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WNEW to become WWFS

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mikesingh

As reported over on Sniffen's board, along with the new format there are new calls pending approval. CBS will keep the WNEW calls and will be moving them to a station in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I guess CBS wants 102.7 to start over on a Fresh note. (ba dum psh!)

It's kinda sad to see the historic calls go, but at the same time, it's good to see change happening. I hope Fresh becomes a nightmare for Lite FM.
 
mikesingh said:
As reported over on Sniffen's board, along with the new format there are new calls pending approval. CBS will keep the WNEW calls and will be moving them to a station in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I guess CBS wants 102.7 to start over on a Fresh note. (ba dum psh!)

It's kinda sad to see the historic calls go, but at the same time, it's good to see change happening. I hope Fresh becomes a nightmare for Lite FM.
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Yeah although they did have the best calls in the city, recent history would also indicate that those call letters were cursed!. An excorcism was unfortunate but seems necessary!..

;)
 
First we lost WNEW-AM 1130 on December 11, 1992. And if the FCC approves the call letter change, we'll see WNEW leave 102.7FM where it had been since 1957.

Seeing WNEW leave New York is like tearing down a landmark institution and moving it to another city.

From February 13, 1934 WNEW was born on 1250AM. The Make Believe Ballroom was born a year later.

WNEW-AM played everything from MOR to AC throughout its 58 year history and WNEW-FM was the place "Where Rock Lives".



Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
That seems to be the new thing for CBS, doesn't it? Taking old call letters from NY and moving them to another city after a format change. We already saw that when they moved the old K-Rock WXRK call letters to Cleveland and now WNEW. When they finally wise up and drop Jack-FM, you think they would move the WCBS calls too?
 
...hmmm. W-WhiFfS. Whoever concocted this set of calls must *really* be an imbecile...

...as for the WCBS-FM calls, well, they still have KCBS stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, so when they finally kill off WCKG Chicago, one could easily see them applying the calls to that frequency (and it could actually help that frequency, too)...
 
StereoBrain said:
That seems to be the new thing for CBS, doesn't it? Taking old call letters from NY and moving them to another city after a format change. We already saw that when they moved the old K-Rock WXRK call letters to Cleveland and now WNEW. When they finally wise up and drop Jack-FM, you think they would move the WCBS calls too?
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WCBS WNBC WABC Will ALWAYS Be In NYC KCBS KNBC KABC Will ALWAYS be in LA These are Flagship Calls I don't think there would be approval to move thses
 
htowler said:
StereoBrain said:
That seems to be the new thing for CBS, doesn't it? Taking old call letters from NY and moving them to another city after a format change. We already saw that when they moved the old K-Rock WXRK call letters to Cleveland and now WNEW. When they finally wise up and drop Jack-FM, you think they would move the WCBS calls too?
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WCBS WNBC WABC Will ALWAYS Be In NYC KCBS KNBC KABC Will ALWAYS be in LA These are Flagship Calls I don't think there would be approval to move thses
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Are we talking radio or TV here? All those W and K TV stations are in those cities. As for radio, WNBC and KNBC no longer have radio calls. WCBS-FM, WCBS and WABC are in New York. KCBS-FM and KABC are in Los Angeles. KCBS is in San Francisco.
 
I remember the WNEW calls going back to the good old 1130 AM (aka eleven-three-0) where Ted Brown, William B Williams and all of these people were at the station when it was WNEW-AM 1130. WNEW-FM was the station that plays some rock with all of these talented people like Allison Steele, Scott Muni and the rest on that station. And as for TV, WNEW-TV was a local station on (Channel 5) when it was independent until 1986 when the Fox Network launched and the call letters was changed to WNYW-TV.

Those bring back memories.

I think WWFS would be better than the former WNEW-FM calls. Now we got two radio stations that are former WNEW calls. WWBR 1130 "Bloomberg" and now WWFS "Fresh 102.7" except one TV station is still WNYW-TV, a Fox affiliate in New York City and it has been a flagship of the Fox Network for 21 years.
 
