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WLIB 1190 AM Going Gospel.

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kevinsealy

According to Dave Hinckley's column in Monday's Daily News 8/21, WLIB will take on a Gospel format starting September 1, 2006.

This means that shows aired by Air America will cease. WLIB dropped its local programming at the end of March 2004 to carry the Air America shows which counters conservative talk radio.

Inner City had considered Country or Oldies, but Gospel was the winner because it will compliment WLIB's Black heritage.

With WLIB going Gospel, this may be the best move Inner City will be making. WLIB could could see their highest ratings ever.



Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
WWRL: Same Old, Same Old

disney fanatic said:
There is a website under construction for the new format on WLIB. This station will compete against WMCA and WWDJ, the two inspirational formats, WLIB will make room for gospel. Here it is.

http://www.wlib.com

BYE, BYE AIR AMERICA ON 1190, WE LOVE YOU!!! GOOD LUCK ON THE NEW 1600!!! :'(
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Oh, puh-leeeeeze!
First off, all of us do NOT love Air America Radio (if you love them, you should get the name right).
Even some former AAR fans don't love AAR after the screwing of Mike Malloy (Oh, wait!  He got dumped from WLIB months ago for the pay to play ABC Satellite Sisters.  He just got fired from the network two days ago.)
AAR is bad radio.  And apparently they have to buy their way onto a bottom-feeder New York station through an LMA  because they still can't a real affiliate to clear their shows (not surprising given lousy ratings and almost no local sales on WLIB).
If you want to hear some decent progressive talk radio, go to Stephanie Miller's website and click on Listen Live (9am to 12noon).  AAR won't let you hear it in New York but this is what most of the country hears instead of trashmeister Jerry Springer (who will be getting dumped himself later this month).
Some progressive talk stations are getting decent numbers and making money.  They do it by: Having a decent signal (WWRL Strike One).  Doing local-live progressive talk programming consistent with the format - not a legacy Urban talk show (WWRL Strike Two).  Making selective use of AAR and taking the best program for the market from various sources (WWRL Strike Three). 

So far, Sam and Armie have not modified their approach AT ALL to target the station's new White liberal audience.  It's still Urban talk with an Amen Chorus of the same old, same old regular callers; Urban talk with a small market quality.

And if you drive to work in the morning, stay with 1010 WINS or Newsradio 88.  AAR has brought their so-called "traffic service," featuring inaccurate and pre-recorded (things don't change much in 10 minutes, do they?) "reports" from Philadelphia, with out of work Philly DJs - most of whom have never lived or worked in New York or done traffic before - reading a few traffic blurbs off the company website (they can't read too many because often they have about only 30 seconds for actual traffic items).  WWRL was using Metro Network's Shadow Traffic (same as WINS, WCBS and most every other station in town, except Clear Channel), but no more.

Good News: So far they are not running the world's-worst-newscasts with Wayyyye Gellllmaaan.  WWRL newscasts are running starting at 6am (Sam and Armie now start at 5am).

And WLIB is NOT competing with Salem's WMCA/WWDJ.  WLIB is running Black Gospel music.  Salem is running brokered (paying) preachers; mostly White and social conservative.
 
I recorded an aircheck late last night on my home tape recorder that I put next to the speakers that the new format was launched as WLIB, New York's First Gospel & Inspiration Station. I started rolling at 11:35 PM last night right before the launch where they were running the "Satellite Sisters Show" which was probably the last 25 minutes of AAR on 1190 AM before the station was moved to 1600 AM since it was started at midnight. I didn't record the launch of AAR on the new 1600 AM. That is a bad move. When WLIB ended the AAR bandwagon at 11:59 PM, I heard commercials and 60 seconds of dead air and the new format was born. There was no stunting prior to the launch. But on the other side, I record the first day of AAR on the new 1600 AM. That aircheck, I recorded on my home tape recorder contains was horrible due to the coverage area at night but it's hardly to hear the aircheck on the first day of AAR on the new 1600 AM WWRL. I used to listened to WWRL back in the late 90's when they used to play classic R&B & soul under the moniker "100% Pure Soul". I missed that station. Now you got WRKS and WBLS where they still playing some good R&B there, just like the old RL. I missed classic R&B on WWRL. :( It was my favorite station.
 
Disney Fanatic:

WWRL was at its best when they were playing "Pure Soul" back in 1997. They sounded very much like the old WWRL of the 60s & 70s.

The only thing that was missing were the old jingles and some of the old DJs that were still around (Bobby Jay was on WCBS-FM so that excludes him), epspecially Frankie Crocker who was out of radio at that time.

WWRL failed at that "Pure Soul" format because the core of RL's old listenership were tuned into (98.7) WRKS Kiss FM.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
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