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Rollo-Smokes

...got started at 11:57 PM with Steve Somers and Suzyn Waldman re-enacting the opening of the FAN from 25 years ago; Suzyn did the top-of-the-hour ID.

I'm not too much of a rock music person, so someone will fill-in as to what the last song on WRXP was.
 
Last Song on WRXP was The Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley. See "Last Song On 101.9" (WRXP) thread for last hour-plus playlist.
 
Yes - change to 660 happened abruptly as soon as Jeff Buckley's song "The Last Goodbye" ended at 11:57. WFAN was coming out of commercial at the time and went to Somers/Waldman (see 1st post in this thread).
 
The 101.9 feed is about 1 second ahead of the 660 AM feed.

On 101.9 HD2, the smooth jazz/AC format continues; at about 12:05am it was ID'd as WRXP HD2 New York.

101.9 is broadcasting in stereo - both analog (regular FM) and digital (HD). This is unlike ESPN on WEPN 98.7 which is all mono (FM and HD).

WXRK 92.3 HD3 (the WFAN feed) is now discontinued (understandably).
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
...got started at 11:57 PM with Steve Somers and Suzyn Waldman re-enacting the opening of the FAN from 25 years ago; Suzyn did the top-of-the-hour ID. (Though for the uneducated, they mentioned that WFAN started at 660 AM. Most of us know it was at 1050, but that's just a technicality.)

I'm not too much of a rock music person, so someone will fill-in as to what the last song on WRXP was.
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Rollo-Smokes said:
...got started at 11:57 PM with Steve Somers and Suzyn Waldman re-enacting the opening of the FAN from 25 years ago; Suzyn did the top-of-the-hour ID.

I'm not too much of a rock music person, so someone will fill-in as to what the last song on WRXP was.
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Though for the uneducated, they mentioned that WFAN started at 660 AM. Most of us know it was at 1050, but that's just a technicality.
 
MarioMania said:
Well I'm California

So I thought 660 would switch on the 101.9 stream
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No way that would happen - the 101.9 stream of WRXP belonged to Merlin Media (which now no longer owns the frequency); CBS Radio was taking over the frequency, thus for a continuous stream, you would have had to be listening to the WFAN stream (WFAN.com Listen Live button or Radio.com-menu choices of WFAN from New York City stations or Sports Stations).

Or had been listening to both streams at once to hear the transition.
 
BarryATL said:
I am sure it will be posted to http://formatchange.com/ tomorrow. They are pretty good about getting the format changes up quickly and people are pretty good about feeding them their recordings.
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It may take longer than that; Lance lives in a shore town and had to be evacuated when Sandy hit, so he's operating from a temporary location without access to all his usual tools. It'll be there eventually, I'm sure.
 
LIKE WE REALLY NEED 2 Sports Stations on FM - One Sports station is BAD enough on FM - I HATE NON MUSIC FM FORMATS - Talk and News and Sports belongs on AM - PERIOD. I HATE THE WAY RADIO HAS BECOME - Its harder and harder to listen to. My hopes - 92.3 takes Rock and WFME takes Country (though I hate Country I woudl like to see a Country Music FM station in New York) - Frankly I would love to have Oldies from 1955-89 on WFME and WFME's Christian format with far better teaching form outside sourses on WFME HD 2. WISHFUL THINKING.
 
There's a crappy sounding recording of the changeover HERE.

Glad we finally plugged that sports radio hole in the market. Can't get enough of Suzyn Waldman, now we get to hear her bark on FM too. ::)
 
RXP did a good job right up to the end but on the CBS side it was the lamest format change I have ever heard. Even for CBS Radio this was pretty lame. I expected more from WFAN.
 
Marckd said:
LIKE WE REALLY NEED 2 Sports Stations on FM - One Sports station is BAD enough on FM - I HATE NON MUSIC FM FORMATS - Talk and News and Sports belongs on AM - PERIOD. I HATE THE WAY RADIO HAS BECOME - Its harder and harder to listen to. My hopes - 92.3 takes Rock and WFME takes Country (though I hate Country I woudl like to see a Country Music FM station in New York) - Frankly I would love to have Oldies from 1955-89 on WFME and WFME's Christian format with far better teaching form outside sourses on WFME HD 2. WISHFUL THINKING.
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Ok, let's join the year 2012! With non music formats, you do not have to pay these huge licensing fees to ascap or bmi. The Fan had to make this move for LONG TERM competitiveness in the sports arena. Prediction: 660 remains the home of the Mets and the Yankees end up on FAN FM. That keeps ESPN from having any chance of acquiring the Yankees.
 
chrocket87 said:
Repeat after me: Radio. Is. A. Business. Not. A. Hobby. You guys are making fools out of yourselves.
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Maybe, maybe not. It does seem a lot like a lot of cutting off the nose to spite the face going on though. I don't see how any of the big moves in radio the last year or so benefit those under 35-40. Are they being written off entirely? I see a growing divide between executives and the population born after 1980 (who's now over 30). Where is terrestrial radio going to be in 10 years?
 
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