WFAN-FM Could Begin Thu. 11/1/12??

[reelyreal]

I saw an ironic tweet earlier today from WFAN's account that if 660 goes off the air due to the storm it will go to 92.3.

Yep.

All they will have to do is flip the switch. The audio is already "in the box".

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

It's easier than that. Audio routing in that building (and in most clusters) means that any programming can be fed to any transmitter at the push of a button. Spin the switcher to whatever studio feed you want, pot it up, boom.

 

[nd2023]

If 1010 WINS is still out of commission, perhaps WINS will move from 92.3 to 101.9 until the transmitter is fixed. Would be quite ironic considering 101.9 was home to FM News.

CBS should have LMAed 101.9 a few days earlier.

 

[MarioMania]

Will they delay WFAN going to FM

or keep it on the 1st??

 

[Mac Daddy]

I feel like this is not he best week to debut a new station in NYC. I would seriously consider delaying the flip till next friday at the least.

 

[milton77]

If 1010 WINS is still out of commission, perhaps WINS will move from 92.3 to 101.9 until the transmitter is fixed. Would be quite ironic considering 101.9 was home to FM News.

Great idea.

 

[billalm]

Yes. Go ahead and take over the frequency 101.9 tonight and simulcast 1010 there till they're up and running again. Use frequent on air promotion on 660 that the new FM simulcast has been delayed due to the storm and that 1010 WINS is gonna be there till things have settled back down. Even though the next week or two... it really can't hurt. No rush to get WFAN on the FM in my mind. If anything, it's gets more FM promotion for 1010 during the crisis and for when they go back to AM exclusively. 92.3 gets back to music "now" and everyone "wins".

 

[fybush]

1010 is back.

 

[charlestondxman]

I heard it just minutes after Fybush heard it, cutting through the static in Charleston, SC. They are fine for now.

 

[nd2023]

If you like 92.3 Now, be glad that CBS fixed the WINS transmitter and it was acquiring 101.9. Both of those ensured that Now would not be displaced for a long time. If CBS weren't acquiring 101.9 and the WINS transmitter was out of commission for a month, the simulcast would continue for a long time. The ratings would certainly go up, and CBS might consider permanently keeping WINS on 92.3.

 

[badjef]

If you like 92.3 Now, be glad that CBS fixed the WINS transmitter and it was acquiring 101.9. Both of those ensured that Now would not be displaced for a long time. If CBS weren't acquiring 101.9 and the WINS transmitter was out of commission for a month, the simulcast would continue for a long time. The ratings would certainly go up, and CBS might consider permanently keeping WINS on 92.3.

I'm not sure if it still holds, but the 92.3 is/was never the most desirable frequency of the cluster.

92.3 is next to the non-comm band and is on the left side of the center of the dial. I never bought into this mentality, but it does have some merit on a sub-conscience level. It doesn't explain 1978's "Disco 92" WKTU, of course and Howard Stern's popularity on that frequency, either.

If the thought still prevails in the boardroom, I would think they would be more inclined to use 102.7.

What I thought was interesting in all of this, is that I've been listening to WINS and WCBS from various online feeds from Florida, and I had been talking down the internet as an emergency service because of the complexity of the service and here it is the simple, but powerful 50,000watt transmitter is the one that fails.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[BarryATL]

Is WINS back to full power on the AM side yet?