According to Scot Fybush’s North East Radio Watch WENU, 1410 South Glens Falls, will drop classic country on Saturday, and become the Albany area's CBS Sports affiliate. Subscription needed: http://www.fybush.com/nerw-20120218/
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WENU To Become Albany Area CBS Sports Affiliate
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I hope that maybe someday, WEOK/WALL will dump Scott Shannon's "True Oldies Channel" to become Hudson Valley's new home of CBS Sports Radio which is going to be in Poughkeepsie and Middletown. These two stations are owned by Cumulus and this will be great idea to bring CBS Sports Radio to the table. Sports radio in the Hudson Valley to make a comeback.
My guess, WGNY's "Fox Oldies" and WBPM are bringing in some "True Oldies" listeners, because according to the Fall book, WEOK/WALL and WGNY both didn't show up in the ratings. WEOK/WALL has a big fat zero in the ratings during the last few years. Like I said, Poughkeepsie and Middletown needs a new CBS Sports Radio affiliate at 1340 AM and 1390 AM. Come on, Cumulus, get it straight!
My guess, WGNY's "Fox Oldies" and WBPM are bringing in some "True Oldies" listeners, because according to the Fall book, WEOK/WALL and WGNY both didn't show up in the ratings. WEOK/WALL has a big fat zero in the ratings during the last few years. Like I said, Poughkeepsie and Middletown needs a new CBS Sports Radio affiliate at 1340 AM and 1390 AM. Come on, Cumulus, get it straight!
Does 1410 have a good signal that can picked up as far south as Albany? I've never tried that station. I guess if this is true it will Jim Rome will be able to be heard again in the Albany area. He left Fox Sports for CBS radio a few months ago. I used to really like his show but I stopped listening a few years ago for no apparent reason so maybe I'll give it a try again.
1410 does not have a usable signal in the Albany area, where it's drowned out by first-adjacent WAMC on 1400. To the extent it's listed anywhere as the "Albany" outlet for CBS SR (not in my column, by the way!), it's only because of the standard radio syndicator practice of listing affiliates by TV DMA. Glens Falls is certainly part of the Albany TV DMA, but that doesn't mean its radio signals make it to the big city.
WENU makes it to Ballston Spa in the middle of the day, about 20 miles north of Albany, but does not even hardly cover The Glens Falls area at night with its 103 watts. I am disappointed but not surprised at this development. I work in the Glens Falls area and listen to WENU when I can. Going to have to find a new station for one of my presets. I find it puzzling that both Pamal's stations in Glens Falls are going to be sports. WMML 1230 is Fox Sports. One of their FM's, WFFG-FM 107.1 (Froggy 107.1) has a country format and over the last year has added some classic country in the mix referring to it as a "froggy flashback". I will probably listen to that when I am in the area. I would think that Pamal would change 590 WROW Albany to CBS Sports and put magic back on 100.9 where it was and should not have been moved.
I happened to notice that 1410 in the northeast has become a"sports channel" 1410's in Hartford, Ct. as well as in Elmira and Watertown and soon to be S. Glens Falls will all be sports.
Heard a promo today on WENU for the change to CBS Sports radio and an invite to country music listeners to tune in to Froggy 107.1 (WFFG-FM) where they mix in some classic country with current country.
I have given up hope on having a long term classic country station. This is the 4th station in my region that carried this Dial Global format and the average duration was a little over 2 years. The cold hard fact is that this format does not sell. All of the stations had very little advertising, there were mostly PSA's to fill in the stop sets. Even the 2 stations that had a local morning drive jock did not see any real increase in ads in the local slot.
40 years ago, I was around 20 years of age and very few people my age back then listened to country music. It was some years later when country music changed from traditional to "modern" that younger people began to listen. It would seem that many people older than I am who listened to country from the 60's to the early 80's have passed on, and there not as many fans around my age, (I will be 60 on saturday) does not bode well for this type of format. I have to wonder if the classic country format is going to be around much longer. I really think that the format needs to be changed a little. Currently 10% of it is from the 90's. I think they(Dial Global) really needs to start mixing in music from 2000 to 2010. This might attract more listeners who would like to hear music that they once listened to only a few years ago. This might be similar to the "real country" format which was on Bug Country and I believe did better than going to today's country as they did, putting them head on with WGNA and Big Frog 104 WFRG.
I have given up hope on having a long term classic country station. This is the 4th station in my region that carried this Dial Global format and the average duration was a little over 2 years. The cold hard fact is that this format does not sell. All of the stations had very little advertising, there were mostly PSA's to fill in the stop sets. Even the 2 stations that had a local morning drive jock did not see any real increase in ads in the local slot.
40 years ago, I was around 20 years of age and very few people my age back then listened to country music. It was some years later when country music changed from traditional to "modern" that younger people began to listen. It would seem that many people older than I am who listened to country from the 60's to the early 80's have passed on, and there not as many fans around my age, (I will be 60 on saturday) does not bode well for this type of format. I have to wonder if the classic country format is going to be around much longer. I really think that the format needs to be changed a little. Currently 10% of it is from the 90's. I think they(Dial Global) really needs to start mixing in music from 2000 to 2010. This might attract more listeners who would like to hear music that they once listened to only a few years ago. This might be similar to the "real country" format which was on Bug Country and I believe did better than going to today's country as they did, putting them head on with WGNA and Big Frog 104 WFRG.
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In 1986 as we sat in Quaker Village and laid out the plans for the recently acuired 1410 cp, I said, "Look, if you're turning my office into a studio for this little AM, can we please mix some sports in with the music and news?"
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