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Something up with WLYN 1360 AM/WAZN 1470 AM - Multicultural Broadcasting?

b-turner said:
A brokered time station usully has a GM that sells. A second person might cover hours the manager is off. A staff is not needed.
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I don’t know of anyone having replaced the only two local employees, the local GM and OM, after they were laid off over a year ago, and the former local studio and office was padlocked.

I’ve heard that since then it has been running only by remote control from the parent company in NYC, without a local studio or office, and without a local GM, local backup person, or any local personnel (except local transmitter maintenance/repair).

In the more than a year since that happened, it has only aired a canned “placeholder” ‘60s/‘70s oldies/classic hits feed with no announcing or DJ’s, only a local recorded top of hour ID every hour, except when it aired brokered programming for a few weeks last fall (Spanish and Haitian). I don’t know whether that was arranged remotely from NYC, but it didn’t last long and it went back to the canned music feed.
 
CTListener said:
How many listeners do these stations have other than RadioDiscussion members and (maybe) moderators?
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Probably very few. It’s not meant to get listeners, there’s no local promotion or content at all except for the required top of hour ID. No commercials and no outreach for any. It’s a “placeholder” format to keep the licenses alive for some reason.

I’ve seen a few people online looking for “oldies” who stumbled onto one or both stations, wondering what they are. One said they preferred it to WMEX’s current oldies/classic hits programming.

But, I’m sure not enough to be viable in any way.
 


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