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WNEW Lives - In Washington, D.C.

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

The famed WNEW calls will be relocated to Washington, DC for CBS Radio's new all-news FM station due to launch in 2012.

The calls, which graced 102.7 FM in New York for years, have since been moved to 106.3 FM in West Palm Beach about five years ago when 102.7 flipped to their current "Fresh" format.
 
That's just wrong. On so many levels.

Scottso is rolling in his grave right now.
 
That's Just Wrong! Amen! CBS should be ashamed! What a crock! Talk about insult to injury! A thousand pox on whomever decided to do this!
 
Wow WNEW will be all News like KFRC Fm 106.9 Both call letters were once known for top 40/ CHR in NYC and SF noe they are now known for FM all News like KFRC is really a simulcast for KCBS 740 am and WNEW will have a WINS or WCBS type format for All news.
 
Why another news station for D.C. anyway?

WTOP is the big one there, and WMAL-FM is trying. Soon there won't be anything else on the dial.
 
nocomradio said:
Why another news station for D.C. anyway?

WTOP is the big one there, and WMAL-FM is trying. Soon there won't be anything else on the dial.
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WTOP not only is the 'big one,' they are the top-rated station in the entire market, and the highest-billing station in the entire country. Bigger that KFI.

CBS has long lusted after WTOP (it having been an O&O back in the 30s and 40s) and even if they get just a sliver of WTOP's ratings and revenue pie by counter-programming to WTOP in the all-news field, to them, it will be more than worth the trouble. Plus DC is such a news-heavy market just like NYC is, if not more.

WMAL may try, but they are a mere shadow of what they once were (from noon until 1am, it's literally a direct copy of WABC's national lineup). Cumulus' cheapness won't help WMAL's long-ago decimated news department by any means, either. And no other station has given a thought to mounting a news department.
 
Come on... Like Scottso wasn't "rolling in his grave" when the WNEW calls weren't parked on "X106.3" in Jupiter, Florida for the last five years?
 
DToTheJ said:
Come on... Like Scottso wasn't "rolling in his grave" when the WNEW calls weren't parked on "X106.3" in Jupiter, Florida for the last five years?
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You mean B 106.3, 102.3 uses the X 102.3 branding.
 
As mentioned earlier, there was no real outcry when the WNEW calls were parked in Florida.

Isn't the real issue here that folks believed that Fresh 102.7 would fade away, and that WNEW-FM would return. Bringing those calls to a prominent big-city news operation outside New York indicates that bringing AOR back is not part of the plan. Perhaps this is the real issue - WNEW as a New York AM standards or FM rock station is gone, never to return. I'm outside the market, but I listened to WNEW-FM quite a bit when I was in range of the signal. I understand how it could have been someone's favorite station. It was, often times, an exceptional station as opposed to Fresh, or Blink 182.7, which have never been. But it's been clear for a while that the rock wasn't coming back. Among other reasons, WRXP held on long enough to make sure that would not happen.
 
WNTIRadio said:
That's just wrong. On so many levels.

Scottso is rolling in his grave right now.
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So is Don Ameche, late of the AM side. Yes, Don Ameche, the famed debonair actor, was also a popular airshift personality on WNEW AM back in the 50's.

Remember Jonathan Schwartz from the AM side? Last I checked he is still with us. Now you have an idea just how old I am...
 
Scott Muni rolling over in his grave. You should include Martin Block, William B. Williams, Gene Klavan and Ted Brown of the heritage WNEW-AM 1130.


Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Have they no respect?

The answer of course is no. Probably many of the people involved in the decision saw the calls and said "Yes!" and ran up the hall to the equally ignorant boss andbefore long someone calls the FCC attorney.

We can only read and weep.
 
@htowler: 99.1 FM (currently Spanish "El Zol") is getting the WNEW calls and the new all-news format; "Zol" will move to 107.9 FM which is being purchased by CBS from Family Radio...

@Ken: "B," "X"... either way, I knew the on-air moniker didn't factor into the WNEW calls in that market! ::)

So as of right now, the WNEW calls are "parked" on AM 1580 (also owned by CBS) in Washington - a mostly bird-fed third-tier right wing talk station.
 
Effective yesterday (December 1), the WNEW callsign was applied to 1580 AM. For real this time.

The callsigns for 1580 in Washington and 106.3 in Jupiter, FL effectively flip-flopped, as the latter station now possesses the callsign of WHFS.
 
Meanwhile, 97.5 W248AO/Baltimore (and WWMX HD2/Baltimore and WIAD HD2/Washington) is trading as "HFS".

Whew!!
 
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