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The Future Of 1050
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Huh? GKB has been running two sports stations in New York for years, one with the ESPN feed and one with local programs.
What "sign" tells you that is changing?
What "sign" tells you that is changing?
Why wouldn't they keep the national schedule for ESPN on 1050?
This should explain why GKB runs two sports stations in NY:
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They need the NY clear for the network, which they sell. They are the only national sports network with full time coverage in NYC.
98.7 runs a mostly local sports talk format, and that's what's moving to 880.
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They need the NY clear for the network, which they sell. They are the only national sports network with full time coverage in NYC.
98.7 runs a mostly local sports talk format, and that's what's moving to 880.
ESPN Radio doesn't need to have a 24/7 clearance in NYC. Fox Sports Radio and Infinity Sports Network don't have 24/7 dumping grounds in the market and neither are in danger. Plus the 24/7 clearance on 1050 only exists because ESPN Deportes Radio failed, and Disney had nothing else to put on the station.
Sell 1050 now while the getting is good before it turns into a giant albatross. Which is inevitable as the AM dial circles the drain into obsolescence.
Sell 1050 now while the getting is good before it turns into a giant albatross. Which is inevitable as the AM dial circles the drain into obsolescence.
Confirmed here that 1050 will carry the national feed. Radio Ink story
Sadly. It won't have listeners, won't help the ESPN network, and Craig Karamzin will have to hand in the license in a matter of years because he can't sell it. After all, this devalues the AM dial.
I like to listen to Marty and McGee on Saturday mornings while doing my chores so they at least have 1 listener. I believe it does help sell their national weekday morning show when they can say it airs on a 50000 watt NYC radio station. The AM dial is already devalued. What would you rather put on 1050? Emmis has been trying to sell 1190 for years and can't find a buyer. How much do you think they could sell 1050 for? The LMA is only for 3 years so this gives them an alternative when they need to renegotiate.
What devalues the AM dial is all the ethnic and religious programming, followed by all the conservative talk. It does nothing to attract new listeners to a dial that was already obsolete in the 1980s.
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Maybe it’s a good idea to put sports betting station coming to New York City, or if not, maybe back to a talk station and bring back the WEVD call letters, but I would love to see 1050 bringing back a talk station.
Why more talk. There is plenty of that.
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Let’s go back to 10 days before 9-11 which was 9/1/01 and hear the last moments of WEVD unt it became ESPN Radio on 1050 AM. I hope maybe a talk station will come back to 1050 as I mentioned before.
1050 WEVD Gives Way To ESPN - Format Change Archive
Previous Format: News/Talk WEVD New Format: Sports “1050 ESPN Radio” (Station would become WEPN in April 2003) Date & Time Of Change: September 1, 2001 at 12:00am More Info: Wikipedia
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Most talk formats are conservative. And it’s the same argument all day. Is that really better? Rush Limbaugh isn’t coming back to save talk radio.
It will help the network, they can claim NYC clearance and potential listeners... means alot to national; advertisers
Nothing is changing with respect to 1050. If it's working now, it will keep working. If it's not working now, that's unrelated to whatever happens as the local programming moves from 98.7 to 880.
The AM band is of dubious value even in the small markets where AM operators are paying for any FM signals they can get. I miss music AM's but I am 72.
1190 is a vastly inferior signal when compared to 1050. It only got its highly directional night operation by "buying off" WOWO and is still only 10 kw daytime. 1050, on the other hand, has reasonable coverage daytime and is only moderately limited to the western side of its site at night as its major protection is Monterrey, Mexico!
I'm not as sold on the 1050 signal as you are. Yes, the co-channel protection is mostly to XEG (and to some extent CHUM) at night, but the first adjacent protection is brutal because of KYW on 1060. It's not really a competitive signal in most of central NJ, which is why the Knicks and Rangers were in a hurry to sign up affiliates in New Brunswick and on the shore to make up for the loss of 98.7. (That was before anyone knew 880 was in play, of course.)
No argument here. I was just bringing up the only other AM in the market that is publicly for sale. 1050 will be worth more but more than what?
I’m thinking the 1050 signal isn’t that great either.
That’s the day AND night pattern for WEPN.
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