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has WNEW-FM been off the air this morning? I cannot seem to hear them. (if they need a new chief engineer I have a friend looking for such work!)
 
now I can hear WNEW-fm fine. maybe they were at reduced power earlier today. from time to time I think NYC stations--both AM and FM--leave the air in order to do work on their HD systems. (clarification---WNEW-fm is not a station I need to hear---not since Scott Muni was there!!!!)
 
Friday WNEW-fm seemed to be on and off the air several times OR at reduced power. at one point I faintly heard a jock say---hope you can hear me---we are doing work to make the station sound better. (who decided to do such work during peak daytime hours---- Joel?) I doubt WABC or WINS or WLTW or most others would ever purposely do daytime testing!
 
a friend just reminded me --- it's OK for WNEW-fm and a few other stations to test in the daytime. They have no ratings and no audience as it is!
 
Must've been unexpected, or something internal at 888 Seventh Ave. They have that 50kW backup rig at WINS in NJ ready to go if there is a problem at Empire.
 
Seems to me that although the ratings for WNEW is in the middle somewhere it's been progressively climbing the precarious tower of ratings. Listening occasionally, I hear a station which knows it's direction without having some kind of split personality (defined as the disconnect between the music and it's radio personalities) which is happening elsewhere on the dial.

Where as WLTW is the behemoth that can't be toppled because, quite honestly, it should be in another music category... that of "safe and placid retail store background music". A blind rat could run the station and have as much influence over it's position. No offense to that kind of music but how do you put WKTU and WNEW into the same category as that and rate them fairly? Who invented this Arbitron ratings system? Doesn't seem to be matching apples to apples. More like apples to martian rocks.

And since I mentioned WKTU, interestingly it's been slowly descending Mt. Ratings since, and this is still under careful observation, Whoopi has arrived. Looking even closer, it seems it was already in the progress of a huge reversal before her arrival, probably indicating the end of an era started with such great fervor back in '95 or '96.

Look, I want this station(WKTU) to succeed but it seems so poorly executed that I want to avert my eyes so I don't see the impending accident that is coming. It's like having a drunk brother at a wedding who you know is about to drop his pants and pee on the wedding cake. And then I heard Whoopi say today that she had a three year contract. Wow. How do you come back from something like that? You sink all your money in that and there can only be one possible ending. Maybe Whoopi will pull it off. Not likely after three weeks of the same thing but maybe Whoopi will wake up one day and sound like she relates to the average person drawing humor from the voices who are listening and not quick funny responses that she is pulling out of old stand-up routines. Maybe she'll wake up and sound 20 younger... Oh, I kvetch and it's not even Wednesday... sorry Whoopi.

How awful! I am forced to listen to my long, dissatisfied orations instead of good radio. Tuning out yet hoping to tune in.
 
avidlistener said:
Seems to me that although the ratings for WNEW is in the middle somewhere it's been progressively climbing the precarious tower of ratings.
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NEW's ratings are scraping the bottom of the barrel of NY radio, and have been since day 1. They've shown little to no growth in the two years they've been around. The music is boring, the personalities are boring. They pull no numbers. What a waste of a frequency.

And while KTU hasn't exactly been at the top of their game, isn't it funny how even after losing Broadway Bill Lee in the afternoons, NEW failed to make any gains in that daypart. Further proof that even wayward KTU listeners could care less about 102.7.
 
KTU has been unchanged for 3 straight books and has hung around a 3 share 12+ for a couple years... Mix started out above a 2 and has since hung around just below a 2 share 12+... Now thankfully, advertising isn't sold from the 12+ numbers, but 25-54, or neither of these stations would have lasted...
 
In light of all that is happening around WKTU and not WNEW then all I can say is... only time will tell.
 
Well, I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that part of the problem (if indeed there is one), is that WNEW and WKTU are both kinda playing the same music, more or less. Which means that what would have been a solid audience for one or the other, is being split on both. People, this is a war between two stations, to see who can outlast the other. I imagine, the minute one is gone, the other will surge. Or you could throw WHTZ into the formula with KTU as well, if you so desire. And I'm putting my money on WNEW to be the first to blink, because, well... Look at the track record!
 
LOL

Is is a soldily run classic dance station with some legendary personalities. If KTU wasn't around, then Mix could have been doing well.
 
Kevin said:
LOL

Is is a soldily run classic dance station with some legendary personalities. If KTU wasn't around, then Mix could have been doing well.
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Right... BUT KTU is around and has been around for over 10 years playing a dance variety so it's hard to make ground!
 
Mix is a fine station, but, I have to question how much more angela and tony lamarca out in east hempstead can hear Tavares and Evelyn Champagne King again. The format has to be reaching a burn-out point by now, and it sounds like they are trying to move into the 90's now, but first and formost they are a dance station. I think Mix would be a fine classic top 40 station (aka oldies) and I think classic hits is a super duper easy sell (music people with money). But as long as they stick to such a segmented format and audience google will continue to bury them (8 minute commercial be darned).
 
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