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Who gets the WDRE call letters?

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MUSCLE13

OK Everybody is going crazy over dance stations. Yuck!

What I want to know is who grabs the famous WDRE calls now and creates a modern rock station patterned after the legendary 92.7 WLIR/WDRE that changed the entire American music scene in its day. I will even be happy with a HD station taking the calls.

Who gets it? Who Dares To Be Different........Again?
 
You make it seem as if dance stations are flooding outlets everywhere like CHR's. But as to WDRE, I say let it go back home to philly and have a decent modern rock station. But that wont happen thanks to the boneheads of Radio One who completely trashed Y100 and I doubt they will flip their gospel format on 103.9
 
No just think the music is horrendous. No offense.

Did you see Tom Taylor's piece on the calls -

Excerpt -

The “WDRE” calls are available for the first time in over 20 years.

The legendary calls once meant “modern rock” on Long Island when they were on the 92.7 frequency that kids in the five boroughs strained to listen to, back in the 1980s.


More here

http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-10302009.html
 
d21ofnj said:
But that wont happen thanks to the boneheads of Radio One who completely trashed Y100 and I doubt they will flip their gospel format on 103.9
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Radio One specializes in formats that target the African American Audience. Modern Rock is not considered to be a format that targets the African American Audience. Truth hurts. DEAL WITH IT.
 
MarcB said:
d21ofnj said:
But that wont happen thanks to the boneheads of Radio One who completely trashed Y100 and I doubt they will flip their gospel format on 103.9
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Radio One specializes in formats that target the African American Audience. Modern Rock is not considered to be a format that targets the African American Audience. Truth hurts. DEAL WITH IT.
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I was being sarcastic, that last line wasn't necessary  8)
 
It did not take long for the calls to get snatched up. A request for the calls was made on 10/30/09 by Digital Radio Broadcasting Inc located in Middletown, NY. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/prod/query.hts

Digital Radio Broadcasting appears to part of Digital Radio Engineering (www.dre.cc) and the Digital Radio Group.

They have several translators in Middletown, NY as well as a contruction permit for a station with the calls of WYNY so perhaps that's where they will end up.
 
MrsN said:
It did not take long for the calls to get snatched up. A request for the calls was made on 10/30/09 by Digital Radio Broadcasting Inc located in Middletown, NY. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/prod/query.hts

Digital Radio Broadcasting appears to part of Digital Radio Engineering (www.dre.cc) and the Digital Radio Group.

They have several translators in Middletown, NY as well as a contruction permit for a station with the calls of WYNY so perhaps that's where they will end up.
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Link doesn't work. Can you post a correct one? That's bad news if somebody took those legendary calls just because it's the intials of their company.
 
MUSCLE13 said:
MrsN said:
It did not take long for the calls to get snatched up. A request for the calls was made on 10/30/09 by Digital Radio Broadcasting Inc located in Middletown, NY. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/prod/query.hts

Digital Radio Broadcasting appears to part of Digital Radio Engineering (www.dre.cc) and the Digital Radio Group.

They have several translators in Middletown, NY as well as a contruction permit for a station with the calls of WYNY so perhaps that's where they will end up.
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Link doesn't work. Can you post a correct one? That's bad news if somebody took those legendary calls just because it's the intials of their company.
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sorry - try this: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/callsign/prod/main.html
hit the query button and enter the calls on the next screen
 
MUSCLE13 said:
That's bad news if somebody took those legendary calls just because it's the intials of their company.
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Like it or not when a station changes its call sign, their old call sign is up for grabs. Like when 740 became WNYH, some FM station in Pennsylvania took the WGSM call letters. Now the Pennsylvania station changed its call letters some one else is free to take the WGSM call letters. (If I had a couple million dollars me and a Korean Speaking lawyer would call up Dr. Yoon and I'd buy the station, build nice studios somewhere in Huntington, fix the technical problems and put the WGSM calls back on 740).
 
Who cares about call letters anymore? They are as significant to the station as the license plate number of the PD's car.
 
Maybe CC could do a decent thing. Replace the WRFF call and put the WDRE call on 104.5. Something is better than nothing right?
 
Andrew J. Gladding said:
Island 94.3 should have grabbed them.....
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Would have made a ton of sense. Even for an HD channel. Oh well...........

Would love to see the old LIR calls used for something besides that sports station.
 
MUSCLE13 said:
Andrew J. Gladding said:
Island 94.3 should have grabbed them.....
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Would have made a ton of sense. Even for an HD channel. Oh well...........

Would love to see the old LIR calls used for something besides that sports station.
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Well they can't get a different set of call letters for the HD-2 channel. Even WNEW.com, which was on 102.7 HD-2 until recently, was legally identified as WWFS-HD2.
 
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