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WBOQ sale, format change coming

Wimmmex said:
Really? More annoying than a condescending comment about equating "coddling" with respecting First Amendment rights?



Why would I do that?

The First Amendment is more than just simply "free speech".
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These days, it seems to be more about free expression of one brilliantly propagated and marketed set of codified superstitions and folk tales over all others.
 
inorm99 said:
Really unnecessary, and annoying when you respond like that. Right out of the right wing play book.
You value free speech so much?
Start a liberal talk station
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A liberal talk station would not be successful in Boston. Liberal talk in not entertaining to garner listener and advertising support. WRKOs success in its targeted audience is due to conservative programming and hosts.
 
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b-turner said:
I'll be honest. I'm a music explorer type person and I have never thought much of Contemporary Christian or Praise & Worship music because it seemed rather uninventive and a sameness as if there were just two producers doing every release. I got a part-time job at a place where they keep either Way FM or Air1 on in the store. From a radio programming point of view I thought I had a great opportunity to study the format as it's pretty quiet when I work.

Both have a very tight playlist that is currents and recurrents (up to 3 years I suppose). The music rotates out very slowly. Maybe a new song every 2 or 3 weeks. It seems currents can stay there a year and in fairly high rotation.

Jocks are obviously after the female. Most shows are paired with male and female host. Talk is about ordinary things that would happen in a family's life. The other day was what have your children done to embarrass you in public? Subject matter is ordinary stuff any family, Christian or not, comes across. The emphasis is on being positive in attitude and a feeling of being a part of something bigger. It's pure positive thinking attitude.

Presentation is purely professional and major market. Air Talent mostly came from secular radio including one who said he was a morning show shock jock in the past.

Fundraising is based on the idea that there's a family of listeners that have made sure the positive station was on the air for you so they ask you to pay it forward with a monthly gift for the next people that need a positive radio station. Most fundraising includes a challenge with a time-limited match. Donors are registered to win a substantial prize for becoming a donor (free groceries for a year, free gasoline, Amazon gift cards in big amounts, smart phones and other things). Most give $30 a month. Nobody is pressed to give more than they can afford. I listened intently because these fundraisers always baffled me in how well they did or seemed to do.

They make no claims to being local. Still they have local crew that go out to select events and hand out swag. Air1 is out at a fireworks display this July 4 in the Fort Worth metro. In fact, the jocks at Air1, who recently relocated to Nashville will mention the differences they are learning between where they were in California.

The people that don't listen think they preach. They don't. The music lyrics is where any 'ministry' is. The concept is since these songs are played in all sorts of churches, by not preaching they can reach Catholics, mainline denominations, the mega church independents, full gospel and most of the remaining denominations. It's a wise programming decision for reaching the largest audience.

There is an emotional connection between listener and station. The reality is (and I say this as a Christian) many folks like the idea of something bigger and more powerful caring about them and willing to protect them. It's as simple as kids needing parents and as adults they need the same protection but via God. It's simple human nature in many folks. So, such a station has the ability to reach a listener on a level other formats cannot achieve.

The above might sound silly but I can tell you something interesting. When tough times come and you remain positive, there is always a way out. The key is you're watching for it because you are positive. If you think negative you're watching for more negative stuff. The result is the positive thinking works.

From a Christian perspective, I find no complaint about Christianity but I do have an issue how man has screwed it up.
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The programming is slanted and presents an Evangelical Protestant view. You'll never hear a song that mentions Mary (unless it's a Christmas song) or any saints or sacraments. So I can picture a Catholic or Eastern Orthodox person not getting anything out that "Christian Pop Music"
 
raccoonradio said:

$1.75 million
6000 watts at 390 ft above sea level
Livin' On A Prayer

One could go through the 104.7, 104.9, 105.1 stations nearby...
104.9s in Holyoke MA, CT, Wolfeboro and Hinsdale NH
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1.75 not as much as I thought it would go for. WNBP an AM with a translator went to Bloomberg for a million a few years ago, no where near the coverage or billing as WBOQ which I thought was doing well. I heard many spots on the air, don't know what they charged, if things were rough they could have been charging low ball rates and maybe getting most of their revenue from the weekend brokered shows. Ironically Tanger owned WNBP for a short time, bought it for 500k in 2005 but sold it for a lot less in 2008.
 
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DawsonM said:
The programming is slanted and presents an Evangelical Protestant view. Y
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It's generic non-Denominational and Christian. Any Christian can listen and not be offended.

