Firewall on that, and I don't/won't subscribe to that news site.
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103.9 will almost certainly have more listeners as a VCY repeater than it would as an EDM station.
@Jeffrey: if you were attempting to prove David wrong with that, you are missing the point of the latter statement.
The majority of the vehicles on the road have AM radios, and some EV's even still have AM tuners. As is, cars are staying on the road for 8-12 years at this point. The death of AM radio won't come from EVs.
The majority of the vehicles on the road have AM radios, and some EV's even still have AM tuners. As is, cars are staying on the road for 8-12 years at this point. The death of AM radio won't come from EVs.
We should totally have an EDM station.
Get a satellite radio or Spotify and you can totally have one.
Same article available for free here:
In a Future Filled With Electric Cars, AM Radio May Be Left Behind
The dashboard staple could be going the way of manual-crank windows and car ashtrays as electric vehicles begin to grab more of the U.S. marketplace.
www.seattletimes.com
For some reason the author didn't interview anyone at the FCC. Or any electronics manufacturers. Not even the head of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Pulse 87 had a million cume
Nearly every FM there does... the market is just about to hit 19 million.
Pulse did not do as well in AQH rating or share, and that is what buyers look at... not cume.
Remember plenty of FM radios can't even tune to 87.75. Of those that do, most tune to just 87.7 which can sound distorted, or cut in-and-out, because the station is-off frequency and messes with the radio's attempt to digitally lock in and/or auto-mute.
The signal strength wasn't great in the first place because it was really a lower powered CH 6 TV station with a transmitter in Brooklyn.
The dial position was at the very bottom of the FM band, below the NCE stations, and it had no history of being a radio station in NYC at all.
This "radio station" was hardly in the same ballpark, let alone on a level playing field, with other NYC signals.
Considering all those challenges the cume Pulse 87 managed to attract was not something to be brushed off, and the lower AQH/share could hardly be a surprise no matter what format they were broadcasting.
On a better, stronger signal Pulse could have been impressive. I believe if that station/format were on 94.7 today it would do much better in NYC than The Block which has nothing to show for itself after more than a year.
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Impressive? no.. better, maybe.. could they have brought in more money? possibly.. but that wouldve meant an even more expensive station to run andim betting the station, in every p[lace it tried to be... didnt last long for money reasons.
and id bet some of their DJs were just doign it for "the exposure".. so imagine if they had to pay everyone
Las Vegas isn't New York. NYC is a rhythmic town, remember? At least that's what everyone here says.
Pulse 87 had a million cume on a far inferior signal to 94.7, but WXBK doesn't even have that. It's in the 800,000's (20% less than Pulse 87) and has dropped nearly every PPM period for the past 6 months. Somehow people think that's great but they compare Pulse 87 to a repeater. Double standards I guess.
And if it had such good ratings, then explain why it could not even pay the staff and due bills.
In ratings, it never showed in the diary books. The PPM started in July of 2008 and it did not "make the book" until April of 2009. (Remember, for a period we had both a diary book and a PPM book at the same time. I only have PPM numbers.
Starting in May of 2009, the station had a 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 1.0, 0.8, 0.4, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1 for 2009
In 2010 is had a 0.1 in January, and did not show again until October when it had 9 books with a 0.1 shares in a row.
If alt listeners have a negative image at ad agencies, I can only imagine the stereotypes EDM listeners fit into. Raves, Ecstasy, Molly ... Who'd want to advertise to that demo?
I received 87.7 in West Milford, NJ so it's signal was just like the other NYC stations.
Actually, the transmitter was on top of that big blue building (One Court Square) in Long Island City, Queens. But I agree that the station, with its relatively weak signal, could not compete with more established stations like KTU and Z100.
Nightclubs usually from what I have heard. Agencies won't buy it, so the sales people have to find other motives. Usually it's the businesses where people go to hear the music.
It doesn't matter where the signal originated. The outcome would have been the same. It was little more than a sideshow in the history of NYC radio. The difference is that you have a few dedicated fans that have perpetuated a false narrative that Pulse was more than it actually was. I understand that it was meaningful to that small number of dedicated fans, but to the overall population, it didn't register.
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