A bigger story than Mix going Fresh

The end of the WNEW callsign in New York. Whether it was on 11-3-0 or 102.7 or Channel 5 you knew what to expect.

As is typical of the press, the Newark Star-Ledger gave this latest format change a lot more space than it deserved. Where was the Star-Ledger when 97.5 The Hawk in New Jersey became a de facto Philadelphia station? Four lines buried at the bottom.
 
:'(For someone who used to work for both WNEW AM & FM...this day stinks...New York City without any WNEW, radio or tv...and the old letters that used to hang in front of the station on 5th Avenue...wound up in a Brooklyn junk yard....just like the stations did....raise the glasses and bid farewell..
 
The CBS radio executives could not care less about the heritage of New York Radio or loyal employees. they are just out for the almighty buck. Maybe they should use the calls W$$$
 
I understand the attachment and sentimental value that heritage calls like WNEW and WCBS have, but for people who are not radio geeks, they simply do not matter.

In reality, casual listeners don't really give a darn whether they are listening to WNEW or WWFS. Even stations that base their on-air slogan around call signs, such as Z100 (WHTZ) are known by most of their casual listeners as Z100. I bet many Z100 listeners don't know that they are WHTZ, and so on.

Other than us radio geeks, no one cares whether calls like WNEW really stay or go. And even if the WNEW calls stayed, it doesn't really do much good for those who grew up with the old WNEW-FM or WNEW-AM if the format is completely different.
 
TowerBuzz said:
mikesingh said:
As reported over on Sniffen's board, along with the new format there are new calls pending approval. CBS will keep the WNEW calls and will be moving them to a station in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I guess CBS wants 102.7 to start over on a Fresh note. (ba dum psh!)

It's kinda sad to see the historic calls go, but at the same time, it's good to see change happening. I hope Fresh becomes a nightmare for Lite FM.
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Yeah although they did have the best calls in the city, recent history would also indicate that those call letters were cursed!. An excorcism was unfortunate but seems necessary!..

;)
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doesn't WNYC have the best calls in the city?
 
KCBS-FM/-TV have no bearing on reservation of WCBS. See: KINS being a nothing station in Eureka, CA. Not exactly on par with WINS. Besides, even in WCBS-FM went away, WCBS (the AM) and WCBS-TV still exist.

As to KCBS-TV, having any AM, FM, or TV reserves the calls on all services.
 
As of right now, the callsign is still WNEW despite contrary reports... I just heard the TOH ID... "WNEW/New York, Fresh 102.7FM" then they went into Eric Clapton's Layla (Unplugged).

Just to clarify... for those reporting on HD radios that it says WWFS on the display, I can't dispute... I don't have an HD radio. The RDS readout on my Zune still says WNEW, though. The night before the flip to Fresh, the RDS said "102.7FM" where it used to say Mix 102.7, so I knew the flip was imminent.

So right now it seems that 102.7 is still our WNEW :)
 
htowler said:
WCBS WNBC WABC Will ALWAYS Be In NYC KCBS KNBC KABC Will ALWAYS be in LA These are Flagship Calls I don't think there would be approval to move thses
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Whoa....not so fast. At least in the case of CBS, we're talking about a greedy and arguably mismanaged corporation. They're not exactly known for making good business decisions! I'd gladly wager my own money that one day they'd dump any legacy call letters if one of the suits in charge got the idea there mightbe an extra million or two to be made from doing it.
 
Re: A bigger story than Mix going Fresh

chuckydoll said:
The end of the WNEW callsign in New York. Whether it was on 11-3-0 or 102.7 or Channel 5 you knew what to expect.
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Remember when WNEW-AM, WNEW-FM and WNEW-TV are owned by Metromedia at the time? I remember those when it was on 11-3-0, 102.7 and on channel 5 for a long time. That was part of the station's history owned by Metromedia and the owner of WNEW-TV was none other than the late Tom Gregory. He was the voice of channel 5 and he was best known as the "Metromedia Man". He also had the best motto ever at the start of every 10:00 PM newscast for decades saying "It's 10 PM, do you know where your children are?" That was the phrase that made WNEW-TV a success. That brings back some memories since I was a kid.
 
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