DawsonM said:
You'll never hear a song that mentions Mary (unless it's a Christmas song) or any saints or sacraments. So I can picture a Catholic or Eastern Orthodox person not getting anything out that "Christian Pop Music"
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I remember speaking to a general manager at Salem in Boston about "evangelical programming" in very Catholic Massachusetts. He told me survey's Salem had done, show that 80% of their audience was of a Catholic background. (Albeit, this was before 1060AM and 1150AM.)

I am going to guess that a majority of people in Massachusetts that are listening to K-Love are of Catholic background, simply because there are so many here in New England.

I think many Catholics like "Christian Pop Music" or Praise music.
(You think Catholics are so one-dimensional that they only want to hear about Mary and, say, "Last Rites"? Catholic have the same 10-Commandments and 4 Gospels as the Evangelicals/protestants.)
 
Fr Guido Sarducci on Sat. Night Live, talking about an album by Pope John Paul II.
"The man can-a sing. He really can. I mean, he's no Smokey Robinson. But if-a you like Polish
folk songs, this is the album for-a you."
 
MRBIboredop said:
the night signal only has to make it to Everett

and as for their listeners being inside 128, I say what listeners?

If you asked 1000 random people in the Boston listening area, say anywhere inside Rt 495 two questions 1) have you listened to WKOX, and 2) what frequency are they on .... how many people could answer "yes" and "1200 AM"?
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WKOX is on 1430 AM, and had to be sold off by iHeart.

WXKS-AM is Talk1200.
 
Right; as said above WKOX was on 1190 then 1200. By Mar of 2010 Clear Channel as it was then known launched conservative talk Rush Radio on 1200 and with it swapped calls with 1430, thus becoming WXKS (AM) 1200
 
Wimmmex said:
I am going to guess that a majority of people in Massachusetts that are listening to K-Love are of Catholic background, simply because there are so many here in New England.
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This just might be my personal opinion, however my personal experience would indicate evangelical Christians (yes, they do actually exist in Massachusetts) !are both listening and supporting K-Love!
 
Wimmmex said:
It's generic non-Denominational and Christian. Any Christian can listen and not be offended.



I remember speaking to a general manager at Salem in Boston about "evangelical programming" in very Catholic Massachusetts. He told me survey's Salem had done, show that 80% of their audience was of a Catholic background. (Albeit, this was before 1060AM and 1150AM.)

I am going to guess that a majority of people in Massachusetts that are listening to K-Love are of Catholic background, simply because there are so many here in New England.

I think many Catholics like "Christian Pop Music" or Praise music.
(You think Catholics are so one-dimensional that they only want to hear about Mary and, say, "Last Rites"? Catholic have the same 10-Commandments and 4 Gospels as the Evangelicals/protestants.)
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This is a tough one for me as a Catholic. My wife loves EWTN, the Global Catholic Radio Network out of - of all places - Birmingham, AL. Not my cup of tea. She listens to it on Sirius XM during Lent, but a lot of their programming is carried by 1060 AM WQOM. There is NO WAY either my wife or I would listen to "Christian Pop" or "Praise" music that K-LOVE offers. Not speaking for all NE Catholics here, just a few that I know of.

According to several surveys by PEW Research and others, the Northeast US is probably the least religious-inclined area of the nation. This may be why K-LOVE is dying to build a huge footprint here.
 
raccoonradio said:
From The Boston Radio Dial/ bostonradio.org
(Has not been updated for awhile; I had to look up "WXKS (AM) 1430", the previous calls

>>One major change to the AM operation did come to pass in the late eighties: the addition of night operation with a second tower and 1,000 watts. Under the rules then in effect, WXKS had to change community of license, since the null in the 1430 night signal made it impossible to cover the old city of license, Medford. As “WXKS Everett”, 1430 continued to play standards—albeit off a satellite feed—through the nineties.

From 1975 when it was a daytimer
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And it was WWEL. Pour another glass of wine, please
 
Wimmmex said:
Well, from what we know of you, there is NO WAY you are listening to ANY music on the radio, right? ;-)
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You're somewhat correct about me, although I listen to The True Oldies Channel via iHeartRadio, and occasionally some Sirius XM channels. My wife listens to a set of Sirius XM channels, including 50s, 60s, 70, 80, Elvis, Classic Vinyl, BB King's Bluesville, Soul Town.

Just not anything on local FM or AM, EXCEPT for WBZ 1030.

And no apologies, either.
 
Motown said:
A liberal talk station would not be successful in Boston. Liberal talk in not entertaining to garner listener and advertising support. WRKOs success in its targeted audience is due to conservative programming and hosts.
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And what makes you such an expert?
 
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