REGIONAL MEXICAN in NYC

[e-dawg]

WIll a full power Regional Mexican format work in NYC? (not counting the rim shot signal on 92.7)?

Also, what is the Hispanic Demographics by ethinic orgin in NYC? ie. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans....etc.

 

[AlvaJr]

Is because Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexicans are Urbanos?

 

[davideduardo]

WIll a full power Regional Mexican format work in NYC? (not counting the rim shot signal on 92.7)?

A rimshot is generally thought of as a station beyond or at the edge of a market shooting in. 92.7 is nearly in Queens, while the NY market ends beyond Sag Harbor. All of Nassau and Suffolk are inside the NY metro. WQBU is also in the dead center of the Mexican population center of NY. There would not be a huge gain with added signal, since 92.7 already covers most of the Mexican audience.

Also, what is the Hispanic Demographics by ethinic orgin in NYC? ie. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans....etc.

Puerto Rican 30%, Mexican 16%, Dominican 15%, Grand Colombia 15% are the major groups. More than half the Puerto Ricans are not Spanish Dominant, so the biggest users of Spanish radio are Dominicans and Mexicans.

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

[ There would not be a huge gain with added signal, since 92.7 already covers most of the Mexican audience.

Yeah, but with a more powerful signal, listeners could take their favorite radio station wherever they go, outside of Queens and Long Island. Like say, for instance the Bronx or Newark, Jersey City, etc. It would definitely be a good thing for P-1 listeners.

Not to mention I'd be able to listen to the station at home...I guess I'm a P1, since I've got that station going on about 8 hours a day while at work. ;D

And then there's the added benefit of Spanish listeners to Yankee games also having a full strength signal to listen to the games on.

 

[DanStrassberg]

A rimshot is generally thought of as a station beyond or at the edge of a market shooting in. 92.7 is nearly in Queens, while the NY market ends beyond Sag Harbor. All of Nassau and Suffolk are inside the NY metro. WQBU is also in the dead center of the Mexican population center of NY. There would not be a huge gain with added signal, since 92.7 already covers most of the Mexican audience.

Doesn't 103.9 now hold a CP to change CoL from White Plains to (IIRC) Bronxville, which will allow a transmitter site in the Bronx? Maybe multiplexed with WFUV? I've heard that there could be some radiation-exposure issues if a second signal were added to that site but I believe that I've heard the plan IS to move the 103.9 stick to the Bronx. There are many relatively tall apartment buildings in Riverdale and at least one--where my parents lived before they died--south of the Fordham Park Reservoir just off Van Cortlandt Ave, which is in a somewhat more central location. Because of the hilly terrain in that part of the Bronx, a building on top of a hill in that area need not be really tall to get pretty good HAAT. And if there turn out to be no available sites in the Bronx, Alpine is not very far away.

 

[AlvaJr]

But I could hear Regional Mex music in half Queens and Long Island, so correct me if it's true or false.

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

You're correct. You can pick it up in most of Queens (barring Western Queens: Astoria/Long Island City, etc.) and obviously Long Island. If you're near the Queensboro Bridge, FM radios tend to get overloaded from Empire, so 92.3 and 93.1 make it near impossible to fine-tune 92.7.

However Manhattan is tricky. It may come in on better car radios, and if you're on a hill with a clear line of sight to the transmitter, you will get the station (that's how a clothing store up the street from me is able to tune them in). But if, like me, you're on the wrong side of a hill, you won't get the station on a normal portable/table radio.

Being on the upper floors of a skyscraper also helps -- that's how I get to listen to 92.7. I'm on the 47th floor of a Financial District skyscraper. Bleh.