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WGNY-FM Rosendale On The Air

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dx1ng

This Saturday afternoon (2/5/2011), I noticed WGNY-FM on the air, presumably testing, with simulcast of "The Fox" 96.7 /103.1. They just popped on the air in mid-song around 1:10pm, but then went off the air about 10 minutes later. I expect they'll be on and off throughout the afternoon. The modulation was low, but the audio sounded very clean.
 
I check 98.9 WGNY-FM and it's nothing, all they have is a scrambled mess. I guess that they tried to simulcast "The Fox" as a AC station. Don't we have enough AC stations to fill a hole in the market? WGNY-FM is now trying to become an AC station instead of oldies. What's happening here. Poughkeepsie has too many AC stations. We have WRNQ's "Lite-FM", WCZX's "Mix 97.7" and WHUD. Why do we need a 4th AC station in the area. That is a waste of space. Poughkeepsie has 3 AC stations. Look at WJGK's signal. It does well in Poughkeepsie and it is listenable in Kingston due to the interference of WGY-FM which is a talk station at 103.1 up in Albany. Give me a break. I hope this station will be "Fox Oldies" on 98.9 if it's going to be an oldies station if they can change formats. That is totally insane! WGNY-FM is simulcast an AC station on 98.9 is a waste, and they are going to compete with "Lite-FM", "Mix" and WHUD. Fix the problem! :mad:
 
I agree simulating WJGK on 98.9 would be a waste of the new frequency. Although it would push the station further north, there is too much overlap, and as you said too many AC stations already. However it is way too soon to speculate on what the format will be. What was heard on 98.9 on Saturday means absolutely nothing. They are in the early stages of testing. Although anything is possible the engineers needed something to put on the air and WJGK is readily available. What could they put on there? That’s a good question, and there is not much point in speculating. I do hope for a good oldies station in the Poughkeepsie market. WGNY-AM - Fox Oldies is not it. IMO there is too much really old (50’s and early 60’s mixed with some 70’s) and mellow stuff for this 58 YO. The only good thing I could say about putting it on 98.9 is it would free up the 95.7 translator to bring back WVOS. Now that is a great ‘oldies’ or Greatest Hits station They have just the right mix of 60’s & 70‘s music with perhaps a little 80‘s mixed in.. Good on air personalities to boot unlike the boring ones on WGNY-AM. I miss listening to WVOS.
 
Here's the deal, WQQQ is flipping formats tomorrow to NPR, and WGNY-FM is going to put an AC format or oldies. As I said it's in its planning stages on what 98.9 will be. I haven't listened to 98.9 yesterday since I headed to Albany to the museum and had a great time. As I got home, it's nothing on there. I hope 98.9 is still not on the air yet, but we shall see.
 
I wonder what they are going to do with 96.7 WTSX when it moves south to Lehman Twp, PA...I don't see it as a simulcast of 103.1 since there will be little to no overlap between signals and will be mostly a fringe signal to East Sroudsburg.
 
This afternoon, when I was on my way home from work, I listened to 98.9 where they are still simulcasting WJGK for 5 minutes until went static at around 3:55 PM. What's the problem here? Is WGNY-FM are still working on it or maybe they should give up or try something else. 98.9 is still in testing phases right now, but it is not going on the air right away. Just have to patient. Patience is a virtue.
 
You guys crack me up, the station is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NO it's not going to be on the air for long periods or on consistently yet. Many things need to be tested.

Yes, the station will probably be simulcasting WGNY AM and not JGK. But obviously for testing its easier to dump an existing FM stereo station on it, and maybe they don't want to give away what the format will be yet since you know....it's not launched yet.
 
thataveragejoe said:
You guys crack me up, the station is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NO it's not going to be on the air for long periods or on consistently yet. Many things need to be tested.

Yes, the station will probably be simulcasting WGNY AM and not JGK. But obviously for testing its easier to dump an existing FM stereo station on it, and maybe they don't want to give away what the format will be yet since you know....it's not launched yet.
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Or maybe if WGNY-FM will simulcasting WGNY-AM as "Fox Oldies", they should bring back WVOS-FM on 95.7 as a greatest hits station of the 60's, 70's and 80's.
 
