101.9 if WRXP continues not to do well if Emmis will sell the station to ESPN to broadcast on 101.9. We'll find out in the next few months.
 
well....that may be more credible than most - usually, the rule is that when something about to occur is being DENIED in the media, 9 times out of 10 it DOES happen...

"Sports 102", anybody??
 
Tony Santiago said:
2. A dance/rhythmic station on 101.9....this to happen when Pulse ceases, with some of Pulse's on air personalities going to the new station.
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As long a Emmis owns 101.9

NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

HOT97 is also Rhythmic and keeps playing stuff like this



Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
01.01.2009 10:17pm

RUN-DMC - Walk This Way (w/ Aerosmith)
01.01.2009 10:19pm

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
01.01.2009 10:20pm

Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
01.01.2009 10:22pm

50 Cent - I Get Money
01.01.2009 10:30pm

Redman & Method Man - How High
01.01.2009 10:37pm

Redman - Tonight's Da Night
01.01.2009 10:39pm

Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell
01.01.2009 10:44pm

Smif-N-Wessun - Bucktown
01.01.2009 10:47pm

Adam Binder - On This Road
01.01.2009 11:05pm

Robin S. - Show Me Love
01.01.2009 11:08pm

Lidell Townsell - Nu Nu
01.01.2009 11:12pm

D4L - Scotty
01.01.2009 11:13pm

Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It
01.01.2009 11:14pm

Aly-Us - Follow Me
01.01.2009 11:17pm
 
From another post you made, wasn't this on a mix show?

Bruce Springsteen on Hot 97? You might as well put Young Jeezy on Q-104! :) But seriously, for the few dance tracks that were listed there, they were older but some of them were leaning on the afrocentric side of house ("Follow Me") which would have been something you would have heard on Pulse 87 during the "Star & Buc Wild" show but not now. The one advantage on 101.9 is this....the station has a signal! For those shut out by the lack of reach Pulse has, that counts for something.
 
WBPM's Muzak Blimp will spontaneously burst into flames at a mooring mast in New Jersey, raining poor grammar and awful syntax, plus ill-conceived flaming mindless rants, on the undeserving population.

Oh. The humanity.

The Hudson Valley, center of the known universe, will be unaffected.
 
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