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So How Long Before 105.5 Kicks The Bucket?
- Thread starter DToTheJ
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Now we have 4 country music station here in connecticut, of course depends where you are sitting with the radio.they are playing all the same new tunes ,are they? WWYZ,WCTY 97.7 ,KIX 97.9 and Kicks 105.5 .Back in this time 1978 we've lost WIOF to Magic 104.in this listening area ,and then we had none on fm,than goodness for 1050 WHN,For the heck of it Last week I tuned in Country 92.5 for all week to see whats up. To me ,It got very tiring, quick.again it must be my age again. 48 years old, anyway I rather stick to the old school country tunes, anyway ,lease they sound like country.today I tuned back a old friend,WDRC FM The Big D. maybe tomorrow I will try to tune in Kicks 105.5 at work to give them a shot.
Yeah I was streaming them today, and their "jocks" need to beef up on their country music information. It's all about show prep people. It sounded like, for the most part, they were reading stuff right off of Wikipedia. Then again, it's the first day of the flip. I'll stick with them, because the music mix seems to be good. Much better than WWYZ, which has been VERY tired sounding as of late.
Cmt radio live just started, first time hearing this show,Why is Billy Bush on the webpage.I like to see them play some old cuts on here.
I like the Big Time Show.also i like the old days of country 92.5 with John Saville at nights,It's local.
WPPCProductions said:
I love old-school country, but it's not coming back. Heck, I'd even like to turn the country clock back to 1988, when WWYZ went country. That was a great, exciting time in country music, with all the "new traditionalists" and artists taking the music in all sorts of interesting directions. Alas, everything changed in the mid-'90s with the line-dance craze, and the Shania/Chesney avalanche as the new millennium dawned pretty much killed the country music we knew, perhaps for good. I wouldn't expect much deviation from the standard corporate contemporary playlist from this new 105.5. I mean, it IS Cumulus, after all.
Speaking of WHN, do you remember WMLB (1550) or WSCR (1220)? Those were two stations that, for a while, filled the country void left by WIOF. John Saville was at WSCR, as I recall.
CTListener said:
Why Yes,I have airchecks of WSCR 1220 {Now 1220 WQUN} floating in boxes here.speaking of dish fed radio ,that was from the bird as I was told.,also I do remember WMLB too also have aircheck in my archive too of that station, and WNTY 990 am too with Rick Shea.Yes those were the days,wow this make me feel old,like Grampa Jones on Hee Haw,,LOL .
tim95 said:
Tim - thanks for checking in... Of course, like most new stations, it deserves a chance. But I've seen many of these "new" stations make cuts after not being able to make any impact in sales and/or ratings, only before changing formats again... Kicks is indeed a breath of fresh air for the area, which is why I hope it does succeed. All I will say is, the last thing I would want to see is 105.5 become part of a regional "trimulcast" with your sister stations in Poughkeepsie and Wurtsboro - which, incidentally, are also named "Kicks." At any rate, good luck to you and the crew, and I hope Mr. Trotta can adapt to the new format.
I hope they do well. It's overdue, and a really great use for that signal.
It's about time that they tried something different rather than try to be an also-ran A/C in an overly crowded market.
County should perform well in the same female tilting demos that they tried for with the Y105 format.
It will be interesting to see if they can get out there and sell it.
It's about time that they tried something different rather than try to be an also-ran A/C in an overly crowded market.
County should perform well in the same female tilting demos that they tried for with the Y105 format.
It will be interesting to see if they can get out there and sell it.
DToTheJ said:
Oh ok,I was wondering.It look like he was running a new country version of his wwone countdown show,
I hope they will make it,Country 92.5 has been on for over 20 years now,I wish the new venture works,Yes us Connecticut yankees love country music.As I researched on radio -locator http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=wdby&x=15&y=4 they are out of Patterson NY which i thought it was coming out of danbury.also i notice they are pushing only 900 watts.Is there any reports from the Big Apple receiving this station.
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The WDBY 900 watt signal is very potent, as it sits at a decent site (I believe it's called Watchtower Hill). You can hear it, cleanly all the way in the Berkshires without much of an issue. In fact it was so clear that WBEC-FM (also on 105.5 at the time), put a translator in Great Barrington on 94.1 (W231AK, now //WSBS in Stereo!).
In NYC, 105.5 gets interference from both illegal pirate stations as well as WDHA which was the predominant 105.5 I heard while in Secaucus, NJ a few years ago.
In NYC, 105.5 gets interference from both illegal pirate stations as well as WDHA which was the predominant 105.5 I heard while in Secaucus, NJ a few years ago.
I gave the station a listen for a time tonight while coming back from New York City. While on the bus, I switched my Panasonic AM/FM/CD "Walkman" over to WDBY-FM. I checked them out from the Westchester/Putnam County line on I-684 and then along I-84 from Southeast, NY to about the Newtown/Southbury town line (Housatonic River). It didn't sound too bad so far, except for the abrupt song fade at 7 PM, so the satellite-fed evening show could start. It seemed to be slightly stronger in Southeast, NY then say Brookfield.
Are there any plans to change their call letter from WDBY-FM? (I seem to think there aren't any.) As for that other poster, the station is licensed to Patterson, NY, but clearly targets Danbury. I think Poughkeepsie, White Plains or Waterbury would be the next closest medium to large cities around after that.
This now leads me to another question: How long had WDBY-FM been known as Y-105? Were they considered AC or HOT AC? I always used to hear little difference between them and WDAQ-FM 98.3, a.k.a. 98-Q.
P.S. There was one unintentional goof in that half hour: WDBY-FM played "When He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood a little after 6:30 PM or so. When the satellite-fed country show started after 7 PM, guess what they played? Whoops!
Are there any plans to change their call letter from WDBY-FM? (I seem to think there aren't any.) As for that other poster, the station is licensed to Patterson, NY, but clearly targets Danbury. I think Poughkeepsie, White Plains or Waterbury would be the next closest medium to large cities around after that.
This now leads me to another question: How long had WDBY-FM been known as Y-105? Were they considered AC or HOT AC? I always used to hear little difference between them and WDAQ-FM 98.3, a.k.a. 98-Q.
P.S. There was one unintentional goof in that half hour: WDBY-FM played "When He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood a little after 6:30 PM or so. When the satellite-fed country show started after 7 PM, guess what they played? Whoops!
KML-224 said:
You just answered your own question... By the way, according to the FCC database, while WDBY-FM is licensed to Patterson, their HD1 channel is licensed to Brookfield, CT:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?stat...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9
I guess that's legal...
There is an article about the new Kicks 105.5 in the Danbury News Times. Link: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Local-radio-station-switches-to-country-music-319020.php.
The article states that the staff from the previous Y 105 a/c format is being kept on. They were notified of the change about three months ago, giving them time to bone up on country music.
Retaining the same staff would seem to indicate Cumulus is hoping Kicks 105.5 will hold be able to hold on to a considerable chunk of the Y105 listeners. They probably expect to build on that by attracting many of the people in the Danbury area that have been listening to distant WWYZ from Hartford.
The article states that the staff from the previous Y 105 a/c format is being kept on. They were notified of the change about three months ago, giving them time to bone up on country music.
Retaining the same staff would seem to indicate Cumulus is hoping Kicks 105.5 will hold be able to hold on to a considerable chunk of the Y105 listeners. They probably expect to build on that by attracting many of the people in the Danbury area that have been listening to distant WWYZ from Hartford.
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