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WFNX being sold to Clear Channel

If it were Spanish it would probably be music or talk, or possibly sports

Insightful. Music, talk, or sports. What's left, control-tower chatter from Logan?

I understand the need to just toss these vacuous posts up here in the race to get to 12,000 first, but I don't think anyone is competing with you on that score.

My mother had an expression she's use when I or one of my brothers spouted babble, "Just talking to hear your head rattle." Your posts may be the electronic equivalent.

Regards,
TSB
 
Also of note is the Boston BIA info... the Worcester stations are not, in fact, part of the Boston market and do not count against CC's ownership there.
 
thanks for link, yes more transposition of call letters (like, in Sports on TV and Radio: "WRPO (sic)
(630) Providence"). Actually there is a station on the NH seacoast that re-dubbed itself Kiss
and briefly simulcast WXKS-FM (107.9) and they used _similar_ call letters of WSKX.

We'll see what the format does wind up becoming; obviously as in many markets, moving or
simulcasting an AM talk or sports station is important for companies like these. It's been said
that Spanish might be more likely given the signal's strength closer to the city. Scenarios:
(1430 staying same)

1200--conserv talk, 101.7 Spanish
1200 and 101.7 conserv talk
1200--Spanish, 101.7 conserv talk
and so on.
#2 may be likely--they would cover city and suburbs well with both and ratings would count
a 100 per cent simulcast as the two added together (see WEEI 850 and 93.7). Or would CC
attempt to broaden its Spanish-language outreach by making 101.7 Spanish, or 1200 (with
the talk migrating to FM)?

Check out the CP for 1200, NIGHTS
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WXKS&service=AM&status=C&hours=N
Covering Boston and a good chunk of North Shore, South Shore. Perhaps 1200 Spanish and
101.7 talk? Or vicey-versy? :)

WFNX: Not as big as they'd like but still quite a few people in the red circle, as well as the purple
(main, distant)
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFNX&service=FM&status=L&hours=U
 
Let's see... Looking at the maps... One might think $14+ million for a redundant signal serving 1200's roughly 110,000 cume or 1430's 40,000 cume by blowing up a heritage station with a solid 200,000 cume a bit ridiculous.

Didn't CC try the Spanish bit with KSJO, 104.5 Philly and 104.1 Hartford? Oh, thats right, they tried the "Power" bit in Hartford which went (w) PHH... I wonder what format CC flipped those stations back to?

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TSBench said:
If it were Spanish it would probably be music or talk, or possibly sports

Insightful. Music, talk, or sports. What's left, control-tower chatter from Logan?
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It's just another post from someone who thinks Spanish is a format and forgets it is a language and that there are many many formats possible.

However, there is no really successful Spanish language talk station on the US Mainland (the Miami one with the big shares has an average age of 72) and sports generally gets low right-of-the-decimal numbers even in markets with over 30% Hispanics.

Of the music formats, none have mass appeal across all national origin groups, so hitting even a 1 share would be a challenge.

Were the Logan tower chat in Spanish, it might do better than any of the already discussed possibilities.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Of the music formats, none have mass appeal across all national origin groups, so hitting even a 1 share would be a challenge.
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So why does "tropical" music do so well in markets like NY and Miami? Both markets have large Puerto Rican and Dominican populations, and in Miami you have a third major presence in the Cubans. Is there really a common denominator, musically, that allows stations to bridge the cultural differences? If so, how come there's no such common denominator in the Boston market?
 
Although WXKS-1200 isn't the best 50,000-watt signal, it covers a much larger area than does 101.7.

As noted on Radio-Locator.com, WXKS-1430's nighttime signal area isn't that good (while it has a pretty decent daytime signal for a station on 1430 kilohertz).

That's why I'm still convinced 101.7 will simulcast (or even replace) 1430.

If "Talk 1200" goes to FM, I think Clear Channel would "blow up" either WJMN-94.5 or (more likely) WXKS-107.9. An FM version of that station, IMHO, needs a larger signal area than what 101.7 can offer.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Although WXKS-1200 isn't the best 50,000-watt signal, it covers a much larger area than does 101.7.

As noted on Radio-Locator.com, WXKS-1430's nighttime signal area isn't that good (while it has a pretty decent daytime signal for a station on 1430 kilohertz).

That's why I'm still convinced 101.7 will simulcast (or even replace) 1430.

If "Talk 1200" goes to FM, I think Clear Channel would "blow up" either WJMN-94.5 or (more likely) WXKS-107.9. An FM version of that station, IMHO, needs a larger signal area than what 101.7 can offer.
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Kiss 108 has been number 1 in every single PPM monthly report except the special "holiday" report. Outside of Christmas, no other station has ever been #1 6+ in the PPM's in Boston. Doesn't matter if it's 6+, it's an inexplicably successful station.

Kiss 108 isn't being blown up.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
If "Talk 1200" goes to FM, I think Clear Channel would "blow up" either WJMN-94.5 or (more likely) WXKS-107.9. An FM version of that station, IMHO, needs a larger signal area than what 101.7 can offer.
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WXKS is the most listened to signal in the market - CC is not going to touch that.

Now WHAT IF CC has decided to put 96.1 and 101.7 together? Give WSRS a big boost in Boston OR blow WSRS up and go to talk as well.
 
Fenway1912 said:
Joseph_Gallant said:
If "Talk 1200" goes to FM, I think Clear Channel would "blow up" either WJMN-94.5 or (more likely) WXKS-107.9. An FM version of that station, IMHO, needs a larger signal area than what 101.7 can offer.
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WXKS is the most listened to signal in the market - CC is not going to touch that.

Now WHAT IF CC has decided to put 96.1 and 101.7 together? Give WSRS a big boost in Boston OR blow WSRS up and go to talk as well.
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...For the same reason Kiss 108 isn't going anywhere, WSRS isn't going anywhere. Most listened to station in the Worcester market and the top biller.
 
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