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Westchester Country getting Country Station on Thursday

Perhaps Cumulus might eventually try an uptempo country station in New York. You could always turn WPLJ into an upbeat country station similar to Cumulus "Cat Country 96" in Allentown, PA. Maybe they are "testing the waters" with this move. You would certainly hold onto the soccer moms and also cut into the male demos. Just a thought...WPLJ isn't doing much of anything.
 
So now basically the old Y107 coverage area is served by country stations with similar signals as the respective 107.1.

Would be great to have the 106.3s in Westchester and NJ simulcast as Thunder 106, and the 106.3 translator in Manhattan to translate Thunder 106.5 (just so it's technically a translator and not a booster)
 
That should really wow the station-wagon-with-wood-on-the-side set while they drive to and from the Westchestah Country Club. ;D

Even going back some 4 decades I don't remember hearing anything remotely near Country until you got way upstate and never saw a horse unless it was in the paddock at a fashionable country day school.

I hear Westchester has changed a lot since I was there but according to a current resident the demo's these days would not be a prime target for country music.
 
Apologies as usual for my ignorance. Even with Wiki and Googlemaps I'm struggling to figure this out. How far is this from central NY?

EDIT- Think I've got it now. So it's north of central New York and south of Poughkeepsie?
 
landtuna said:
That should really wow the station-wagon-with-wood-on-the-side set while they drive to and from the Westchestah Country Club. ;D

Even going back some 4 decades I don't remember hearing anything remotely near Country until you got way upstate and never saw a horse unless it was in the paddock at a fashionable country day school.

I hear Westchester has changed a lot since I was there but according to a current resident the demo's these days would not be a prime target for country music.
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I take it you don't listen to country music. The music has changed immensely over the last decade. Even 5 years ago I wouldn't be caught dead listening to country. Now it's one of the only formats I listen to. It is much more mainstream and "pop" sounding today. That's why you hear artists like Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Taylor Swift on other stations.
 
it really doesn't matter what they put on 106.3 - the station doesn't exist and can barely be heard from the parking lot of the station. I am sure Cumulus will spend the necessary money to fix engineering issues and market the station properly - same as they did for the AC simulcast or the Rock simulcast.
 
aka. the steve said:
it really doesn't matter what they put on 106.3 - the station doesn't exist and can barely be heard from the parking lot of the station.
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Quite a few big 'if's here ,but if one compay owned both this station and WKMK they could potentially synchronise the two transmitters and get coverage across quite a bit of NYC. (this is done in the Netherlands, I think, but not in the UK)
 
It's not that simple under US regulations. The 107.1s ringing New York City came under common ownership in the 1990s and were synched up, but coverage of the city itself was still spotty at best. The problem is that even synched, co-owned stations have to follow the rest of the spacing rules - each 106.3, in this case, has to maintain coverage of its own community of license while remaining properly spaced from other co-channel stations, including another 106.3 in northwest NJ. And, most critically in this case, these signals must remain fully spaced from other adjacent-channel stations - in this case, WQXR 105.9 and WLTW 106.7 in Manhattan and WBLI 106.1 on Long Island.

Barring a massive rules change, the most that synchronization could do in this case is to make fringe reception of either the New Jersey or northern Westchester 106.3s a little cleaner within New York City. It's not going to turn either of those fringe signals into a usably strong signal within city limits.
 
BMR said:
Apologies as usual for my ignorance. Even with Wiki and Googlemaps I'm struggling to figure this out. How far is this from central NY?

EDIT- Think I've got it now. So it's north of central New York and south of Poughkeepsie?
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Poughkeepsie is actually on the western edge of Westchester County. Westchester County spans the east-west area immediately north of Harlem. It borders the Hudson River on the west and Connecticut on the east. It's been awhile since I've been there but I think the first city you'd run into after leaving NYC going north would be Yonkers.
 
ansky212 said:
landtuna said:
That should really wow the station-wagon-with-wood-on-the-side set while they drive to and from the Westchestah Country Club. ;D

Even going back some 4 decades I don't remember hearing anything remotely near Country until you got way upstate and never saw a horse unless it was in the paddock at a fashionable country day school.

I hear Westchester has changed a lot since I was there but according to a current resident the demo's these days would not be a prime target for country music.
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I take it you don't listen to country music. The music has changed immensely over the last decade. Even 5 years ago I wouldn't be caught dead listening to country. Now it's one of the only formats I listen to. It is much more mainstream and "pop" sounding today. That's why you hear artists like Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Taylor Swift on other stations.
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I listen to Country very little but my info on Westchester demos comes from a current resident whom I have known for the past 40 years. According to her the population of the county and particularly the White Plains/Port Chester area is now largely Latino. Although I imagine there are some Latino's listening to Country I doubt the numbers are significant. Especially in a heavily urban area like Westchester.

In the 70's, when I lived there, the only non-whites living in the county were at the extreme southern border where it meets NYC. Above that it was the classic white country club set and if they listened to radio at all it would have been classical or WABC.

Perhaps DE could chime in with a current demographic makeup of the county.
 
There's certainly a growing Hispanic population in Westchester (21%, per the 2010 census), but it's heavily concentrated in the more urban, southern part of the county - Yonkers, White Plains, and especially the area around Port Chester.

That's not the area 106.3 serves; indeed, it can barely be heard in those areas, especially when the Bronx pirate is active. WFAF covers the northern part of the county, which is still very much the "country club" territory you remember. Think Bill and Hillary and Chappaqua...
 
Scott Fybush said:
There's certainly a growing Hispanic population in Westchester (21%, per the 2010 census), but it's heavily concentrated in the more urban, southern part of the county - Yonkers, White Plains, and especially the area around Port Chester.

That's not the area 106.3 serves; indeed, it can barely be heard in those areas, especially when the Bronx pirate is active. WFAF covers the northern part of the county, which is still very much the "country club" territory you remember. Think Bill and Hillary and Chappaqua...
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Thanks for the update Scott. That pretty much matches what my friend is saying. And given the "country club" is still alive and well I suspect that Country would still have an uphill climb even in the northern part of the county.

I lived in both White Plains for awhile then moved to Mahopac (almost to the northern edge of the county). Although semi-rural then it's residents were mostly NYC commuters and probably more of the urban listening type than Country. Once into Putnam or Duchess counties Country music may have a chance.
 
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