The station can't sign on officially until the FCC has granted program test authority, which it hasn't yet.
 
Necrat said:
The station can't sign on officially until the FCC has granted program test authority, which it hasn't yet.
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WGNY-FM 98.9 Rosendale was granted a license to cover program test authority on 02/09/2010
 
MHVRadiofan said:
WGNY-FM 98.9 Rosendale was granted a license to cover program test authority on 02/09/2010
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A day after my post. Go figure.
 
I got some good news, WGNY-FM is now on the air on 98.9 as "Fox Oldies". I checked it a few minutes ago and they're playing oldies/greatest hits, just like CBS-FM did 4 years after the station came back. After 4 years of not having an oldies station in the Hudson Valley since WBPM's "Cool 92.9" flipped to a classic hits/rock format back in February 2007, WGNY-FM is on the air for now as "Fox Oldies 98.9". They got some great music, check it out!
 
I noticed that WGNY-FM just kind of popped on the air on my drive home from work around 5:25pm. I don't know if they were on the air earlier in the day or not. However they are just testing, with some crazy pitch control and other wierd effects going on on their HD channel... they are way out of sync. They have announced regular programming begins Feb 26th.
 
dx1ng said:
I noticed that WGNY-FM just kind of popped on the air on my drive home from work around 5:25pm. I don't know if they were on the air earlier in the day or not. However they are just testing, with some crazy pitch control and other wierd effects going on on their HD channel... they are way out of sync. They have announced regular programming begins Feb 26th.
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To my knowledge, their regular schedule are planned for February 26th, and they'll be the same including Van Ritschie, Buffalo Bob and of course "When Radio Was" featuring shows from the golden age of radio. I hope you'll tune in on Monday February 26th. II hope if the new WGNY-FM should bring Rick McCaffery back to the Hudson Valley to do the "Solid Gold Jukebox" on Friday nights as well as 2 full hours of doo-wop music on the "Doo-Wop Cruise", that will do better.
 
oldies4ever said:
You guys are way off base....Ch-ch-ch-changes in the works. I'm sworn to secrecy. ;D

oldies4ever
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You're absolutely right! Changes in the works as of now. I tried to listened to it when I was on my way out to the Poughkeepsie Galleria, I checked the station, there is nothing but static during most of the dayparts, but when I checked it about a half hour later, it came back on the air finally. I hope that February 26th is only a week away from the launch of the new station on 98.9. I checked 98.9 but it comes in really well in Poughkeepsie, but I hope if 98.9 will start next week, 95.7 will be returning as WVOS-FM, if not, 95.7 will pull the plug after 98.9 is going make the switch.

I don't know what the new lineup is going to be on "Fox Oldies 98.9" as of next week.
 
oldies4ever said:
You guys are way off base....Ch-ch-ch-changes in the works. I'm sworn to secrecy. ;D

oldies4ever
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In order to state that as fact you would have to work for Sunrise Broadcasting / Hawkeye Communications or be closely associated with someone who is. You or they must have signed a confidentiality agreement .Starting out announcing they are going to be oldies 98.9 thus getting a little publicity and then flipping to something else, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but stranger things have happened. The only benefit would be to keep the competition guessing, but two weeks difference doesn’t really matter. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you are in the know what time on Monday are they starting regular programming?
 
MHVRadiofan said:
In order to state that as fact you would have to work for Sunrise Broadcasting / Hawkeye Communications or be closely associated with someone who is. You or they must have signed a confidentiality agreement .Starting out announcing they are going to be oldies 98.9 thus getting a little publicity and then flipping to something else, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but stranger things have happened. The only benefit would be to keep the competition guessing, but two weeks difference doesn’t really matter. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you are in the know what time on Monday are they starting regular programming?
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According to the promo, "We'll begin our programming on the morning of February 26th". That is going to be on a Saturday. It's only 3 days from now. I will record an aircheck of the launch starting this Saturday morning. I will record the last hour of commercial free oldies until the station launches this Saturday. What's going to happen with 95.7's translator, it should go back to WVOS-FM for now or 95.7 will go off the air after the launch on 98.9. We shall see. Time will tell.
 
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