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The Changing Landscape for New York Radio in 2009

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kevinsealy

CBS Radio has made some managerial changes at WXRK-Rock. There are rumors that ESPN may purchase WRXP from Emmis turning the station @ 101.9FM into an all sports station, which leaves a format opening at 1050AM.

Today the ratings come out for the November Arbitron PPM's. What will the numbers look like for K-Rock and New York's Rock Experience?

With new management in place at K-Rock and rumors floating about WRXP, could we see a format change to K-Rock? And if so, what? CHR? Or could 102.7FM pick up rock and bring back the WNEW-FM call letters. But the possibility of this happening would only be *IF* K-Rock and WRXP drop their rock formats. There isn't room in NY to have three successful rock stations.

How will WBLS sound in 2009? They're going through a financial crisis. With the PPM's their audience isn't as large as it was under the dairy system Arbitron used.

And Bob Grant's contract expires at years end. Will we still hear his voice who've we heard for 38 years on New York Radio?



Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Why would you move a rock format from one frequency to another? If they can't get rock to work on 92.3, what makes them think it would work on 102.7. Let's face it, besides news and sports... CBS SUCKS!!!!!
 
I think people are too hung up over "heritage" frequencies, even if that heritage is long, long gone and forgotten by most of the listening public. Just because 102.7 was where rock once "lived," doesn't mean that a rock format there today, 10 years after rock left that frequency, would succeed any more than it would succeed anywhere else on the dial. Ditto bringing back, say, Disco 92 to 92.3, when it was last there in 1985!!!

Likewise, people are too hung up on call letters, when in fact WNEW no longer really has meaning to most radio listeners in the city. Again, WNEW and rock have not been associated with each other in the past decade.
 
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