WGNY Vs. WGHQ

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It's been a while since my last post, I decided to throw it in. Remember a few years ago, WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies" on 98.9 has not doing well over the long run, and when I looked at the Spring Poughkeepsie ratings book, it did pretty well, but the problem, it plays the same songs over and over and over again, as well as a few deeper album cuts. And of course, the "Fox Oldies" jingles is terrible!!!! Thanks to its new format on 92.5 FM which is now WGHQ's new "Magic 92.5", and it has been on in the last few months, and it's off to the races. WGHQ did a great job dumping the country format in the toilet, but "Fox Oldies" is in the toilet. WGHQ made a better decision that let's make a new oldies format to compete with "Fox Oldies" at 98.9 and maybe they will do a lot better. I listened to "Magic 92.5" and it's a much better radio station than "Fox Oldies" does. It has the same oldies that "Fox Oldies" did along with more 50's, more 60's, and more 70's, plus a heavy load of 80's and 90's songs that you can't find on any radio station, along with some deeper songs. I listened to the station last week, they played "Part Of Your World" by Jodi Benson from "The Little Mermaid" and that was weird playing a Disney song on a radio station in which "Radio Disney" doesn't exist anymore. Good to have a Disney song played on "Magic 92.5". WGHQ also plays songs by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and others, along with many of the great artists that you don't know of like Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Anne Murray, Carpenters, and so many more. And no, you don't hear Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and others to "Magic", no way.

I got two airchecks to play for you. We'll have to start off with WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies" where "Sunny Joe" does Saturdays right after Kevin Richards with the "Classic Country Hall of Fame" on WKBE's "Big Country 107.1". This was from last week.

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And then, right down the dial, it's WGHQ's new "Magic 92.5/920" from back on 7/26. Take a listen to 5 1/2 hours of nothing but WGHQ music, and you can figure it out. This is way better than "Fox Oldies", and I hope the ratings will be coming out in the next Fall Poughkeepsie book and see how WGHQ is doing incredibly well with the new format on 92.5.

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Tell us what you think about these about these two stations?

 

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In addition to these two, I want to applaud WABC for doing the right thing. Every Saturday night, they have the “Saturday Night Oldies” with Bruce Morrow (aka Cousin Brucie) and he did a great job doing his show, playing the oldies that we all know love from what he did on both SiriusXM and WCBS-FM in the past. I listened to him on Saturday and he sounds excellent. Same goes with Tony Orlando, and before Brucie came Constantine Marulous which follows after Warren Lawrence on WKNY with his Saturday afternoon oldies show. And then on Sundays came Joe Piscopo with his “Sunday’s With Sinatra” playing nothing but Frank Sinatra songs which is a great choice to listen to, and then came Deana Martin after that playing the music of Dean Martin and friends.

Now that WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies” and WGHQ’s new “Magic 92.5” is still doing battle, “Fox Oldies” might be losing all of its listening audience to go to WGHQ for a much better music without hearing too much classic rock on there. As I said, “Magic 92.5” is going to do a lot better in the ratings in the next Poughkeepsie fall book. But on top of that, listeners were still listening to WABC every weekend where Cousin Brucie comes to play, and listeners loved it, and so do I. I do have airchecks of Cousin Brucie from WABC about 40+ shows in my collection dating back to September of last year, but I might as well go back to Mixcloud and listen to Cousin Brucie all over again.